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Meta launches parental controls for Messenger in the US, the UK, and Canada, letting parents view their child’s contacts and activity but not message contents (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: Meta launches parental controls for Messenger in the US, the UK, and Canada, letting parents view their child’s contacts and activity but not message contents — Meta is rolling out more child-safety features as government scrutiny heats up — Amid growing pressure from state …

Spot the difference: Google reveals a new Android logo and wordmark

Android has a new 3D-style logo, replacing the flat Bugdroid head introduced in 2019. There is a new font for the wordmark, which also capitalizes the “A” in “Android.” Google has been sneakily using the new logo and wordmark since the beginning of the year but did not make a formal announcement. Android as an

Sources: Byju’s is in advanced talks with new shareholders to raise $1B, seeking to stave off attempts by investors to reduce founder Byju Raveendran’s control (Anto Antony/Bloomberg)

Anto Antony / Bloomberg: Sources: Byju’s is in advanced talks with new shareholders to raise $1B, seeking to stave off attempts by investors to reduce founder Byju Raveendran’s control — Byju’s is in advanced talks with prospective new shareholders for a $1 billion fundraising round, seeking to stave off attempts …

TikTok plans to close TikTok Now, its BeReal clone announced in September 2022, without giving a reason; usage estimates suggest BeReal’s popularity has faded (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: TikTok plans to close TikTok Now, its BeReal clone announced in September 2022, without giving a reason; usage estimates suggest BeReal’s popularity has faded — TikTok is killing off its BeReal clone TikTok Now, according to notifications being sent to users.

Tel Aviv-based NoTraffic, an AI-based traffic management service, raised a $50M Series B led by M&G Investments, following a $17.5M Series A in July 2021 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based NoTraffic, an AI-based traffic management service, raised a $50M Series B led by M&G Investments, following a $17.5M Series A in July 2021 — AI-based traffic management platform NoTraffic has bagged $50 million in Series B funding as it picks up momentum in cities across …

Sources: US government official Kurt Campbell confronted Sequoia’s Don Vieira in DC over the VC firm’s ties to China, eventually leading to the three-way split (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: US government official Kurt Campbell confronted Sequoia’s Don Vieira in DC over the VC firm’s ties to China, eventually leading to the three-way split — Scrutiny from Washington aggravated tensions within the venture-capital firm, fueling its decision to break up

Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

Image: Microsoft Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, but the software giant also wants to do the same for consumers. In an internal “state of the business” Microsoft presentation from June 2022, Microsoft discuses building on “Windows 365 to enable a full Windows operating system

Do you need a monitor for MacBook Air? 15-inch and 13-inch setups compared

Do you need a monitor for your 13-inch MacBook Air? And does the 15-inch MacBook Air merit the same treatment.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says the service plans to add Stories in early July; the company was against adding Stories due to their ubiquity but listened to users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says the service plans to add Stories in early July; the company was against adding Stories due to their ubiquity but listened to users — Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced today that the messaging app is adding Stories in early July.

It’s official: Samsung’s Studio Display rival blows Apple’s 5K beast out of the water

Samsung has revealed pricing and a release date for its 5K ViewFinity S9 Monitor in South Korea and we can’t wait.

The unhappy reality of cloud security in 2023

The studies are coming fast these days. Thales Global Cloud Security Study for 2022 found that during the past 12 months, 45% of businesses have experienced a cloud data breach or failed to perform audits. (It would have been nice for this number to be broken out.) If you’ve been watching this space, it was only 5%

6 key features of SingleStore Kai for MongoDB

Much of the data accumulated in today’s world is in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format. However, many of the databases designed with a JSON-first mindset have not been able to provide the sort of in-app analytics available in classic SQL systems, leaving a huge gap in the amount of the world’s data that is able

Review: CodeWhisperer, Bard, and Copilot X

When I wrote about the GitHub Copilot preview in 2021, I noted that the AI pair programmer didn’t always generate good, correct, or even running code, but was still somewhat useful. At the time, I concluded that future versions could be real time-savers. Two years later, Copilot is improving. These days, it costs money even

It’s official: Samsung’s Studio Display rival blows Apple’s 5K beast out of the water

Samsung has revealed pricing and a release date for its 5K ViewFinity S9 Monitor in South Korea and we can’t wait.

