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The UK amends its Online Safety Bill, requiring higher age verification standards for porn sites and holding executives personally responsible for child safety (Sachin Ravikumar/Reuters)

Sachin Ravikumar / Reuters: The UK amends its Online Safety Bill, requiring higher age verification standards for porn sites and holding executives personally responsible for child safety — Britain said on Friday it had tightened protections in its Online Safety Bill that will prevent children from viewing pornography …

Google Wallet is finally getting QR payment support (Update: More details)

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Wallet will gain QR code payment functionality in the coming months. This addition is limited to Brazil for now, though. Google says it hopes to bring this feature to more markets down the line. Update: June 30, 2023 (1:40 AM ET): Google has shed more light on Google

Here Comes Euclid, the Telescope That Will Search for Dark Energy

The European Space Agency’s new orbiting observatory will scan billions of galaxies for clues about the universe’s expansion.

US authorities charge three men for allegedly making $22M+ via insider trading over a planned SPAC merger between Trump Media, which runs Truth Social, and DWAC (Reuters)

Reuters: US authorities charge three men for allegedly making $22M+ via insider trading over a planned SPAC merger between Trump Media, which runs Truth Social, and DWAC — U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged three Florida men with making more than $22 million through insider trading in late 2021 ahead …

Industry group NetChoice, which includes Meta and Twitter, sues Arkansas over a new law requiring parental permission for minors to create social media accounts (Andrew DeMillo/Associated Press)

Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press: Industry group NetChoice, which includes Meta and Twitter, sues Arkansas over a new law requiring parental permission for minors to create social media accounts — A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas on Thursday challenging a new state law that requires parental permission for minors to create social media accounts.

Seoul-based Levit, which operates the shopping app Alwayz that uses social features and gamification to draw customers, raised a $46M Series B led by DST Global (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Seoul-based Levit, which operates the shopping app Alwayz that uses social features and gamification to draw customers, raised a $46M Series B led by DST Global — Seoul-based e-commerce company Levit, an operator of the shopping app Alwayz, wants to make the shopping experience more entertaining and affordable.

Hydroplaning Boat Skims Over Water

Regular hulled boats are all well and good for rowing and all, but if you wanna go fast, you’ve gotta cut your draft. [RCLifeOn] built a hydroplane design that skims on the very surface of the water, and thus travels very quickly as a result. That’s one way to film your projects. The build came

10 Best Outdoor Deals at the REI July 4 Sale: Lawn Chairs, Camp Stoves, and More

Snag a bargain on our favorite gear for camping, hiking, and plopping down in your backyard.

Rubber Tracked Bicycle Is Horribly Inefficient

Wheeled bikes are efficient machines, and most cycling speed and distance records are held by them. However, [The Q] has a taste for weirder creations that amuse perhaps more than they serve as viable transportation. His latest experiments revolve around tracked propulsion methods. The build is a wheelless bike that relies on long thin tracks

Halo Car Makes History with Driverless Operations in Las Vegas, Setting a New Standard

Halo Car, a firm that specializes in delivering rental cars, has begun autonomous operations in Las Vegas. As the company moves closer to realizing its goal of making on-demand automobiles financially feasible, this is a major step forward. Halo Car has changed the game for automobile delivery to customers’ driveways by employing remote operators. Let’s

At least one big third-party Reddit iOS app will live on

This is some old hardware. | Image: Narwhal for Reddit Many Reddit users are mourning the June 30th shutdowns of third-party apps like Apollo for Reddit, rif is fun for Reddit (RIF), and BaconReader, but at least one popular Reddit app will still be around: Narwhal for Reddit. “Narwhal is not going anywhere on July

Ontario-based Passage, which is building a service that helps immigrants access financing to learn and work in Canada, raised a CA$40M seed led by Drive Capital (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Ontario-based Passage, which is building a service that helps immigrants access financing to learn and work in Canada, raised a CA$40M seed led by Drive Capital — Ex-ApplyBoard CEO plans to finance skilled immigrants that meet Canada’s workforce needs. — After spending seven years …

Spy Radio Setup Gets a Tiny Power Supply for Field Operations

[Helge Fyske (LA6NCA)] may not be an actual spy — then again, he may be; if he’s good at it, we wouldn’t know — but he has built a couple of neat vacuum tube spy radios in the past. And there’s no better test for such equipment than to haul it out into the field

Spy Radio Setup Gets a Tiny Power Supply for Field Operations

Rubber Tracked Bicycle Is Horribly Inefficient

Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit has informed moderators of protesting communities that are still private that they will lose their mod status by the end of the week, according to messages seen by The Verge. If a moderator tells Reddit they are interested in “actively moderating” the subreddit, the company says it

The cheapest countries to buy an iPad Pro

Credit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority The iPad Pro is one of the most powerful tablets on the market — and one of the most expensive. Apple ensures you pay a premium for its brand, and the manufacturer isn’t known for offering big discounts on its tech either. Maybe someone in the gym or around

Game-Changer Alert: Typeface Raises Whopping $100M Funding to Revolutionize Brand AI, Valued at $1B

Abhay Parasnis, a former Adobe CTO, launched Typeface, an enterprise-focused generative AI firm, in 2022. Typeface’s goal was to provide marketers with scalable, tailored content using the power of generative AI. The company soon gained traction, drawing in clients from the Fortune 500, forming strategic alliances with industry leaders like Salesforce and Google Cloud, and,

Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure’s cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022; AWS generated $72B in revenue in the same period (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure’s cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022; AWS generated $72B in revenue in the same period — For years Microsoft has kept a lid on details about the true size of its Azure cloud server rental business …

Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start as soon as this year with select Android app developers (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start as soon as this year with select Android app developers — Meta is planning to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads, setting the company up

NYC-based Venn Software, which is developing a Secure Enclave product that can be installed on remote employee laptops, raised a $29M Series A led by NewSpring (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)

Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: NYC-based Venn Software, which is developing a Secure Enclave product that can be installed on remote employee laptops, raised a $29M Series A led by NewSpring — New York startup scores early stage financing to build new technology to replace virtual desktop infrastructure.

Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen

Kobo will have to update its devices to support Pocket’s new login system

The Kobo Elipsa 2E is the company’s largest e-book reader. It has some cool note-taking features, but this starting summer, it won’t work with Pocket anymore. | Image: Kobo It looks like Kobo readers might not lose Pocket integration after all. Mozilla, the maker of Firefox and current owner of Pocket, originally said in a

Ultimate Review of Later.com | Features, Pricing, Use-Cases

Welcome to the Ultimate Guide to Later.com – your essential resource for mastering one of the most powerful and user-friendly social media scheduling tools available today. As digital marketing evolves and brands strive to grow their online presence, harnessing the full potential of Later.com has become increasingly important. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore

US Probe Uncovers Chinese Spy Balloon Exploiting American Technology

The discovery of a Chinese spy balloon that infiltrated the airspace of the United States earlier this year has raised concerns about the extent of surveillance capabilities employed by foreign entities. According to a report published by the Wall Street Journal, an official investigation has revealed that the balloon was equipped with American-made surveillance gear,

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