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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 with pulse oximetry will be banned in the US again from Jan. 18, after an appeals court denied Apple's request to pause the ban — The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 with blood oxygen features will be banned from being sold in the United States again …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to sell the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature online starting 6am PT on January 18 and in Apple Stores on the same day — Earlier today, a US appeals court rejected Apple's request to pause the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 ban as the company appeals … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Samsung's Galaxy S24 lineup includes Google's AI models Gemini Pro, for Notes, Voice Recorder, and Keyboard apps, and Gemini Nano, for Google Messages and more — Gemini, Google's cutting-edge generative AI model family, is coming to Samsung's new flagship smartphone — the Galaxy S24.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the Galaxy S24 Ultra, with a new titanium finish, a 6.8" 1440p display, a 50-megapixel camera with 5x zoom, shipping on January 31 from $1,299 — For several years running, Samsung's S-series Ultra has been that device, and the company is going just as big with the Ultra for 2024.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google introduces Circle to Search, a set of new gestures for searching from anywhere on Android, available on Galaxy S24 devices and Google's Pixel 8 and 8 Pro — Alongside Samsung's launch event today, Google announced a new way to search on Android phones dubbed “Circle to Search.”
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Android Auto will soon reflect the design elements, like wallpaper and icons, of Samsung Galaxy phones, and offer AI chat summaries, relevant replies, and more — Amidst the flurry of Galaxy S24 announcements, Google also announced a handful of new AI features for Android Auto.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Sundar Pichai says Google will see more “role eliminations” in 2024, though not at the scale of 2023's reductions and not affecting every team — Google has laid off over a thousand employees across various departments since January 10th.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Have I Been Pwned adds ~71M email addresses of stolen accounts to its service from the Naz.API dataset, which allegedly contains 1B+ lines of stolen credentials — Have I Been Pwned has added almost 71 million email addresses associated with stolen accounts in the Naz.API dataset to its data breach notification service.
More: Troy Hunt, Ars Technica, and Have I Been Pwned …
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Netflix is not planning to launch a native Apple Vision Pro app or allow its iPad app on the platform, and says users can watch Netflix on the web browser — Netflix Inc. isn't planning to launch an app for Apple Inc.'s upcoming Vision Pro headset, marking a high-profile snub of the new technology …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg plans to leave Meta's board of directors and become an informal advisor to the company in May 2024 — Former Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg plans to leave Meta's board of directors, Axios has learned. She will become an informal adviser to the company in May.
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X: @chrisharihar, @zamaan_qureshi, and @mikeisaac
Facebook: Sheryl Sandberg, Don Dodge, and Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
SEC v. Coinbase: in an opening hearing, Coinbase says that buying crypto on an exchange is more like collecting Beanie Babies than investing in a stock or bond — - Exchange compares tokens to plush toys to oppose regulation — Courts are divided on whether crypto sales are securities| Jon Keegan / The Markup: |
A Consumer Reports study involving 709 volunteers: a total of 186,892 companies shared the volunteers' data with Facebook, averaging 2,230 companies per person — A new study looks at who is sending information about your online activity to Facebook … By now most internet users know their online activity is constantly tracked.
More: Consumer Reports, The Register, Consumer Reports, and The Verge
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Fairly Trained, a nonprofit founded by ex-Stability AI VP Ed Newton-Rex, will give certification labels to AI companies that get consent for their training data — New system seeks to create a sort of ‘organic’ or ‘fair trade’ label for AI. — A new initiative will evaluate … | Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
TSMC reports Q4 revenue down 1.5% YoY to ~$19.62B and net income down 19.3% YoY to ~$7.56B, both above estimates on the back of weaker macroeconomic conditions — - TSMC reported fourth-quarter revenue slipped 1.5% from a year ago to NT$625.53 billion, while net income dropped 19.3% from a year ago to NT$238.71 billion.
More: Financial Times, Nikkei Asia, Bloomberg, Reuters, TSMC, and TSMC
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Notion debuts Notion Calendar, a free app for macOS, Windows, iOS, and the web, with optional Notion integration, after acquiring calendar app Cron in June 2022 — Does the world need more calendar apps? That's the first question that came to my mind when I heard that Notion …
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