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Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press : Japan says it will provide Micron a subsidy of up to ~$322M to help the company produce advanced memory chips at a Hiroshima factory   —  Japan is providing a major U.S. chipmaker a subsidy of up to 46.6 billion yen ($322 million) to support its plan to produce advanced memory chips at a Hiroshima factory … source http://www.techmeme.com/220930/p17#a220930p17

Reuters : SEC filing: Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye files for an IPO and reports a H1 2022 revenue of $854M, up 21% from H1 2021   —  Mobileye, Intel Corp's (INTC.O) self-driving unit, on Friday filed for an initial public offering in the United States, revealing a 21% jump in revenue for the first half of the year. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/iX3u7IB via IFTTT

Reuters : SEC filing: Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye files for an IPO and reports a H1 2022 revenue of $854M, up 21% from H1 2021   —  Mobileye, Intel Corp's (INTC.O) self-driving unit, on Friday filed for an initial public offering in the United States, revealing a 21% jump in revenue for the first half of the year. source http://www.techmeme.com/220930/p16#a220930p16

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : Report: Bruce Willis sold his “digital twin” likeness rights to Deepcake, for use in ads and possibly even movies; a Russian ad already used a Willis deepfake   —  Tech will allow Willis' doppelgänger to continue working despite language disorder diagnosis. source http://www.techmeme.com/220930/p15#a220930p15

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : Report: Bruce Willis sold his “digital twin” likeness rights to Deepcake, for use in ads and possibly even movies; a Russian ad already used a Willis deepfake   —  Tech will allow Willis' doppelgänger to continue working despite language disorder diagnosis. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Lh2bvDG via IFTTT

Emily Baker-White / Forbes : Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm   —  Some of the ads include descriptions of sexual violence, paired with images of battered women and photos of male fitness influencers, which were used without permission. source http://www.techmeme.com/220930/p14#a220930p14

Emily Baker-White / Forbes : Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm   —  Some of the ads include descriptions of sexual violence, paired with images of battered women and photos of male fitness influencers, which were used without permission. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/7Es8p6W via IFTTT

Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Twitter plans to add a TikTok-like full-screen video scrolling UI for English-speaking users on iOS, and a video carousel to the Explore tab on iOS and Android   —  Twitter is joining the bandwagon of social media companies copying TikTok's everlasting scroll of videos. source http://www.techmeme.com/220929/p27#a220929p27

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Apple VP of Procurement Tony Blevins is leaving, sources say after joking in a viral, September 5 TikTok video that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living   —  One of Apple Inc.'s most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/xB7PacX via IFTTT

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg : Source: Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and reduce budgets across teams, citing economic conditions   —  Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said it will freeze hiring and restructure some teams in an effort to cut costs and shift priorities. source http://www.techmeme.com/220929/p25#a220929p25

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg : Source: Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and reduce budgets across teams, citing economic conditions   —  Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said it will freeze hiring and restructure some teams in an effort to cut costs and shift priorities. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/GX6vl45 via IFTTT

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors : Square launches support for Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers in the US, available within its Square Point of Sale app for iOS on the iPhone XS or newer   —  Square today publicly launched support for Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers across the U.S., enabling small merchants … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QdB26Pz via IFTTT

In a recent trial, a bionic pancreas that automatically delivers insulin proved more effective than pumps or injections at lowering blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition that causes a person’s level of glucose, or sugar, to become too high because the pancreas can’t produce enough insulin, a hormone that keeps blood glucose under control. People with type 1 diabetes need to monitor their glucose levels and take insulin every day.  The bionic pancreas, a credit card-sized device called an iLet, monitors a person’s levels around the clock and automatically delivers insulin when needed through a tiny cannula, a thin tube inserted into the body. It is worn constantly, generally on the abdomen. The device determines all insulin doses based on the user’s weight, and the user can’t adjust the doses.  A Harvard Medical School team has submitted its findings from the study, described in the New England Journal of Medicine , to th...

