🐦 Twitter launches Super Follows on iOS
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Twitter launches Super Follows on iOS. Twitter is starting to roll out Super Follows, its new feature that lets users charge for subscriber-only content. Creators can set their tweets to go out to Super Followers only, and the tweets will appear in the timelines of just those subscribers. (Kait Sanchez via The Verge)
Apple secures first states to support digital driver's licenses, but privacy questions linger. Apple’s plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards, subway tickets and student IDs. (Zack Whittaker via TechCrunch)
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies are in a 'frenzy' to help ICE build its own data-mining tool for targeting unauthorized workers. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft reps showed up to a packed industry day for ICE's RAVEn technology. The tool taps thousands of sources, including surveillance footage, biometric and social-media data. (Caroline Haskins via Business Insider)
Apple Plans Blood-Pressure Measure, Wrist Thermometer in Watch. Apple Inc. is working on new health-related features for its smartwatch, including a tool to tell users when their blood pressure is increasing and a thermometer to help with fertility planning, according to people familiar with the plans and internal company documents. (Rolfe Winkler via Wall Street Journal)
WHO says it is monitoring a new Covid variant called 'mu. The World Health Organization is monitoring a new coronavirus variant called 'mu.' It has mutations that have the potential to evade immunity provided by a previous Covid-19 infection or vaccination, the WHO said. (Berkeley Lovelace Jr. via CNBC)
The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis. In an American economy of winners and losers, it's clear where Marc Lore falls. He founded two e-commerce startups and sold them for $550 million and $3.3 billion before spending the last five years running Walmart Inc. 's online shopping division. (Joshua Brustein via Bloomberg)
The Planet Needs Jerome Powell. In recent weeks, the climate movement has become caught in the middle of a fight that seemingly has nothing to do with the environment: Should President Joe Biden renominate Jerome Powell to lead the Federal Reserve? (Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic)
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