JETLAG RADIO 339 | BENKYO RADIO 339

  • FTC files a new antitrust complaint against Facebook, after a judge dismissed the first complaint in June; Facebook has until October 4 to respond. [TechMeme]

  • 7,000 people evacuated from Kabul since Aug. 14, Pentagon says [Axios]

  • Toyota will cut global production by 40%. The worldwide microchip shortage has finally caught up with the automaker, which will slow production to 540,000 vehicles from a planned 900,000 over the next two months, mostly in Japan and the US. [Quartz]

  • The controversy over Apple’s plan to protect kids by scanning your iPhone [Recode]

  • Fears grow over Taliban using biometric systems to identify US collaborators [TheNextWeb]

  • The Delta COVID Surge Is Here: What It Means for Dining Out [Eater]

  • How Tending to Small-Town Infrastructure Grew This Company More Than 2,000 Percent in Three Years — It's cheaper to fix a water tower than to build a new one, and that's where this Midwest painting company wins big. [Inc.]

  • What will happen to the U.S. embassy in Kabul? [Fast Company]

  • Can the World Computer Save the World? Part 1: Wicked Problems [Medium]

  • Dear Brit: 'What's an Elevator Pitch, and Why Do I Need One?' [Entrepreneur]

  • On Roblox, Kids Learn It’s Hard to Earn Money Making Games — A new report claims that the massive video game platform can exploit young developers. [WIRED]

  • Hands-On Tech 154 — Modal Skulptsynth SE Review [TWIT]

  • Get to know the Pixel 5a with 5G, arriving on August 26 [Google Blog]

  • Mapping Africa’s Buildings with Satellite Imagery [Google AI Blog]

  • 1674 | London — Job Interview — William Wycherley on friends true and false. [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • Throwback: Observing peculiar galaxies, 40 years ago — Discover some of the most peculiar galaxies in the cosmos in this story from the Astronomy archives. [Astronomy Magazine]

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