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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases visionOS marketing style guidelines, asking developers to refer to Apple Vision Pro apps as “spatial computing apps”, not AR, VR, XR, or MR apps — Apple on Monday finally confirmed that Vision Pro will arrive in stores early next month.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to offer customers demos of the Apple Vision Pro at its US retail stores from February 2 through the weekend on a first-come, first-served basis — Apple Vision Pro officially has pre-order and launch dates as of today, and now we know how the public will get to try Apple's first spatial computer as well.
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
X suspended several podcasters and journalists, including The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein and Texas Observer's Steven Monacelli, with little to no explanation — Elon Musk's “free speech” social media platform banned a number of accounts recently critical of Israel.
More: VICE, The Messenger, New Republic, and Business Insider
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| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to start automatically restricting teen Instagram and Facebook accounts from harmful content, including posts about self-harm, in the coming weeks — Efforts to curb harmful material and reduce unwanted interactions with teen social-media accounts come as states sue parent company Meta
More: Meta, TechCrunch, USA Today, The Hill, Axios, Reuters, PCMag, The Information, NBC News, Engadget, 9to5Mac, RTÉ, iPhone in Canada Blog, Proactive, Mashable, PhoneArena, PetaPixel, The Verge, CNBC, and NPR. X: @andymstone
| Bloomberg: |
Beijing's judicial bureau says a state-backed institution cracked Apple's AirDrop to identify message senders, and police found multiple suspects via the method — - Beijing agency claims to have found way to identify senders — Declaration follows efforts to crack down on sensitive content| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
How the internet reshaped itself around Google's search algorithms, including via SEO tricks, and the company's role in many websites now using similar designs — How the internet reshaped itself around Google's search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. — Animations by Richard Parry
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon announces Matter Casting, an Apple AirPlay-like feature to send videos from Android and iOS to Amazon devices, initially supporting Echo Show devices — Amazon.com Inc. introduced a new feature that mimics Apple Inc.'s AirPlay while working across different platforms … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
In a first, the US FTC bans the data broker X-Mode Social, now known as Outlogic, from selling phone location data and orders it to delete collected data — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users' sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday.
More: Federal Trade Commission and Politico
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
In November 2023, Apple challenged the EU's DMA designation of its five App Stores as a single service, iOS' interoperability, and iMessage's NIICS designation — Apple (AAPL.O) has challenged EU tech rules designating its five App Stores as a single core platform service subject to onerous obligations …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU begins investigating whether Microsoft's OpenAI investment should be vetted under its rules, and asks for feedback on generative AI and virtual worlds — - EU watchdog follows UK regulator in weighing a probe — Move comes after furore over firing and rehiring of Sam Altman
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X: @lewis_crofts and @lewis_crofts
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A profile of OpenAI VP of Global Affairs Anna Makanju, who helped transform Sam Altman from a startup darling into an AI ambassador and worked in Obama's admin — This summer, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a pilgrimage to India to discuss the artificial intelligence revolution with a towering figure: Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
More: The Verge
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Micron announces LPCAMM2, thinner and lighter laptop RAM that may replace SODIMM, the nearly 25-year-old standard, as Samsung, Dell, and more also make progress — It's thinner and lighter than standard notebook RAM, and it's upgradeable unlike soldered memory. — Laptop RAM is facing a conundrum.
More: Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz.com, Liliputing, guru3d.com, Blocks and Files, OC3D, and Wccftech
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Microsoft finds a material that could replace ~70% of lithium in a battery, by using Azure Quantum Elements HPC resources to run simulations and AI models — Recently, Microsoft built a clock. — Well, “built” may be overstating things. Members of the company's quantum computing team found …
More: VentureBeat, GeekWire, BBC, Bloomberg, The Verge, TechCrunch, Microsoft, Source, TechRadar, and The Quantum Insider. LinkedIn: Frank X. Shaw
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
PerformYard, which offers staff retention, management, and upskilling tools, raised $95M from Updata Partners after being mostly bootstrapped besides a $3M seed — Employee performance reviews take time and effort — and aren't always conducted very efficiently.| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Elliott Management has built a ~$1B stake in Match Group and plans to push the online dating company to take steps to boost its stock; MTCH jumps 5%+ — Activist has roughly $1 billion stake and intends to meet with Match to discuss ways to improve online dating company's performance
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| Axios: |
Carta plans to close its liquidity services business, which matched private company stock buyers and sellers, as people will “worry that we are using the data” — Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock, Axios has learned.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Substack plans to remove some Nazi publications, but its new policy interpretation won't include proactively removing neo-Nazi and far-right extremism content — Substack is removing some publications that express support for Nazis, the company said today.
More: The Verge and NBC News
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Luma, which is training AI models that can generate 3D models from text prompts, raised a $43M Series B, a source says at a valuation between $200M and $300M — A couple of years ago, Alex Yu and Amit Jain came together to found a company that'd let people capture objects in 3D using their smartphones …
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| Nelson Aguilar / CNET: |
Google and Samsung merge their respective Nearby Share and Quick Share features under the Quick Share name, for a more unified cross-Android sharing option — The new version of Quick Share brings a unified sharing experience to Android devices. — Apple has AirDrop. Android now has Quick Share.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Texas-based HPE is in advanced talks to acquire California-based Juniper Networks for ~$13B, in a deal that could be announced as soon as this week — Deal could be unveiled this week, valuing Juniper at roughly $13 billion — Hewlett Packard Enterprise is in advanced talks … | Charlotte Van Campenhout / Reuters: |
Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €355M from the Gates Foundation, Germany's largest supermarket group Edeka, and others to expand in France and Germany — Dutch online grocery store Picnic has raised 355 million euros ($388.02 million) from its investors and plans to further expand …
More: TNW, nltimes.nl, and TechStartups
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Sony teases a “spatial” VR headset for 3D model creation, offering 4K OLEDs, a ring and a pointer controller, and a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, coming later in 2024 — The company showed off the headset along with a unique pair of controllers today during a presentation at CES 2024.
More: Sony Corporation, Engadget, Engadget, Kotaku, eeNews Europe, Silicon Republic, SamMobile, Sparrows News, Auganix.org, TweakTown, MIXED Reality News, The Messenger, and UploadVR
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| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Filing and memo: Unity Software plans to lay off ~25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, by the end of March 2024, its largest layoff ever and affecting all teams — Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will target laying off approximately 25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Thurrott, Fast Company, Game Rant, PC Gamer, Video Games Chronicle, TechStartups, Kotaku, GameRevolution, Gameranx, GamingOnLinux, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TechRadar, Destructoid, Game World Observer, Business Today, GamingBolt, PC Games Insider, Globes Online, Push Square, Dexerto, gamedeveloper, Barron's Online, and US Securities …
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Volkswagen plans to add ChatGPT to its voice assistant for “general knowledge questions” and to control functions like heating and AC, starting in Europe in Q2 — Volkswagen is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon by announcing plans to install OpenAI's ChatGPT into its vehicles starting in the second quarter of 2024.
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| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Netflix defeats a shareholder lawsuit claiming the company hid the impact of account sharing; NFLX fell ~50% from January to April 2022 after growth warnings — Netflix (NFLX.O) has defeated a lawsuit filed by shareholders in a federal court in California that accused the streaming entertainment company … Sponsor Posts
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