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Twitter asks a US federal court to terminate an FTC order that puts restrictions on its data security practices and to stay a deposition of Elon Musk (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Twitter asks a US federal court to terminate an FTC order that puts restrictions on its data security practices and to stay a deposition of Elon Musk — The company asked the federal court to terminate an order with the agency hours before Chair Lina Khan testified on Capitol Hill

Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus leaked renders showcase Samsung’s cheaper tablet

Credit: OnLeaks via Wolfoftablet Renders of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus have leaked. These renders show off a design inspired by the leaked Galaxy Tab S9 Plus, with a simplistic front and back. All eyes are on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 series, which is expected to launch during the Samsung Unpacked event

The Ultra-Viral Rise of Prime, the Internet’s Favorite Sports Drink

Stunts, meme marketing, and promotion from social media celebrities Logan Paul and KSI have catapulted the drink past the competition.

95 Best Prime Day Deals Still Going Strong (2023): Phones, Laptops, Espresso Machines

Amazon’s big event is over, but a few of our favorite things are still on sale, like robot vacuums, laptops, Pixel phones, and Apple watches.

How Apple expanded into sports since 2022, starting with the MLB, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him (Adam Crafton/The Athletic)

Adam Crafton / The Athletic: How Apple expanded into sports since 2022, starting with the MLB, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him — In 2019, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, the Apple senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue …

Telly starts shipping its free ad-supported 55-inch TVs

Image: Telly The free TV company Telly has started shipping its ad-supported TVs to its first wave of customers. Telly first opened its waitlist in May and plans on shipping 500,000 free TVs to customers by the end of 2023 — and “millions more” in 2024. Unlike most TVs, beneath Telly’s 55-inch 4K display is

Cowboy releases cheeky app to keep VanMoof e-bike riders on the road

Cowboy sends you its love. | Image: Cowboy Belgian e-bike maker Cowboy has released a free app to keep rival VanMoof owners on the road now that the Dutch company is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. The Bikey app — get it… bike key — can generate and save a VanMoof owner’s unique digital

Keeping Thermal Plants Cool Without Breaking the Cooling Water Budget

Steam generators in thermal (steam-cycle) power plants require a constant influx of cool water to maximize the transfer of thermal energy. How this water is cooled again in the condensor after much of the steam’s thermal energy has been spent in the steam turbines or heat exchangers is a very important consideration in the design

The Witcher’s new trailer teases a big, bloody season 3 finale

Image: Susie Allnutt / Netflix We’re approaching the end of an era for Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher. When the final episodes of season 3 drop on July 27th, it will mark the conclusion of Henry Cavill’s run as Geralt of Rivia, with Liam Hemsworth taking over the role for subsequent seasons. In a new

Forget New Twitter—Retro Is a New Instagram

Retro is a new photo app that puts an old idea front and center in your feed: your actual friends.

Congress is trying to stop discriminatory algorithms again

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge US policymakers hope to require online platforms to disclose information about their algorithms and allow the government to intervene if these are found to discriminate based on criteria like race or gender. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) reintroduced the Algorithmic Justice and Online

macOS Sonoma lets Chrome use passwords stored in iCloud

Illustration: The Verge If you’re using the new macOS Sonoma beta, you might want to know about a glorious new bridge between ecosystems that lets Mac Chrome users connect with their iCloud passwords. Apple has updated its iCloud Passwords Chrome extension with a new feature that lets you directly pull passwords from iCloud, keeping you

Telly begins shipping its free, ad-supported, dual-screen TV as part of its “public beta program”; users must submit demographic info, viewing habits, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Telly begins shipping its free, ad-supported, dual-screen TV as part of its “public beta program”; users must submit demographic info, viewing habits, and more — Start-up says it received more than 250,000 sign-ups from U.S. consumers … The start-up, which plans to ship …

Samsung could be testing ChatGPT integration for its own browser (APK teardown)

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Code within the Samsung Internet Browser app suggests Samsung could integrate ChatGPT into the browser. ChatGPT integration could be part of the experimental Labs feature set. Samsung has been looking at ways to bring AI to its smartphones. Reports earlier in the year mentioned how Samsung caused panic at

The SEC sues ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky and the company over alleged fraud in the sale of CEL tokens; a source says Mashinsky was arrested on Thursday (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: The SEC sues ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky and the company over alleged fraud in the sale of CEL tokens; a source says Mashinsky was arrested on Thursday — The former chief executive officer of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network Ltd. was charged with fraud and sued by three regulatory agencies over the company’s collapse.

‘World of Warcraft’ Has a Lot to Teach the Twitter Clones

Threads and the parade of Twitter rivals can’t dethrone the king, but time and bad management will.

A writer details using AI startup Writer’s LLM to generate text in his writing style and says most “insights” that the tool produced felt hollow or approximated (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)

Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: A writer details using AI startup Writer’s LLM to generate text in his writing style and says most “insights” that the tool produced felt hollow or approximated — A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing.

Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool on ClipDrop that uses the Stable Diffusion model to generate “visually pleasing” artistic renditions (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool on ClipDrop that uses the Stable Diffusion model to generate “visually pleasing” artistic renditions — Stability AI, the startup behind the image-generating model Stable Diffusion, is launching a new service that turns sketches into images.

Analysis: total sales of 19 major IT companies in Taiwan, including Foxconn and TSMC, were down 19.8% YoY to ~$35B in June, the largest drop since at least 2013 (Yu Nakamura/Nikkei Asia)

Yu Nakamura / Nikkei Asia: Analysis: total sales of 19 major IT companies in Taiwan, including Foxconn and TSMC, were down 19.8% YoY to ~$35B in June, the largest drop since at least 2013 — Industry’s sales fall 20% in June on weak global demand for electronic devices — Demand for Apple and other electronic

Apple’s student promo lands in the UK with £130 gift cards up for grabs on Mac and iPad

Apple has launched its Back to School promotion in the UK, with gift cards and savings on offer for everyone.

Some VCs reflect on the industry slowdown; QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman estimates that up to 80% of VC firms are in strategically challenged positions (Maxwell Strachan/VICE)

Maxwell Strachan / VICE: Some VCs reflect on the industry slowdown; QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman estimates that up to 80% of VC firms are in strategically challenged positions — The venture industry needs to shrink to adjust to the new normal, and even the VCs themselves know it.

Listening in on a Deep-Space Satellite as it Returns Home

We’ve covered dozens of projects about getting images of Earth’s weather straight from the source. It’s not too much of a trick to download images straight from our constellation of weather satellites, but what about space weather? We’ve got satellites for that too, of course, but to get a good look at the Sun, they’re

Telegram merchants can now accept crypto payments via TON-based Wallet in tether, bitcoin, and toncoin, expanding on support for transfers between users (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Telegram merchants can now accept crypto payments via TON-based Wallet in tether, bitcoin, and toncoin, expanding on support for transfers between users — Wallet, which is built on the TON blockchain, is allowing merchants to integrate cryptocurrency into the bots they use to accept payments in the messaging app.

Huawei reports $560M in revenue from patent licensing deals in 2023, its first disclosure of such income, and spent 25% of its 2022 sales on R&D, or ~$22.5B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Huawei reports $560M in revenue from patent licensing deals in 2023, its first disclosure of such income, and spent 25% of its 2022 sales on R&D, or ~$22.5B — Huawei Technologies Co. made $560 million in revenue from its patent licensing deals last year, disclosing for the first time its annual income …

EA Sports FC 24: All the latest news on EA’s first post-FIFA soccer title

After parting ways with FIFA, EA is moving forward with a new brand this year. Continue reading…

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