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iOS 17 beta 4 code hints at a rumored Action button, offering quick access to Shortcuts, Silent Mode, Camera, and more, similar to the Watch Ultra's button (Steve Moser/MacRumors) 27-07-2023

Steve Moser / MacRumors: iOS 17 beta 4 code hints at a rumored Action button, offering quick access to Shortcuts, Silent Mode, Camera, and more, similar to the Watch Ultra’s button  —  Apple released the fourth beta of iOS 17 to developers yesterday, and among the changes in the latest beta are some new code snippets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints (Reuters) 27-07-2023

Reuters: Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints  —  About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures (Srishti Jaswal/Rest of World) 27-07-2023

Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World: Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures  —  As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Slack experienced an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search (Jon Porter/The Verge) 27-07-2023

Jon Porter / The Verge: Slack experienced an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search  —  Slack, the workplace chat app, experienced an outage this morning, with messages failing to send on the service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech (New York Times) 27-07-2023

New York Times: Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech  —  Mr. Graham, a Republican, is the senior senator from South Carolina.  Ms. Warren, a Democrat, is the senior senator from Massachusetts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Slack reports an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET, including issues with sending messages and search (Jon Porter/The Verge) 27-07-2023

Jon Porter / The Verge: Slack reports an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET, including issues with sending messages and search  —  Slack, the workplace chat app, is having some issues this morning, with messages failing to send on the service.  Reports began spiking on DownDetector … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta forecasts 20% revenue growth in Q3, returning to pre-pandemic and pre-ATT levels, potentially creating cover for expensive AI and metaverse investments (Bloomberg) 27-07-2023

Bloomberg: Meta forecasts 20% revenue growth in Q3, returning to pre-pandemic and pre-ATT levels, potentially creating cover for expensive AI and metaverse investments  —  – Meta’s current quarter sales projection beats estimates  — Company continues to increase spending on metaverse, AI Lees verder op Tech Meme

The EU opens an antitrust investigation into whether Microsoft abuses its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office, the first investigation in 10+ years (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal) 27-07-2023

Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: The EU opens an antitrust investigation into whether Microsoft abuses its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office, the first investigation in 10+ years  —  Probe marks the first time in a decade that Microsoft has come under formal investigation by Brussels Lees verder op Tech Meme

AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian says thousands of customers, including Sony and Ryanair, have tried its AI services suite Bedrock ahead of a wider roll out “soon” (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters) 27-07-2023

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian says thousands of customers, including Sony and Ryanair, have tried its AI services suite Bedrock ahead of a wider roll out “soon”  —  Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O) cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg) 27-07-2023

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022  —  – Revenue revenue rose 13% to $4.33 billion in second quarter  — Inventory rose to 126 days at the end of the quarter Lees verder op Tech Meme