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June 18, 2024, 8:20 AM
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developers publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024  —  Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it.
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 in 2024  —  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.
Amar Subramanya / Google:
Google launches a Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages, and says Gemini will roll out to its iOS app in the coming weeks  —  Vice President, Engineering, Gemini Experiences  —  Gemini, your AI assistant from Google, has had an exciting first year in India.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent “upload moderation” proposal to detect CSAM “fundamentally undermines encryption” of messaging apps  —  A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid …
María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg:
Stablecoin provider Tether announces a synthetic dollar backed by gold that will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on the Ethereum Mainnet blockchain  —  - Alloy by Tether designed to track dollar with gold collateral  — Tether Gold has a $573 million market capitalization
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
A look at Apple's upcoming CarPlay updates, which aim to be “a design toolkit for automakers”, including feature “layers”, “remote UI”, and “punch-through UI”  —  Apple's been talking about its next generation of CarPlay for two years …
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.
Wency Chen / South China Morning Post:
Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him  —  - Even by the standards of Chinese tech business leaders, the lack of public information about Xu Yangtian is unusual
Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority:
Adobe updates Acrobat with Firefly-powered AI image generation, AI Assistant supporting analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, and more  —  Acrobat's AI Assistant is getting more useful, just months after its debut.  —  •  —  TL;DR
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 …
Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal:
Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more  —  Googling isn't what it used to be  —  Frustrated by their Google searches, people are funneling their queries to a site that isn't a search engine at all: Reddit.

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Sam Tobin / Reuters:
Prince Harry's phone-hacking lawsuit against News Group Newspaper will go to trial in January 2026, with the parties' legal costs set to exceed £38M

Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN confirms Kaitlan Collins as its chief White House correspondent; she will become CNN's first prime-time anchor to also serve as its top White House reporter

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sony buying Kadokawa would help reduce its reliance on outside publishers for anime IP and build out its own portfolio to support PlayStation and other products

More News

Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News:
Constructor, which provides an AI-powered product discovery and search service for e-commerce companies, raised a $25M Series B at a $550M valuation
Paul Solotaroff / Rolling Stone:
Inside Snapchat's teen opioid crisis: law-enforcement sources and parents allege that Snap has helped fuel a US overdose epidemic via fake pills sold online
Lawrence Lewitinn / The Block:
Coinbase debuts “pre-launch markets” to let International and Advanced users outside of the US, the UK, and Canada trade tokens before they hit spot exchanges

Earlier Picks

Mark Hachman / PCWorld:
Microsoft says Windows 11 version 24H2, now in the Release Preview Channel, is “targeting Copilot+ PCs devices” and devices previously using Insider 24H2 builds
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
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
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
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
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
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