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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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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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Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed at MTV's Video Music Awards in Yuga Labs' game Otherside, using Bored Yacht Ape NFT avatars that they own — Just like the video clip for the song, Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed “From The D 2 The LBC” as their Bored Apes during Sunday's Video Music Awards.
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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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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 … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January; Tan will step away from his role at Initialized Capital — Y Combinator has tapped an outsider as its next president — sort of. — The storied Bay Area-based accelerator has chosen venture capitalist … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India says it won't restrict Chinese companies from selling smartphones cheaper than $150, after a report said it may do so to boost its domestic industry — India is not proposing to restrict Chinese smartphone manufacturers from operating in the sub-$150 price range, a key minister said Monday … | 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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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 … | 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
Tweets: @karaswisher, @jeffjarvis, @planet_nerf, @telefontelaviv, and @raihan_
| 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
| 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 …
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