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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple ads team lead Todd Teresi now reports directly to Eddy Cue and wants to increase the group's ad revenues from $4B per year to double digits — Apple is set to expand ads to new areas of your iPhone and iPad in search of its next big revenue driver.
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| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Ahead of the US midterms, a look at TikTok's ongoing struggles to contain misinformation during elections, such as in Australia, France, and Kenya this year — The fast-growing platform's poor track record during recent voting abroad does not bode well for elections in the U.S., researchers said.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A look at the growing bipartisan scrutiny of TikTok in the US; email: House officials told staff they did not recommend using the app, citing security concerns — National security concerns over the Chinese-owned viral video app remain unresolved. Lawmakers and regulators are increasingly pushing for action.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Uber plans to end its free loyalty program Uber Rewards on November 1, 2022, to focus on its new Uber One membership program for $10 per month or $100 per year — You have until October 31st to spend your leftover Uber Rewards points — Uber is ending its free loyalty program, Uber Rewards …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Apple updated its employee conduct policy ~2 years ago to prohibit discrimination on the basis of caste, making it a leader in tech on the issue alongside IBM — America's tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India's ancient caste system, with Apple (AAPL.O) … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Dutch authorities arrest a Tornado Cash developer suspected of involvement in concealing money laundering, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixer — - The Tornado Cash developer arrested by Dutch authorities on Wednesday is Alexey Pertsev, his wife has confirmed to The Block.
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| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Google Maps in the US regularly misleads people looking for abortion providers, instead pointing them towards non-medical crisis pregnancy centers — Chey was a 19-year-old college sophomore living near Orlando, Florida, when she discovered she was pregnant and decided to have an abortion.| Wall Street Journal: |
The US' $42.5B broadband budget for underserved areas is withheld until the FCC makes new service maps, which aren't expected by rural providers until late 2023 — The $42 billion broadband plan is slowed by lack of accurate maps showing gaps in service — WASHINGTON—The government's …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stable Diffusion, a DALL-E 2-like system now available to 1K+ researchers, raises tricky ethical questions by allowing depictions of public figures and more — DALL-E 2, OpenAI's powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more.
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Tweets: @xsteenbrugge, @emostaque, @drscotthawley, @zdp189, @nin_artificial, and @carnage4life
| Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
Source: China has blocked Tencent-backed health platform DXY from posting on Weibo, WeChat, and Douyin amid its criticism of China's efforts to fight COVID-19 — Dingxiang Yuan posted articles debunking use of traditional medicine for virus — HONG KONG — China has suspended … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
New York City-based Kumospace, which offers video chat and remote work tools with a “virtual office” feel, has raised a $21M Series A led by Lightspeed — After more than two years of remote work, many employees have no interest in returning to the office — at least not without good reason.
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| Financial Times: |
Big investment firms, including Abrdn, BlackRock, and Charles Schwab, are embracing digital assets despite the crypto crash, as consumer groups raise concerns — Abrdn, BlackRock and Charles Schwab have done deals or launched products tied to digital assets this month
Tweets: @quinnypig, @ronanltynan, and @mayazi
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