Intro

Meta takes down an app that tried to strip out the cruft from Instagram (but also the ads). Bunch of new Maps features from Google. All the headlines from yesterday’s Amazon event, including a Kindle you can write on. And text to image generators are cool. But you know what’s really cool, text to video generators.

Sponsors:

• Titan.com/ride

Links:

• The OG App promised an ad-free Instagram feed then got pulled from App Store (TechCrunch)
• The 11 biggest announcements at Amazon’s hardware launch event (The Verge)
• Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing (The Verge)
• Here are all of the new features and updates coming to Google Maps (TechCrunch)
• SWIFT Partners With Crypto Data Provider Chainlink on Cross-Chain Protocol in TradFi Play (CoinDesk)
• Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video (The Verge)

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