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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X now lets X Blue subscribers hide their checkmarks, but warns that “the checkmark may still appear in some places” and “some features may not be available” — Social media company X, formerly Twitter, now lets paid users hide their verification checkmarks.
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Twitter: @parkerortolani, @ketanj0, @ianvisits, @ch1w33th3d0g, @pt, @kimcrayton1, @oldenoughtosay, @russpitts, @superglaze, @pandaandwolf, @xdaily, @xdaily, @ivanthek, @davidclinchnews, @theeglamnaija, @luciascarlet, @ggooooddddoogg, @maghielse, and @parismarx
Forums: r/NewsOfTheStupid and r/Twitter
| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
More: Engadget, The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, BGR, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Twitter: @jason_kint, @heidibriones, @oalexanderdk, @scottmelker, @briannawu, @daniellefong, @markgurman, @timsweeneyepic, @wholemarsblog, @sawyermerritt, @billym2k, @karissabe, and @xdaily. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
More: Engadget, Android Central, MobileSyrup, Mashable, gHacks Technology News, The Apple Post, Techlusive, Neowin, TechCrunch, and The Verge
Twitter: @bettertdeck, @parkerortolani, @lukeplunkett, @thesheetztweetz, @eramdam, and @eramdam
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: US DOJ officials are weighing fraud charges against Binance but worry that an indictment could cause a run on the exchange like the one that befell FTX — U.S. Department of Justice officials are considering fraud charges against crypto exchange Binance, but are concerned about the cost …
More: Cryptopolitan, Ethereum World News, The Verge, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, Watcher Guru, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, and Cryptonews
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Twitter: @napgener, @adamscochran, @patio11, @colinwilhelm, @spreekaway, @adamscochran, @pt, @reedalbergotti, @adamscochran, @finhstamsterdam, and @tree_of_alpha. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Wall Street Journal: |
Internal Binance data and current and former employees: China-based users traded $90B+ in crypto assets on the exchange in May 2023, despite China's crypto ban — Retaining its Chinese footprint will be crucial for Binance as it faces a global regulatory crackdown
More: Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Bloomberg, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptonews, Coinspeaker, CCN.com, Tech in Asia, CoinStats, Crowdfund Insider, The Information, Invezz, 24/7 Wall St., CryptoSlate, Protos, Watcher Guru, Cryptopolitan, and CoinDesk
Twitter: @ceostroff, @icebergy_, @cz_binance, @jchengwsj, and @hsakatrades. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Rest of World: |
Interviews with people at Worldcoin sign-up booths in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong find many scanned their irises to receive the WLD bonuses, an “easy $50” — In Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong, our reporters found lots of people were eager to take the deal.| Reuters: |
Kenya's interior ministry says it suspended the local activities of Worldcoin while government agencies assess potential risks to public safety — - Worldcoin says it has measures safeguarding privacy — Kenyan authorities say will investigate Worldcoin's authenticity
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Forbes, San Francisco Business Journal, CoinDesk, Fortune, Cryptopolitan, The Standard, Finbold, International Business Times, Decrypt, Watcher Guru, Semafor, crypto.news, Bloomberg, CCN.com, Protos, Ethereum World News, PYMNTS.com, BBC, Crypto Daily, The Block, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, TechCabal, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptonews, Techpoint Africa, WeeTracker, Agence France-Presse, Metaverse Post, and CoinJournal
Twitter: @russellbrandom, @ambokojh, @russellbrandom, @russellbrandom, and @ryanjamesweeks
Forums: Hacker News, r/ethtrader, r/CryptoCurrency, and Slashdot
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google updates its generative AI-based Search Generative Experience with more multimedia, faster responses, and additional context for links in its summary box — Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience is getting a big new feature: images and video.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft lets Xbox Insiders stream gameplay from their console to Discord users, available to all Xbox Series X, Series S, and One owners in the coming months — Microsoft is improving its Xbox and Discord integration with a new streaming gameplay feature.
More: Discord Blog, Xbox Wire, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GameSpot, Windows Central, TrueAchievements, IGN, Pure Xbox, Mashable, Video Games Chronicle, and Eurogamer.net
Twitter: @steinekin, @tomwarren, and @discord
Forums: r/xboxone and r/XboxSeriesX
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says Apple Card's savings account, which has had a 4.15% interest rate since its April 2023 launch with partner Goldman Sachs, has topped $10B in deposits — Apple today announced that its high-interest savings account for Apple Card has topped over $10 billion in deposits.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to roll out its biggest grocery business overhaul since acquiring Whole Foods, in the coming weeks, including merging its various supermarket carts — It's revamping stores, unifying online shopping carts and offering fresh-food delivery to customers who aren't Prime subscribers.
