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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024 — If you're willing to clip the Ai Pin to your chest, you can talk, gesture, and tap to take photos or summon a powerful virtual assistant.
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| New York Times: |
A look at Humane's $699 clip-on Ai Pin, the culmination of five years of work, $240M in funding, and 25 patents; Humane expects to sell ~100K in the first year — Humane, a company started by two former Apple employees, says its new artificial intelligence pin can stop all the scrolling.
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A review of Valve's $549 Steam Deck OLED: a great screen, a longer battery life, and better ergonomics, but refresh rate issues and the platform is not stable — A new screen, a pile of improvements, and better pricing make this everything the original should have been.
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Forums: r/WindowsOnDeck and r/IndianGaming
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Omegle, a service founded in 2009 for chatting with strangers, shuts down; founder Leif K-Brooks blames rising misuse, including in committing “heinous crimes” — Omegle, an online service that allowed individuals to connect and chat with strangers, has shut …
More: Omegle, BBC, 404 Media, NPR, PCMag, Windows Central, Insider, PC Gamer, Washington Post, The Verge, MobileSyrup, IGN, USA Today, New York Post, TechSpot, The Messenger, Mashable, and NBC News
Threads: @kaceymon_, @jayshams, and @nickcho
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| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Sources: Amazon is working on Vega, a new OS to replace Android on Fire TVs, smart displays, and other devices and could ship Fire TV devices with Vega in 2024 — Vega, baby! … Amazon has been working on a new operating system to replace Android on Fire TVs, smart displays and other connected devices …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google stops selling Fitbit products in 29 countries, including those where the company doesn't offer Pixel alternatives, to “align” its hardware portfolio — In a move that went a bit under the radar, Fitbit under Google has stopped selling its products in nearly 20 countries around the globe.
More: Android Authority, TechCentral, Thurrott, Gizmodo, BGR, Google Help Center, Android Police, The Verge, and Digital Trends
| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki says the company now plans to release six live service games by FY 2025, delaying the remaining six from the original 12 titles — Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has halved the number of live service games it plans to release over the next few years, it's confirmed.
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| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
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| Taras Buria / Neowin: |
Microsoft now requires that Windows users choose a listed reason for closing the OneDrive app, like “I do not use OneDrive” or “I don't know what OneDrive is” — A few weeks ago, we reported an odd discovery in Microsoft Edge: a poll asking users to explain their decision to download Chrome.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Spotify rolls out a redesigned TV app, offering a new homepage similar to the one in its desktop and mobile apps, a new playback queue, a dark mode, and more — Spotify is rolling out a redesigned TV app that should make it a little easier to find what you want to listen to.
More: Spotify, Engadget, Android Central, 9to5Google, TechRadar, SlashGear, Thurrott, and Neowin
| Soma Biswas / Wall Street Journal: |
A bankruptcy court lets Celsius Network end its bankruptcy case, return most of its deposits back to users, and form a new company focused on mining and staking — A bankruptcy judge allowed the onetime crypto lender to return some of its customers' deposits while forming a new company focused on mining and staking| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Chinese state-affiliated outlet Chinastarmarket says Nvidia plans to release three new H100-based AI chips in the country in the coming days, after new US rules — - US is further limiting China's access to advanced silicon — Nvidia's gaming graphic card is also affected by new US rules| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI announces Data Partnerships to collaborate with organizations to build public and private datasets that “reflect human society” for AI model training — It's an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. — Image corpora tends to be U.S …
More: OpenAI, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Reuters, Search Engine Journal, MSPoweruser, and Bloomberg
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Mandiant: Russia-tied Sandworm carried out a third successful attack on Ukraine's electric utility in October 2022, coinciding with a series of missile strikes — Russia's most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine's power grid for the third time last year.
