Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a "Diversion Team" to suppress thousands of complaints (Reuters)

Reuters:
Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints  —  About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” …

Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures (Srishti Jaswal/Rest of World)

Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World:
Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures  —  As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior.

Slack experienced an "outage across the app" starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
Slack experienced an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search  —  Slack, the workplace chat app, experienced an outage this morning, with messages failing to send on the service.

Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022  —  - Revenue revenue rose 13% to $4.33 billion in second quarter  — Inventory rose to 126 days at the end of the quarter

Evan Blass leaks over a dozen official images from Samsung Unpacked, showing the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, new Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Tab S9 tablets, and more (Hadlee Simons/Android Authority)

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
Evan Blass leaks over a dozen official images from Samsung Unpacked, showing the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, new Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Tab S9 tablets, and more  —  All we need to know at this stage is pricing and availability details.  —  •  —  TL;DR

Amazon launches 'Your Recalls and Product Safety Alerts' page: Details

Amazon has created a page called "Your Recalls and Product Safety Alerts" that will allow customers to check whether products they have bought have been recalled or have safety alerts. Users will receive a personalised email if a recall or safety alert is issued, along with an alert banner to view their safety alerts page for more information. The new feature will help users navigate to get more information about recalls and view available refund or return options. The page also provides clear and concise information about product recalls and safety alerts. https://ift.tt/AHByxT8

Apple may bring macOS Sonoma's gaming made to iPhone

A new Gaming Mode will come to Mac devices with macOS Sonoma. There are hints in the latest developer beta version of iOS that it may come to iPhones as well. https://ift.tt/pLKE9W7

Netflix rolls out a My Netflix tab on iOS, superseding the Downloads tab to offer downloads, watch lists, reminders, and more; Android gets My Netflix in August (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix rolls out a My Netflix tab on iOS, superseding the Downloads tab to offer downloads, watch lists, reminders, and more; Android gets My Netflix in August  —  Netflix has rolled out a new feature designed to — what else? — get you to stream as much as possible on the service.

Samsung Galaxy F34 5G smartphone to launch in India soon: Here’s what the smartphone will offer

Samsung is set to launch its latest foldable smartphones Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 at the Galaxy Unpacked event on July 26. Meanwhile, the company has confirmed it will launch the Galaxy F34 5G with features like an AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate, 50MP camera with no shake feature, and Fun Mode with 16 inbuilt lens effects. Additionally, the phone will run on a 6,000mAh battery that promises up to 2 days of battery backup. The Galaxy Unpacked event will also unveil the Galaxy Watch 6 series and Galaxy Tab S9 series. https://ift.tt/zEke7Ra

Xiaomi plans to focus on 5G phones and reduce its range in India, trying to claw back market share lost to Samsung and other rivals in its second biggest market (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Xiaomi plans to focus on 5G phones and reduce its range in India, trying to claw back market share lost to Samsung and other rivals in its second biggest market  —  - India is smartphone maker's biggest market after China  — Xiaomi has fallen to No. 4 after once dominating the market

Instagram rolls out creator subscriptions in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK, expanding on support in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram rolls out creator subscriptions in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK, expanding on support in the US  —  Meta announced today that it's rolling out Instagram subscriptions to all eligible creators in Australia, Brazil, Canada …

Instagram expands Subscriptions feature to more countries

Instagram is expanding its Subscription feature to 10 new countries including Canada, UK, France, Japan, and Mexico. Creators can charge a monthly fee for subscriber-only content, use story stickers and go live with their paid users. Instagram has also launched a new feature which will enable users to create Reels with templates. Users can search through various templates and sort by category, popularity and recommendation. Templates or audio saved by users will also show up. The browser can be accessed through the Reels tab or by clicking on the create button and selecting the Reel option. https://ift.tt/H5tEBY3

OneTrust, which offers enterprise privacy and data governance tools, raised $150M led by Al Gore's GIM at a $4.5B valuation, down 18% from its 2021 valuation (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
OneTrust, which offers enterprise privacy and data governance tools, raised $150M led by Al Gore's GIM at a $4.5B valuation, down 18% from its 2021 valuation  —  The privacy software startup's valuation fell to $4.5 billion as private market malaise lingers.

Spotify confirms raising US Premium to $10.99/month, up from $9.99, the first increase since its US launch in 2011; Duo rises by $2, Family and Student by $1 (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
Spotify confirms raising US Premium to $10.99/month, up from $9.99, the first increase since its US launch in 2011; Duo rises by $2, Family and Student by $1  —  After 12 years, the price of Spotify Premium is increasing in the US.  The subscription will now cost $10.99 a month, the company announced today.

A look at the Boston Fed's Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 amid opposition from anti-CBDC legislators (Mike Orcutt/MIT Technology Review)

Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review:
A look at the Boston Fed's Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 amid opposition from anti-CBDC legislators  —  Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the US—just as we've learned the basics of how one might work.