Masha Borak / The Verge:
How Telegram became a key channel for news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but its hands-off moderation turned the messaging app into a misinformation tool — The messaging app has become a key channel for news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But the government's relationship with it is complicated.
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How Telegram became a key channel for news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine but its hands-off moderation turned the messaging app into a misinformation tool (Masha Borak/The Verge)
A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables (Joe Brock/Reuters)
Joe Brock / Reuters:
A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom, which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables — SubCom, a New Jersey company born out of a Cold War spy project, has become a key player in the U.S.-China tech war.
iOS 17 Beta 3 brings new menu icon for recovering or permanently deleting photos: All the details
Friday, July 7, 2023
Uber DoorDash and Grubhub sue NYC seeking to block new minimum pay standards that increased the hourly wage for gig workers to $18 and $20 by 2025 (New York Times)
New York Times:
Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sue NYC, seeking to block new minimum pay standards that increased the hourly wage for gig workers to ~$18 and $20 by 2025 — Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub argued that the city used poor data to calculate how much food delivery workers should earn and that the change would hurt consumers.
Alibaba unveils Tongyi Wanxiang an AI-based image generator initially available to enterprise customers in beta to rival Midjourney and OpenAI's DALL-E (Josh Ye/Reuters)
Josh Ye / Reuters:
Alibaba unveils Tongyi Wanxiang, an AI-based image generator initially available to enterprise customers in beta, to rival Midjourney and OpenAI's DALL-E — Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (9988.HK) announced on Friday an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator, initially available …
Apple likely to drop solid-state buttons for next years iPhone 16 Pro
Sources: Apple is planning an appointment-only retail launch of the Vision Pro in the US in early 2024 starting with stores in major areas like NY and LA (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is planning an appointment-only retail launch of the Vision Pro in the US in early 2024, starting with stores in major areas like NY and LA — Apple Inc. is planning a retail launch of its Vision Pro headset with appointments and in-store promotion in select US markets early next year …
Realme Narzo 60 5G vs Vivo T2 5G: How the two smartphones compare
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Instagram Threads feels like Twitter's early days offering users an insta-network underpinned by Meta's infrastructure that helped surpass smaller rivals (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Instagram Threads feels like Twitter's early days, offering users an insta-network underpinned by Meta's infrastructure that helped surpass smaller rivals — Launch of Mark Zuckerberg's social network as a rival to Elon Musk's platform sparks excited online chatter — It feels like 2006 all over again.
PitchBook: US VCs invested $39.8B in Q2 2023 down 50% YoY across 3011 startup deals down 33% YoY with the number of angel or seed deals falling 50% YoY (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:
PitchBook: US VCs invested $39.8B in Q2 2023, down ~50% YoY, across 3,011 startup deals, down ~33% YoY, with the number of angel or seed deals falling ~50% YoY — Venture capitalists are funding fewer startups, especially at the earliest stages of a company's life, according to new data from research firm PitchBook.
Samsung profit likely lowest in more than 14 years as chip glut persists
How Tom Brady's crypto ambitions including a bet on FTX collided with reality an example of the humiliating reckoning facing celebrities who embraced crypto (New York Times)
New York Times:
How Tom Brady's crypto ambitions, including a bet on FTX, collided with reality, an example of the humiliating reckoning facing celebrities who embraced crypto — The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash. Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped.
Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about AI going rogue and those illuminating actual harms is ahistorical and obscures important research (Emily M. Bender)
Emily M. Bender:
Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about AI going rogue and those illuminating actual harms is ahistorical and obscures important research — In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot …
TSMC does not expect China's gallium and germanium export curbs to have any "impact on TSMC's production"; a Chinese official said the rules are "just a start" (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
TSMC does not expect China's gallium and germanium export curbs to have any “impact on TSMC's production”; a Chinese official said the rules are “just a start” — Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW), the world's largest contract chipmaker, said on Thursday it does not expect …
Realme Narzo 60 5G vs Vivo T2 5G: How the two smartphones compare
Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters)
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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