Thomson Reuters agrees to acquire YC-backed Casetext, which builds AI-powered workflows and tools for lawyers, for $650M in cash, expected to close in H2 2023 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Thomson Reuters agrees to acquire YC-backed Casetext, which builds AI-powered workflows and tools for lawyers, for $650M in cash, expected to close in H2 2023 — Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed legal tech startup.

Snowflake partners with Nvidia to allow customers to build AI models using their own data, with Nvidia embedding its NeMo framework into Snowflake Data Cloud (Jane Lee/Reuters)

Jane Lee / Reuters: Snowflake partners with Nvidia to allow customers to build AI models using their own data, with Nvidia embedding its NeMo framework into Snowflake Data Cloud — Snowflake (SNOW.N) a cloud data analytics company, is partnering with computing company Nvidia (NVDA.O) to allow customers ranging …

Nothing reveals Glyph Ringtones: Custom ringtones with Glyph lighting

Credit: Nothing Nothing has revealed a Glyph Composer feature. This is a ringtone maker that syncs with a Nothing Phone’s Glyph lighting. The feature will be available on both the Phone 1 and Phone 2. Nothing is gearing up to launch the Nothing Phone 2 next month, and the company is conducting its usual drip

Baidu claims Ernie 3.5, the latest version of its LLM, has surpassed ChatGPT in general abilities and outperformed GPT-4 on many Chinese-language capabilities (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu claims Ernie 3.5, the latest version of its LLM, has surpassed ChatGPT in general abilities and outperformed GPT-4 on many Chinese-language capabilities — Baidu Inc.’s ChatGPT-style service has outperformed OpenAI’s seminal product on several measures, China’s search leader said on Tuesday.

In a complaint before the EU’s general court, German online retailer Zalando argues it had been unfairly labelled as “very large”, the DSA’s first legal test (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: In a complaint before the EU’s general court, German online retailer Zalando argues it had been unfairly labelled as “very large”, the DSA’s first legal test — German online retailer Zalando alleges it is being unfairly targeted by the Digital Services Act

Smartphones could soon have 24GB of RAM, because reasons (Update: Confirmed?)

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A trusted leaker has claimed that phones with up to 24GB of RAM are on the way. It seems like OPPO or OnePlus could offer this phone. REDMAGIC has since announced that it will offer a phone with 24GB of RAM. Update: June 27, 2023 (2:50 AM ET): Well,

Baidu claims Ernie 3.5, the latest version of its LLM, has surpassed ChatGPT in general abilities and outperformed GPT-4 on many Chinese-language capabilities (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Top 10 Web Development Companies In USA 2023

As internet availability has grown, companies have realized why it is necessary to have and maintain an online presence—pointing to the need for companies to embrace online marketing, social media, and other forms of online connection. A website plays a pivotal role when bridging the gap between businesses and customers. A well-designed, functional, smooth website

A Browser Approach to Parsing

There are few rites of programmer passage as iconic as writing your first parser. You might want to interpret or compile a scripting language, or you might want to accept natural-language-like commands. You need a parser. [Varunramesh] wants to show you parser combinators, a technique used to make practical parsers. But the demonstration using interactive

In the first five months of 2023, ~45,000 people in Vietnam lost jobs in electronics manufacturing, after Samsung and others substantially slowed production (Lam Le/Rest of World)

Lam Le / Rest of World: In the first five months of 2023, ~45,000 people in Vietnam lost jobs in electronics manufacturing, after Samsung and others substantially slowed production — A year ago, Samsung and suppliers for Apple and Google were crazy for Vietnam. Now demand for electronics has dropped, pushing some 45,000 people out

John B. Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the lithium-ion battery used in mobile devices and EVs, dies at 100 (Robert D. McFadden/New York Times)

Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: John B. Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the lithium-ion battery used in mobile devices and EVs, dies at 100 — An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, he is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise to

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