Clay Bavor, a Google veteran of 18 years who recently led the company's AR/VR efforts, leaves to start an AI company with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor (Abner Li/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

NetBlocks: Twitter is restricted in Turkey two days after a major earthquake; Turkish police detained people for sharing "provocative posts" on social media (Brian Fung/CNN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Twitter launches its Blue service in India, Indonesia, and Brazil; in India, the subscription costs ~$10.9/month on iOS and Android and ~$7.8/month on the web (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Microsoft plans to embed Adobe's Acrobat PDF tech in Edge for Windows 10 and Windows 11 starting in March 2023 and remove Edge's legacy PDF engine in March 2024 (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

The Samsung Galaxy S23 series has a Game Booster setting that lets a plugged-in phone bypass the battery to use power directly from the charger, reducing heat (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:50 Rating: 5

Google says it will remove a feature that allowed users to play podcasts directly from the Google Search results on February 13, after launching it in 2019 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:50 Rating: 5

Qustodio: kids aged 4 to 18 used TikTok for 107 minutes per day on average in 2022, up from 82 minutes in 2020, and 60% longer than YouTube's 67 minutes per day (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Hands-on with AI-powered Bing, which, when asked for 2023 Grammys winners, made a list with citations in a sidebar after a minute; search will never be the same (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:47 Rating: 5

Meta, long an AI leader, has taken a cautious approach to AI chatbots over misinformation and toxic content fears, helping OpenAI and others steal the limelight (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:52 Rating: 5

Twitter's iOS and Android apps now default to the timeline the user had open last, instead of the algorithmic feed, after a similar web update in January (Mitchell Clark/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5