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Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users' money (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-4 Google

Oceana: Amazon created 208M lbs of US plastic packaging waste in 2022, up 9.6% YoY: Amazon says it reduced plastic packaging use by 11.6% YoY globally in 2022 (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-4 Amazon

X adds blue checks to some large accounts as part of its plan to give free Premium memberships to those with at least 2,500 “verified subscriber followers” (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-4

Some of Apple's online services, including the App Store, Apple TV, Podcasts, and Music, appear to be down globally since at least 6:31pm ET (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-4 Apple

Microsoft says Windows 10 security updates will cost $61 per device for the first year, doubling for the next two years, after ending support in October 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-4 Microsoft

Facebook updates its mobile video player with a TikTok-like vertical look and new controls for Reels, Live, and longform videos, starting with the US and Canada (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-4 Facebook Mobile Canada

Patreon rolls out a Reddit-like community moderation feature that lets podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators assign community members as moderators (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-4 Reddit

Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting users create three minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-3 AI

A first look at two third-party iOS app stores in the EU, the B2B focused Mobivention and the upcoming AltStore, which take ~12 screen interactions to install (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-3 IOS

POTUS' official Threads account starts using Meta's ActivityPub integration to post on the decentralized networking protocol (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-3 Decentralize

Yahoo plans to acquire Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom's Artifact for an undisclosed sum; Yahoo is buying the news app's tech, not the team (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-3 Yahoo

Sources: Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot that can automate support tasks via an “embodied AI character”, as part of larger Xbox AI efforts (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-2 Microsoft AI chatbot Xbox

Q&A with Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar on the core business of email, acquiring Mailchimp in 2021, generative AI, shutting down TinyLetter, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-4-2 AI

As Gmail turns 20 on April 1, a look at its impact on online communication and its future as other messaging apps have come to dominate how we communicate (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-30

Sources: Amazon's AGI team is aiming to outperform Anthropic's latest Claude models by the middle of 2024 using the company's forthcoming LLM, codenamed Olympus (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-30 Amazon

An inside look at Windows and Surface leadership changes that could help Microsoft capitalize on AI PCs and transition Surface devices to Arm chips (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-29 Microsoft AI

NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-29 AI

Amazon launches iOS and Android apps for Amazon One, which let users sign up for the palm-scanning service by using generative AI to analyze palm vein structure (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-29 Android IOS Amazon AI

The US OMB releases new guidance on AI, requiring all federal agencies to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use and submit an annual AI report (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-28 AI

Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components can be used (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-28

Google adds AI-generated trip itineraries to Search, translation to Circle to Search, and curated recommendations in Maps in 40+ cities across the US and Canada (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-28 Google AI Canada

Canva and Affinity publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's software “fair, transparent, and affordable”, including keeping “perpetual licenses” (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-28

Productivity platform Airtable launches Airtable AI, adding AI summaries, categorization, and translation via GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Anthropic's Claude (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-27 AI

Microsoft adds mouse and keyboard support to select Xbox Cloud Gaming titles for Xbox Insiders, nearly two years after it announced plans to add the feature (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-27 Microsoft Xbox

Google plans to release a Chrome version optimized for Windows on Arm this week, two months after Canary testing; Arm PCs previously ran an emulated x64 version (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-27 Google Chrome

AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-27 Google AI

Sony plans to add a new opt-in Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later in 2024 to automatically create clips that can help other players complete games (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-27 Sony

Meta started rolling out its new opt-out political content settings on Instagram and Threads last week to “limit political content from people you don't follow” (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-26 Instagram

Memo: Microsoft names Pavan Davuluri as its Windows and Surface chief; Microsoft had split the Windows and Surface groups after Panos Panay left in Sept. 2023 (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-26 Microsoft

Telegram rolls out its Peer-to-Peer Login Program, giving some Android users a Premium sub for volunteering their phone numbers to relay SMS OTPs to other users (www.theverge.com)
2024-3-26 Android

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