Twitter subsidiary Twitter Payments secured its first US money transmitter licenses over the last week from Michigan, Missouri, and New Hampshire (Fortune)

Fortune:Twitter subsidiary Twitter Payments secured its first US money transmitter licenses over the last week from Michigan, Missouri, and New Hampshire  —  Elon Musk, billionaire and owner of Twitter  —  Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in late October, the company has been quietly working …

The Download: metaverse lawyers, and Meta’s twitter clone

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Job title of the future: metaverse lawyer In a virtual office, lawyer Madaline Zannes conducts private consultations with clients, meets people wandering in with legal questions, hosts conferences, […]

The UAE gives the first national license for self-driving vehicles to China’s WeRide, allowing the company to test Level 4 autonomous vehicles on public roads (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:The UAE gives the first national license for self-driving vehicles to China’s WeRide, allowing the company to test Level 4 autonomous vehicles on public roads  —  The United Arab Emirates has given Chinese autonomous driving company WeRide the first national license for self-driving vehicles.

An APK teardown of Instagram’s Threads, uploaded to Google Play ahead of the app’s launch, reveals the threads.net website and details on how Threads will work (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:An APK teardown of Instagram’s Threads, uploaded to Google Play ahead of the app’s launch, reveals the threads.net website and details on how Threads will work  —  Ahead of the app’s launch later this week, Meta has launched a landing page for its Twitter competitor, “Threads,” counting […]