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When Irene moved to San Francisco last year, she started using dating apps as a way to meet new people, get to know her new city, and connect with others who care about the things she does. After the 25-year-old analyst downloaded Hinge and started swiping, she noticed a trend.
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Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development.
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Amazon is rolling out texting for Alexa for Shopping, its AI shopping agent, starting with invited US customers. It can find products, place orders and track prices by text. Sponsored products can show up in its replies, free to advertisers for now.
Following the Melania documentary movie about Melania Trump that premiered earlier this year, Amazon is now planning to release a two-part Prime Video series focusing on the First Lady. The show, Melania: The Series, is set to debut on November 20th.
Someone at the White House appears to be running software that could enable outsiders to rent access on the presidential network for just “a few dollars,” as reported by Krebs on Security and The Register.
Kobo is launching a new monthly subscription service called Stack that lets you upload your own ebooks and documents to the company’s servers where they’ll be synced across multiple devices and apps, including your reading progress, highlights, and annotations.
Apple’s iPhone Duo has been officially on sale for two weeks, and the company said today that the App Store now has over 100,000 apps that are built for the foldable.
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