Sensor Tower: TikTok Now, the BeReal clone debuted on September 18, is in the top 10 social networking apps in 39 countries and the top 100 apps in 24 countries (Mia Sato/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

A Texas jury says Meta must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer an ongoing royalty and $174.5M+ in damages for violating patents with Facebook and Instagram Live (Bloomberg Law) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

2K, owned by Take Two Interactive and publisher of Bioshock, Xcom, and popular sports games, says its help desk was hacked and sent customers links to malware (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

A leaked presentation shows that Google is working on royalty-free media formats for HDR video and 3D audio, in an effort internally known as Project Caviar (Janko Roettgers/Protocol) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Florida's attorney general asks the US Supreme Court whether the First Amendment prohibits states from regulating how social media companies moderate content (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell steps down and will remain on the board as chairman; Chief Operating Officer Dave Ripley will succeed him in the coming months (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Microsoft announces a "Fall 2022 Event" for October 12, where it will "talk about devices", amid rumors of a Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 5, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Google says it is integrating Google Tasks across Google Assistant and its suite of apps including Calendar (David Pierce/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Nvidia says robotics simulation service Isaac Sim is coming soon to the cloud and expands its Jetson system-on-modules with Orin Nano for low-powered robots (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Survey of US adults: 31% get news on Facebook, 25% on YouTube, 14% on Twitter, 13% on Instagram, and 10% on TikTok; 33% of TikTok users get news on the app (Pew Research Center) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5