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The Download: amazing space, and and geoengineering restrictions

January 23, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How the James Webb Space Telescope broke the universe When the James Webb Space Telescope sent its first images back to Earth in July last year, researchers gathered excitedly to pore over them.…

Zeekr goes on a hiring spree, Tesla kicks off a price war and Hesai files for an IPO

January 23, 2023

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Zeekr goes on a hiring spree, Tesla kicks off a price war and Hesai files for an IPO by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter is now accepting Community Notes contributions from four more countries

January 23, 2023

Twitter’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, is now open to contributors in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Twitter said over the weekend that it was expanding the contributor base by 10% per week by onboarding new individuals to the program. The social media company has also promised to include people from other countries. […]

Twitter is now accepting Community Notes contributions from four more countries by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

A hack at ODIN Intelligence exposes a huge trove of police raid files

January 21, 2023

Detailed tactical plans for imminent police raids, confidential police reports with descriptions of alleged crimes and suspects, and a forensic extraction report detailing the contents of a suspect’s phone. These are some of the files in a huge cache of data taken from the internal servers of ODIN Intelligence, a tech company that provides apps […]

A hack at ODIN Intelligence exposes a huge trove of police raid files by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Alphabet makes cuts, Twitter bans third-party clients, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings steps down

January 21, 2023

Howdy, folks! Happy Friday. While our fearless Week in Review leader Greg enjoys parental leave, I’m filling in, curating the latest on the tech news front. It was a roller coaster of a week once again as economic headwinds took a brutal, demoralizing toll, and as chaos reigned at Elon Musk’s Twitter. Somewhere in the […]

Alphabet makes cuts, Twitter bans third-party clients, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings steps down by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: Twitter kills third-party apps, Instagram adds Quiet Mode, Google’s antitrust trial gets a date

January 21, 2023

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to the latest “State […]

This Week in Apps: Twitter kills third-party apps, Instagram adds Quiet Mode, Google’s antitrust trial gets a date by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

TikTok’s ‘corecore’ is the latest iteration of absurdist meme art

January 21, 2023

TikTok goes a little overboard when it comes to categorizing every last aesthetic into its own microtrend. You notice it when Spotify Wrapped calls your music taste goblincore, or when you strangely end up at a charity gala in San Francisco and a tech exec asks you if he should be concerned that his teen […]

TikTok’s ‘corecore’ is the latest iteration of absurdist meme art by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch