Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a new attempt to stem the flow of anti-vaccine misinformation, YouTube said Wednesday that it won’t allow videos that claim vaccines approved by health authorities are dangerous or don’t work. The platform is also banning prominent anti-vaccine accounts, including Joseph Mercola’s channel and the Robert F. Kennedy
Read MoreAnnie Massa / Bloomberg: Investment and savings app Betterment raises $100M debt and $60M Series F at a ~$1.3B valuation led by Treasury and says it has around 700,000 clients — Betterment LLC has raised an additional $160 million, pushing the robo-adviser’s market value to almost $1.3 billion.
Read MoreImage: Disney Disney’s next animated feature, Encanto, has a lot of what you’d expect from the studio. It’s bright and colorful, telling the story of a magical family living in the mountains of Colombia, most of whom have been blessed with superpowers. It’s even a musical with songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. But despite the
Read MoreImage: Sony They’re not audiophile earbuds by any means, but I’ve been a fan of Sony’s “extra bass” WF-XB700 earbuds since they were released. A big part of that is their unconventional shape, which twists into my ear canal deeper than most other earbuds for a sturdy fit that also manages to remain comfortable. But
Read MoreCredit: Sony Sony released the Sony WH-XB910N noise-cancelling headphones and WF-C500 true wireless earbuds. Both headsets use Sony DSEE to upscale compressed audio files and render them nearly the same quality as high-resolution audio files. The Sony WH-XB910N and WF-C500 are available to pre-order today for $249.99 and $99.99 respectively. Sony has just upgraded its
Read MoreImage: Facebook A little over a month after Facebook announced a test blending Instagram Reels’ short-form video content with its main Facebook app, the company is ready to roll it out fully in the US. Now, the creators who use it can create reels on Facebook, and Facebook is testing suggestions that will push the
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook is rolling out Reels to all US mobile users, after launching a beta last month, and announces a Reels Play bonus program for creators — After launching into beta tests just last month, Facebook today is rolling out Reels to all Facebook users in the U.S. on both iOS and
Read MoreThe Mandalorian and Boba Fett in The Mandalorian. | Image: Lucasfilm Disney’s The Book of Boba Fett, a new show focused on the iconic Star Wars bounty hunter, will premiere on Disney Plus on December 29th, Disney announced Wednesday. Disney revealed that the show was in the works after a post-credits scene during the season
Read MoreIt will cover his journey as an international fugitive and escape from Japan inside a box… What you need to know A new documentary series is coming to Apple TV+. It will cover the rise and fall of Nissan and Renault’s former CEO Carlos Ghosn. That includes his journey as an international fugitive and his
Read MoreClive Cookson / Financial Times: UK Met Office and DeepMind partner to use AI to improve short-term weather forecasts, particularly predictions of storms and heavy rain — Better rainfall predictions could save lives when floods threaten, say researchers — Artificial intelligence improves the accuracy of short-term weather forecasts …
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Tonic.ai, which helps engineers create synthetic data sets, raises $35M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $45M — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
Read MoreIf you’re of a certain vintage and have ever done any technical drawing, chances are good that you used a r0tring of some kind, be it pencil or pen. Well, r0tring makes more than writing implements. They also made electronic scribers — a small plotter that pens ISO lettering on technical drawings based on typed
Read MoreCredit: Zouton A new regulatory filing seems to show that the Samsung Galaxy S22 battery capacity is going to be much smaller this time. A picture showing the alledged battery shows it could have a projected capacity of just 3,700mAh. That’s much smaller than the 4,000mAh battery found on this year’s Galaxy S21. With rumors
Read MoreInstagram today announced a new test for its Stories function. Starting today, Close Friends will be called Selected People and will let users select exactly who can see some of their Stories for 24 hours. more… The post Instagram changes Close Friends to ‘Selected People’ in new test appeared first on 9to5Mac. from 9to5Mac https://ift.tt/39MaPAb
Read MoreGiven the post-Covid challenges the healthcare industry is expected to face, is Healthcare IoT, also known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), the best way ahead? The healthcare industry has been in focus for the last two years due to the challenges posed by Covid-19. The last two years have had the healthcare industry
Read MoreWhat you need to know Facebook has announced it is bringing Reels to its app for the first time. The Reels option will only be available in the United States for now. If Reels sound like Reels from Instagram, that’s because they are. Facebook today announced that it is bringing Reels to its main iPhone
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Read MoreWhy is the Apple Watch Series 3 still being sold? It may be because the Series 7 isn’t much of an upgrade. Considering the reported problems that watchOS 7 gave Apple Watch Series 3 users, I fully expected watchOS 8 to drop support for the last remaining Apple Watch with the old design. I was
Read MoreChristine Hall / TechCrunch: Seattle-based Read AI, which offers a dashboard for Zoom meetings to measure engagement, sentiment, and more, emerges from stealth with $10M in seed funding — Meetings can go one of two ways… either be productive, or be ineffective. Read AI wants all meeting goers to be engaged and feel productive …
Read MoreCredit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority A newly discovered Android Trojan known as “GriftHorse” probably made away with millions of dollars. The Trojan asks you to enter your phone number to win a prize. That “prize” is a recurring subscription to a useless service. We have a list of known infected apps. If you have
Read MoreBig tech companies like Amazon are under increasing scrutiny for the way they use (and sometimes misuse) personal data. Amazon did not take that into account when it announced Astro, its first-even home robot that can trundle around your house, record video, deliver messages, and more. Anyone who actually wants an Amazon robot monitoring their
Read MoreGerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: YouTube says it is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and blocking all anti-vax content, not just about COVID-19 vaccines — The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Facebook made the same change months ago.
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Welcome to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 series update hub! Here you’ll find all the newest information on software updates for Samsung’s latest flagship foldable phone. We’ll tell you the current software versions for the device and give you a heads up when new updates are rolling out.
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / The Record: Researchers discover a malware operation that has infected 10M+ Android devices in 70+ countries via benign-looking apps, netting $1.5M-$4M per month — – Zimperium discovers GriftHorse, a new Android malware that subscribes users to premium SMS services. — The GriftHorse malware gang …
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