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Google says it is using its most powerful large language model PaLM to help robots from Alphabet X spinout Everyday Robots understand complex human commands (Will Knight/Wired)

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Australia's high court says Google is not a publisher, reversing a lower court decision that said Google was liable for a defamatory article in search results (Australian Associated Press)

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Sources: Apple is in talks with its suppliers to mass produce Apple Watch and MacBooks in Vietnam for the first time (Nikkei Asia)

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Pomelo, an international money transfer service which lets US senders offer credit cards to recipients in the Philippines, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)

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TrendForce: DRAM bit growth, a key barometer for chip market demand that refers to the amount of memory produced, to rise 8.3% in 2023, the weakest on record (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

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SAIC Mobility Robotaxi, an arm of state-owned Chinese automaker SAIC that aims to launch an autonomous taxi service, raised a $148M Series B at a $1B+ valuation (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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AtoB, which offers a payment system specially designed for truckers, raised a $155M Series B led by Elad Gil and General Catalyst, valuing the company at $800M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

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Elon Musk wins access to files from Twitter’s former head of product

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Top publicly-traded US bitcoin miners Core Scientific, Marathon Digital, and Riot Blockchain lost $862M, $192M, and $366M in Q2 respectively after impairments (David Pan/Bloomberg)

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Here are the best Kindle deals right now

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Fitbit Charge 5 owners struggled to sync devices during widespread outage

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Now WhatsApp has a native app on Windows that works standalone

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Amazon warehouse workers in Albany have filed to unionize

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Israel-based Pliops, which makes chips for data centers that boost the performance of databases and other apps that run on flash memory, raised a $100M Series D (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Which edition of Madden NFL 23 should you buy?

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Sidney Poitier doc explores legendary actor’s legacy [Trailer]

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Call of Duty accused of swiping another skin, this time from a former employee

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Turn your iOS device into a scientific tool with this $56 digital microscope

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Where to find Kamehameha and Nimbus Clouds in Fortnite

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Sources: for years, the SEC and CFTC were hindered by banks' usage of messaging apps like WhatsApp to skirt archiving rules; ~10 banks may be fined ~$2B total (Bloomberg)

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