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| Jacob Bogage / Washington Post: |
The IRS says that, by 2025, taxpayers will be able to file every major tax form online, and all paper returns will be digitized — Major improvements to online tools could speed up refunds by four weeks for American who currently mail documents to the tax agency, officials said
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta releases AudioCraft, an open-source AI tool that lets users create music and sounds via text prompts, consisting of MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec models — It consists of three AI models, all tackling different areas of sound generation. MusicGen takes text inputs to generate music.
More: Meta, Meta, Ars Technica, Forbes, iTnews, SlashGear, Voicebot.ai, Search Engine Land, The Decoder, Fast Company, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, and Variety
Twitter: @brianroemmele, @ylecun, @giffmana, @alexjc, @developerharris, @garrytan, @deliprao, @metanewsroom, @metaai, @metaai, and @metaai. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow plans to detail Veilid, a framework to encrypt social media and apps, at Def Con on August 11, its biggest launch in 10+ years — Cult of the Dead Cow is a hacker collective whose members at one time included Texas politician Beto O'Rourke
More: Gizmodo. Mastodon: @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org. Twitter: @retweetablen14 and @veilidnetwork
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Amy Lewin / Sifted: |
Hopin, the struggling virtual events startup valued at $7.75B in August 2021, sells its Events and Session units to RingCentral; CEO Johnny Boufarhat steps down — UPDATED: The startup, which was once the fastest-growing in Europe, has also sold its flagship product
More: Hopin, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Information, RingCentral, Constellation Research, Tech.eu, Financial Times, and Business Post
Threads: @carnage4life, @chris, and @benedictevans
Twitter: @kadhim, @gergelyorosz, @davidspinks, @kadhim, @johnnyboufarhat, and @gergelyorosz
| Jen Christensen / CNN: |
An early-stage study of 80K+ women in Sweden who underwent a mammogram between April 2021 and July 2022 finds AI-supported screening detected 20% more cancers — Artificial intelligence found more breast cancers than doctors with years of training and experience and cut doctors' mammogram … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out spatial audio for Teams on Windows and macOS after months of testing; each user has a distinct audio position based on their screen location — After a few months of testing the feature, Microsoft has widely rolled out spatial audio for its Teams desktop app on Windows and macOS.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox CEO David Baszucki says Roblox's open beta on Meta's Quest headsets, launched on July 27, has already been downloaded “well over” 1M times — Roblox just launched in open beta on Meta's Quest VR headsets last week, and it's already been downloaded “well over” 1 million times, according to Roblox CEO David Baszucki.| Reuters: |
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.62B est., a $146M operating income, vs. a $42M loss YoY, and GMV up 17% YoY to $55B, vs. $53.34B est. — Canada's Shopify (SHOP.TO), beat Wall Street estimates for revenue in the second quarter on Wednesday, as more merchants used …
More: BetaKit, The Information, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, and Shopify
| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash reports Q2 revenue up 33% YoY to $2.13B, vs. $2.06B est., net loss down 35% YoY to $172M, above est., and orders up 25% YoY to 532M; DASH jumps 5%+ — Consumers spent on deliveries despite restaurant reopenings and inflation — DoorDash reported stronger-than-expected results for last quarter …
More: PYMNTS.com, DoorDash, The Information, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Fast Company
Twitter: @thetranscript_ and @stocktwits
| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue up 10% QoQ to $486M, crypto trading revenue of $31M, down 18% QoQ, and ~$11.5M worth of crypto in assets under custody, same as Q1 — In June, the trading platform ended support for all tokens named as securities in the SEC lawsuits against crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase.
More: The Information, The Block, Blockworks, Fortune, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, and CoinJournal
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google delists its AI Test Kitchen app, which let users try out its AI-powered tools, on Android and iOS, moving the service to the web to push updates faster — Once a miniature playground for the public to test Google's blossoming AI-powered tools, the AI Test Kitchen app has been delisted …
More: TechCrunch, OnMSFT.com, and Android Headlines
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