Leica helped Xiaomi create a flagship phone that takes better photos than iPhone, and their partnership makes sense despite Xiaomi copying some elements of iOS (Sam Byford/Multicore)
On 'Chinese knockoffs' and why Leica works with Xiaomi
It's past time to start taking Chinese phones seriously, whether you've used one or not
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Opinion: Leica helped Xiaomi create a flagship that takes better photos than the iPhone, and their partnership makes sense despite Xiaomi copying iOS elements
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Amazon launches a generative AI tool for advertisers to create "lifestyle imagery" backgrounds or scenes for their products in beta (Chris Welch/The Verge)
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Amazon now lets advertisers use generative AI to pretty up their product shots
Because nothing’s worse than a boring white background.
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Amazon launches a generative AI tool in beta that lets advertisers create “lifestyle imagery” backgrounds or scenes around the products they are hoping to sell
By Chris Welch / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta has repeatedly accepted Google's requests to redact documents and hold private testimony, alarming press advocates and reporters (Scott Nover/Slate)
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It’s the Most Important Tech Trial in Years. All the Juicy Stuff Is Happening in Secret.
A black-box search engine has a black-box court battle.
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US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta has repeatedly accepted Google
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Elon Musk threatens filing a defamation suit against the ADL for "falsely accusing" X and him of being anti-Semitic, and blames the ADL for X's US ad sales drop (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
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Elon Musk to sue ADL for accusing him, X of antisemitism | TechCrunch
In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League. ...
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Elon Musk threatens to file a defamation lawsuit against the ADL for “falsely accusing” X and him of antisemitism and blames the ADL for X
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Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be "dying out" as a format (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) https://t.co/HhzRjWbHdE
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Senior YouTube staff express concerns that Shorts is drawing audiences away from longer-form videos, which produce more revenue but are “dying out” as a format
By Cristina Criddle / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Magic Leap tells customers the Magic Leap 1 AR headset, which launched in August 2018, and its apps will "cease to function" from December 31, 2024 (David Heaney/UploadVR)
Magic Leap 1 Headsets Will "Cease To Function" After 2024
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Magic Leap tells its customers that the Magic Leap 1, which launched in August 2018, and the AR headset
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A US district judge temporarily blocks an Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to open social media accounts that was set to take effect on Sep. 1 (Andrew DeMillo/Associated Press)
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Judge blocks Arkansas law requiring parental OK for minors to create social media accounts
A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accou...
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A US judge temporarily blocks an Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to create social media accounts, which was set to take effect on September 1
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Investigation: IBM signed a Β£54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, in July, despite a 2020 pledge to quit such work (Mark Wilding/The Verge)
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IBM promised to back off facial recognition β€” then it signed a $69.8 million contract to provide it
The UK deal has drawn fire from civil liberties groups.
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Investigation: in July, IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, despite a 2020 pledge to stop such work
By Mark Wilding / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 across Europe from October 1, instead offering Teams to enterprise for €24 per year (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
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Microsoft Tries to Ward Off EU Antitrust Probe into Teams App
Microsoft Corp. tried to ward off further European Union antitrust scrutiny of its Teams video-conferencing app by offering to split the program fr...
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Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 in Europe on October 1, discounting the suites by €24/year and selling Teams for €60/year
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NHTSA ordered Tesla in late July to provide data on "Elon mode" Autopilot configuration that eliminates prompts to drivers to keep hands on the steering wheel (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
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Tesla ordered by auto regulators to provide data on 'Elon mode' Autopilot configuration
Regulators want to know more about a configuration that eliminates a so-called "nag" that normally prompts owners to keep their hands on the steeri...
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In July 2023, the NHTSA ordered Tesla to provide data on Autopilot
By Lora Kolodny / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.