Dan Primack / Axios : Sources: Google Ventures has shelved its algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments   —  Google Ventures has mothballed an algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments, Axios has learned from multiple sources. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/YKOFe2M via IFTTT

Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google unveils search results with a “Discussions and forums” section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and with machine-translated news coverage, in early 2023   —  At Search On 2022, Google announced that “Discussions and forums” will be getting their own sections in results … source http://www.techmeme.com/220928/p35#a220928p35

Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google unveils search results with a “Discussions and forums” section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and with machine-translated news coverage, in early 2023   —  At Search On 2022, Google announced that “Discussions and forums” will be getting their own sections in results … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/P5971lS via IFTTT

Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg : The SEC says 16 Wall Street firms have agreed to pay $1.1B in combined penalties for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps   —  Banking giants including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. agreed to pay regulators $1.1 billion in penalties for failing … source http://www.techmeme.com/220927/p30#a220927p30

Theo Wayt / New York Post : Lyft says it is freezing all hiring in the US through the end of 2022   —  Ride-sharing app Lyft is freezing all hiring in the US through the end of 2022, The Post has learned.  —  The news comes amid a broader economic slump that has sent Lyft's stock tumbling 68% this year. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/TM138Ah via IFTTT

Hi, and welcome back to China Report! If you are on Twitter and follow news about China, you likely have heard a pretty wild rumor recently: that President Xi Jinping was under house arrest and that there was about to be a major power grab in the country. First of all, let me be very clear: this report is false and should not be taken seriously. No credible sources on China have bought it. It’s wishful thinking at best, and intentional disinformation at worst. But it’s interesting to dissect how a ridiculous rumor could be elevated and spread so widely that it made it to Twitter’s deeply flawed trending list over the weekend. So today I’ll trace it back to its roots and unpack how it gained traction.  The story basically went through three stages, brewing in Chinese circles before being translated into English by influencers opposed to the Chinese government and finally being amplified by Indian Twitter accounts. Stage 1 : It’s not rare to see such salacious political rumors ...

Jacob Ridley / PC Gamer : Intel plans to launch its Arc A770 graphics card for $329 on October 12, hoping to compete with Nvidia's budget GeForce RTX 3060 on price and performance   —  That's the same MSRP as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 it goes up against, but Intel says that the green team's card isn't actually that cheap. source http://www.techmeme.com/220927/p28#a220927p28

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk : MPCH Labs, which is developing a cryptographic technique to split and store private keys for multiple users, raised a $40M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures   —  Liberty City Ventures, which incubated the startup, led the funding round.  —  MPCH Labs raised $40 million in a Series … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/jEk1GXS via IFTTT

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk : MPCH Labs, which is developing a cryptographic technique to split and store private keys for multiple users, raised a $40M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures   —  Liberty City Ventures, which incubated the startup, led the funding round.  —  MPCH Labs raised $40 million in a Series … source http://www.techmeme.com/220927/p27#a220927p27

Cheri Faulkner / NME : Netflix announces its first in-house game studio, its second game studio in Helsinki, to be led by ex-Zynga Vice President and General Manager Marko Lastikka   —  The studio will be responsible for delivering “a variety of delightful and deeply engaging original games” from Techmeme https://ift.tt/m6czvAB via IFTTT

Mike Masnick / Techdirt : A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas' content moderation law by mandating that comments include “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby”   —  Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against. source http://www.techmeme.com/220926/p21#a220926p21

Mike Masnick / Techdirt : A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas' content moderation law by mandating that comments include “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby”   —  Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/jfhIwVT via IFTTT

David Heaney / UploadVR : In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user's plausible pose from only the Quest 2's sensors using reinforcement learning   —  Meta researchers demonstrated Quest 2 body tracking without extra trackers.  —  Current VR systems ship with a headset and held controllers … source http://www.techmeme.com/220925/p8#a220925p8

David Heaney / UploadVR : In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user's plausible pose from only the Quest 2's sensors using reinforcement learning   —  Meta researchers demonstrated Quest 2 body tracking without extra trackers.  —  Current VR systems ship with a headset and held controllers … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/N1DPIze via IFTTT