📈 Bad Inflation Reports Raise Odds of Surprise 0.75% Rate Rise This Week

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Bad Inflation Reports Raise Odds of Surprise 0.75-Percentage-Point Rate Rise This Week. A string of troubling inflation reports in recent days is likely to lead Federal Reserve officials to consider surprising markets with a larger-than-expected 0.75-percentage-point interest rate increase at their meeting this week. Before officials… (Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal)

Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos

A 0.75 percentage point Fed rate rise is more likely this week after a series of alarming inflation reports wsj.com/articles/bad-i…

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Microsoft Teams now uses AI to improve echo, interruptions, and acoustics. Microsoft has spent the past two years adding flashy new productivity features to Teams, and now the company is overhauling how the fundamentals work thanks to AI. We've all been on a call where someone has poor room acoustics making it hard to… (Tom Warren / The Verge)

Tom Warren @tomwarren

Microsoft Teams is fixing the awkward overlap when you interrupt someone on a call 📞 and can't hear each other. Teams is getting new AI-based call improvements today to fix echo, interruptions, and acoustics. Details and full video here: theverge.com/e/22929561

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Is Your TV Still Playing Ads When It's Turned Off? As struggling streaming services race to expose more viewers to ads, advertisers are seeing some pretty expensive hiccups start to happen. Case in point: on Monday, GroupM—one of the biggest ad-buying brands around—published a new… (Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo)

shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky

proponents of "surveillance capitalism" like to talk abt advertisers like they're pinpointing you with sniper-like tactics every time you log on. but the truth is always (always!!!!!) much dumber than that

gizmodo.comIs Your TV Still Playing Ads When It’s Turned Off?New research estimates that up to $1 billion worth of streaming ads are playing on devices that are powered down every year.

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Big Tech makes concessions on EU's new anti-disinformation code. Facebook, Twitter and TikTok set to agree to provide country-by-country data on efforts to curb fake news Receive free EU tech regulation updates We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest EU tech regulation news every morning. (Javier Espinoza / Financial Times)

Javier Espinoza @JavierespFT

FT: According to a confidential report seen by the FT, an updated “code of practice on disinformation” will force tech platforms to disclose how they are removing, blocking or curbing harmful content in advertising and in the promotion of content.

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We Can Still Save the Quiet and Preserve the Dark. Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding. (Ed Yong / The Atlantic)

Ed Yong @edyong209

🚨Here's The Atlantic's new cover story, adapted from my new book, An Immense World. By flooding the world with light & sound--sensory pollution--we've confounded, routed, and harmed other animals. But we can still save the quiet & preserve the dark. 1/ theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

theatlantic.comHow Animals Perceive the WorldEvery creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.

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