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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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| Apple: |
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, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Macworld, Engadget, The Verge, Apple, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Variety, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple reports Services revenue grew 12% YoY to $19.6B in Q3 2022 and 860M paying subscribers globally across all its services, up from 825M in Q2 2022 — - Analysts are expecting the company to give fourth-quarter guidance of $1.31 in earnings per share and nearly $90 billion in sales.
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Reuters, CNET, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Appleosophy, MobileSyrup, and Axios. Tweets: @anthony
| 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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| Amazon: |
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.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q2 advertising services revenue grew 18% YoY to $8.76B, vs. $8.65B est., and subscription services grew 10% YoY to $8.72B — - Amazon reported second-quarter results on Thursday that beat on the top line. — It also gave upbeat guidance for the third quarter.| 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, GameSpot, Destructoid, Android Headlines, Engadget, Android Authority, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup, XDA Developers, Neowin, Tom's Guide, The Shortcut, BGR India, Laptop Mag, Appuals.com, Polygon, TechRadar, Forbes, 9to5Toys, Game Developer, and GamingBolt
Tweets: @bombur, @tomwarren, and @the_poolshark
| 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 …
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The Keyword, YouTube, Thurrott, MobileSyrup, Android Central, 9to5Google, SlashGear, TechCrunch, PCWorld, Digit, Tom's Guide, Android Police, ZDNet, BGR India, and TechCircle
| 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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MobileSyrup, iThinkDifferent, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Neowin, MacRumors, Mashable, iMore, 9to5Mac, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @coolranchzaku, @tifotter, @kellan, @iron_man_actual, and @sfiegerman
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
By the end of 2023, Mark Zuckerberg expects 30%+ of Instagram and Facebook content recommendations will be served by Meta's AI, double the ~15% on Facebook now — From meme creators to the Kardashians, Instagram users have been vocal this week that their feeds are too saturated with irrelevant content.
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The Verge, VICE, Livemint, New York Times, The Great Reset Diary 2022, SlashGear, Gizmodo, PingWest, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Music Ally, Jon Loomer Digital, Digit, Fortune, and The Verge
| 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, Observer, Reuters, Finbold, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, Tech News, Protocol, and Finextra
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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| 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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Tweets: @kellymakena and @jakesherman
| 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
Tweets: @sarafischer, @mmasnick, @sarafischer, @mathewi, @ivanthek, @stevekovach, @joshelman, @rj_writes, @mikeelgan, @nickstatt, @mathewi, @alexyoung, @mattbrownep, @sarafischer, @amasna, @blackamazon, @wickdchiq, and @elipariser
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out a new tool that lets creators select up to 60 seconds of any video they posted and turn it into Shorts, available on Android and iOS — YouTube wants to quickly ramp up the number of short-form “Shorts” videos available on its platform in order to better compete with TikTok.
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Tubefilter and Mashable
| 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.| 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, Meta AI, NBC News, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and The Verge
| 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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Google Support, Android Police, The Verge, and MobileSyrup
| 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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CoinDesk, The Block, and Ethereum World News
Tweets: @somospostpc, @s_m_i, @joshuabrustein, @paultassi, @chafkin, and @silvermanjacob
| 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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue down 22% YoY to $15.32B, vs. $17.92B est., a $454M net loss, and Datacenter and AI Group revenue down 16% YoY to $4.6B; stock down 5%+ — - Intel slashed its full-year guidance and turned in worse-than expected quarterly results. — The company launched new chips …
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The Verge, Tom's Hardware, VentureBeat, Intel, Protocol, Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and Investor's Business Daily
Tweets: @donal888 and @patrickmoorhead
| 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, 9to5Google, Android Police, XDA Developers, Ars Technica, Android Central, ZDNet, CNET, Fast Company, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, CNBC, Mashable, Droid Life, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @chriswelch
| 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
| Taylor Locke / Fortune: |
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
| 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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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku misses with Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $764M, vs. $805.2M estimated, and reaches 63.1M active accounts, up 1.8M QoQ; stock down ~26% after hours — Roku fell well short of Wall Street financial forecasts for the second quarter — and the streaming platform saw the number of hours streamed by customers drop from Q1.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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