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Wattpad Premium subscribers now have access to 5 free monthly Wattpad Originals Nov 17, 2023

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Wattpad announced today “Premium Picks,” a new offering that gives Premium and Premium+ subscribers monthly access to five free Wattpad Originals—the recently launched freemium model where select authors can choose to monetize chapters.

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DeepMind and YouTube release Lyria, a gen-AI model for music, and Dream Track to build AI tunes Nov 17, 2023

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Back in January, Google made some waves — soundwaves, that is — when it quietly released some research on AI-based music creation software that built tunes based on word prompts.

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Toyota is turning to startup Redwood Materials for critical battery materials Nov 16, 2023

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Battery cells produced at Toyota’s future North American EV factory will someday contain a little Redwood Materials DNA.

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GM inserts exec at Cruise as safety review expands, manual self driving paused Nov 16, 2023

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General Motors is taking a more active role in shaping the safety culture at Cruise.

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Tesla hits reverse on threat to sue Cybertruck resellers Nov 15, 2023

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Tesla seems to be walking back the punitive limits it placed on buyers of its yet-to-be-released Cybertrucks.

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Venmo gets a new way to split expenses among groups Nov 15, 2023

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PayPal-owned Venmo is rolling out a new feature starting today that will allow its users to track and manage multiple expenses among groups.

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TikTok’s newest feature lets you save favorite songs directly to Spotify or Amazon Music Nov 14, 2023

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TikTok is teaming up with streaming music services, including Spotify and Amazon Music, on a new feature that will allow users to save the songs they hear in TikTok videos directly to their preferred streaming music app.

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Shekel Mobility, a B2B marketplace for auto dealers in Africa, raises $7M led by Ventures Platform and MaC VC Nov 14, 2023

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The World Economic Forum states that Africa has an average annual demand for 2.4 million cars and 300,000 commercial vehicles.

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Bose QuietComfort Ultra earn their name and maybe even their $429 price tag Nov 13, 2023

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For years, any time someone asked what brand of headphones they should buy for a flight, the answer was a simple one syllable: Bose.

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Ghost, now OpenAI-backed, claims LLMs will overcome self-driving setbacks — but experts are skeptical Nov 13, 2023

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It’s not hyperbolic to say that the self-driving car industry is facing a reckoning.

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