- Twitter is rolling out an edit button to Twitter Blue subscribers in the US (Jay Peters/The Verge)
- ByteDance's August report to staff says revenue grew 80% to $61.7B in 2021 but operating losses more than tripled to $7.15B as it spent heavily on growth (Salvador Rodriguez/Wall Street Journal)
- Pixel Watch hands-on: feels like a round Apple Watch with Wear OS 3.5 taking some cues from watchOS but its band mechanism might take some getting used to (Victoria Song/The Verge)
- An interview with Google's SVP of Hardware Rick Osterloh on the new Pixel Watch, integration with Fitbit, ambient computing, and more (David Pierce/The Verge)
- Google announces the Tensor G2 SoC, giving Pixel users new camera features, like Night Sight and Face Unblur, while retaining a similar architecture to the G1 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Google announces the Pixel Watch with a 41mm case, circular, domed display, Fitbit-based health features, and more, starting at $350, preorders open today (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
- Google says Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro users will get free access to Google One's VPN service later in 2022, but other Google One features require a subscription (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)
- After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicle startups, little progress has been made as companies take shortcuts and losses continue to mount (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
- Google unveils the Pixel 7 with a 6.3-inch display, Tensor G2, updated 50MP and 12MP rear cameras, Wi-Fi 6E+, face unlock, and Android 13, starting at $599 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
- Google announces the Pixel 7 Pro with a 6.7-inch 120Hz LTPO display, updated "camera bar", Tensor G2, up to 256GB, Android 13, and face unlock, starting at $899 (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
- Begone, polygons: 1993’s Virtua Fighter gets smoothed out by AI
- Biden proposes new “Bill of Rights” to protect Americans from AI harms
- Big data trove dumped after LA Unified School District says no to ransomware crooks
- Linux 6.0 arrives with support for newer chips, core fixes, and oddities
- Bruce Willis denies selling deepfake rights to Deepcake
- Tesla shows off underwhelming human robot prototype at AI Day 2022
- High-severity Microsoft Exchange 0-day under attack threatens 220,000 servers
- Deepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that
- Mystery hackers are “hyperjacking” targets for insidious spying
- Numerous orgs hacked after installing weaponized open source apps