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Appetite-suppressing probiotic helps overweight people lose weight

Appetite-suppressing probiotic helps overweight people...

Consuming the bacterium Hafnia alvei twice a day for three months led to better...

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Neutron stars may fire out neutrino beams like a laser light show

Neutron stars may fire out neutrino beams like a laser...

Neutron stars cool down by emitting neutrinos. A mathematical model now suggests...

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AIs become smarter if you tell them to think step by step

AIs become smarter if you tell them to think step by step

Artificial intelligence models can outperform humans at tasks AIs normally struggle...

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Microsoft says GitHub has a $1B ARR and 90M+ active users, up from a reported $200M to $300M in ARR and 28M active users when Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Microsoft says GitHub has a $1B ARR and 90M+ active users,...

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:Microsoft says GitHub has a $1B ARR and 90M+ active...

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Google plans to stop supporting Chrome for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in February 2023; StatCounter: Windows 7 was on 10.63% of Windows PCs in September 2022 (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)

Google plans to stop supporting Chrome for Windows 7 and...

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register:Google plans to stop supporting Chrome for Windows...

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Spotify says Apple's behavior is "choking competition" after Apple rejected its proposed audiobook purchasing process three times for breaking App Store rules (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Spotify says Apple's behavior is "choking competition"...

Emma Roth / The Verge:Spotify says Apple's behavior is “choking competition” after...

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Alphabet reports an "Other Bets" Q3 operating loss of $1.61B, up 25% YoY from $1.29B, on revenue of $209M, up 15% YoY from $182M (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Alphabet reports an "Other Bets" Q3 operating loss of $1.61B,...

Abner Li / 9to5Google:Alphabet reports an “Other Bets” Q3 operating loss of $1.61B,...

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Satya Nadella says more than 20M people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, double the 10M figure that Microsoft shared in April 2022 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Satya Nadella says more than 20M people have streamed games...

Tom Warren / The Verge:Satya Nadella says more than 20M people have streamed games...

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Meta says Apple updated its App Store rules to require IAPs for social media "boosts" to grow its business "while undercutting others in the digital economy" (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Meta says Apple updated its App Store rules to require...

Alex Heath / The Verge:Meta says Apple updated its App Store rules to require IAPs...

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Intel's Mobileye priced its 41M shares at $21 each, above its $18-$20 target, raising $861M in an IPO at a $16.7B valuation; Intel hoped for a $50B valuation (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Intel's Mobileye priced its 41M shares at $21 each, above...

Echo Wang / Reuters:Intel's Mobileye priced its 41M shares at $21 each, above its...

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says US subscribers can expect price hikes in 2023, after recent increases by Apple and YouTube; Premium has cost $9.99/month since 2011 (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says US subscribers can expect price...

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says US subscribers can...

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Tel Aviv-based Vesttoo, an AI-powered risk transfer marketplace connecting insurers and investors, has raised an $80M Series C at a $1B post-money valuation (Ofir Dor/Globes Online)

Tel Aviv-based Vesttoo, an AI-powered risk transfer marketplace...

Ofir Dor / Globes Online:Tel Aviv-based Vesttoo, an AI-powered risk transfer marketplace...

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LinkedIn starts letting users verify their profile with a work email address or phone number and plans to alert users if a message they receive seems suspicious (Clare Duffy/CNN)

LinkedIn starts letting users verify their profile with...

Clare Duffy / CNN:LinkedIn starts letting users verify their profile with a work...

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Tel Aviv-based Resonai, which uses AI and AR to create digital twins of commercial buildings, raised a $20M Series A extension, bringing its Series A to $30M (Sri Krishna/VentureBeat)

Tel Aviv-based Resonai, which uses AI and AR to create...

Sri Krishna / VentureBeat:Tel Aviv-based Resonai, which uses AI and AR to create...

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Square's parent company Block sells access to customers' email addresses used to receive receipts, which privacy experts say falls short of best practices (Ben Brody/Protocol)

Square's parent company Block sells access to customers'...

Ben Brody / Protocol:Square's parent company Block sells access to customers' email...

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Australia's biggest health insurer Medibank says an October 2022 hack compromised personal and "significant amounts" of health claims data of its ~4M customers (Reuters)

Australia's biggest health insurer Medibank says an October...

Reuters:Australia's biggest health insurer Medibank says an October 2022 hack compromised...