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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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LinkedIn: Anne Bahr Thompson, Zach Rausch, and Greg Bradbard
Forums: r/politics and r/marketing
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it will no longer offer Apple Pay Later, the BNPL service launched in the US in 2023, and will focus on installment loan features coming this year — Apple has announced that it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the “buy now, pay later” service that launched in the United States last year.
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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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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms — The US government is suing Adobe for allegedly hiding expensive fees and making it difficult to cancel a subscription.
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Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @joelhousman@mastodon.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/graphic_design, r/technology, r/Piracy, r/photoshop, and Beehaw
| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Uber says “tens of thousands of riders” in Phoenix have matched with a “Waymo (AI) driver” and have given “a nearly 4.9 average star rating” since the launch — The Alphabet Inc. unit, which operates its commercial ride service in three major cities …
More: The Last Driver License Holder. X: @waymo, @waymo, and @johnpaczkowski. LinkedIn: Suzanne Philion
Forums: r/waymo and r/SelfDrivingCars
| 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 … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, highly realistic 10-second-long video clips; it's unclear if it will come to a free or paid tier — 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.
More: Runway, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, Tom's Guide, and PetaPixel
| 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.| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a $130 stylus coming in September for the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and “future headsets”, the Quest's first third-party input device — The stylus works in 2D or 3D art in VR and AR, arriving this fall. Your move, Apple.
More: Logitech on YouTube, UploadVR, The Verge, Road to VR, ZDNet, Logitech Blog, Lifewire, UploadVR, HotHardware, TechSpot, Tom's Guide, PCMag, BetaNews, The Verge, Engadget, Yanko Design, How-To Geek, Digital Trends, Android Central, MIXED Reality News, and VentureBeat
X: @skarredghost and @bmfshow
| 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 — Newly formed Proton Foundation counts Sir Tim Berners-Lee as board member — Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused apps … | 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.| 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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X: @mcfranchisee and @jonathanmaze
Forums: Hacker News and r/Futurology
| Bloomberg: |
Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind “super-unit” in April 2023, shifting from AI research lab to AI product factory — The company combined its two AI labs to develop commercial services, a move that could undermine its long-running strength in foundational research.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind is developing AI tech to take raw pixels of videos and generate synced soundtracks; it's not too convincing, and there are no plans to release publicly — DeepMind, Google's AI research lab, says it's developing AI tech to generate soundtracks for videos.Sponsor Posts
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