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Adam Mosseri says Instagram will roll back some recent changes after a week of mounting criticism, including temporarily reducing the number of recommendations — Say goodbye to the full-screen feed, and at least some of those recommendations — for now. Adam Mosseri explains why
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Gizmodo, Washington Post, NBC News, Insider, Engadget, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Adweek, PetaPixel, Dexerto, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, The Week, Music Ally, People vs Algorithms, dont be boring, Gizchina, BGR India, The i Paper, and Propaganda Thoughts
| Business Wire: |
Apple reports record Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $83B, vs. $82.8B est., net income down 11% to $19.4B, iPhone revenue up 3% to $40.7B, Mac revenue down 10% to $7.4B — iPhone and Services drive June quarter record revenue — Active installed base of devices reaches all-time high for all major product categories
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Wall Street Journal, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, apple.com, Variety, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist: |
DeepMind says AlphaFold has predicted, in 18 months, the structure of almost every protein cataloged by science, 200M+ in total, a biology problem for decades — Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind has transformed biology by predicting the structure of nearly all proteins known to science …
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DeepMind Blog, The Verge, The Guardian, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, New York Times, Financial Times, MIT Technology Review, Insider, Silicon Republic, and TIME
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony begins testing support for a 1440p video output option on the PlayStation 5, a widely requested feature, alongside curated gamelists and new social tools — Beta testers get access today — Sony is starting to test 1440p resolution support for its PlayStation 5 console, a highly-requested addition.
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PlayStation.Blog, Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware, HotHardware, Destructoid, GameSpot, Android Headlines, Android Authority, 9to5Toys, Engadget, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup, XDA Developers, Neowin, Tom's Guide, The Shortcut, BGR India, Laptop Mag, Appuals.com, Polygon, TechRadar, Forbes, Game Developer, and GamingBolt
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google rolls out a new Gmail UI, moving the Mail, Meet, Spaces, and Chat buttons onto a rail in the top left, and teases a tablet update for later in 2022 — It's not that different — We've been tracking the progress of Google's interface refresh for Gmail since February, and as promised … | Business Wire: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $121.2B, $2B net loss vs. $7.8B net income in Q2 2021, and AWS revenue up 33% YoY; the stock jumps 10%+ after hours — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2022.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
The US House passes the Chips and Science Act, which includes $52B+ for US chipmakers and tax credits to encourage investment; Biden now must sign it into law — All that's left is Biden's signature — It might get cheaper and easier to buy popular tech products, like gaming consoles and graphics cards …
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TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Axios, Wired, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Engadget, The Hill, Financial Times, Fortune, and Associated Press
Tweets: @kellymakena and @jakesherman
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests a status feature for tweets, letting select users in the US and Australia add a label from a predetermined list “to provide more context” — Facebook is trying to be TikTok, but now, Twitter is bringing us back a little bit of Facebook (or LiveJournal, or Myspace).
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The Verge, Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, Digital Trends, Neowin, MacRumors, Mashable, iMore, 9to5Mac, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @coolranchzaku, @tifotter, @kellan, @iron_man_actual, and @sfiegerman
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Jack Ma plans to relinquish control of Alibaba affiliate Ant Group, potentially pushing back Ant's IPO for a year or more; regulators okayed the change — The shift, long under consideration to reduce governance risks, comes as the Chinese fintech giant seeks to move on from a tough year
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PingWest, Crunchbase News, Reuters, Observer, Finbold, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, Tech News, Protocol, Finextra, and Barron's Online
Tweets: @richardescobedo, @sub8u, @charlesforelle, and @jchengwsj
| Richard Speed / The Register: |
Microsoft details Austria-based malware group Knotweed, which has used Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits to attack European and Central American organizations — Reports seeing ‘offensive actor’ flinging SubZero malware — Microsoft has published an analysis of a Europe-based …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Meta begins telling its ~50 US news partners that the company will not renew its three-year deals from 2019 to pay for content in Facebook's News Tab — Meta on Tuesday began telling its news partners in the U.S. that the company no longer plans to pay publishers for their content …
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Gizmodo, International Business Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Unraveling
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new Play Store policies for developers that aim to address issues with intrusive ads, alarms, VPNs, and impersonation of brands and other apps — Google announced new Play Store policies for developers on Wednesday that aim to address issues with intrusive ads, alarms, VPNs, and impersonation of brands and other apps.
