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The GPU shortage is over
Google plans to auto-delete user visits to medical facilities like abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, and weight loss centers from location histories
Raspberry Pi announces the Pico W, a $6 microcontroller equipped with an 802.11n Wi-Fi radio, powered by an Infineon CYW43439 chip with Bluetooth disabled
Google updates its built-in password manager for Chrome and Android with the option to manually add passwords across all platforms, a unified design, and more
Snap launches Snapchat+, offering exclusive, experimental, and pre-release Snapchat features for $3.99 per month, starting in nine countries
Meta tests Discord-like changes in Facebook Groups, adding a channels list in a left-aligned sidebar that can include audio rooms, text chats, and feeds
Airbnb makes its temporary ban on parties at rented properties, introduced in 2020, permanent, saying the ban "became much more than a public health measure"
Labrador's robotic shelf for people with mobility issues
T-Mobile launched App Insights, letting marketers target its wireless customers based on apps they have installed and engagement patterns; users can opt out
Google says Hangouts will shut down in November as it begins prompting mobile Hangouts users to move to Chat
Starlink RV review: works in remote locations and power consumption beats expectations, but can't be used on a moving vehicle and storms degrade performance
Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights
Google will bring Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing, which helps Google track URLs to monitor dangerous websites, to its iOS app, expanding on Android and desktop
Facebook Pay officially rebrands to Meta Pay; Zuckerberg says Meta is working on an interoperable "wallet for the metaverse" that will have "proof of ownership"
MacBook Pro 13-inch review: dominant single-core performance with good battery life, but just two USB-C ports, design from 2016, and webcam is still bad
Amazon unveils new robotic tech for its warehouses, including its "first fully autonomous mobile robot" Proteus, meant to safely move large carts around workers
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
GitHub launches Copilot AI, which suggests lines of code to developers, out of preview for $10/month or $100/year and says 1.2M+ tried the preview in 12 months
Amazon names Doug Herrington, a 17-year company vet, as the new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, weeks after Dave Clark announced he was retiring from the role
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Mark Zuckerberg demos prototype VR headsets from Reality Labs, none of which will ship, that Meta refers to as "time machines" used to test one specific feature
Microsoft's Surface Duo 2 is finally a compelling dual-screen phone, after many software updates and a $500 price cut, but it works best as a secondary device
A group of Senate Democrats calls on the US Commerce Department to follow the EU and create a strategy to require a common charging port for all mobile devices
Snap is testing Snapchat Plus, a paid subscription service which will give users early access to exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features
Discord announces the widespread availability of its built-in autonomous moderation tool AutoMod, and expands Premium Memberships to more servers in the US
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from "unconnected" sources
Senator Warren proposes sweeping ban on location and health data sales
YouTube launches a corrections feature, letting creators add infocards at a relevant timestamp
Carl Pei reveals Nothing phone ahead of its July 12 launch event, saying "leaks are harder to contain nowadays"; more details will be revealed over time
Twitch expands its ad incentive program to more partners and promises bigger ad payouts by shifting from a fixed CPM to a percentage-based revenue share model
Sonos Voice Control assistant review: fast, private, and good at tasks like grouping rooms, but lacks Spotify support and doesn't understand some artists' names
Adobe begins testing a freemium version of Photoshop for the web in Canada to introduce more users to the app; some features will eventually be subscriber-only
A look at the growing disparities between ad blocker browser extensions, as Google's Manifest V3 bans blocking via Web Request while Mozilla keeps supporting it
Microsoft updates Teams to improve echo cancellation and room acoustics on calls using ML models, resulting in less clipping when callers interrupt each other
Dutch ACM says Apple's latest changes to App Store rules, which let developers of dating apps choose payment methods, meet local and EU competition requirements
A week with Dall-E 2, OpenAI's text-to-image AI tool that is in private research beta and feels like a breakthrough in the history of consumer tech
Daniel Ek says Spotify's upcoming audiobooks vertical will adopt the freemium model; Spotify's acquisition of audiobook distributor Findaway is under DOJ review
Techmeme · 3 weeks ago