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The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a “warning label” saying that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents” — One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don't have the luxury to wait for perfect information.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have a bigger screen, from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components — This year's Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and come in larger screen sizes than previous models, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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| Jonathan Maze / Restaurant Business: |
McDonald's ends its IBM partnership to test automated Drive Thru orders, plans to remove the tech from 100+ restaurants by July 26, and seeks a new partner — The Chicago-based fast-food giant is ending its partnership with IBM on automated order-taking without an expansion.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google begins rolling out a “Listen to this page” feature on Chrome for Android, letting the browser read text-heavy web pages — Chrome for Android has been working on its own text-to-speech (TTS) capability for a few months now, and Google is now rolling out “Listen to this page.”| Thomas Germain / BBC: |
Copywriters detail how AI is affecting their jobs, with some noticing a new line of work to make AI-generated text sound more human, a job that pays a lot less — If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English — YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos …
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| Scott Hayden / Road to VR: |
Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a stylus for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3, plus “future headsets”, the Quest's first third-party input device, shipping in September — Logitech today unveiled an XR stylus that comes as Meta Quest's first third-party motion peripheral, targeting creatives working in both 2D and 3D media.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length, after releasing Gen-2 in June 2023 — New York City-based Runway ML, also known as Runway, was among the earliest startups to focus on realistic high-quality generative AI video creation models.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor EPAM Systems to steal data from Ticketmaster and ~165 other Snowflake users; EPAM denies the claim — A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster's Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-party contractor.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
With new logos for Siri and Apple Intelligence, Apple joins OpenAI and others in AI branding that is simple, abstract, non-threatening, and non-anthropomorphic — This week was an exciting one for the AI community, as Apple joined Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and others in the long-running competition …
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Forums: r/apple, r/graphic_design, and r/technology
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Swiss privacy-focused app developer Proton establishes the Proton Foundation to transition to a nonprofit foundation model, similar to Signal and Mozilla — The newly formed Proton Foundation counts Sir Tim Berners-Lee as one of its board members — Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite … | Khanh Vu / Reuters: |
Vietnam's state media says three of its five active international undersea internet cables are down, impacting connections with the US, Europe, and Asia — Three out of Vietnam's five active international undersea internet cables are down, state media said over the weekend …
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