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An interview with Netflix's senior encoding technology director Anne Aaron about the company's cutting-edge codecs, preparing for livestreaming, and more (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)

An interview with Netflix's senior encoding technology ...

Janko Roettgers / The Verge: An interview with Netflix's senior encoding techn...

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How Sweden's push to go cashless has left consumers and the country vulnerable to online fraud; value of fraudulent transactions has doubled since 2021 (Bloomberg)

How Sweden's push to go cashless has left consumers and...

Bloomberg: How Sweden's push to go cashless has left consumers and the country...

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Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate the web with Game of Thrones coverage, leveraging fans' obsessions for traffic via SEO and social media (Kevin Nguyen/The Verge)

Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate...

Kevin Nguyen / The Verge: Interviews with several journalists who helped satur...

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A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, which used to employ humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge (Amelia Tait/Wired)

A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA...

Amelia Tait / Wired: A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, ...

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Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, stemming from her struggle to steady X's financial health a year after being named CEO (Financial Times)

Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and L...

Financial Times: Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and Linda Y...

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A look at efforts by Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI, and other companies to make their chatbots funnier and keep users engaged with them at home and at work (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

A look at efforts by Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI, a...

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: A look at efforts by Google DeepMind, Anthropic, ...

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Qualcomm makes its AI models, which are optimized for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, available to developers for building AI-enabled apps for Snapdragon X Elite devices (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Qualcomm makes its AI models, which are optimized for 4...

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Qualcomm makes its AI models, which are optimiz...

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Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integrate its AI model with Apple Intelligence; Anthropic and Perplexity also discussed integrations with Apple (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integr...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integrat...

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A look at Apple's plans for Vision headsets and AR glasses, M4 Macs, reasons for limiting Apple Intelligence to the latest iPhones and delaying it in the EU (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A look at Apple's plans for Vision headsets and AR glas...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's plans for Vision headsets and AR gl...

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Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's AI safety bill, saying the bill could harm California's ability to retain its AI talent (Politico)

Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing...

Politico: Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's...

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Interviews with ~12 media executives, including Brian Roberts, John Malone, Barry Diller, and Ted Sarandos, about the future of streaming, bundling, ads, more (New York Times)

Interviews with ~12 media executives, including Brian R...

New York Times: Interviews with ~12 media executives, including Brian Roberts,...

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Food delivery apps are contending with plunging orders and frustrated drivers, after raising fees in NYC and Seattle due to wage-increase laws for gig workers (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)

Food delivery apps are contending with plunging orders ...

Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: Food delivery apps are contending with pl...

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Meta launches its Meta AI chatbot in India with support for English only, a week after Google's Gemini app on Android debuted with support for 9 local languages (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Meta launches its Meta AI chatbot in India with support...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta launches its Meta AI chatbot in India with suppo...

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Qatari telecom group Ooredoo: Nvidia agreed to deploy AI tech in Ooredoo datacenters in five Middle Eastern countries, Nvidia's first major launch in the region (Andrew Mills/Reuters)

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Andrew Mills / Reuters: Qatari telecom group Ooredoo: Nvidia agreed to deploy ...

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Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealership software provider CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom, and CDK plans to pay (Craig Trudell/Bloomberg)

Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealersh...

Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: Source: a group that claims to have hacked car deal...

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The California Public Utilities Commission rejects AT&T's request to end its landline phone obligations and urges AT&T to upgrade copper facilities to fiber (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

The California Public Utilities Commission rejects AT&T...

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The California Public Utilities Commission rejects...