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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A Pixel Fold reviewer says the device's flexible OLED screen died after four days of light use, starting at the bottom and moving upwards, likely due to debris — The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen. — A flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
More: AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, Display Daily, Computerworld, T3, Tom's Guide, The Verge, Wccftech, BGR, Patently Apple, Pocketnow, Sammy Fans, Engadget, Appuals.com, PhoneArena, Notebookcheck.net, Android Police, SlashGear, Digital Trends, and Pocket-lint
Twitter: @jeffnolan, @stevelitchfield, @neilcybart, @katebevan, and @ronamadeo
Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/hardware, and Ars OpenForum
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to offer DIY repairs for the Pixel Fold via its iFixit partnership, including the battery and inner, folding display — One of the biggest downsides of foldable smartphones right now is durability and, more so, repairability. Google is breaking new ground with the Pixel Fold …
More: Android Authority, Engadget, XDA Developers, iFixit News, and PhoneArena. Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social. Thanks:@nexusben
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
More: Engadget, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, New York Times, Insider, Daring Fireball, BGR, CNET, Mashable, Chrome Unboxed, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, PetaPixel, Wired, Android Authority, Pocket-lint, Washington Post, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Mastodon: @jstevenyork@mastodon.social. Twitter: @nash076, @maxjmb, @maxwinebach, @raywongy, @alexeheath, and @allisonjo1
Forums: r/PixelFold and r/GalaxyFold
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more — In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
More: MIT Technology Review, The Overspill, and Beyond Search
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How routine drug use by Silicon Valley executives moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, causing issues for boards and tech leaders — Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs
More: Axios. Twitter: @tatichin, @mroliverbarnes, @nycsouthpaw, @bendreyfuss, @sspencer_smb, @karaswisher, @mattyglesias, and @davecbenoit
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
A survey of 20+ professionals finds all but one do not plan to buy the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, citing Apple's cheaper and similarly powerful laptops and desktops — Apple's latest Mac Pro targets professionals with highly demanding computing workloads. But we talked to those professionals … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A 2019 email by Xbox Game Studios' Matt Booty encouraged buying content to “spend Sony out of business”; Microsoft argues the company didn't pursue the strategy — Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios chief, Matt Booty, was encouraging Xbox CFO Tim Stuart to spend big money …
More: Axios, The Verge, Ars Technica, Forbes, Thurrott, Pure Xbox, Gameranx, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, PC Gamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Dot Esports, Push Square, Metro, Eurogamer.net, Neowin, GamingBolt, Game Rant, GameSpot, GameRevolution, IGN, TheGamer, Wccftech, GameSpot, and Windows Central
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Forums: r/xboxone and r/XboxSeriesX
| Mike Corder / Associated Press: |
French and Dutch police say the ~115M communications obtained by cracking the encryption of EncroChat phones, announced in 2020, has so far led to 6,558 arrests — Investigations triggered by the cracking of encrypted phones three years ago have so far led to more than 6,500 arrests worldwide …
More: BleepingComputer, Europol, Reuters, The Hacker News, and Help Net Security
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu claims Ernie 3.5, the latest version of its LLM, has surpassed ChatGPT in general abilities and outperformed GPT-4 on many Chinese-language capabilities — Baidu Inc.'s ChatGPT-style service has outperformed OpenAI's seminal product on several measures, China's search leader said on Tuesday.
More: Baidu Research, South China Morning Post, Reuters, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, PCMag, BigTechWire, Coinspeaker, CNBC, Tech in Asia, and TechNode
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Thomson Reuters agrees to acquire YC-backed Casetext, which builds AI-powered workflows and tools for lawyers, for $650M in cash, expected to close in H2 2023 — Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed legal tech startup.
More: Reuters, Metaverse Post, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, Thomson Reuters, and Y Combinator
Twitter: @darian314 and @trace_cohen
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Decentralized social media app Damus says Apple rejected an app update and told the company to remove its tipping feature or use Apple's in-app purchase system — Damus, a decentralized social networking app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be removed from the App Store due to Apple's strict payment rules.
More: AppleInsider, CryptoGlobe, Watcher Guru, Developer Tech News, International Business Times, Decrypt, and mjtsai.com
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Some doctors say that their current best use for generative AI is to ease the heavy burden of documentation, which takes hours a day and contributes to burnout — The best use for generative A.I. in health care, doctors say, is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes them hours a day and contributes to burnout.
Twitter: @zacharylipton, @stevelohr, @stevelohr, @chrissyfarr, and @morgancheatham
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli autonomous cloud security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel with Sequoia and others participating, a source says at a $500M valuation — The Israeli company's data security platform learns an enterprise's unique data and business purpose using large language models …
More: TechCrunch, FinSMEs, Globes Online, and Cyera US
| Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: |
John B. Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the lithium-ion battery used in mobile devices and EVs, dies at 100 — An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, he is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise to the batteries powering today's electronic devices.
More: UT News, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, Bloomberg, WRAL TechWire, Silicon Republic, PC Gamer, Engadget, DigiTimes, Associated Press, SlashGear, Reuters, The Register, Livemint, The Verge, IGN, and The Information
LinkedIn: Paulo Ferreira. Twitter: @readingkafka, @kamatlabnd, @nytscience, @jp_loksatta, @silananotech, @nytimes, and @quantamagazine
Forums: r/chemistry and Slashdot
| Jane Lee / Reuters: |
Snowflake partners with Nvidia to let customers build generative AI models using their own data; Nvidia plans to embed NeMo Framework into Snowflake Data Cloud — Snowflake (SNOW.N) a cloud data analytics company, is partnering with computing company Nvidia (NVDA.O) to allow customers ranging … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok plans to close TikTok Now, its BeReal clone announced in September 2022, without giving a reason; usage estimates suggest BeReal's popularity has faded — TikTok is killing off its BeReal clone TikTok Now, according to notifications being sent to users.
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, BGR, and The Verge
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Prosus, a top shareholder in Byju's, cuts the value of its Byju's stake, implying a $5.1B valuation, far below the Indian edtech giant's recent $22B valuation — Prosus, the largest non-founder shareholder in Byju's, has drastically slashed the worth of its stake in the edtech giant … | Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Amazon's army of smaller AI-powered warehouse robots, including Proteus, which carries suitcase-sized bins of packages and works alongside humans — A wave of advanced machines is coming to the company's facilities thanks to better AI and robots smart enough to work with—and without—humans.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says WhatsApp Business crossed 200M MAUs, up from 50M in 2020, adds a tool to let users create “click-to-WhatsApp” ads without a Facebook account, and more — Meta announced today that WhatsApp Business, its app designed specifically for small businesses … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based Cart.com, which sells end-to-end e-commerce services, raised a $60M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after raising $240M in February 2022 — Cart.com, an Austin-based company providing end-to-end e-commerce services, entered unicorn territory following a $60 million Series C round …
More: FinSMEs and Business Wire
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