Bloomberg: Indian tax authorities move ahead with a 28% online gaming tax, effective from October 1, despite top investors and 100+ firms asking for changes — – GST panel to review the levy six months after implementation — An Indian tax panel on Wednesday decided to move ahead with the goods …
Read MoreJacob Bogage / Washington Post: The IRS says that, by 2025, taxpayers will be able to file every major tax form online, and all paper returns will be digitized — Major improvements to online tools could speed up refunds by four weeks for American who currently mail documents to the tax agency, officials said
Read MoreScreenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Reddit says it has recovered from some big issues that lasted for about an hour. While outages were happening, I couldn’t load any Reddit pages on my browsers where I’m logged into the site — usually, I ran into an error message, though I also hit a blank
Read MoreReuters: Kenya’s interior ministry says it suspended the local activities of Worldcoin while government agencies assess potential risks to public safety — – Worldcoin says it has measures safeguarding privacy — Kenyan authorities say will investigate Worldcoin’s authenticity
Read MoreRunning your own AI models is possible, but it requires a giant computer, right? Maybe not. Researchers at NVidia are showing off Perfusion, a text-to-image model they say is 100KB in size and takes four minutes to train. The model specializes in customizing a photo. For example, the paper shows a picture of a teddy
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Read MoreJacob Bogage / Washington Post: The IRS says that, by 2025, taxpayers will be able to file every major tax form online, and all paper returns will be digitized — Major improvements to online tools could speed up refunds by four weeks for American who currently mail documents to the tax agency, officials said
Read MoreReuters: Kenya’s interior ministry says it suspended the local activities of Worldcoin while government agencies assess potential risks to public safety — – Worldcoin says it has measures safeguarding privacy — Kenyan authorities say will investigate Worldcoin’s authenticity
Read MoreScreenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Reddit appears to recovering from some big issues that lasted for about an hour. While outages were happening, I couldn’t load any Reddit pages on my browsers where I’m logged into the site — usually, I ran into an error message, though I also hit a blank white
Read MoreThe most valuable company in the world, Apple, is likely to report a significant drop in iPhone sales for the quarter spanning April to June. Analysts say consumers are waiting for the next iPhone model because of the weak economy. If Apple is serious about using AI as a growth driver, it needs to explain
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Roblox CEO David Baszucki says Roblox’s open beta on Meta’s Quest headsets, launched on July 27, has already been downloaded “well over” 1M times — Roblox just launched in open beta on Meta’s Quest VR headsets last week, and it’s already been downloaded “well over” 1 million times, according to
Read MoreIllustration: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Image: Getty Images Elon Musk is talking about the Apple tax again. In a post on Wednesday, the billionaire said he “will speak with @tim_cook” to see if the Apple CEO would adjust the 30 percent commission the company takes on in-app purchases. Right now, Apple takes a 30
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Roblox CEO David Baszucki says Roblox’s open beta on Meta’s Quest headsets, launched on July 27, has already been downloaded “well over” 1M times — Roblox just launched in open beta on Meta’s Quest VR headsets last week, and it’s already been downloaded “well over” 1 million times, according to
Read MorePreetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: DoorDash reports Q2 revenue up 33% YoY to $2.13B, vs. $2.06B est., net loss down 35% YoY to $172M, above est., and orders up 25% YoY to 532M; DASH jumps 5%+ — Consumers spent on deliveries despite restaurant reopenings and inflation — DoorDash reported stronger-than-expected results for last quarter
Read MoreReuters: Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.62B est., and GMV up 17% YoY to $55B, vs. $53.34B est. — Canada’s Shopify (SHOP.TO), beat Wall Street estimates for revenue in the second quarter on Wednesday, as more merchants used its online tools and targeting services to attract customers.
Read MoreReuters: PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 7% to $7.3B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to $376.5B, and operating margin at 21.4%, below its 22% forecast; PYPL drops 7%+ — Payments firm PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) forecast third-quarter revenue above estimates on Wednesday, expecting consumers to remain resilient in the face of a tough economy.
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Google updates its generative AI-powered Search experience with supplementary multimedia, faster responses, and more context for links in its summary box — Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience is getting a big new feature: images and video. If you’ve enabled the AI-based SGE feature …
Read MoreCharlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg: Uber paid £386M, or $490M, to UK tax authorities as part of a dispute over how its ride hailing app applies VAT to UK trips, but plans to appeal the decision — – HMRC is challenging Uber’s use of Tour Operators Margin Scheme — Uber said it will appeal the VAT
Read MoreImage: Brook Trafton / TikTok [In her best Cate Blanchett impression] The world is changed. It began with the forging of the great IP crossover between Magic: The Gathering and Lord of the Rings. In addition to rendering J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved characters as powerful Magic cards, Wizards of the Coast also printed special thematic versions
Read MoreCharlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg: Uber paid £386M, or $490M, to UK tax authorities as part of a dispute over how its ride hailing app applies VAT to UK trips, but plans to appeal the decision — – HMRC is challenging Uber’s use of Tour Operators Margin Scheme — Uber said it will appeal the VAT
Read MoreReed Albergotti / Semafor: Sources: US DOJ officials are considering fraud charges against Binance, but worry that an indictment could cause a run on Binance like the one that befell FTX — U.S. Department of Justice officials are considering fraud charges against crypto exchange Binance, but are concerned about the cost …
Read MoreThough it now has a successor, the Garmin Venu Sq still makes a terrific multisport wearable, and this deal on it is pretty special. While the offer lasts, you can get your hands on the Garmin smartwatch for just $97.99. Garmin Venu Sq for $97.99 ($102 off)
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 brings plenty of improvements to its predecessor, including a much larger cover screen called the Flex Window, a faster processor, a gapless folding design, and more. If you want to make the most of it, finding the best Galaxy Z Flip 5 apps
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Roblox just launched in open beta on Meta’s Quest VR headsets last week, and it’s already been downloaded “well over” 1 million times, according to Roblox CEO David Baszucki. That number suggests that the app could potentially be a very popular one for VR devices; according to a February report from The
Read MoreFewer clerks, more ads. | Image: Walmart Walmart is planning to plaster advertisements on its in-store self-checkout screens, TV demo walls, and other surfaces throughout its stores, as reported by CNBC. “We can deliver Super Bowl-sized audiences every week,” Ryan Mayward, Walmart’s senior VP of retail media sales for Walmart Connect, the company’s ads division,
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