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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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| 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, SiliconANGLE, The Guardian, New York Times, Silicon Republic, MIT Technology Review, Insider, TIME, and Financial Times
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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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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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| 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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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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, 9to5Google, Android Police, XDA Developers, ZDNet, CNET, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, CNBC, Mashable, Droid Life, Digital Trends, and Laptop Mag. Tweets: @chriswelch
| 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
Tweets: @funnymonkey, @themarkup, @jaycstanley, @nabihasyed, @aclu, @jonkeegan, @lanceulanoff, @profcarroll, @alfredwkng, and @profcarroll
| 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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Tweets: @mosseri, @jamespmcleod, @kevinbankston, @kevinbankston, @andymstone, @nicolamen, and @liamodelluk
| 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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| 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, Insanely Great Mac, International Business Times, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, Silicon Republic, and Gizchina
Tweets: @jpr007, @yoda, @stshank, @newsynick, @mikeelgan, and @markgurman
| 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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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
The US House passes the Chips and Science Act, which includes $52B+ for US chipmakers and tax credits to spur investment; it is unclear when Biden will sign it — 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 … | Stephen Totilo / Axios: |
Sources: Ashraf Ismail, who Ubisoft fired in mid-2020 amid misconduct allegations, was hired by Tencent in 2021 to develop a game at its TiMi Studio Group — Ashraf Ismail, former top developer on Assassin's Creed games for Ubisoft before his dismissal from the company in mid-2020 … | 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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| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Frontegg, a B2B SaaS user management service, raised a $40M Series B led by Stripes and Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $70M — Frontegg, the popular user management service for developers who build B2B SaaS apps, today announced that it has raised …
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| John Loeffler / TechRadar: |
Recent AMD and Nvidia leaks show upcoming GPUs will consume excessive power, a high cost environmentally and economically for diminishing returns in graphics — The planet may burn but at least the end will be ray-traced at 8K — A number of recent news items over the past few weeks …
Tweets: @ianbetteridge, @alexhern, @alexhern, @pt, @rhysmorgan, @alexhern, @liasae, @alexhern, @beffernieblack, @bitinn, @pt, @j_bertolotti, and @techwontsaveus
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on the company's $1B annual revenue goal, its post-IPO stock price crash, giving investors more info, and more — Paytm was the poster boy for India's tech startups, only to lose two-thirds of its value since its IPO and become a symbol of the industry's crash.
Tweets: @saritharai and @sankalp_sp
| 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 … | Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: |
Worldwide Mobile Pricing 2022 report: five of the world's 10 most expensive countries to buy mobile data are in sub-Saharan Africa; Israel is the cheapest — A new report detailing the cost of mobile data in different markets across the world, bears the evidence of why internet use … | 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.| Callan Quinn / The Block: |
Center, which wants to organize every NFT on every blockchain and says it has indexed 120M NFTs so far, has raised an $11M seed led by Thrive and Founders Fund — - NFT tooling company Center raised $11 million in a seed funding round. — The company is attempting to index … Sponsor Posts
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