Month: September 2022

In this week’s newsletter: Close friend Serena Williams joins Markle for the intimate debut of her long-awaited show. Plus: five of the best podcasts on disability Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here ArchetypesSpotify, episodes weeklyMeghan Markle’s podcast is one of the most hyped of the year …

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Google Play Store still has not authorized distribution of app, denying it access to 40% of US smartphone market Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social has not yet been approved for distribution on the Google Play Store due to insufficient content moderation, a Google spokesperson said on Tuesday. Truth Social launched in the Apple …

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US firm Snap to focus on its core messaging product as it reports revenue growth well below expectations The company behind Snapchat is making about 1,300 staff redundant and cutting investment in projects such as augmented reality glasses, as the social media business fights an advertising downturn. Snap’s chief executive said the latest quarterly revenue …

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Cambridge research finds 60cm-tall humanoid called Nao helped children open up about feelings The Nao robot looks more like a prop from a low-budget sci-fi film than the cutting edge of medical research. But a study found that children felt more comfortable confiding in the child-sized, quizzical-looking humanoid than when responding to mental health assessments …

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Ban on Nvidia and AMD sales marks a major escalation of US efforts to restrict China’s military technology capabilities as tensions bubble over Taiwan Chip designer Nvidia said that US officials told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms’ ability to …

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Digital minister Taro Kono wants to follow up his bid to phase out faxes by getting rid of floppy disks – but he faces opposition from bureaucrats Japan’s digital minister has declared war on floppy disks, decades after the technology became largely obsolete, but could encounter opposition from analogue devotees inside the country’s vast bureaucracy. …

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