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Meta debuts the $500 Quest 3, featuring a 30% higher resolution than the Quest 2, double the processing power, new lenses, a thinner design, and new controllers — - New mixed-reality headset to start at $500, a $200 increase — Apple to launch rival device, Vision Pro, early next year
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| The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, Quest 3, his Elon Musk rivalry, decentralized social media, “open-source” AI tools, encryption, and more — In a rare interview, Meta's CEO dives into where AI is going next, the new Quest 3 headset, and his ongoing rivalry with Elon Musk.
More: Insider, The Verge on YouTube, and The Information
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Meta Quest 3: an iterative update, but its mixed reality pass through video is less grainy than the Quest Pro and offers color, unlike the Quest 2 — An upgraded VR game console with an extra feature. … I can't tell if Meta is trying too hard to make me look at the world through …
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| Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta announces AI-generated chat stickers for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and unveils new AI-powered image editing tools for Instagram — New generative AI tools announced Wednesday at Meta's Connect event will allow users to edit images and create stickers using text prompts.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan plans to retire in March 2024; Ryan joined Sony in 1994, just before the first PlayStation debuted — Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, is stepping down after almost 30 years with the company.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The US and Japan warn that the China-backed BlackTech hacking group is breaching network devices, including Cisco's, to install backdoors on corporate networks — US and Japanese law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warn of the Chinese ‘BlackTech’ hackers breaching network devices …
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| Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT can now browse the web, available first to Plus and Enterprise users, and the chatbot is “no longer limited to data before September 2021” — ChatGPT users will now be able to surf the web, Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI said on Wednesday … | Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: X is cutting ~50% of its global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud, less than a month after saying it would expand the team — Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Mistral AI makes its first LLM, Mistral 7B, that it claims outperforms open models with up to 13B parameters, free to use without restrictions — The most popular language models out there may be accessed via API, but open models — as far as that term can be taken seriously — are gaining ground.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: a classic look, 12MP vs. 5MP makes a big difference, some audio leakage, and a promising tool for content creators — Unlike the original, I kind of see where Meta's going with its second-gen smart glasses.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The US DOJ sues eBay for allegedly breaking environmental laws by allowing sales of harmful products, like 343K+ devices that “defeat” vehicle emission controls — The U.S. government on Wednesday sued eBay (EBAY.O), accusing the online platform of violating the Clean Air Act …
More: US Department of Justice, eBay Newsroom, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, 24/7 Wall St., and The Verge. Forums: Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy confirms that former Microsoft CPO Panos Panay will be joining Amazon at the end of October to lead its devices and services division — It's official: Panos Panay, Microsoft's former product lead, is headed to Amazon. … “As a strong product builder and inventor …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Microsoft says the company has tried for years to displace Google as the iPhone's default search engine, but Apple never seriously considered Bing — - Executive testifies Microsoft sought browser switch for years — ‘Apple is making more money on Bing existing than Bing does’
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Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Hands-on with ChatGPT's image recognition and voice features: image recognition isn't perfect and refuses to discuss faces, voice is fluid and natural, and more — The image-recognition feature could have many uses, and the voice feature is even more intriguing.| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Epic Games asks SCOTUS to review a judge's 2021 ruling that Apple's App Store doesn't violate antitrust laws; SCOTUS may decide by 2024 whether to take the case — Epic's request is the latest in a long-running battle between the maker of Fortnite and Apple over the way the iPhone maker runs its marketplace.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Forbes, Reuters, AppleInsider, Engadget, and WRAL TechWire
| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
SpaceX gets its first US Space Force contract, valued at up to $70M, offering the military custom satellite communications via the company's Starshield service — - Contract extends billionaire's role as a defense contractor — Starshield provides customized satellite communications| Bloomberg: |
Kraken plans to offer US-listed stock and ETF trading, a source says in the US and the UK through a new division, Kraken Securities, targeted for a 2024 launch — - Kraken targeting 2024 launch for stock trading: person — Move comes almost two years after Bitcoin's $69,000 peak| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
B2B payments startup Slope, which in April debuted SlopeGPT as the first GPT-powered payments risk model, raised $30M led by Union Square; Sam Altman invested — Slope, a business-to-business payments platform for enterprise companies, closed on a venture round of $30 million to expand its business.
More: VentureBeat, San Francisco Business Journal, FinSMEs, and Slope
LinkedIn: Slope and Marcelo Lima
| Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: |
Disney tells its Canadian Disney+ subscribers the company updated the service's subscriber agreement to limit usage to a single household, effective November 1 — The streamer is updating its subscriber agreement in Canada to limit usage to a single household.| Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: |
Bard conversations turn up in Google search results; Google says Bard lets users share chats, but they shouldn't be indexed, and the company is working on a fix — Conversations with the Google chatbot turned up in search results for common queries—an issue the company says was an error.
More: Search Engine Roundtable and BigTechWire
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