Tech Meme

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Twitch plans to launch ephemeral Stories in October 2023 and a Discovery Feed featuring a personalized mix of streamers’ clips this fall, both in its mobile app  —  The features will arrive this fall.  —  It’s probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: The Snap Star creator program, Snap’s new revenue-sharing incentive, is showing early signs of traction as part of broader efforts to reverse declining sales  —  Social-media app Snapchat is trying to counter declining sales  —  Snap’s efforts to lure creators and their followers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joshua Bote / SFGATE: Evernote lays off most of its remaining staff in the US and Chile, and will relocate nearly all operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2022  —  Evernote, the note-taking app once heralded by Engadget as the “king of note-taking apps,” has laid off most of its staff … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Sequoia’s China unit HongShan has set up an office in Singapore and might compete with Sequoia’s India-based Peak XV for south-east Asia investments  —  Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot that answers medical questions, and more; sources: testing began in April with customers including the Mayo Clinic  —  Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams  —  Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Civil rights groups and academics say the ruling limiting the US government contacting tech companies could undermine 2024 election misinformation initiatives  —  Civil rights groups warn limits on government contacts could be a boon for election lies ahead of ‘the biggest election year the internet age has seen’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ana Swanson / New York Times: Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales  —  Chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume go through Meta platforms; ~£485M was stolen in 2022  —  UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud Lees verder op Tech Meme

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Twitch plans to launch ephemeral stories in October and a Discovery Feed consisting of a personalized mix of streamers’ clips this fall, both on its mobile app  —  The features will arrive this fall.  —  It’s probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: How an AI-generated, error-filled Star Wars story created internal chaos at Gizmodo, an incident that speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news  —  The error-filled story about Star Wars movies and TV shows demonstrates why artificial intelligence shouldn’t be involved in news-gathering, reporters said Lees verder op Tech Meme