Category Archives: Tech News

Canada tries to address C-18 bill concerns, saying Google would pay ~$126.6M and Meta would pay ~$44M a year to publishers; Meta says it will keep blocking news (Reuters)

Reuters: Canada tries to address C-18 bill concerns, saying Google would pay ~$126.6M and Meta [...]

01
Sep
Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxxing, and says it has blocked 8.2M+ accounts this year, mostly using AI (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, [...]

31
Aug
Instagram is internally testing letting users create Reels up to 10 minutes long, after TikTok increased its maximum video length to 10 minutes in February 2022 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram is internally testing letting users create Reels up to 10 [...]

30
Aug
Meta Avatars finally have legs in Quest Home, with the v57 update on the Public Test Channel, after announcing they were coming in October 2022 (David Heaney/UploadVR)

David Heaney / UploadVR: Meta Avatars finally have legs in Quest Home, with the v57 [...]

29
Aug
Document: Lenovo plans to unveil on September 1 a €799 Legion Go gaming handheld, with an 8.8" 144Hz 2560×1600 display and 16GB RAM, and €499 Legion AR glasses (Vlad Turiceanu/Windows Report)

Vlad Turiceanu / Windows Report: Document: Lenovo plans to unveil on September 1 a €799 [...]

28
Aug
A look at the ethical and legal issues around generative AI, as it makes practical at a massive scale things that were previously only possible on a small scale (Benedict Evans)

Benedict Evans: A look at the ethical and legal issues around generative AI, as it [...]

27
Aug
WordPress.com debuts a 100-year domain name registration for $38K, offering managed hosting and 24/7 customer service; domains are typically capped at 10 years (Roger Montti/Search Engine Journal)

Roger Montti / Search Engine Journal: WordPress.com debuts a 100-year domain name registration for $38K, [...]

26
Aug
Instacart files for a US IPO set for September; after being valued at $39B in 2021, the company repeatedly cut its valuation, reportedly to $13B in October 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios: Instacart files for a US IPO set for September; after being [...]

25
Aug
Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its highest tier "all the space you need" storage plan to 5TB, after some abused it to resell the storage and more (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its highest tier “all the [...]

24
Aug
Qualcomm updates its lineup of processors designed for gaming handhelds, adding the G1 and G2 chips for cheaper devices and the flagship Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware: Qualcomm updates its lineup of processors designed for gaming [...]

23
Aug