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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square's CTO and on Android at Google, dies after reportedly being stabbed in San Francisco — Bob Lee, the chief product officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco.
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Jenny Lee, Wesley Chan, and Matthew King
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| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
Source: Sony is developing a PlayStation handheld, codenamed Q Lite, featuring Remote Play with the PS5, an 8-inch 1080p LCD touchscreen, and adaptive triggers — Following days of speculation, Insider Gaming can report that there's a new PlayStation Handheld in development.
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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
Twitter adds a “US state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's previous policy that used NPR as an example of an exception — Twitter added a warning to NPR's Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, hoping to help researchers with computer vision and object identification — Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms Inc. said today that they're hoping to democratize a key aspect of computer vision.
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| Kazuyuki Okudaira / Nikkei Asia: |
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the company plans to begin commercializing its proprietary generative AI in 2023 and is at the “very forefront” of the LLM field — Facebook parent expects tech to help clients better reach audiences, reduce costs — TOKYO — Facebook owner Meta intends …
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Source: Binance rejected buying Tron founder Justin Sun's Huobi stake due to Huobi's alleged ties to China; Sun's Huobi involvement is shrouded in secrecy — Binance has no interest in buying Huobi due to its rumored ties to China, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Bloomberg, Ethereum World News, Decrypt, CoinGape, and CryptoSlate
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@justinsuntron, @justinsuntron, @napgener, @wublockchain, and @adamscochran
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Report: Phil Harrison, the head of defunct cloud gaming service Google Stadia, left the company in January 2023; Harrison joined Google as a VP in January 2018 — When Google launched Stadia, it put gaming industry veteran Phil Harrison at the lead. Now, it's been confirmed Harrison has left the company.
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@hughlangley, @henereyg, and @tomwarren
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack unveils Notes, letting users share posts, quotes, images, links, and more, shown in a short form feed that “may look like familiar social media feeds” — Substack announced today that it's introducing a new Notes feature that is designed to let users share posts, quotes, comments, images, links and ideas.
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On Substack, Fast Company, Mashable, and KnowTechie
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@hamishmckenzie, @simonowens, @alex, @rmac18, @joshcarlosjosh, @substackinc, @juddlegum, @kantrowitz, @hamishmckenzie, @ibogost, and @parkermolloy
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's gamble to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to address supply chain weaknesses — In late March, when Tim Cook made his first public appearance in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic …
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MacDailyNews, iClarified, The Apple Post, MacRumors, and AppleInsider
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@shiraovide, @carlquintanilla, @gdp1985, @jessefelder, @lisaabramowicz1, @niubi, and @news_by_nick
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Play Store apps that allow account creation will soon need to let users “initiate account and data deletion from within the app and online” — Google is continuing its work on Data safety in the Play Store by requiring that developers provide a way for users to delete their account data.
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Android Developers Blog, BleepingComputer, Gizmodo, PCMag, Engadget, Android Authority, The Verge, MobileSyrup, Droid Life, BGR, Neowin, XDA Developers, SlashGear, and TechCrunch. Tweets:
@mishaalrahman
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Ofcom's investigation opened in October 2022 finds that Amazon, Microsoft, and Google may be harming UK cloud market competition and refers the case to the CMA — Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s cloud services could face a full-blown antitrust probe in the UK after the country's digital regulator … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group plans to acquire US-based mobile game maker Scopely for $4.9B; Scopely was reportedly valued at $5.4B in October 2021 — Savvy Games Group announced an agreement to acquire Scopely, a maker of mobile games including “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “Marvel Strike Force …
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Savvy Games Group, Game Developer, Financial Times, TechCrunch, The Information, Scopely, GamesIndustry.biz, VentureBeat, Reuters, Axios, dot.LA, GameSpot, and Bloomberg
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Mike DeLaet, Chirag Ambwani, and Bill Young
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@mjones, @nickstatt, @ankbul, and @domsplaying
| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
SimilarWeb: of the 2.6M people who visited the Twitter Blue sales webpage in March 2023, only 116K signed up; less than 1% of monthly users subscribe to Blue — Twitter Inc. is struggling to sell users on its new subscription product, Twitter Blue, according to a new report.
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Mashable and Insider
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@aishacounts, @libshipwreck, @randfish, @mattbinder, @marketminute, @karengeier, @edzitron, and @ashleylatke
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI details its approach to AI safety, including evaluating AI systems, improving safeguards based on real-world use, protecting kids, and respecting privacy — Ensuring that AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely is critical to our mission. — Authors — OpenAI — Safety & Alignment
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@openai and @officiallogank
| Ethan Shanfeld / Variety: |
Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto says “mobile apps will not be the primary path of future Mario games” after two moderately successful but dwindling iOS games — As Nintendo takes its shot at the box office with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” the first animated film featuring …
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@harrymccracken, @nintendeal, and @variety
| Rachel More / Reuters: |
Germany's Bundeskartellamt designates Apple as a “company of paramount significance for competition across markets”, opening the door to antitrust curbs — Germany's antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple (AAPL.O) after deciding that the U.S. tech …
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Bundeskartellamt, MacRumors, Euractiv, TechCrunch, iThinkDifferent, and Agence France-Presse
| Sam Roberts / New York Times: |
Bing Newcomb, who co-founded E*Trade in 1982, bringing stock trading to personal computers, and took the company public in 1996, died in January at 79 — He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Google claims its fourth generation TPU, used in supercomputers for AI training, is 1.2x to 1.7x faster and 1.3x to 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia's A100 — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday released new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models …
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Network World, arXiv.org, CNBC, Neowin, and TechCircle
| Amos Zeeberg / Wired: |
How surveillance industry blog IPVM ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war by investigating Hikvision's and Dahua's mass face recognition systems — Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
Tweets:
@settostun and @gharleydude
| Nikkei Asia: |
Kyoto-based Kyocera plans to spend ~$470M over six years on a new chip materials plant in Nagasaki prefecture, its first domestic production facility since 2005 — Manufacturer chooses Nagasaki for its first new domestic factory in 20 years — KYOTO, Japan — Kyocera will invest 62 billion yen … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe processed $817B in transactions in 2022, up 26% YoY, vs. 60% growth from 2020 to 2021; new customers grew 19% YoY, of which 55% were outside of the US — Stripe, the payments and fintech giant currently valued at $50 billion, sometimes feels like it has been forever on the brink of a public listing.
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