Tate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review:
A look at a proposed Massachusetts bill letting police use face recognition for image matching but not face surveillance, which could set the standard in the US — A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America.
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Saturday, July 22, 2023
A look at a proposed Massachusetts bill letting police use face recognition for image matching but not face surveillance, which could set the standard in the US (Tate Ryan-Mosley/MIT Technology Review)
Norwegian robotics company AutoStore agrees to pay £200M to UK supermarket giant Ocado to settle a global dispute over warehouse patent infringements (Alastair Reed/Bloomberg)
Alastair Reed / Bloomberg:
Norwegian robotics company AutoStore agrees to pay £200M to UK supermarket giant Ocado to settle a global dispute over warehouse patent infringements — As part of the agreement, the companies will withdraw their actions against each other, Autostore and Ocado said in separate statements on Saturday.
Coinbase will fully close its bitcoin-backed loan program Borrow for retail customers and says loan holders have to pay outstanding dues by November 20, 2023 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Coinbase will fully close its bitcoin-backed loan program Borrow for retail customers and says loan holders have to pay outstanding dues by November 20, 2023 — - Coinbase will fully sunset its Borrow program for retail customers, effective November 20. — Coinbase will shut …
Nothing Phone (2) now available on Vijay Sales: Price, offers and more
Friday, July 21, 2023
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs declined to 13M, down 70% from the July 7 peak; Similarweb: average time spend on Threads' app declined to four mins, down from 19 (Lindsey Choo/Wall Street Journal)
Lindsey Choo / Wall Street Journal:
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs declined to 13M, down 70% from the July 7 peak; Similarweb: average time spend on Threads' app declined to four mins, down from 19 — Data show user engagement has fallen 70% as executives focus on options such as a chronological feed
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 trailer gives a look at two Spider-Men, Venom, and other villains
Microsoft wins big in Call of Duty deal with Activision: Here's what it means
How to get started using the Maybelline app in Teams
Reddit removes the moderators of r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest subreddits to close protesting Reddit's API changes, and takes charge of the subreddit (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit removes the moderators of r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest subreddits to close protesting Reddit's API changes, and takes charge of the subreddit — Reddit is now in charge of r/malefashionadvice, which for a time was the biggest subreddit still closed in protest of the platform's API pricing changes.
How to set up or update your Netflix Household
Thursday, July 20, 2023
A US House committee plans to investigate GGV, GSR, Walden International, and Qualcomm Ventures over their VC investments in China in AI, chips, and quantum (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
A US House committee plans to investigate GGV, GSR, Walden International, and Qualcomm Ventures over their VC investments in China in AI, chips, and quantum — House select committee says American firms' investments contributed to China's military buildup and rights abuses
Used car retailer Carvana reaches a deal to restructure its debt to lower interest payments and reports a $105M loss in Q2, down from a $439M loss in Q2 2022 (New York Times)
New York Times:
Used car retailer Carvana reaches a deal to restructure its debt to lower interest payments and reports a $105M loss in Q2, down from a $439M loss in Q2 2022 — Most of the company's bondholders have agreed to accept bonds that are worth less than what they were owed but that are secured against real estate and other assets.
TSMC reports Q2 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$15.68B and net profit down 23.3% YoY to ~$5.9B, the first quarterly decline since 2019, as all non-AI chip sales lag (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia:
TSMC reports Q2 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$15.68B and net profit down 23.3% YoY to ~$5.9B, the first quarterly decline since 2019, as all non-AI chip sales lag — Taiwan chipmaker logs quarterly net profit drop on consumer electronics slump — Sluggish demand for smartphones …
Here’s when OnePlus may launch OnePlus 12 smartphone
Pokémon Sleep now available on the App Store and Google Play Store
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters : SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting w...
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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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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...