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June 17, 2024, 11:15 AM

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Vivek H. Murthy / New York Times:
The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a “warning label” saying that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents”  —  One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don't have the luxury to wait for perfect information.
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have a bigger screen, from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components  —  This year's Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and come in larger screen sizes than previous models, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Jonathan Maze / Restaurant Business:
McDonald's ends its IBM partnership to test automated Drive Thru orders, plans to remove the tech from 100+ restaurants by July 26, and seeks a new partner  —  The Chicago-based fast-food giant is ending its partnership with IBM on automated order-taking without an expansion.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google begins rolling out “Listen to this page” in Chrome for Android, letting the browser read text-heavy web pages in US, UK, Indian, and Australian English  —  Chrome for Android has been working on its own text-to-speech (TTS) capability for a few months now, and Google is now rolling out “Listen to this page.”
Thomas Germain / BBC:
Copywriters detail how AI is affecting their jobs, with some noticing a new line of work to make AI-generated text sound more human, a job that pays a lot less  —  If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future.
Scott Hayden / Road to VR:
Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a stylus for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3, plus “future headsets”, the Quest's first third-party input device, shipping in September  —  Logitech today unveiled an XR stylus that comes as Meta Quest's first third-party motion peripheral, targeting creatives working in both 2D and 3D media.
Khanh Vu / Reuters:
Vietnam's state media says three of its five active international undersea internet cables are down, impacting connections with the US, Europe, and Asia  —  Three out of Vietnam's five active international undersea internet cables are down, state media said over the weekend …

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