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Trademark filings suggest Apple is considering calling its mixed reality headset “Reality One” or “Reality Pro” and its specialized chip “Reality Processor” — Trademark filings suggest that Apple Inc. may be staking claim to potential names …
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| Alberto Romero / The Algorithmic Bridge: |
Unlike DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion is open source and can run on high-end consumer GPUs, while its CreativeML Open RAIL-M license “strives for” “responsible” use — A state-of-the-art AI model available for everyone through a safety-centric open-source license is unheard of.
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| TechCrunch: |
Meta partners with JioMart, an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms, to launch a grocery shopping service on WhatsApp in India — Meta and an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms are bringing JioMart grocery shopping to WhatsApp …
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| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
The bubble that Masayoshi Son blamed for SoftBank's $23B loss in Q1 2022 is the one that he helped create through Vision Fund, which distorted the VC market — In retrospect there were reasons to be skeptical of the Vision Fund, the attempt by the Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp …
Tweets: @om and @noahpinion
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Ahead of the launch of Passkeys, which requires enabling two-factor authentication, Apple says 95%+ of active iCloud users have 2FA enabled on their accounts — With its next round of software updates coming this fall, including iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, Apple will launch integrated support for the passkeys standard.
Tweets: @counternotions, @chancehmiller, and @feefyou
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU regulators will not appeal a court ruling scrapping a €997M fine against Qualcomm for allegedly paying Apple billions to use only Qualcomm chips — EU antitrust regulators will not appeal a court ruling scrapping its 997-million-euro ($991 million) fine against U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
A look at FWB Fest, dubbed the “crypto Woodstock”, attended by Friends With Benefits social club members hoping to change the way people use blockchain tech — Founders of the online Friends With Benefits social club hope to change the way people use the blockchain
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
A look at the “Palantir Pack”, a group of Palantir alumni who have founded companies and VC firms like Affirm, Anduril, OpenSea, Handshake, Ironclad, and 8VC — When Luba Lesiva created the Palantir Alumni syndicate on AngelList, she thought it would be a small project to help … | Kurt Gessler: |
Tribune Publishing says disabling Google's AMP led to very little impact on mobile search referrals, as year-long drops mostly aligned to broader search trends — Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Reliance Jio, which has 421M subscribers, says it will spend $25B to launch a 5G service in October and plans to expand to “every town” in India by end of 2023 — Reliance Jio Infocomm, India's top telecom mobile operator, has earmarked a spending of $25 billion on the rollout …
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Moneycontrol, Livemint, Bloomberg, Reuters, BGR India, BGR India, and Nikkei Asia
Tweets: @shobz and @varunkrish
| Dong-Won Kim / IEEE Spectrum: |
A profile of Kim Choong-Ki, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology who is revered as the godfather of South Korea's chip industry — They were called “Kim's Mafia.” Kim Choong-Ki himself wouldn't have put it that way. But it was true what semiconductor engineers …
Tweets: @martijnrasser and @ieeespectrum
| Financial Times: |
Ampere: Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, and Netflix will spend $23B+ in 2023 on original content, up 10% YoY and more than twice the spending of 2019 — Crop of expensive fantasy adaptations from Amazon and HBO Max served up at subsidised prices
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