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Facebook shares two of its internal research docs about Instagram's impact on teen mental health reported on by WSJ, with annotations for context — The company shared the PDFs Wednesday night — Facebook has shared the internal research about the impact of Instagram on teenage mental …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
WSJ publishes six internal Facebook documents it used for its report about Instagram's negative impact on teen girls, after Facebook published two of the docs — The Senate holds a hearing Thursday about the social network's impact, prompted by The Wall Street Journal's coverage| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
YouTube says it is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and blocking all anti-vax content, not just about COVID-19 vaccines — The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Facebook made the same change months ago.
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| Bloomberg: |
Employees at 11 video game companies say their teams have a 4K Switch dev kit, but sources say a 4K Nintendo console won't go on sale until late 2022 — At least 11 companies, including Zynga, have tools from Nintendo to make 4K Switch games. — Many people were surprised to learn …
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| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith pleads guilty to violating US sanctions law following a crypto and blockchain presentation at a 2019 North Korean conference — Griffith was charged with violating sanctions law by giving a cryptocurrency and blockchain presentation at a North Korean conference in 2019.| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Google announces online shopping tools, including a Lens upgrade coming first to iOS and Chrome desktop that helps users find products seen in images and videos — New search tools designed for shopping from home — Shopping online isn't always a convenience.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says it is improving Search using the MUM AI model, with features like “Things to know”, which gives users additional context about searched topics — At its Search On event today, Google introduced several new features that, taken together, are its strongest attempts yet …
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Tweets: @searchliaison, @grady_booch, @google, and @backlon
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google Maps adds a wildfire info layer, rolling out to Android this week and iOS and desktop in October, expands its Tree Canopy tool to 100 cities worldwide — “Fire” will be a top-level layer just like traffic, satellite, and transit maps. — Google Maps is getting a few new features …
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| Ana Diaz / Polygon: |
Twitch rolls out the option for streamers to require phone and email-verified accounts in chat, as part of the company's effort to reduce targeted harassment — Curbing harassment continues to be a “top priority” for Twitch — After an upswell in targeted harassment on the streaming platform Twitch …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is rolling out Reels to all US mobile users, after launching a beta last month, and announces a Reels Play bonus program for creators — After launching into beta tests just last month, Facebook today is rolling out Reels to all Facebook users in the U.S. on both iOS and Android.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers discover a malware operation that has infected 10M+ Android devices in 70+ countries via benign-looking apps, netting $1.5M-$4M per month — Security researchers have found a massive malware operation that has infected more than 10 million Android smartphones across …
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Tweets: @campuscodi and @slightlylate
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian social commerce startup Meesho raises $570M Series F co-led by Fidelity and B Capital Group, more than doubling its valuation in under 6 months to $4.9B — Meesho has more than doubled its valuation in less than six months, to $4.9 billion, as a growing number of high-profile investors …
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Entrackr, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Moneycontrol, Tech in Asia, and Forbes India
Tweets: @viditaatrey and @viditaatrey
| Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: |
Chainalysis: crypto transaction volume for Central, Northern, and Western Europe reached $1T+ from July 2020-June 2021, comprising 25% of global crypto activity — DeFi has become a major catalyst for Europe's crypto economy. Large institutions have also upped their share of transactions significantly.
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blog.chainalysis.com, The Daily Hodl, euronews, and Bitcoinist.com
Tweets: @wublockchain, @cryptounfolded, @chainalysis, and @cointelegraph
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Read AI, which offers a dashboard for Zoom meetings to measure engagement, sentiment, and more, emerges from stealth with $10M in seed funding — Meetings can go one of two ways... either be productive, or be ineffective. Read AI wants all meeting goers to be engaged and feel productive … | Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine: |
Miami's mayor has helped turn Miami into the most crypto-friendly US city, even as Florida's governor appears to object to the idea of an influx of tech workers — Silicon Valley's favorite politician, Miami mayor Francis Suarez, has many lures to dangle when he's wooing techies to relocate to his city.
Tweets: @bishoplawfirm, @francissuarez, @libshipwreck, @chicagosean, @rmb, and @intelligencer
| Financial Times: |
Profile of Chinese AI company SenseTime, which has raised $3B+, as it prepares for a Hong Kong IPO and tries to retain support from China, its biggest customer — Start-up is close to an IPO but remains heavily dependent on Beijing's support — Three years ago, Tang Xiao'ou joked …
Tweets: @chinabeigebook, @primroseriordan, @financialtimes, and @primroseriordan
| Nick Statt / Protocol: |
How EA is expanding its footprint on mobile, the fastest growing gaming category, as part of a cross-platform portfolio to reach new consumers — In June, Electronic Arts made what seemed like a peculiar announcement. It revealed one of its biggest-ever purchases, and its third major acquisition in less than seven months.
Tweets: @nickstatt and @nickstatt
| PYMNTS.com: |
Buckle, which provides credit and insurance to ridesharing and delivery drivers, raises $60M Series B led by Volery Capital Partners — Buckle Corp, an insurance and credit provider for rideshare and delivery drivers and those who earn less than the average American wage, announced on Wednesday …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the FTC is considering strengthening online privacy protections, including for children, in an effort to bypass legislative logjams in Congress — Agency is looking at strengthening rules that govern how digital businesses collect user data — WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission …
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Senate Commerce Committee. Tweets: @lourdesturrecha, @georgetownlaw, @ryanjtracy, @moonalice, @karlbode, and @georgetownlaw
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has quietly begun allowing users to rate and review its built-in iPhone and iPad apps in the App Store with iOS 15 — For the longest time, the App Store did not allow users to rate or review Apple's built-in iPhone and iPad apps, like Mail, Music, News, Stocks and Calculator.
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The Verge, AppleInsider, Engadget, and iClarified
Tweets: @keleftheriou, @bzamayo, @rklau, @rklau, and @wongmjane
| Jennifer Lynch / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Ninth Circuit court confirms police need a warrant before opening people's email attachments, even if containing potentially illegal content such as CSAM — In a powerful new ruling for digital privacy rights, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed that the police need to get a warrant … | Reuters: |
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