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Apple MacBook Pro 14- and 16-inch review: incredible performance with very long battery life and beautiful displays but expensive with absurd RAM pricing — Apple's new pro laptops right the wrongs of the past half decade — Let's start simply: the new MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's VP of Mac and iPad Product Marketing Tom Boger says Touch ID is more convenient than Face ID on a laptop since users' hands are already on the keyboard — Full-size ports, real function keys and other retro features, plus cutting-edge M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, make the new MacBook Pro models the laptops to beat
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Meta is just playing catch-up as Roblox, Steam VR, VRChat, and other platforms have already developed metaverse-like experiences — In addition to announcing Facebook's rebranding to Meta on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a number of lofty promises about the metaverse and its features.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook's metaverse is designed to solve several problems: an aging userbase, dependence on Google and Apple, regulatory risk, and reputational damage — If his new strategy works — a big if — it could help address several of Facebook's biggest problems.
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| Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic: |
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break — It was terrible then, and it's terrible now. — In a booth at Ted's Fish Fry, in Troy, New York, my friend Daniel Beck and I sketched out our plans for the metaverse.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Meta acquires Within, the company behind VR fitness game Supernatural; Within will continue working on the game and help Meta improve future VR hardware — The company already owns Beat Saber — Meta has announced that the studio behind VR workout game Supernatural will be joining the company …
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| Damon Beres / Wired: |
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years — Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent.
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Microsoft had a nearly $2.49T market cap at close on Friday, passing Apple's $2.46T market cap to become the world's most valuable public company — - Microsoft passed Apple in market cap on Friday, making it the world's most valuable public company. — The move comes after Apple …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Two employees who openly criticized Netflix's support of Dave Chappelle's comedy special file charges with the NLRB, claiming retaliation — B. Pagels-Minor and Terra Field say the company retaliated against them for engaging in protected activity — Two Netflix employees at the heart … | New York Times: |
A look at a16z's crypto lobbying and draft legislation it is circulating in DC, which some worry may create regulatory loopholes for its portfolio companies — The Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose founders played big roles in the development of the internet …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft acquires Two Hat, a content moderation provider that has helped improve Xbox communities for the past few years — The deal will help Microsoft's consumer services push — Microsoft has acquired Two Hat, a content moderation provider that's helped keep harmful content off Xbox.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, GeekWire, Two Hat, and FinSMEs
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Nick Clegg, Amy Klobuchar, Josh Hawley, Chris Hughes, Clay Shirky, and others on how to reform social media platforms and limit their harm — Revelations about Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have highlighted the problems posed by the biggest social media sites. What would it take to reform the platforms and limit their harm?
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| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: Florida startups have raised about $1.3B in Series A and Series B funding so far in 2021, which is more than quadruple the $277M raised in all of 2020 — The hype around South Florida as an up-and-coming startup hub isn't just hype. Seed- and early-stage investment …
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Crowdfund Insider. Tweets: @marceloclaure, @petegilligan, @floridafunders, @kevin_a_ruiz, and @crunchbasenews
| Liya Su / DealStreetAsia: |
Chinese smart home devices maker Aqara raises a $155M Series C from investors including state-backed Shenzhen Capital and China Telecom — Chinese smart home devices maker Aqara, which is owned by Xiaomi-backed Lumi United Technology, has raked in an aggregate of 1 billion yuan ($155 million) in its Series C round of financing.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Indian online beauty products retailer Purplle raises a $75M Series E led by Kedaara Capital at a $630M valuation — - Purplle reaches valuation of $630 million in new funding round — Local e-commerce rival Nykaa is raising funds in an IPO — Purplle, the Indian online beauty … Sponsor Posts
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