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Method raises $16M to power loan repayment, balance transfers and more across fintech apps

TechCrunch

Method launched in 2021 after two of the company’s co-founders, Jose Bethancourt and Marco del Carmen, experienced firsthand the difficulties of embedding debt repayment into their previous company, GradJoy. . “In May 2021, we started Method to provide developers with a turnkey infrastructure.”

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Are you ‘AI literate’? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law

Fast Company Tech

California recently passed a law requiring AI literacy to be incorporated into K-12 curricula starting this fall. ” The project, backed by a $1 million grant from Google, will work with 75 professors over three years to develop teaching methods that examine AI’s implications across different fields.

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Apple’s App Store policies are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement are worse

The Verge

In Apple’s case, the decision was to tell the company that makes the brand new email app called Hey that it cannot distribute its app on the iPhone unless it makes it possible for users to sign up via Apple’s own prescribed methods — which gives Apple a 30 percent cut. Here’s the relevant paragraph from Apple’s App Store policy, 3.1.1:

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Solutions Day 2023—Beyond Answers to Insight

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Pendo, Founding Member of Chicago Law Partners, LLC. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. Kimberly will explore these complex and evolving ethical and legal issues and the importance of developing policies and regulations that address this changing landscape. Sponsored by Multiview.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The traditional access methods typically involve recreating the content through retyping it, or scanning in the print book and using optical character recognition to obtain the text from the book (typically all graphics are dropped in this process). In some markets, printed books are receding into the past.

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Google will reduce Play Store cut to 15 percent for a developer’s first $1M in annual revenue

The Verge

The new policy also comes at a critical moment when Google (and Apple’s) app store policies are under intense public scrutiny, kicked off by the removal of Epic Games’ Fortnite from both the App Store and Play Store and the game developer’s subsequent antitrust lawsuits against Apple and Google.

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How activists should be thinking about cybersecurity

The Verge

In this week’s edition of our Vergecast interview series , Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and policy editor Russell Brandom talk with cybersecurity expert and founder of CryptoHarlem Matt Mitchell. I teach them about the capabilities and methods of their adversaries. People are more likely to speak on those methods.

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