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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google unveils the $100 Google TV Streamer, with better performance than Chromecast with Google TV, Thread and Matter support, and more, shipping September 24 — Google isn't waiting for its upcoming hardware event to announce the Chromecast's successor. Alongside the new, sleeker Nest Thermostat …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ShieldAndroidTV, r/google, and r/AndroidTV
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google unveils Gemini-based features for Google Home, coming later in 2024: descriptive captions for Nest camera videos, a smarter Assistant for Nest, and more — Amazon has already announced its plans for a smarter Alexa to power your home. Now, it's Google's turn to promise that it can produce a better …
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LinkedIn: Jingbin Wang, Taylor Callahan, Adina R., and Sung Bai
Forums: r/Nest, r/Android, and r/googlehome
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says the Chromecast with Google TV 4K and HD will remain on sale until stock runs out, as the company stops making the Chromecast, first launched in 2013 — The first Chromecast was announced in July of 2013 with the goal of letting people stream content from phones to televisions.
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Forums: r/LinusTechTips and r/Chromecast
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
X sues the World Federation of Advertisers, GARM, and GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted, and Unilever over what Linda Yaccarino calls an “illegal boycott” — Members include major tech companies, advertisers, agencies, ad tech firms and advertising coalitions.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Behind the YouTube influencers, WhatsApp and Telegram groups, and services like FewFeed fueling Facebook's problem of creators profiting from viral “AI slop” — Gyan Abhishek is standing in front of a giant touch screen, like Jim Cramer on Mad Money or an ESPN talking head analyzing a football play.
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| The Verge: |
US v. Google: Eddy Cue said there's no price Microsoft could offer to make Bing Safari's default search engine, stating “they offered to give us Bing for free” — Finally, a legal ruling on whether TikTok is a real search engine. (It's not.)| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Google losing its US antitrust case may have major ripple effects for Apple, Amazon, and Meta, just as Microsoft's loss in 2000 influenced the Google decision — Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge's decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
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| CNBC: |
Microsoft says Delta, which said it had to manually reset ~40K PC servers because of CrowdStrike, had “not modernized its IT infrastructure” and refused “help” — Microsoft fired back at Delta Air Lines on Tuesday after the carrier said it would seek damages …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Music debuts Maestro, an AI-powered playlist generator, and Topics, which helps users find podcast episodes by topic and is powered by both AI and humans — Amazon Music announced Tuesday the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Topics,” which allows users to explore podcast episodes …
More: About Amazon, The Verge, and Neowin
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Reddit Q2: revenue rose 54% YoY to $281.2M, vs. $254M est., Daily Active Uniques increased 51% YoY to 91.2M, and net loss dropped from $41.1M to $10.1M YoY — Reddit reported second-quarter results on Tuesday that topped analysts' estimates. — Here are the key numbers:
More: The Information, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Intel says its Foundry's lead products on Intel 18A are booting and expects the first external customer chip design tape out in H1 2025 — Following Intel's painful Q2 earnings call and the announcement of their 2025 cost reduction plan last week, it has become increasingly evident …
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Forums: r/intel and r/hardware
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.7B, Gross Bookings up 19% to $40B, vs. $39.7B est., and Mobility Gross Bookings up 23% to $20.6B; UBER closes up 10.9% — - Results driven by better-than-expected growth in ridehailing — Autonomous rides grew six-fold from year ago through partners| Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica: |
A researcher finds another flaw in Georgia's voter registration cancellation portal, which has had bugs that made submitting requests for any Georgian trivial — The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name …
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Mastodon: @aardrian@toot.cafe, @north@xn, and @ProPublica@newsie.social
Forums: r/KamalaHarris, r/technology, and r/politics
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Release notes indicate macOS may get Apple Intelligence in the EU, unlike iOS and iPadOS, perhaps because of differences in how DMA requirements apply — Apple Intelligence is one of the biggest tentpoles of this fall's new OS updates. The AI features in iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 …
Mastodon: @iryantldr@mastodon.social
| Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based industrial analytics startup Seeq raised a $50M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing its total raised to ~$165M — Seattle industrial analytics startup Seeq announced on Tuesday that it has landed $50 million in new funding. The company has raised a total of approximately $165 million from investors to date.
More: FinSMEs
| Fei-Fei Li / Fortune: |
California's AI safety bill will harm developers, open-source development, the public sector, and academia, while failing to address the potential harms of AI — Fei-Fei Li, PhD, is a computer scientist who is widely credited with being the ‘Godmother of AI’. … Today, AI is more advanced than ever.| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Red Ventures sells CNET, an early pioneer of online tech coverage, to Ziff Davis, which owns Mashable, PC Mag, Lifehacker, and others, a source says for $100M+ — Ziff Davis is acquiring CNET for more than $100 million. Its chief executive thinks more acquisitions are on the horizon.
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LinkedIn: Lauren Newman and Lindsey Turrentine
Forums: Hacker News and r/giantbomb
| Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg: |
Instacart reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $823M, vs. $806M est., gross transaction value up 10% to $8.19B; CART jumps 7%+ after hours — - Revenue and value of orders beat Wall Street's expectations — Advertising and other non-delivery sales exceeded estimates
More: The Information and Instacart
| Reuters: |
ByteDance debuts AI text-to-video app Jimeng AI on iOS in China, after its July 31 Android release; China's Kuaishou released Kling AI in beta globally in July — ByteDance has expanded its offering of a software that can generate videos based on text prompts, joining a growing number …
More: Cryptopolitan
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $2.75B, above estimates, Nights and Experiences Booked up 9% YoY, and Q3 guidance below est.; ABNB down 14%+ after hours — - Forecasts for sales and nights booked miss analyst estimates — Shorter booking lead times and slower US demand dampened gains
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