More: Mandiant, BleepingComputer, SiliconANGLE, NBC News, Security Affairs, ComputerWeekly.com, and The Record
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| Joe Brennan / The Irish Times: |
A key CJEU advisor recommends that the court set aside a 2020 EU ruling that said Apple did not owe Ireland €13B+ in back taxes, a setback for Apple and Ireland — Opinion of key advisor to European Court of Justice (ECJ) comes months ahead of final ruling on world's biggest antitrust case| Financial Times: |
Sources: a ransomware attack stopped the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's largest bank, from settling US Treasury and some equity trades — Chinese bank ‘restoring services’ after hack affected some fixed income and equities transactions
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Dark Reading, The Record, BleepingComputer, and SiliconANGLE
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LinkedIn: Andy Watkin-Child CSyP …, David Davies, Tyrus Kamau, Alexander Rudolph, and John F. Keese
| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Yuga Labs says UV lights were the likely cause of eye and skin issues experienced by some of the attendees of ApeFest, hosted in Hong Kong from November 3 to 5 — The probe was undertaken in collaboration with Jack Morton Worldwide, the company that produced the event …
More: Ars Technica, Cointelegraph, and crypto.news
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon and Meta are testing a feature that shows US shoppers real-time prices and lets them buy products on Amazon directly from ads on Instagram and Facebook — - Consumers can link Amazon accounts to social-media profiles — Instagram ads urge users to use Amazon purchase button
More: TechCrunch, Forbes, CNBC, and Marketplace Pulse
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| Melanie Dawes / Financial Times: |
Ofcom's CEO on the regulator's new powers to police tech: kids are the first priority, companies must detect and remove CSAM, and working in harmony with the EU — Where the laws have different scope, it's important that implementing them does not create conflicts for companies
More: Ofcom, Ofcom, Light Blue Touchpaper, TechCrunch, The Verge, Molly Rose Foundation, Politico, BBC, Reuters, Wired, and CNBC
Mastodon: @Edent@mastodon.social and @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
X: @ofcom, @cyberleagle, @mathver, @scitechgovuk, @_andyburrows, @webdevlaw, @mollyroseorg, @rossjanderson, @ofcom, @policechiefs, @mathver, and @techukdepceo. LinkedIn: Ian Stevenson
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Apple, Google, and Samsung partner with Schlage, Yale, Qualcomm, and NXP to build Aliro, an open standard for smart locks and digital keys, targeting early 2025 — Launching Thursday, the effort is called Aliro, and if you've ever enjoyed using Apple's Home Key technology on your watch … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Arm CEO Rene Haas says Arm is working on a “complex deal” that, if closed by year-end, would boost Q3 revenue, expresses optimism about US-China ties, and more — Arm CEO Rene Haas knows that the first rule of post-IPO earnings is to meet or beat Wall Street expectations.| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says its APIs and ChatGPT suffered “periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack” between November 8 and November 9 — - OpenAI says on its site it's grappling with “abnormal traffic” — The US startup introduced a preview version of GPT-4 Turbo
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X: @officiallogank, @mengxilu, @nakamotodamacy, @neirenoir, @benjamindekr, and @nakamotodamacy. LinkedIn: Cyril Tan
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon no longer requires an Amazon Prime membership to use its online grocery delivery or free pickup service, starting with Amazon Fresh customers in the US — Amazon today announced changes to its grocery delivery service designed to make ordering from Amazon Fresh more competitive …
More: About Amazon, Seattle Business Journal, Bloomberg, Neowin, ChannelX, and GeekWire
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Inside Bryce Adams and Brian Adam's OnlyFans empire run from a $2.5M Florida compound: ~$10M in annual revenue and a $1M+ payroll; Adams' OF has $16.5M in sales — SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA — In the mornings, the workers of Bryce Adams's OnlyFans empire buzz in through a camera-wired security gate … | Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: |
The EU Parliament approves the Data Act, which has a kill switch clause for automated data-sharing agreements; the legislation now needs EU Council approval — The final version of the bill's text, reviewed by CoinDesk in July, revealed that it contained a smart-contract kill switch clause.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
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