Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Uber for Teens and potential issues, rising prices, profitability, Lyft, DoorDash, driving for Uber, AI, and more — Dara Khosrowshahi swooped in to tame a beastly work culture and try to make the on-demand giant profitable.
Read MoreAnnie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon rolls out Amazon Clinic to all 50 US states and DC, available via video visits; message-based chat is only available in 34 states — – Amazon is expanding its virtual clinic service nationwide. — The company launched Amazon Clinic last November as a way for patients to connect …
Read MoreDamien Cave / New York Times: The global race to develop quantum computing, encryption, and more demands balancing protectionism and the spirit of cooperation for the US and its allies — A global race to harness the power of atoms for navigation, computing and encryption is pitting concerns over protectionism against the spirit of cooperation.
Read MoreSean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Neon, a serverless PostgreSQL database startup, raised a $46M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, taking its total funding to $104M, after launching in 2022 — Neon, a serverless PostgreSQL database company, announced it has successfully raised $46 million in a series B round of funding.
Read MoreFew speakers offer as much bang for your buck — let alone charm — as Sony’s colorful XB100. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The world of portable speakers is vast and varied — a fact that is immediately apparent if you punch the words “Bluetooth speaker” into Google or Amazon. Thankfully, if
Read MoreKrystal Hu / Reuters: Networking startup Nile, founded by ex-Cisco executives, raised a $175M Series C co-led by March Capital and Saudi Arabia’s Sanabil, taking its funding to $300M — Nile, a networking startup co-founded by former Cisco Systems executives John Chambers and Pankaj Patel, has raised $175 million …
Read MoreA prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers—just by thinking and trying to move.
Read MoreThe Pixel Pump is an open source manual pick & place assist tool by [Robin Reiter], and after a long road to completion, it’s ready to ship. We first saw the Pixel Pump project as an entry to the 2021 Hackaday Prize and liked the clean design and the concept of a completely open architecture
Read MorePreetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: Uber reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.23B, gross bookings up 16% YoY to $33.6B, and a $394M net income, up from a $2.6B loss in Q2 2022, its first profit — Ride-hailing and delivery businesses grew in the second quarter, though freight shrank — Uber Technologies posted
Read MoreBloomberg: After Curve disclosed a hack, CRV dropped by ~25% in three days, prompting fears of wider market turbulence; DefiLlama: crypto using Curve fell ~50% to $1.9B — – Curve’s native CRV coin posted three-day, 25% slump after hack — Drop raised concerns about wider fallout from platform’s woes
Read MoreSam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Sources: under pressure from the EU, Meta offers to seek user consent in Europe for targeted ads based on users’ digital activity as soon as October 2023 — Under pressure from regulators, the Facebook and Instagram owner proposes asking users to opt in before targeting ads with their digital
Read MoreGoogle Takeout is getting new features that will allow users to upload their Google account data to third-party services. | Illustration: The Verge Google is making it easier to backup and transfer your personal data between third-party services, in response to a GDPR investigation by Italy’s AGCM competition watchdog. In a press release announcing the
Read MoreCharlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg: Pearson plans to launch generative AI study tools for the upcoming academic year, including an “On a Tight Schedule” feature to summarize key learning points — – ChatGPT-style features will be added to Pearson+ and Mastering — New AI tools will not give students a ‘shortcut to an answer’
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The popular CoverScreen OS app now supports the Galaxy Z Flip 5. This support comes despite the phone only being released on August 11. You probably won’t need this app thanks to Samsung’s own downloadable tool. Samsung announced the Galaxy Z Flip 5 last week, and people will only
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority The Redmi 12 5G marks the global debut of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC, with better 5G support than its predecessor SoCs. Xiaomi will also rebrand the phone under the Redmi Note 12R and POCO M6 Pro 5G brandings for different regions. There are a few different
Read MoreOften neglected as ‘merely a styling language’, CSS contains a wealth of functions built right into the browser’s rendering engine that can perform everything from animations to typography and even mathematical operations, with more added each year. Screenshot of the output of the basic rotating dots example using CSS. In a tutorial [Bramus] takes us
Read MoreChristian Davies / Financial Times: A look at South Korea’s position in the tech “cold war”, as the country pivots away from China’s economy and prepares to comply with the US-led China chip ban — Washington is courting chipmakers and battery manufacturers with large subsidies but demanding they loosen ties with their other major market
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Meta plans to launch a range of AI chatbots dubbed “personas” that exhibit personalities as soon as September, to boost engagement on its platforms — Facebook owner seeks to seize on hype for AI while challenging rivals such as OpenAI, Snap and TikTok
Read MoreJoe McDonald / Associated Press: China restricts civilian drone exports, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and concern about military use; DJI pulled out of Russia and Ukraine in April 2022 — China imposed restrictions Monday on exports of long-range civilian drones, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and concern that drones might be converted to military
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: senior EU and US officials are concerned about China’s accelerated push into the production of older-generation chips made with 28nm equipment or above — – China is building more plants than others despite US sanctions — Officials are worried about impact on domestic chip plans
Read MoreCars (including LEGO ones) will roll downhill. In theory if the hill were a treadmill, the car could roll forever. In practice, there are a lot of things waiting to go wrong to keep this from happening. If you’ve ever wondered what those problems would be and what a solution would look like, [Brick Technology]
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: senior EU and US officials are concerned about China’s accelerated push into the production of older-generation chips made with 28nm equipment or above — – China is building more plants than others despite US sanctions — Officials are worried about impact on domestic chip plans
Read MoreThe Economic Times: A regulatory disclosure shows that Fidelity has halved the valuation of Indian business messaging startup Gupshup to $697M, down from $1.4B in July 2021 — Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund’s stake in the San Francisco-headquartered startup was valued at nearly $11.09 million as of April 30, 2023, which it successively marked down.
Read MoreRay Schultz / MediaPost: DoubleVerify, which offers software for digital media measurement and analytics, agrees to acquire digital ad campaign optimization company Scibids for $125M — DoubleVerify is acquiring Scibids, a digital campaign optimization firm. — The cash-and-stock transaction is valued at $125 million …
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: The BBC launches social.bbc, an “experimental” Mastodon server with posts from a handful of BBC accounts, and says it will try out the server for six months — The BBC has launched its own “experimental” Mastodon server, marking one of the first major news outlets to establish an instance on
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