Facebook and Instagram will now reward influencers with cash bonuses for hitting certain milestones, like selling a set number of badges in an Instagram stream
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Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office: want full-time remote
WhatsApp updates Business API to make chatting easier, including option menus rather than typing, and will support more message types, like periodic reminders
Microsoft, Accenture, GitHub, ThoughtWorks, and Linux Foundation launch the Green Software Foundation, aiming to make software engineering more sustainable
Facebook's wav2vec Unsupervised, a way to build speech recognition systems that require no transcribed data, may bring automatic translations to more countries
Opera is testing its gaming-focused browser Opera GX on iOS and Android; Opera GX had 9M+ monthly active gamers across Windows and Mac as of March, up 190% YoY
Google announces plans to build a commercial-grade quantum computer by 2029 and unveiled its new quantum AI campus in Santa Barbara, California
What to expect from Google I/O: a big focus on Android 12, Assistant and smart home improvements, changes to Wear OS, and possible Pixel Buds A-series
Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month
Amazon Echo Buds review: affordable, better sound, smaller, True ANC, optional wireless charging, but middling battery life and mediocre call quality
Techmeme · 1 month ago
Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company
To tackle harassment, Riot Games updates privacy policy allowing it to record in-game voice chats, says it will listen to recordings only if a report is filed
Google says it's rolling out an update for Assistant that allows a user to train Assistant how to pronounce and recognize uncommon names, at first in English
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Facebook says it has reached its target of powering its global operations entirely on renewable energy; it has invested $8B in green energy projects
Twitter says it will study any "unintentional harms" caused by its algorithms and will make the findings public as part of its Responsible ML Initiative
Facebook is currently experiencing a widespread outage, with Instagram and WhatsApp also impacted
An adapted excerpt from the book "Your Computer Is on Fire", on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa alienate non-native and non-standard English speakers
Apple’s upcoming iOS update unblocks ‘Asian’ as adult content
‘Hamster ball’ robot could explore Moon caves
Facebook freezes Venezuela president’s page over false COVID-19 claims
Jeep is installing EV chargers at off-road trailheads throughout the US
Congress questioned Big Tech CEOs for 5 hours without getting any good answers
Samsung unveils a 512GB DDR5 RAM module
Microsoft starts testing complementary multiplayer for free-to-play games
Android apps like Gmail are crashing and ‘system webview’ may be to blame
Android apps like Gmail and Google Pay are crashing and "WebView" is to blame; Google says it is working on a fix
The Morning After: Brazil wants in-box chargers with new iPhones
Apple wants Tim Cook, Tim Sweeney to testify in Epic lawsuit
PAWS anti-poaching AI predicts where illegal hunters will show up next
Google’s plan to block third-party cookies has drawn attention from the DoJ
Microsoft tests the Xbox’s Auto HDR feature on PCs
Wikipedia plans to charge large organizations using its encyclopedia
Instagram stops adults from DMing teens who don’t follow them
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