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A U.S. appeals court will hear challenges to a new law requiring ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, to divest its U.S. assets by January 19, 2025, or face a ban. The case will have oral arguments in September 2024.

YouTube is intensifying its measures against ad blockers by skipping videos to the end or muting them for users with ad blockers enabled.

ICQ, the pioneering instant messaging program launched in 1996, will cease operations on June 26, 2024. Once immensely popular with over 100 million users, ICQ gradually declined after being sold by AOL to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.

A secretive $3 billion program, called Secure Enclave, is undercutting President Biden's tech policy goals, as detailed by a recent POLITICO investigation. This program was integrated into the CHIPS Act funding to gain support from defense-focused lawmakers.

Researchers have developed a new metamaterial called Polymer-based Micro-photonic Multi-functional Metamaterial (PMMM) that is more transparent than glass, capable of cooling rooms through radiative cooling, and self-cleaning.

Congress has passed a new FAA reauthorization bill, signed by President Biden on May 16, 2024, which allows private aircraft owners to anonymize their registration information. This move significantly impacts the ability to track the private jet activities of celebrities and billionaires, including Taylor Swift and Elon Musk.

Apple's Hearing Study, conducted with the University of Michigan, has provided significant insights into tinnitus, a condition characterized by ringing or buzzing in the ears. The study involved over 160,000 participants, revealing that 77.6% had experienced tinnitus.

A survey by the Reuters Institute and Oxford University found that very few people are regularly using AI products like ChatGPT. Out of 12,000 respondents across six countries, only 2% of British participants reported daily use.

A recent leak of Google’s internal documents has revealed extensive details about the search giant's ranking algorithms, offering unprecedented insight into the factors that influence search results. The documents, comprising over 2,500 modules and 14,000 attributes, include information about how Google evaluates website authority, click data, and user interactions.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is imposing fines totaling nearly $200 million on the largest US mobile carriers for allegedly illegally sharing customers’ location data without their consent.

The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Tesla CEO Elon Musk regarding his "Twitter sitter" case. Musk had an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that required an in-house lawyer to pre-approve his social media posts about Tesla Inc. Musk argued that this agreement, which was signed in 2018, now infringes on his constitutional right to free speech. However, the justices refused to hear these claims and left the agreement intact.

In a surprising turn, Jack Dorsey has resigned from the board of his social networking startup, Bluesky. This news comes just as he publicly endorsed Elon Musk's X, referring to it as "freedom technology." Dorsey had been a strong advocate for Bluesky after selling his other co-founded social network, Twitter, to Musk.

TikTok has initiated a federal lawsuit to challenge a new law that mandates either a sale or ban of the app, implying a potential legal battle concerning national security and freedom of speech in this era of worldwide information warfare. The lawsuit, filed with a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., aims to obtain a court order to prevent the U.S. from enforcing the bipartisan law that President Biden signed last month.

Nintendo, the Japanese video game company, has announced that it will reveal plans for a successor to its popular Switch home console before March 2025. The announcement comes as the company reports a 13% increase in profit for the fiscal year ending in March, largely driven by the demand for Switch software. However, details about the new product, including its launch timeline, remain undisclosed.

Disney CEO, Bob Iger, announced on Tuesday that by the end of 2024, Disney+ will feature select live games and studio shows from ESPN. This move follows successful early results from adding Hulu programming to Disney+. Iger sees this as a precursor to the launch of an enhanced standalone ESPN streaming service in Fall 2025.

U.S. prosecutors are currently investigating whether Tesla, guided by CEO Elon Musk, committed securities or wire fraud by potentially misleading investors and consumers about the self-driving capabilities of its electric vehicles. This investigation centers around Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems, which, despite assisting with steering, braking, and lane changes, are not completely autonomous. The Justice Department is particularly interested in statements from Tesla and Musk that insinuate full self-driving capability.

Apple's new iPad Pro with the M4 chip brings a number of major improvements, but there are a few points to consider. The ultra-wide camera has been removed from the rear camera module in this generation. Additionally, the 10-core CPU, which Apple has emphasized for its performance increase, is only available in the 1 TB and 2 TB iPad Pro models. Lower storage iPads will feature a 9-core CPU and half the RAM.

Reddit's shares surged by 11% in premarket trading following the release of its first quarterly results since its IPO in March. The company reported a loss per share of $8.19, with revenues of $243 million, a 48% increase from the previous year. For the second quarter, Reddit anticipates revenue between $240 million and $255 million, exceeding analysts' expectations. CEO Steve Huffman described this as the "beginning of a new chapter" for the company.

Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaFold 3, the latest version of their revolutionary machine learning model that predicts protein structures and behaviors. The updated model is not only more precise but can also anticipate interactions with other biomolecules, enhancing its utility as a research tool.

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Samsung is expected to launch two models of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 this year, and now a new leak shows a model number for an “Ultra” model. GalaxyClub is now reporting that the model number for this new Galaxy Z Fold 6 will be “SM-F958.”

Google's Find My Device network has apparently been on hold as it waits for Apple to implement unknown tracker alerts. Google is said to want Apple device users to be able to spot its trackers in case someone is using them maliciously.

When Gmail launched with a suspiciously-times press release 20 years ago today, the tech world brushed it off as a hoax.

Google Podcasts, which as long been the Android equivalent to the Podcasts app on the iPhone, is shutting down next week.

A new book titled The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt Allen Lane is making some startling and concerning statements regarding the wiring of the teenage brain and how the social media firehose is negatively affecting its development.

ChatGPT will no longer require you to sign in to use the popular AI chat service, but there is a catch. If you choose to remain anonmymous, you can't tell OpenAI not to use your chat to help train the model and you will have more restrictive experience than if you had signed in.

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On this week’s IQMZ Tech Owen JJ Stone and Ryan Matthew Pierson discuss Apple’s leaked product roadmap, Google’s ‘Vlogger’ AI which promises to turn your photo into a video, Facebook’s attempt to make poking cool again, Musk’s alleged spy satellite side business, PornHub’s Texas shutdown, and the DOJ’s antitrust case against Apple.

The Stories:


Tech Radar: Leaked Apple roadmap hints at iPhone SE 4, foldable iPhone, and AR glasses launch dates


VentureBeat: Google researchers unveil ‘VLOGGER’, an AI that can bring still photos to life


TechCrunch: Facebook is trying to make ‘poking’ cool again


BBC: Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions


Reuters: Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say


Financial Times: The delivery rider who took on his faceless boss


Engadget: Pornhub says adios to Texas


Bloomberg: Apple’s New CarPlay Becomes Last Hope to Crack the Auto Industry


The Wall Street Journal: Behind the Breakup of Elon Musk and Don Lemon


Axios: The TikTok sales pitch


CNBC: DOJ sues Apple over iPhone monopoly in landmark antitrust case



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Another week of Elon Musk, Ai, and TikTok! We aren't doing it on purpose it's just the news! Oh and If you wanna beat Joe Biden in this election cycle maybe you should learn to use Ai!? We also talk Apple and a new Snappy Snap dragon processor!

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