🌐 Pebble vs Musk, WhatsApp Privacy Boost, Microsoft Cloud Gaming
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X Challenger Pebble Thinks AI-Generated Posts Can Help Lure Users Away From Elon Musk. Every text-centric social platform has its own way of nudging people to write the content needed to keep other users engaged. “What is happening?!” yelps the compose box on Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter. By Paresh Dave via WIRED
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WhatsApp makes it easier to ensure your chats are secure. Privacy is essential to our online activities, and especially so in private conversations. WhatsApp is one of the most popular encrypted messaging apps available on Android, and Meta developers regularly reiterate the app’s focus on privacy. By Chandraveer Mathur via Android Police
WhatsApp makes it easier to ensure your chats are secure - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
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Microsoft is planning to stream PC cloud games, internal emails reveal. Microsoft has been planning to stream PC games over the cloud, internal emails from the FTC v. Microsoft case show. Microsoft currently streams games through its Xbox Cloud Gaming service, but it's limited to Xbox titles as the servers run specialized Xbox Series X chips. By Tom Warren via The Verge
Here's Xbox chief Phil Spencer's thoughts on Google Stadia from 2021, after Satya Nadella raised the issue of Stadia being a white label cloud gaming service - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
Joby Aviation to build air taxi production plant in Ohio. Electric aircraft maker Joby Aviation (JOBY.N) will invest up to $500 million to build a new facility in Dayton, Ohio, where it will mass produce air taxis, it said on Monday. The 140-acre site at Dayton International Airport is set to be the first serial production location for the company, as opposed to the prototypes built at its pilot production line in California. By Valerie Insinna via Reuters
Electric aircraft maker Joby Aviation will invest up to $500 million to build a facility in #Dayton, where it will mass produce air taxis. A 140-acre site at Dayton International Airport is set to be the first serial production location for the company. - Scott Suttell (@ssuttell)
This is where Tesla's former CTO thinks battery recycling is headed. I spoke to Straubel about the role he sees battery recycling playing in the transition to renewable energy, his plans for Redwood, and what’s next. Certainly Tesla was an amazing adventure, but as it was succeeding, I think it was becoming more obvious that battery scaling would present the need to get so many more raw materials, components, and batteries themselves. By Casey Crownhart via MIT Technology Review
JB Straubel speaks about his company, Redwood Materials, and what challenges loom for batteries. - MIT Technology Review (@techreview)
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