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Texas is suing Meta over Facebook facial recognition

The Verge

The lawsuit, filed today in state district court , claims Meta’s Facebook photo tagging system violated the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act. Meta discontinued the Facebook automated tagging system in November, several months after the Illinois settlement. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Airbnb may go public during its most uncertain period in history

The Verge

Airbnb plans to file for an IPO in August, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Per the Journal, the company has tapped Morgan Stanley to lead the offering, with Goldman Sachs “playing a key role.”. Photo by Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Amazon reportedly close to deal to acquire Hollywood studio MGM for almost $9B

GeekWire

Amazon is close to a deal to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday. The deal at that price tag would be Amazon’s second largest behind its 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.

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Distressing animation captures a whale’s struggle to avoid ship strikes

The Verge

The animation accompanied a study published in the journal Nature this week examining the overlapping paths of ships and blue whales in the waters off Chilean Patagonia. Whales, including the one featured in the video, were tagged and tracked for up to three months as they moved through the gulf.

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Apple quietly reveals that iOS 14.5 will arrive next week

The Verge

will enable use of AirTag trackers to help locate tagged items using Apple’s Find My feature. will officially arrive “starting next week” — as spotted by Wall Street Journal ’s Joanna Stern. Image: Apple. In a press release for Apple’s new Tile-like AirTag tracker , the company has revealed that iOS 14.5 or higher.

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Why GeekWire is turning off story comments, and where we hope to continue to hear from readers

GeekWire

In one of the first articles published on the freshly launched site, about a Seattle startup developing high-tech pet tags , the comments included a question about the accessibility of QR codes, insights about the design from the startup’s founder, and an (accurate) accusation that GeekWire’s John Cook is biased toward dogs.

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How Instagram can take its child safety work even further

The Verge

Here’s Jeff Horwitz today in The Wall Street Journal : A weekend review by The Wall Street Journal of Instagram’s current AI-driven recommendation and enforcement systems highlighted the challenges that its automated approach faces. link] — Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) July 27, 2021.

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