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| The Markup: |
A look at 37 companies in the connected vehicle data marketplace, a largely unregulated industry that analysts estimate will be worth $300B to $800B by 2030 — A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you've probably never heard of
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MobileSyrup. Tweets: @funnymonkey, @jaycstanley, @nabihasyed, @aclu, @themarkup, @jonkeegan, @lanceulanoff, @profcarroll, @alfredwkng, and @profcarroll
| Bloomberg: |
As advertisers struggle with Reels, Meta tries to ease them into the format, including, sources say, by encouraging them to test their video ads on TikTok first — Reels — the short videos that Facebook and Instagram are pushing — are getting more popular, parent company Meta Platforms Inc. says.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
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The Verge, VICE, CNBC, Livemint, New York Times, PingWest, SlashGear, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Music Ally, Jon Loomer Digital, PC Gamer, Fortune, Digit, and The Verge
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta partners with YouGov and Oasis Labs to survey US Instagram users' race and make sure its products and AI operate fairly; Meta will only get aggregate data — Facebook parent Meta plans to partner with an outside group to survey the race of Instagram customers in hopes of better understanding …
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Instagram, Oasis Labs, NBC News, Meta AI, TechCrunch, The Verge, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @mosseri, @kevinbankston, @kevinbankston, @andymstone, @nicolamen, @liamodelluk, and @jamespmcleod
| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
Senate and House Democrats plan to introduce a bill to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules and reestablish the FCC's authority over broadband networks — Senate and House Democrats are set to introduce a bill to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules and to give the FCC authority over broadband networks.| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Hours before Sky Mavis told users it was hacked, CEO Trung Nguyen moved about $3M worth of Axie Infinity's main token AXS; Sky Mavis says it was to help users — This spring, Sky Mavis, the startup that makes the video game Axie Infinity, announced it had suffered a devastating hack.
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Tweets: @somospostpc, @s_m_i, @joshuabrustein, @paultassi, @chafkin, and @silvermanjacob
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google Pixel Buds Pro review: good ANC, improved sound, lengthy battery life, and no frequent dropouts, but transparency mode, audio fidelity, and mic need work — Google's premium buds have more features — without deal-breaking flaws — It wasn't a sure thing that the Pixel Buds Pro would turn out to be good.
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TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Android Police, XDA Developers, ZDNet, 9to5Google, CNET, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Fast Company, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, CNBC, Mashable, Droid Life, Digital Trends, and Laptop Mag. Tweets: @chriswelch
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Switchboard, a collaboration app mixing videoconferencing and digital whiteboarding, raised a $25M Series A at a $200M post-money valuation led by Icon Ventures — Switchboard, a collaboration app that combines features of videoconferencing and digital whiteboarding, today announced …
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Variant, an early stage crypto-focused fund, has raised $450M for a third fund focused on the “user-owned web”, after previously raising $22.5M and $110M — Each “crypto winter” is different from the last, but every winter—or what non-crypto people would call a bear market …
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CoinDesk. Tweets: @fintechfrank, @itstaylorlocke, @ljin18, and @ljin18. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Maggie Miller / Politico: |
The US DOJ says it is investigating a data breach of the federal courts system that is separate from the Russia-backed SolarWinds hack revealed in late 2020 — The Justice Department is investigating a data breach of the U.S. federal courts system dating to early 2020, a top official testified on Capitol Hill Thursday.| Financial Times: |
The Greater London Authority warns housing developers about a potential new project ban until 2035, citing data centers using “large quantities of electricity” — Greater London Authority warns developers that upgrade might take more than a decade
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, and DCD
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, who was most recently Lamborghini's head of chassis and vehicle dynamics, to work on its self-driving electric car — Apple Inc. has enlisted one of Lamborghini's top car-development managers in a sign that it's stepping up work …
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The Register, International Business Times, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, Silicon Republic, Gizchina, and Insanely Great Mac
Tweets: @yoda, @jpr007, @stshank, @newsynick, @mikeelgan, and @markgurman
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel Q2: $15.3B revenue, down 22% YoY vs. $17.92B est., Datacenter and AI Group revenue of $4.6B, down 16% YoY, and $0.5B net loss; stock down 10%+ after hours — - Intel slashed its full-year guidance and turned in worse-than expected quarterly results. — The company launched new chips …
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Intel, Reuters, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Investor's Business Daily, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @donal888 and @patrickmoorhead
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