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Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar (www.theverge.com)

GM Says It's Dropping Apple CarPlay And Android Auto Because They're Unsafe (jalopnik.com)

Threads Launches in the European Union (www.macrumors.com)

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)

Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used (arstechnica.com)

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses will get smarter soon (mixed-news.com)

TL;DR: Meta is beta testing advanced AI features on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Beta testers in the US can opt-in for early access to features like camera aided visual translation/summarization of text and asking any questions related to the image or topic within a certain period of time. Meta plans to make it available to...

Google wants to use your photos and searches to build an AI storyteller (www.androidpolice.com)

Enhanced Web of Things connects diverse IoT ecosystems (www.w3.org)

Epic Games wins major court battle against Google (www.dw.com)

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Fortnite maker Epic Games wins its antitrust fight against Google | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023 - Pew Research (www.pewresearch.org)

Beeper Mini Is Back | iMessage for Android (blog.beeper.com)

New Huawei Phone Shows China Continues Bypassing Biden's Chip Embargoes (www.freedomsphoenix.com)

Good for them!

Teens Are Online 'Almost Constantly,' Usually on These Apps (libranet.de)

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Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (pluralistic.net)

Chat GPT Did NOT Like My Memory Test (beehaw.org)

I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn’t seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆

EA's Patent Let Players Use Their Voice For In-Game Charaters (samrome58.substack.com)

What is this camera like thing on electronic shop price tags? (And how does it work) (lemmy.zip)

I first thought it was a camera but there was no point, After some searching I found that these things could communicate optical, so that might be it, if so how do they work?

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