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Apple's fancy new CarPlay will only work wirelessly 

Apple has released details on the architecture and design of next-gen CarPlay. This article discusses how next-gen CarPlay will work. Automakers will have a lot of control over how things look and work. They will be able to use their own interfaces for various features. Next-gen CarPlay will only support wireless connections.

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• US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is urging Congress to introduce warning labels on social media platforms to alert parents and adolescents about potential mental health risks.

• McDonald's is ending its artificial intelligence drive-thru order-taking program and will shut it off in all participating restaurants by July 26, 2024.

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• YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad injection to improve ads' performance and reliability, affecting some users with ad blockers installed.

• According to the Irish Data Protection Commission, Meta has paused plans to “train its large language model using public content” from EU-based Instagram and Facebook users.

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