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April 12, 2021
Sources: Apple is in early stages of developing a product that combines an Apple TV with a HomePod speaker and has a FaceTime camera and smart home functions (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Sources detail how Facebook allowed state-backed political manipulation in small countries, prioritizing abuses considered PR risks in countries like the US (Julia Carrie Wong/The Guardian)
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Cruise is bringing its driverless robotaxis to Dubai in 2023, Andrew J. Hawkins
Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company backed by General Motors and Honda, will launch its first international robotaxi service in Dubai in 2023. The news was announced early Monday by Dubai’s crown prince, Hamdan bin Mohammed.
As part of the ride-hailing service, Cruise will use its fully autonomous Origin vehicles, which it first unveiled in 2019. The company does not plan on utilizing its Chevy Bolt electric vehicles that it currently uses as part of its test fleet in San Francisco.
The Origin is designed to be a shared vehicle, and when it goes into production, it won’t have any controls typically associated with human driving, like a steering wheel or pedals. Cruise said the goal is to scale up to at least 4,000 vehicles in Dubai…
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New ‘Heads Up’ feature nags distracted Android users to look up while walking, Jon Porter
An illustration from the feature’s settings page. | Image: Google (via Jay Prakash Kamat)Android’s Digital Wellbeing service is getting a new “Heads Up” feature, which will prompt users to stop staring at their phones while walking, XDA Developers reports. The feature appears to be rolling out to the beta version of the Digital Wellbeing app, and one Twitter user reports receiving the feature on their Pixel 4A device.
“If you’re walking while using your phone, get a reminder to focus on what’s around you,” says the Heads Up setup page. The reminders include brief notifications with instructions like “Watch your step,” “Stay alert,” and “Look up,” judging by an app teardown last year by 9to5Google.
— Jay Prakash Kamat (@jay__kamat) April 11, 2021
“Use with caution. Heads Up doesn’t replace…
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April 11, 2021
Adding crypto to IndiaStack, a set of national APIs for payments and identity, could allow India to build an OSS stack for domestic and foreign transactions (Balaji S. Srinivasan)
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April 10, 2021
Austin has been a top destination for tech workers leaving CA during Covid, and residents are concerned about how the new wave is affecting city’s culture (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
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Erroneously unredacted court docs reveal Google ran a secret program called “Project Bernanke” that used past bid data to boost its win rate in ad auctions (Wall Street Journal)
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Report: data of 1.3M Clubhouse profiles apparently posted on a hacker forum; Clubhouse says it hasn’t been breached or hacked, data is public info from its app (CyberNews)
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Database containing 1.3M Clubhouse profiles was posted to a hacker forum; Clubhouse says it hasn’t been breached, and the data is public info from its app (CyberNews)
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