Twitter & Musk to close buyout, Apple's new iPads, artist burns art for NFTs, AI chatbot for dead loved ones, and more.

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American Airlines is trying to stop a popular iPhone app Sequence Decoder that's become a 'must have' for its flight attendants.
Twitter and Elon Musk make progress on a buyout, and Musk plans to cut 75% of its workforce.
The dark side of a super app like WeChat in China.
Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source.
Jack Dorsey-founded Bluesky is building a protocol for decentralized social networks.
Damien Hirst is burning thousands of his paintings for an NFT project.
Adware clicker apps in Google Play have been downloaded over 20 million times.
Apple's macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 will be released on October 24.
Apple announced a new iPad and M2-powered iPad Pro, but the iPad lineup now seems like a mess.
Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K with an A15 Bionic chip and HDR10+ for $129.
More ads are coming to Apple's App Store starting next week.
Apple's head of hardware design Evans Hankey is leaving three years after the departure of Jony Ive.
NFL and Apple are at odds in Sunday Ticket negotiations.
Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots.
Hearing aids can now be sold over the counter in the US.
Kanye West is buying the 'free speech platform' Parler.
Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK antitrust watchdog CMA.
Are we ready for an AI chatbot that lets us speak to our dead loved ones?
Red Bull co-founder and Red Bull Formula One owner Dietrich Mateschitz dies at 78.

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