C_NCENTRATE 948: 1,600 mile EV car, no more 'fail', AI consulting data, negative cereal trends +++
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One year after Ethereum's Merge, developers approve a change to slow down staking, which has emerged as one of a few reliable ways to earn returns in crypto, Spotify (and others) are changing the sound of music, TikTok's US staff complain about a new internal app to track office attendance, Apple's Wonderlust event was a dudstraps, Piracy on TikTok isn’t a moneyspinner, Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding the company in breach of GDPR, TikTok Shop is planning steep Black Friday deals, Instacart priced their IPO, Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users for commercial gain even after they turned off Location History, Microsoft and Oracle expanded their cloud partnership, MGM was hacked, Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature.
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BGC found consultants using the GPT-4 AI finished 12.2% more tasks, completed tasks 25.1% quicker & produced 40% higher quality results. /10 mins
An EV car just cruised 1,600 miles on a single charge. /5 mins
Cereal is declining. /6 mins
A Japanese startup is 3D printing house with the same price tag as a car. /4 mins
Why you need to stop saying fail. /5 mins
Should all supermarkets shame ‘shrinkflation’ brands? /5 mins
This Indian eyewear company that lets you buy glasses over WhatsApp. /4 mins
System 03's second sea extraction of plastic cleared more than 85,000 football fields in six days. /3 mins
All is not well in the autonomous vehicle taxi world. /5 mins
Why things suddenly pop into your mind. /8 mins
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