Facebook is conducting a global test than enables users to post Facebook Feed photo and video updates directly to Instagram. Facebook currently allows users to cross-post Instagram Stories and Reels to Facebook, and has not said when the new capabilities will roll out.

The internet accounts for nearly 4% of global emissions and digital advertising "is an unexpectedly carbon-heavy business," writes Ryan Cochrane, Good-Loop's chief operating officer. Cochrane highlights the three R's to lower the digital media carbon footprint, including removing custom fonts, reducing asset sizes and recycling by repurposing quality creative.

Pinterest is launching Creators Rewards, a $20 million program rewarding eligible creators for achieving engagement goals, offering microgrants to allow creators to complete projects, and will spotlight Idea Pins from 100 well-known individuals from 10 countries in a "Creator Originals" content series. The social platform also redesigned its home feed into a browse tab and a TikTok-like watch tab and by offering tools such as Try On stickers for Idea Pins.

Owners of new devices from Roku may lose access to Google's YouTube app if the companies fail to reach a distribution deal by Dec. 9. Roku asserts that the stalemate centers on Google's requirements that YouTube be given preference in search results, as well as voice, data and search features that the technology giant didn't demand from similar platforms.

Taking a leaf from Google and Apple, OPPO Electronics is said to be developing a custom chip design to be fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. with a 3-nanometer process, for use in its line of smartphones, the Nikkei reports. It may be that the resulting microchips would be available as early as 2023 or 2024, it was said.

Facebook is making several changes to help advertisers adapt to Apple's data privacy protections, including making view-through attribution a campaign default for web events, which will give a better view into those who see a platform ad and later make a conversion. Other changes deal with expanding Aggregated Event Measurement and rolling out Aggregated Event Measurement for Apps.

The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones introduced by Google run on the company's custom-designed Tensor processing units. The TPUs bring artificial intelligence and machine learning technology into a handset, enabling such features as a face detection tool, Motion Mode and the Android 12 operating system.

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