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Media & Entertainment
AFP sues Musk’s X for refusing to enter news reuse payment talks
2:07 am PDT • August 3, 2023
Elon Musk–owned X, formerly Twitter, is facing legal action brought under copyright law in France. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency has announced it’s suing the social media platform over…
Enterprise
Are your product and service teams creating value for customers?
1:42 am PDT • August 3, 2023
SaaS companies need to rethink the way they incentivize service teams and align them more closely with product teams.
Fintech
Emtech to advance its regtech and CBDC stack solutions with $4M led by Matrix Partners India
1:08 am PDT • August 3, 2023
Emtech, an African provider of central banking infrastructure, introduced its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Innovation kit last month. The kit caters to fintechs and financial service providers interested in…
Government & Policy
India restricts laptop and server import to boost local manufacturing
11:58 pm PDT • August 2, 2023
India restricted import of laptops, servers and many other consumer-electronic devices on Thursday, saying it will impose a licensing permit for imports in a move analysts say appears to be…
Transportation
Tesla rival XPeng’s head of autonomous driving quits, rumored to join Nvidia
10:58 pm PDT • August 2, 2023
XPeng, a prominent Chinese electric vehicle maker and a competitor to Tesla, has announced the resignation of its vice president of autonomous driving, Xinzhou Wu, over personal and family reasons.…
Crypto
SettleMint’s AI assistant aims to help web3 developers write better smart contracts
7:28 pm PDT • August 2, 2023
The way artificial intelligence can write software has already prompted many companies to introduce code-generating products, so it’s no surprise that SettleMint, a low-code blockchain programming tool for enterprises, recently…
User morale isn’t the only thing that’s down at Reddit. More than 30,000 people have reported outages on Reddit since about 4:30 PM ET, according to Downdetector. While many users…
The DJI/GoPro relationship has been an uneasy one ever since planned drone collaboration fell back down to earth some eight or so years back. After the deal fell through, GoPro…
HackerOne, a widely known bug bounty and penetration testing platform, is cutting up to 12% of its workforce as the global economic slowdown continues to impact the tech community. The…
Featured Article
Commentary: The old guard in venture reigns supreme
Black founders have never raised more than 2% of capital in any given quarter.
1:30 pm PDT • August 2, 2023
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Apps
App Store users are downrating Twitter’s rebranding to X with 1-star reviews
1:00 pm PDT • August 2, 2023
Many people have mixed feelings over Twitter’s rebranding to X, in preparation for its transformation into owner Elon Musk’s vision of an “everything app.” But on the U.S. App Store,…
Startups
Ask Sophie: Any tips for F-1 student visa approval amid the rising denial rate?
12:35 pm PDT • August 2, 2023
I was accepted into a prestigious robotics engineering master’s program in the U.S. but the denial rate for F-1 student visas is increasing. Why?
Myriad industries would be ripe for upheaval. Here are a few that would stand the most to gain.
Social
Meta starts blocking the news in Canada — its latest standoff with publishers
12:19 pm PDT • August 2, 2023
Canadians using Facebook and Instagram should expect to see some gaps in their feeds, starting now. This week, Meta began blocking Canadian access to links and stories from news publishers…
Apps
X, formerly Twitter, streamlines its crowdsourced fact-checking system Community Notes
11:39 am PDT • August 2, 2023
Elon Musk-owned X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is streamlining its crowdsourced fact-checking feature Community Notes. The feature historically has provided information to users about why they were seeing…
Security
Mondee security lapse exposed flight itineraries and unencrypted credit card numbers
11:30 am PDT • August 2, 2023
Travel giant Mondee has secured an exposed database that was spilling sensitive customer information, including detailed flight and hotel itineraries and unencrypted credit card numbers. Anurag Sen, a good-faith security…
Apple announced today that Apple Card’s high-yield Savings account offered by Goldman Sachs has reached over $10 billion in deposits from users since launching in April. The Savings account offers…
Transportation
Subaru doubles its plans for new EVs, targeting 8 models by 2028
10:55 am PDT • August 2, 2023
It seems like Subaru is finally getting ready to release a full lineup of electric vehicles. Known for clever marketing schemes that won over sporty lesbians, dog-loving dinks, outdoorsy families…
Privacy
UK privacy watchdog warns Meta over plan to keep denying Brits a choice over its ad tracking
9:42 am PDT • August 2, 2023
The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has responded to Meta’s announcement yesterday that it intends to offer (other) Europeans a free choice to deny its tracking-for-ad-targeting but won’t be asking U.K.…
Featured Article
Where founders go wrong with pitch decks
Self-evaluating your pitch based on these points is a great way to understand what your deck has, and what it’s missing.
9:30 am PDT • August 2, 2023
