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New York City bans TikTok for government employees

August 17, 2023
New York City will ban TikTok from government devices, The Verge reported on Wednesday. City agencies have 30 days to remove the ByteDance-owned app from their devices. Employees will not be allowed to download or use TikTok on their city-sanctioned tech effective immediately. This comes three years after New York state banned TikTok from government devices in 2020, according to Times-Union. NYC…
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Quick Charge Podcast: August 16, 2023

August 17, 2023
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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AI & RoboticsNews

War Robots mobile shooter hits 250M downloads

August 17, 2023
My.Games announced that its War Robots mobile shooter has surpassed 250 million registered players across all platforms. Built by its in-house game studio Pixonic, War Robots is currently available on the App Store, Google Play, and Steam, My.Games said. War Robots celebrated its ninth anniversary in April 2023, and it has generated more than $750 million inlifetime gross revenue and continues to…
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Ex-MZ CEO launches BeFake, an AI-based social media app

August 17, 2023
Alias Technologies, an AI company started by former Machine Zone CEO Kristen Garcia Dumont, has introduced BeFake, a social media app for digital self-expression. It’s built on the catch phrase, “Why be real when you can be fake?” The app, now available on both the App…
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OpenAI acquires startup founded by ex-Instagram talent for undisclosed sum

August 17, 2023
OpenAI is making more moves. The company behind ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 just announced it has acquired Global Illumination, Inc., a New York City-based startup founded in 2021 by a trio of former Facebook and Instagram workers — Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon and Joey Flynn, who worked on engineering and product design at the Meta companies, respectively. “Global Illumination is a company that has…
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