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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: BeReal has passed 53M installs, its MAUs are up 2,254% since January, and ~9% of its active installs on Android opened the app every day in Q3  —  Gen Z social media app...

Barry Collins / Forbes: Lansweeper study of 27M Windows PCs: Windows 11 was installed on just 3% of consumer PCs and 2.5% of business computers at the end of Sept., less than Windows 7  —  Windows 11 has been...

Zi Wang / Decrypt: Days after Celsius shared all of its users' names and transaction histories in a bankruptcy filing, a website launches that lists who likely lost the most money  —  Using data likely pulled from its bankruptcy...

Jahnavi Sen / The Wire: Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without moderator oversight flagged by Amit Malviya, who runs Indian nationalist party BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck  —  Seven posts by satirical account @cringearchivist were removed without...

Gloria Li / Financial Times: How virtual influencers are gaining popularity in China amid a celebrity crackdown; research predicts the industry will go from ~$870M in 2021 to ~$6.7B in 2025  —  Computer-generated avatars are a safer option as...

IDC: Global PC shipments declined 15% YoY to 74.3M units in Q3 2022; Lenovo, HP, and Dell declined YoY by 16%, 28%, and 21%, respectively, while Apple was up 40%  —  Declines continued for the traditional PC market as...

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Samsung announces the first third-party TV makers to ship with its Linux-based Tizen OS in Europe and Australasia in 2022  —  Samsung has confirmed the first third-party smart TV makers to ship with its Tizen...

April Rubin / New York Times: An interview with YouTuber Christopher Slayton, aka ChrisDaCow, on building the entire observable universe in Minecraft over nearly two months  —  Christopher Slayton, 18, spent two months intricately designing the planets.  He even...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google plans to shutter its Assistant Driving Mode Dashboard, announced in 2019, on November 21; Maps for Android's car-optimized UI will remain  —  Earlier this week, Google told us that the Maps integration in Assistant...

Morgan Sung / NBC News: At least two TwitchCon attendees say they were severely injured, one with a broken back, after using Lenovo and Intel's foam pit scattered over bare concrete  —  SAN DIEGO — At least two TwitchCon...