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Apple says HomePod and HomePod mini will receive a software update in the future to natively support Apple Music Lossless — After a week of controversies, Apple released a support page with everything users need to know about Apple Music Lossless. For example, we've now discovered …
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| Patrick O'Rourke / MobileSyrup: |
Q&A with Apple VP Tim Twerdahl, who says the new Siri Remote doesn't need AirTag's UWB tech because it is too thick to get lost in couch cushions — The new Apple TV features an entirely revamped Siri Remote, the A12 Bionic chip and 60Hz Dolby Vision — Ahead of the A pple TV 4K …
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
India's information technology ministry asks social media companies to take down any content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the coronavirus — India's information technology (IT) ministry has written to all social media companies asking them to take down any content that refers to an …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google's partnership with Samsung to merge Wear OS with Samsung's Tizen comes after years of Google failing to build a cohesive wearables strategy — Third time might not be the charm — Once again, Google is hitting the reset button, combining with Samsung's Tizen wearable operating system …
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Pro-Palestinian activist campaign targets Facebook's app store ratings via 1-star reviews; Facebook's internal chats show Apple declined to remove the reviews — Pro-Palestinian activists are running a coordinated campaign to downgrade Facebook's app review ratings to protest …
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Over 500 AI researchers are working on a project to build an open-source large language model that will be used to conduct research independent of any company — Hundreds of scientists around the world are working together to understand one of the most powerful emerging technologies before it's too late.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Profile of Paul Romer, once tech's favorite economist and now a critic, who has championed state taxes on the digital ads sold by Facebook and Google — Paul Romer's call for government activism, particularly toward the big tech companies, reflects “a profound change in my thinking.”| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at CaliberAI, a company that develops a tool for detecting potentially libelous claims, which may be particularly valuable for short-staffed newsrooms — CaliberAI wants to help overstretched newsrooms with a tool that's like spell-check for libel. But its potential uses go far beyond traditional media.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Air India, a member of Star Alliance, says data of 4.5M passengers, including names, passport info, and credit card data, was stolen in a February breach — Air India disclosed a data breach after personal information belonging to roughly 4.5 million of its customers was leaked two months following …
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TechCrunch, Tech Xplore, Times of India, Forbes, Air India, The Hacker News, Engadget, Reuters, Hindustan Times, India Today, Inc42 Media, The Economic Times, and DataBreaches.net. Tweets: @lordfusitua
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
In his Epic v. Apple trial testimony, Tim Cook offered a carefully tended ignorance that left many of the lawsuit's key questions unanswered, or unanswerable — Apple CEO Tim Cook took his first turn in the witness chair this morning in what is probably the most anticipated testimony of the Epic v. Apple antitrust case.
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| Pat Maio / Los Angeles Business Journal: |
ProducePay, which offers an analytics service to track market prices of fruits and vegetables, raises $43M Series C led by G2VP, bringing total raised to $300M — Downtown-based ProducePay Inc., a fintech-like business that has created a privately run commodity trading exchange …
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