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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning a 15" MacBook Air for 2023, a 12" laptop for the end of 2023 or early 2024, and MacBook Pros with M2 Pro or M2 Max for 2022 or 2023 — Apple Inc. plans to expand the lineup of laptops using its new, speedier in-house chips next year, aiming to grab a bigger share of the market …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Ross Young: Apple is developing a 14.1" iPad Pro with a miniLED display and ProMotion, likely for an early 2023 release; recent rumors corroborate the new model — Apple is reportedly developing an iPad Pro with a 14.1-inch mini-LED display, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst Ross Young.
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| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Source: Meta decided not to release the first version of its AR glasses, scheduled for 2024, to focus on its second version, with a release unlikely for years — Meta Platforms has scaled back its plans to release a series of augmented reality glasses over the next several years as part …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Source: Meta moved away from its goal of establishing its Portal smart display as a consumer product, instead focusing on selling future versions to businesses — Meta is moving away from its goal to establish its Portal smart display as a consumer product, Protocol has been able to confirm.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta halted the two-year development of a smartwatch with dual cameras, targeted for a spring 2023 release for ~$349, to focus on other wrist devices — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox TV app to Samsung's 2022 smart TVs on June 30, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers play 100+ Xbox games without a console — Samsung's 2022 smart TVs will be the first to get the Xbox app — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app later this month …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Project Moorcroft, meant to bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass, rolling out within the next year, initially focused on indie developers — Designed to bring back the excitement of E3 game demos — Microsoft is working on Project Moorcroft, a program designed …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD updates its Zen architecture roadmap, including Zen 4 improvements in 2022 and Zen 5 in 2024 with a mix of 4nm and 3nm processes and AI and ML optimizations — Today is AMD's Financial Analyst Day, the company's semi-annual, analyst-focused gathering. While the primary purpose …
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Tweets: @anshelsag, @ryansmithat, and @ryansmithat
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
The NHTSA upgrades its Tesla Autopilot investigation to an “Engineering Analysis”, which precedes a possible recall and expands it from 765K to 830K vehicles — Upgrading to an Engineering Analysis, which precedes a recall — The federal government is upgrading its investigation …
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| Matt Robinson / Bloomberg: |
Source: the SEC is investigating whether the marketing of the TerraUSD stablecoin before it crashed in May 2022 violated federal investor-protection regulations — The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether the marketing of the TerraUSD stablecoin before it crashed …
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The Block, SEC.gov, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Protocol, and CoinDesk. Tweets: @thestalwart
| Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News: |
Seth Green gets his Bored Ape NFT back after losing it to a phishing scam; transaction records suggest Green may have paid 165 ETH, worth ~$297K, to “Mr Cheese” — Seth Green's “kidnapped” Bored Ape has been returned to its original owner, ending weeks of frantic speculation …
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss that Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not an anti-blockchain conspiracy — Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy| Wall Street Journal: |
TSMC and Samsung are grappling with a manufacturing equipment shortage; analyst: shortfalls of the most advanced chips could be as high as 20% by 2024 and later — TSMC and Samsung are grappling with technological hurdles and a shortfall in manufacturing equipment
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $588.7M, vs. $581.8M est., and a $27.4M net loss, up from $8.4M YoY, as the company moderates hiring; stock drops 20%+ — - DocuSign delivered 25% revenue growth from a year earlier but investors are increasingly concerned with profitability.
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SiliconANGLE, Barron's Online, Benzinga, PR Newswire, Dow Jones Newswires, MarketWatch, and CT Insider. Tweets: @epro
| Ephrat Livni / New York Times: |
America's Frontier Fund, a nonprofit group associated with Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, and others, is lobbying the US government to invest $1B in US chip making — A group that includes Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel isn't simply funding the effort itself: It wants American taxpayers to help foot the bill.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Dell redesigns the $999 XPS 13 to be slimmer and transforms the XPS 13 2-in-1 into a detachable Surface rival, adds Intel's 9-watt 12th Gen CPUs, and more — While all eyes are on the flashy new XPS 13 Plus, Dell hasn't forgotten about its mainstay premium ultraportable or its convertible cousin.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google says Chrome 102 will use machine learning running entirely within the browser to silence unsolicited permission requests from websites before they pop up — And soon it could swap out your browser buttons — Google Chrome has built-in phishing detection that scans pages …
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The Keyword, ZDNet, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, XDA Developers, and Android Police. Tweets: @bergmayer
| Washington Post: |
Despite Facebook's ban on gun sales in 2016, internal guidance shows users can violate its rule 10 times before being banned, or five if they call for violence — The company discloses little information about how it enforces its prohibition of firearm sales on the site, leaving its punishment system shrouded in secrecy
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Online freight marketplace Convoy, which closed a $260M round at a $3.8B valuation in April, confirms it laid off 7% of its workers, ~90 of its 1,300 employees — Convoy laid off 7% of its staff Thursday, becoming the latest tech company to slash headcount amid an uncertain economic environment.Thanks:@taylor_soper
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z launch The Bitcoin Academy, giving free financial education classes on Bitcoin at the Brooklyn public housing complex where Jay-Z grew up — Is billionaire-funded crypto education really what low-income people need? — Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey …
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