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Artifact news app introduces emoji reactions and flagging articles as clickbait

Instagram founders’ news app Arifact launched a new set of features Monday, allowing users to report clickbait articles, react with emojis and share articles as images. The clickbait flag feature now lets you mark an article as misleading through the … Continue reading

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Reliance JioMart to cut 11,000 jobs, report says

JioMart, Reliance Retail’s online shopping platform, has laid off over 1,000 employees and plans to cut as many as 9,900 more roles over the coming weeks, according to a report, as the Indian retail giant looks to improve its margins. … Continue reading

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Dyson upgrades its vacuums and air purifiers

When someone asks for a tech recommendation, we almost invariably answer with one question: what’s your budget? It’s as true with vacuums as anything else. You can get a pretty good one for not a lot of money. That’s the … Continue reading

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Daylight, the LGBTQ+ neobank, calls it quits

Daylight, an LGBTQ+ banking platform, is shutting down. Its operations will cease on June 30, according to embattled co-founder and CEO Rob Curtis.  The announcement comes months after NY Magazine published an explosive feature on the neobank. The article honed … Continue reading

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Anthemis targets $200M for new fund after layoffs and canceled SPAC

Anthemis Group is trying to raise $200 million for a third fund, according to an SEC filing, as first reported by Axios. It has been in the market since last year and has so far secured commitments of just $36.4 … Continue reading

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Going for a walk with Shift’s Moonwalker electric shoe-skates

Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised to see someone skate-walking down the halls of Detroit’s Huntington Place convention center. Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of interesting stuff happening at Automate today, but it simply never occurred to me that … Continue reading

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Max Q: Double the fun

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Blue Origin lands major NASA contract News from SpaceX, and more NASA picks Blue Origin-led team to build second human landing system on the moon, joining SpaceX NASA has chosen … Continue reading

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Fake Pentagon attack hoax shows perils of Twitter’s paid verification

Surprising literally no one, the combination of paid blue checks and generative AI makes it all too easy to spread misinformation. On Monday morning, a seemingly AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon circulated around the internet, even though … Continue reading

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TikTok sues Montana over a controversial new law banning the app in the state

Last week, Montana governor Greg Gianforte signed a law that banned TikTok in the state. Now the company is hitting back with a lawsuit that aims to keep the app available to Montanans. In the complaint, TikTok argues that Montana’s … Continue reading

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SkyFi lets you order up fresh satellite imagery in real time with a click

Commercial Earth observation companies collect an unprecedented volume of images and data every single day, but purchasing even a single satellite image can be cumbersome and time-intensive. SkyFi, a two-year old startup, is looking to change that with an app … Continue reading

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