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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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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
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Employees at 11 video game companies say their teams have a 4K Switch developer 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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| BBC: |
Researchers: a flaw in Apple Pay lets attackers make a Visa payment with a locked iPhone in Express Transit mode; Apple calls it “a concern with a Visa system” — Large unauthorised contactless payments can be made on locked iPhones by exploiting how an Apple Pay feature designed …
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| 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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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Visually impaired users say that iOS 15 appears to have removed call, email, and voicemail Siri features they relied on — With the recent release of iOS 15, Apple appears to have made some changes to Siri functionality that have removed features relied on by low vision and blind iPhone users.
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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.
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| 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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| 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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| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
US and EU will cooperate across various tech areas, including AI, semiconductors, and supply chain security, to ensure sensitive technologies are not misused — The new US-EU Trade and Technology Council aims to keep an eye on how sensitive technologies are used.
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| 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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| The Economic Times: |
Delhi-based EV ride-hailing and charging startup BluSmart raises $25M Series A led by BP to expand its network to five new Indian cities — New Delhi: BP Ventures has made its first direct investment in India by pumping in $13 million in integrated EV ride-hailing and charging company BluSmart.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Modular phone maker Fairphone, which uses ethically sourced materials, announces Fairphone 4 with a 6.3-inch display, 5G, and up to 256GB, starting at €579 — The Fairphone 4's software support should stretch until 2025 — Fairphone, the manufacturer focused on making easy …
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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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based Speedata, which is developing custom chips for data analytics processing, emerges from stealth with $55M Series A and $15M seed — Datacenters are taking on ever-more specialized chips to handle different kinds of workloads, moving away from CPUs and adopting GPUs and other kinds …
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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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Empathy, an AI-based digital assistant that helps families organize their affairs after a death, raises $30M Series A led by Entrée Capital — Death is one of the hardest things to cope with in life, both from an emotional and organizational standpoint.
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| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank says Alphabet's Loon moonshot has transferred about 200 patents to it; Alphabet says it also handed over patents to partner Raven Industries — - SoftBank paid $125 million for a stake in Loon project in 2019 — Google closed the high-altitude internet initiative this year
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| Bloomberg: |
After raising $155M in April, Patreon plans to invest in original programming by podcasters, video game livestreamers, YouTubers, and major celebrities — In today's Silicon Valley, land of buzzwords, there may be none buzzier than “creator”—the tech industry's chosen way to refer to someone … | 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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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM announces Ultifi, a software platform for its cars that will enable OTA updates, in-car subscription services, and more, rolling out in 2023 — Ultifi will start rolling out to GM vehicles in 2023 — General Motors announced a new “end-to-end” software platform for its cars called …
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