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Google rolls out Sensitive Content Warnings in Messages for Android to blur nude images for signed-in users on-device, powered by Android System SafetyCore (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Google Messages is now blurring nude images

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Apple rolls out a software update that enables a redesigned blood oxygen monitoring feature for its Watch Series 9, 10, and Ultra 2, circumventing the ITC ban (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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Fitness band maker Whoop says it will not disable its blood pressure tracking tool despite the US FDA's request from July and requests a meeting with the agency (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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Cadillac’s Elevated Velocity concept could foreshadow the brand’s future in off-roading

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I flew Insta360’s Antigravity — it could change how drones are made

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GuliKit’s new anti-drift Switch 2 controllers are budget-friendly alternatives to Nintendo’s

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These smart glasses use AI to help low-vision users

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Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches

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Apple accidentally leaked some of its upcoming chip bumps

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An internal policy doc shows Meta permitted its chatbots to engage in provocative behavior; Meta removed some examples, including romantic roleplay with kids (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)

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Teenage Engineering’s new PC case is plastic and free

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The US NSF and Nvidia partner to fund the Open Multimodal Infrastructure to Accelerate Science project, led by Ai2; the NSF is contributing $75M and Nvidia $77M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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Arkham Intelligence: SpaceX holds 8,285 bitcoin, worth ~$1.02B, down from 28K bitcoin worth $1.8B in April 2021, after cutting its holdings by ~70% in mid-2022 (Danny Park/The Block)

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Everything we think we know about the Google Pixel 10 phones

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A deep dive into Big Tech's AI energy boom as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google become major players, leading to fears of it driving up individuals' and SMBs' bills (New York Times)

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Milan-based Bending Spoons raised €500M+ in debt led by JPMorgan to acquire more software businesses, after raising $155M at a ~$2.6B valuation in February 2024 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

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How Wall Street is embracing crypto, spurred in part by political opportunism, as some executives fear the rush may risk the safety of personal bank accounts (Rob Copeland/New York Times)

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JD.com reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$49.7B, vs. ~$46.8B est., and net income down 51% YoY to ~$846M, benefiting from government-directed consumer subsidies (Bloomberg)

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Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his preprint study showing how social network structures cause problematic outcomes like filter bubbles and echo chambers (Jennifer Ouellette/Ars Technica)

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