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Google makes third-party “smart chips” in Docs available to all Workspace and personal Google accounts, letting users pull and view data from third-party apps (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Wes Davis / The Verge: Google makes third-party “smart chips” in Docs available to all Workspace and personal Google accounts, letting users pull and view data from third-party apps  —  You can now embed third-party app “smart chips” into your Google Doc after the company announced yesterday that the feature …

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Best Microwave for Seniors in 2023

Welcome to our comprehensive guide on the best microwaves for seniors. As we age, convenience and ease of use become increasingly important in our daily lives, including in the kitchen. Microwaves designed with seniors in mind offer features that prioritize simplicity, safety, and accessibility. In this article, we have curated a list of the top

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Similarweb: Reddit had ~52M visitors on Tuesday, June 13, down from 57M the day before blackouts began; average session was 7.2 minutes, lowest in three years (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Similarweb: Reddit had ~52M visitors on Tuesday, June 13, down from 57M the day before blackouts began; average session was 7.2 minutes, lowest in three years  —  The protest appears to have had a small but noticeable effect on the platform.  —  When more than 8,000 subreddits went dark …

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Intel to Ship Quantum Chip

In a world of 32-bit and 64-bit processors, it might surprise you to learn that Intel is releasing a 12-bit chip. Oh, wait, we mean 12-qubit. That makes more sense. Code named Tunnel Falls, the chip uses tiny silicon spin quantum bits, which Intel says are more advantageous than other schemes for encoding qubits. There’s

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Similarweb: Reddit had ~52M visitors on Tuesday, June 13, down from 57M the day before blackouts began; average session was 7.2 minutes, lowest in three years (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Similarweb: Reddit had ~52M visitors on Tuesday, June 13, down from 57M the day before blackouts began; average session was 7.2 minutes, lowest in three years  —  The protest appears to have had a small but noticeable effect on the platform.  —  When more than 8,000 subreddits went dark …

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Block announces an open beta program for Bitkey, its self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, with Coinbase and CashApp integrations (Andrew Throuvalas/Decrypt)

Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt: Block announces an open beta program for Bitkey, its self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, with Coinbase and CashApp integrations  —  Bitkey will allow beta users to withdraw Bitcoin from Coinbase and Cashapp using “copy and paste.”  —  Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block announced an open beta program …

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Reddit’s management risks putting the service in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant content moves to other platforms (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

Boone Ashworth / Wired: Reddit’s management risks putting the service in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant content moves to other platforms  —  When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.  —  It’s pretty easy to piss people off on Reddit.

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Sources: the US has found it difficult to distinguish between tech that China can use for its military and tech used commercially by firms, particularly with AI (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US has found it difficult to distinguish between tech that China can use for its military and tech used commercially by firms, particularly with AI  —  Defining risky artificial intelligence poses challenge as Washington moves to curb investment in Chinese tech

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Meta scrambles to refocus its resources on usable AI products after a decade-long focus on research in its AI division disincentivized work on generative AI (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Meta scrambles to refocus its resources on usable AI products after a decade-long focus on research in its AI division disincentivized work on generative AI  —  The CEO considers artificial intelligence critical to long-term growth and is taking more control over efforts.

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