Reportedly, WhatsApp could allow you to share a voice note as a status update. A voice note updated as a status may be called ‘voice status.’ WhatsApp for iOS is working on a feature that will give users the ability to hide their online status from everyone.
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is working on a new feature that may allow users to post voice notes on their status updates.
According to WABetaInfo, this feature is under development so it is not ready to be released to b
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from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Charge your device or illuminate your desk with this innovative 6-in-1 Wireless Charger. It’s easy to use with its touch buttons and Qi wireless charging for Qi-enabled devices. Beautifully made with a modern look, it can quickly charge your device and is touch-sensitive allowing you to show the digital clock and calendar. For your convenience, this charger comes with a slim folding design so you can take it anywhere. It’s on sale for $40.
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Hello again, friends. Jordan Parker Erb here, bringing you the last newsletter before the weekend. Today we've got the deets on how Microsoft won Netflix, and why some drivers are ditching their Teslas. Let's get straight to it.
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1. Microsoft's partnership with Netflix is the biggest ad prize of the year. This week, Netflix chose Microsoft as the tech and sales provider for its new ad-supported streaming
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from the the-gop-takes-you-all-for-suckers dept Over the last few months we’ve been covering this bizarre story of how Republican politicians, pushed by their preferred spamming provider (which misrepresented a study on how email providers treat political spam), have been falsely claiming that Google is “censoring” their political emails. They’ve also been pushing a law that would require email providers not to label politician emails as spam. In response, Google caved a bit and propo
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Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani faced similar charges related to their tenures at Theranos. While Holmes was convicted on 4 counts, Balwani was convicted on 12 counts last week.
Former Theranos COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani was convicted on fraud-related charges in federal court last week. But he received a very different verdict than that of his ex-girlfriend, former business partner, and co-defendant, Elizabeth Holmes, who faced similar charges.
Up against 11 charges, Holmes received a
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from the it-keeps-happening dept It’s no secret that Techdirt believes YouTube’s copyright enforcement program is an absolute mess. On the one hand, it’s difficult to be too hard on the company. After all, it is trying to figure out how to enforce draconian copyright laws in countries like America at a scale that is absolutely absurd. On the other hand, the way it works today is so wide open for fraud and abuse, that it’s literally a challenge to pick out which of a ton of stories I w
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from the cop's-word-against-yours-means-the-cop-almost-always-wins dept The public expects cops to be better people than they are. Maybe they have the same weaknesses but having the training and experience to overcome them. But when you’re a cop, you’re encouraged to turn interactions into altercations and solve most problems with violence. And when all else fails, you can always just lock someone up. Is it any wonder law enforcement is home to an alarming number of domestic abusers?
One
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Google has started rolling out the Android 13 final beta. The beta update is currently available only for selected Pixel devices. Google has also confirmed that the stable rollout of Android 13 is a few weeks away.
Google announced Android 13 at the I/O 2022 conference earlier this year and has already rolled out three betas. The company has finally started the rollout of the final beta, meaning that a stable rollout can be expected soon.
Google in its blog post has confirmed that
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from the not-exactly-'fuck-cheer,'-but-then-what-is? dept Another school has learned it can’t discipline students for off-campus behavior, especially in light of the Supreme Court’s “fuck cheer” decision.
Teens do stupid things. Sometimes they do them at school and the school is free to punish them. Sometimes they do them elsewhere and that’s where the limits kick in. That’s what the Cherry Creek School District has just been informed of by the Tenth Circuit Appeals Court. Its de
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from the the-annals dept Five Years Ago
This week in 2017, as a new study shed more light on America’s terrible broadband access situation, many people were gearing up for a day of protest in support of net neutrality. After long being holdouts, Facebook and Google finally joined, followed by the laughable move of ATT getting on board, though most of the telecom industry was feebly trying to deflate the protest with its own think tank campaign. But the FCC was saying it couldn’t do anyt
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from the this-could-get-interesting dept Just a few weeks back we talked about how the US’s unwillingness to fix the way the NSA collects internet data could basically mean that most of the big US internet services cannot work in the EU. That article was about Google, and it goes through the background and history of the various US/EU privacy data sharing agreements, and how each one has been tossed out by EU courts in large part because of the NSA surveillance techniques brought to light b
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from the bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you dept
Fri, Jul 15th 2022 05:32am -
Karl Bode
When last we checked in with right-wing propaganda network One America News (OAN), it was suffering some kind of embolism for being kicked off of DirecTV. Despite a lot of attention, not that many people actually watch the channel, so DirecTV finally kicked it aside. This was distorted by OAN and numerous key Republicans into a claim that the conspiracy theory floating outlet was being “unfairly censored.
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from the can't-fix-what-you-can't-measure dept
Fri, Jul 15th 2022 10:47am -
Karl Bode
We’ve long noted how U.S. broadband maps are a bit of a dumpster fire. U.S. taxpayers have spent more than $350 million for FCC broadband maps that overstate broadband availability and speeds, downplay widespread monopolization and consolidation, and can’t even be bothered to measure affordability, one of the biggest obstacles to widespread adoption.
You only need to spend a few minutes to plug your
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Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has developed a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based research concept that will let people use text and simple sketches to generate digital imagery.
The concept called ' Make-A-Scene ' will enable new forms of AI-powered creative expression while putting creators and their visions at the centre of the process, the social media giant wrote in a blogpost.
"Make-A-Scene empowers people to create images using text prompts and freeform sketches. Prior image-
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Instagram has started rolling out exclusive features for creators. Now, creators will be able to post exclusive content and Reels, only for subscribers These new features are aimed to assist creators in earning a stable income.
Earlier this year Instagram started testing ‘Subscriptions’ for creators. Now a tweet by Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram revealed that creators using Instagram Subscriptions will be able to lock reels and posts behind a paywall for subscribers. Besides this
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