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Plus: Farewell Typos! Twitter Unveils an Edit Button, OnlyFans Owner Gets Over $500 Million in Dividends in Two Years, and more…

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Apple overtakes Android to account for 50% of smartphones used in US. Milestone was passed in quarter ending in June, says Counterpoint Research. Apple has overtaken Android devices to account for more than half of smartphones used in the US, giving the iPhone… (Patrick McGee / Financial Times)

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Interesting piece by @PatrickMcGee_ in today's @FT on Apple's ever-stronger position in the US market & other affluent economies. It is little wonder the leading Android phone makers are concerned as Apple keeping chipping away mkt share. Find it here: on.ft.com/3KHdyfF
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Farewell Typos! Twitter Unveils an Edit Button. Begone typos and grammar mistakes! Begone fat-fingered auto corrected slip-ups and textual despair! The edit button is coming to Twitter. On Thursday, after countless pleas from many of its more than 237 million users, some people will start being… (Kate Conger / The New York Times)

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Breaking News: Twitter is finally getting an edit button. After countless pleas from users, slip-ups will be correctable after tweeting. Some users will see the change on Thursday.
nyti.msFarewell, Typos! Twitter Unveils an Edit Button.Finally.
1:02 PM ∙ Sep 1, 2022
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OnlyFans Owner Gets Over $500 Million in Dividends in Two Years. Social-media subscription service OnlyFans Ltd. said it paid its owner Leonid Radvinsky about $517 million in dividends since the end of 2020, as profit soared thanks to users and creators flocking to the platform known for its pornographic content… (Thomas Seal / Bloomberg)

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OnlyFans paid its owner $517 million in dividends in two years as people flocked to the platform known for its pornographic content during the pandemic
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9:46 AM ∙ Sep 2, 2022
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Zenly is still hugely popular, so why's Snap shutting it down?. Snapchat's parent Snap became the latest tech company to announce a huge round of layoffs, confirming ongoing rumors yesterday that it was cutting 20% of its global workforce, affecting at least 1,200 people. The reasons for Snap's massive scaling… (Paul Sawers / TechCrunch)

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Zenly is still hugely popular, so why’s Snap shutting it down?
techcrunch.comZenly is still hugely popular; why is Snap shutting it down? – TechCrunchWhile Zenly may have slipped under many people’s radar - especially in the US, where it has relatively few users - it’s undoubtedly a major European success story
3:47 PM ∙ Sep 1, 2022
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An AI-generated artwork won a state competition, and people don't know what to think. A game designer has sparked controversy after submitting an image created by an AI text-to-image generator to a state art competition and taking home first prize. Jason Allen entered the artwork titled “Theatre d'Opera Spatial” in the… (James Vincent / The Verge)

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well we're definitely going to be seeing a lot more of this in the near future: a game designer used an AI text-to-image program to create artwork for a state competition — and won first prize
theverge.comAn AI-generated artwork’s state fair victory fuels arguments over ‘what art is’Just a simple question: but what is art, anyway?
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