Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Doc: Booking accuses EU officials of using “misleading” and “selective” facts to block its €1.63B Etraveli acquisition and plans to challenge any ban in court  —  US online travel site says Brussels has not shown €1.63bn acquisition of Swedish group will force rivals to close Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dave Lee / Bloomberg: Q&A with outgoing Amazon SVP of Devices and Services Dave Limp on using generative AI for Alexa, a possible Alexa subscription, advice for Panos Panay, and more  —  The departing executive in charge of Amazon’s voice assistant has a conversation about its future in the age of AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Doc: Booking accuses EU officials of using “misleading” and “selective” facts to block its €1.63B Etraveli acquisition and plans to challenge any ban in court  —  US online travel site says Brussels has not shown €1.63bn acquisition of Swedish group will force rivals to close Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at chip equipment makers, like Applied Materials, that push the boundaries of sculpting materials at the atomic level, in a quest to make chips faster  —  Few people outside of semiconductor manufacturing have ever heard of Applied Materials and its competitors—but what they do is more essential … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: India plans to delay its import license requirement for laptops and tablets by a year and propose a simpler import registration process from November  —  India will defer an import licence requirement for laptops and tablets, two government officials said, a policy U-turn after industry … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Academics and US agencies are overhauling or ending online misinformation research due to Representative Jim Jordan and other Republicans’ escalating campaign  —  An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abhirup Roy / Reuters: California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes a bill that would have required a human safety operator in heavy-duty self-driving trucks on public roads in the state  —  California Governor Gavin Newsom late on Friday vetoed a bill to prevent heavy-duty driverless trucks from operating in the state … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Walmart-backed PhonePe, which leads India’s UPI-based payments market, launches the Indus AppStore on Android and promises no platform fees or IAP commission  —  PhonePe launched the Indus AppStore Developer Platform on Saturday, promising zero platform fee and no commission on in-app purchases … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sanket Vijayasarathy / 91mobiles: A leaked Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro promo video reveals new camera features: an Audio Eraser, the ability to swap faces, full manual controls like ISO, and more  —  – A new promo video focuses on the many camera features of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro.  — Both the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro will get a 50MP primary camera. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Knibbs / Wired: A look at the flood of near-identical YouTube obituary videos, in which men read obituaries scraped from authorized publishers like funeral homes and newspapers  —  If you Google someone who recently died, you might see a flood of near-identical videos of men reading obits.  Here’s why. Lees verder op Tech Meme