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Read MoreBloomberg: Email: Amazon is offering $12,500 to some creators for 500 videos, or $25 a video, for its TikTok-like shopping feed; creators typically charge $200+ per video — – Content creators typically charge more than $200 a pop — Amazon.com Inc., looking to amp up its TikTok-like shopping feed …
Read MoreUsers woke to find that their Bambu printers created designs all by themselves. | Image: Bambu Bambu will issue multiple fixes for the unusual bug that caused some of its 3D printers to start pumping out designs by themselves — and in some cases, damaging the printer in the process. In an official blog post,
Read MoreElon Musk says that people won’t be able to block people on X in the future.
Read MoreMondelez logo with Oreos. | Photo by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images Creating an ad can be tricky and costly, and more brands see generative AI as a means to make that process less painful. Reuters reported large advertising agencies like WPP and multinational corporations like Unilever look to generative AI to cut
Read MorePhoto by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A Cruise robotaxi in San Francisco collided with a San Francisco Fire Department truck late Thursday, CNBC reports. A passenger riding inside the Cruise self-driving vehicle suffered “non-severe injuries” and was transported in an ambulance, according to an official company post on X (formally Twitter)
Read MoreImage: Windows Report Valve’s Steam Deck might be getting more competition. Last month, Windows Central reported that Lenovo is working on a handheld gaming PC that runs Windows called the Legion Go. On Wednesday, Windows Report published what appear to be the first images of the upcoming device. And on Friday, Windows Report shared more
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Viome, which sells supplements to customers based on AI-based assessments of their microbiomes, raised an $86.5M Series C, bringing its total funding to $175M — Research on the human microbiome — microorganism communities that live in a part of your body such as your mouth or gut …
Read MoreTaylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature in the next few weeks, letting streamers block banned users from watching streams — Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin
Read MoreIt may not be possible to eradicate the state’s tens of thousands of Burmese pythons. But the local wildlife is biting back—and humans wielding new tech can help.
Read MoreVision Pro headsets could get a huge 1TB of storage strapped to their heads.
Read MoreDavid Jeans / Forbes: London-based credit card processor Checkout.com abruptly terminates its contract with Binance citing reports of regulatory actions and money laundering concerns — Checkout.com, the London-based credit card processing company that ballooned its business model by servicing billions …
Read MoreThe scale’s Eyes-Closed Mode gives you an alternative way to interact with your weight and body composition data. Continue reading…
Read MoreZeke Faux / Bloomberg: A book excerpt traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar that use forced labor to run pig butchering scams involving Tether — The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I’m Vicky Ho
Read MoreTiffany Haddish and Asante Blackk in Landscape With Invisible Hand. | Image: MGM Landscape With Invisible Hand is an alien invasion story with a twist: a species known as the Vuuv take over the planet not by force but through economics. Their advanced technology allows them to live in floating cities with the human elite,
Read MoreYou can currently find an Apple Watch SE for $30 off at Amazon.
Read MoreThe new Satechi Dual Dock Stand adds new ports and an NVMe SSD to your Mac.
Read MoreReuters: The EU Commission plans to carry out a regulatory assessment of Qualcomm’s acquisition of Israeli fabless chipmaker Autotalks, a deal announced in May 2023 — Qualcomm announced the planned takeover in May as the US company looks to expand its automotive-related business.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The first USB-C products were launched back in 2015, and we’ve seen many manufacturers across various product segments switch to the standard. From smartphones and tablets to power banks and smart home devices, there really is no shortage of gadgets with the port. Senior Features Editor Rita El-Khoury recently
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Over the last few months, Elon Musk’s X, which was formerly known as Twitter, has been a bubbling cauldron of strange advertising decisions, continuous upheavals, and weird overflows of testosterone. Not that Twitter has ever been calm waters. Before Musk, Twitter was the social media world’s most reliable
Read MoreManya Saini / Reuters: KPMG: Canadian fintech activity totaled $353.7M across 57 deals from January 2023 to June 2023, down from $834.1M across 109 deals for same time period in 2022 — Investment in Canada’s financial technology sector was reduced to less than half in the first six months of 2023 from last year …
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Netflix partners with Jio Platforms, India’s largest telecom operator, to bundle its streaming service with two pay-as-you-go carrier plans — Netflix has inked a “first-of-its-kind” deal with Jio Platforms, India’s largest telecom operator, to bundle the streaming service with the carrier’s …
Read MoreYou really should be checking them regularly anyway, but hopefully, this helps to avoid any gross build-up. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge When was the last time you cleaned your earphones? Ideally, you’re not leaving it long enough to see a sizable amount of crud building up (which is fairly unavoidable when
Read MoreA brand new report suggests the iPhone 15 could be getting a faster charge.
Read MoreApple Card has the highest customer satisfaction rating of all co-brand credit cards with no annual fee for the third year running.
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