Victoria Song / The Verge: Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: classic look, better camera makes a big difference, some audio leakage, and a promising tool for content creators  —  Unlike the original, I kind of see where Meta’s going with its second-gen smart glasses. … Smart glasses that can discreetly … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: Bard conversations turn up in Google search results; Google says Bard lets users share chats, but they shouldn’t be indexed, and the company is working on a fix  —  Conversations with the Google chatbot turned up in search results for common queries—an issue the company says was an error. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: DOJ sues eBay, saying it broke environmental laws by allowing the sale of harmful products including 343K+ “defeat” devices that skirt vehicle emission controls  —  The U.S. government on Wednesday sued eBay (EBAY.O), accusing the online platform of violating the Clean Air Act … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Microsoft says it’s been trying for years to displace Google as the iPhone’s default search engine, but Apple never seriously considered switching  —  – Executive testifies Microsoft sought browser switch for years  — ‘Apple is making more money on Bing existing than Bing does’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Kraken plans to offer US-listed stocks and ETFs trading, a source says through a new division called Kraken Securities in the US and UK, targeting a 2024 launch  —  – Kraken targeting 2024 launch for stock trading: person  — Move comes almost two years after Bitcoin’s $69,000 peak Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: Mark Zuckerberg says that Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to the Quest 3 in December, letting users play hundreds of titles on “a massive screen, anywhere you go”  —  Get ready to play Xbox games in yet another place.  —  Xbox Cloud Gaming is already available on Xbox consoles … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 for XR devices, with 2.5x GPU and 8x AI performance compared to Gen 1, and the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 for smart glasses  —  The Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 puts head and hand tracking on the chip — and the AR1 has ‘on-glass AI.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: B2B payments startup Slope, which in April debuted SlopeGPT as the first GPT-powered payments risk model, raised $30M led by Union Square; Sam Altman invested  —  Slope, a business-to-business payments platform for enterprise companies, closed on a venture round of $30 million to expand its business. Lees verder op Tech Meme