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npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more (Ann-Marie Alcántara/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/can-you-replace-google-search-with-reddit-i-tried-it-for-a-week-ea1f36c5?st=dnyht7vzp8jzvng&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more
By Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Sources: Huawei is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on its Harmony OS, and has discussed a ~20% fee with developers, below Apple and Google's 30% (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
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Huawei Considers App Store Fees as It Surpasses iPhone in China
Huawei Technologies Co. is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on its Harmony mobile operating system, underscoring its growing confidence...
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Sources: Huawei is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on HarmonyOS and has discussed a ~20% fee with game developers, below Apple
By Pei Li / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Threads finally launches its API for developers | TechCrunch
Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it.
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Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developers publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024
By Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/social-media-influencers-arent-getting-richtheyre-barely-getting-by-71e0aad3?st=snqhy92nimb59t6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships
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npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Down-ballot campaigns in the US are experimenting with AI, which can help them save money and time, while also raising fears about the threats of AI deepfakes (Associated Press)
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AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns
Text, photos, videos and audio created using artificial intelligence are increasingly making their way into campaigns for state and local office.
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Down-ballot US campaigns are experimenting with AI models, which can help them save money and time, while also adding to fears about the threats of deepfakes
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npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
A look at India's quick commerce market, which has become an important distribution channel for Indian food brands, as Zepto and others expand beyond groceries (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
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Quick commerce targets e-commerce turf in India | TechCrunch
Even as quick commerce startups are retreating, consolidating or shutting down in many parts of the world, the model is showing encouraging signs i...
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A look at India
By Manish Singh / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Google launches Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages; Gemini will be available via Google app on iOS in the coming weeks (Amar Subramanya/Google)
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Gemini in India: Now on Mobile, Multilingual, and More Powerful For Your Everyday Tasks
We're expanding Gemini access in India with the launch of the Gemini app in English and nine Indian languages. We're also expanding Gemini Advanced...
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Google launches a Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages, and says Gemini will roll out to its iOS app in the coming weeks
By Amar Subramanya / Google. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Cambridge-based CuspAI, which is developing AI-powered tech for designing new materials, raised a $30M seed and has added Geoffrey Hinton to its advisory board (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
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AI Legend Geoffrey Hinton to Advise UK Green Materials Startup
Former Google AI researcher to work with CuspAI, which has raised $30 million to combat climate change with AI-designed materials.
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Cambridge, UK-based CuspAI, which is developing AI-powered tech for designing new materials, raised a $30M seed and adds Geoffrey Hinton to its advisory board
By Mark Bergen / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent "upload moderation" proposal to detect CSAM "fundamentally undermines encryption" of messaging apps (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
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Stop playing games with online security, Signal president warns EU lawmakers | TechCrunch
A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) ...
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Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns the EU
By Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
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As Shein chases IPO, its Chinese founder stays under cloak of secrecy
Even by the standards of Chinese tech business leaders, the lack of public information about Xu Yangtian is unusual.
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Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him
By Wency Chen / South China Morning Post. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their data in AI and other models, raised a £55M Series B at a valuation just over £280M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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Finbourne taps $70M for tech that turns financial data dust into AI gold  | TechCrunch
Finbourne, founded out of London’s financial center, has built a platform to help financial companies organize and use more of their data in AI a...
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Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their data in AI and other models, raised a £55M Series B at a valuation just over £280M
By Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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How Tubi CEO Anjali Sud plans to compete with Netflix and TikTok
Tubi’s free TV strategy puts it between free social video and paid streaming.
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Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more
By Nilay Patel / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Constructor, which provides an AI-powered product discovery and search service for e-commerce companies, raised a $25M Series B at a $550M valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)
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Constructor raises $25M for e-commerce companies to transform product discovery with AI — TFN
Constructor, an AI-powered product discovery and search platform for enterprise ecommerce companies, has closed a $25 million Series B round.
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Constructor, which provides an AI-powered product discovery and search service for e-commerce companies, raised a $25M Series B at a $550M valuation
By Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Adobe unveils Firefly-powered image generation in Acrobat, and support for analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, in Acrobat AI Assistant (Calvin Wankhede/Android Authority)
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Adobe upgrades Acrobat AI chatbot to add multi-document analysis, image generation
Adobe's PDF editing software already has an AI chatbot but the assistant can now also analyze non-PDF file types and generate images.
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Adobe updates Acrobat with Firefly-powered AI image generation, AI Assistant supporting analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, and more
By Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Inside Snapchat's teen opioid crisis: law-enforcement sources and parents allege that the company has helped fuel an overdose epidemic across the US (Paul Solotaroff/Rolling Stone)
Inside Snapchat's Teen Opioid Overdose Crisis
Drug dealers have used Snapchat to sell fake pills to teens, but these opioids are often laced with fentanyl, helping to fuel an overdose epidemic
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Inside Snapchat
By Paul Solotaroff / Rolling Stone. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Real-time data analytics startup Tinybird raised a $30M Series B, at a "significantly higher" valuation than its $37M Series A; source: it's now valued at $240M (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
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Tinybird raises another $30 million to transform data into real-time APIs | TechCrunch
Tinybird is not so tiny anymore. The enterprise data startup TechCrunch first covered three years ago has been growing at a rapid pace and recently...
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Real-time data analytics startup Tinybird raised a $30M Series B, at a “significantly higher” valuation than its $37M Series A; source: it
By Romain Dillet / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Coinbase debuts "pre-launch markets" on its global and advanced exchanges outside the US, UK, and Canada, for positions on tokens before they hit spot exchanges (Lawrence Lewitinn/The Block) https://www.theblock.co/post/300497/coinbase-starts-offering-pre-launch-markets-trading-on-its-international-and-advanced-exchanges
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Coinbase debuts “pre-launch markets” to let International and Advanced users outside of the US, the UK, and Canada trade tokens before they hit spot exchanges
By Lawrence Lewitinn / The Block. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Microsoft says the latest version of Windows 11, version 24H2 now in the Release Preview Channel, is "only available for Copilot+ PCs devices" (Mark Hachman/PCWorld)
Windows 11's latest update is kind of insane, in a bad way | PCWorld
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Microsoft says Windows 11 version 24H2, now in the Release Preview Channel, is “targeting Copilot+ PCs devices” and devices previously using Insider 24H2 builds
By Mark Hachman / PCWorld. View the full context on Techmeme.
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