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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple Vision Pro review: marvelous display, great hand and eye tracking, and works seamlessly in the ecosystem, but pricey and video passthrough can be blurry — The Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer headset anyone's ever made — and that's the problem.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's visionOS doesn't let users rearrange home screen icons or pin web apps to the home screen, particularly limiting as Netflix and YouTube lack native apps — In addition to not letting you rearrange home screen icons, visionOS 1.0 also doesn't support the ability to pin web apps to the home screen.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Source: Apple has sold upwards of 200K Vision Pro units, after beginning to accept Vision Pro pre-orders on January 19; Kuo estimated 160K to 180K on January 22 — Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Edge automatically imports open Chrome tabs after a Windows update, even with Edge's import tool disabled; users have reported the behavior for months — Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says that Neuralink implanted its first device in a human on January 28, and its product, Telepathy, will enable control of a user's phone or computer — - Elon Musk's neurotech startup Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on Sunday, and the patient is “recovering well,” according to a post on X.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says Apple Card now has 12M+ customers, over 1M are sharing their card via Apple Card Family, and users earned $1B+ in Daily Cash rewards in the past year — Apple Card has over 12 million users in the United States, Apple said today. Apple Card holders earned more than $1 billion in Daily Cash rewards in 2023.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
New York's AG sues Citibank over its alleged failure to defend customers from online scams, citing poor responses to potential fraud and not reimbursing victims — New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Citibank over its failure to defend customers against hacks and scams and refusing …
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| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
German police seize nearly 50K bitcoin, worth $2B+, from two suspects who allegedly acquired the crypto using profits from an illegal file-sharing platform — German prosecutors provisionally seized nearly 50,000 Bitcoin worth about $2.1 billion as part of an investigation into what they see as an illegal file-sharing platform.| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
ICANN proposes .INTERNAL, a TLD for internal use but never plumbed into the global DNS for internet access, taking on the same role as the 192.168.x.x IPv4 bloc — The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root - like may already do with a subdomain for an intranet
More: The Verge, Internet Corporation …, Domain Incite, CircleID, TechSpot, TechRadar, and PCWorld
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Portal, a startup building a BTC-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, raised a $34M seed from Coinbase and others, for a $42.5M total in funding — - Portal has raised $34 million in a seed funding round from Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures and others.| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Codeium, whose AI tools help companies write code, raised a $65M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, a source says at a $500M valuation, and reports 300K+ users — - Kleiner Perkins led $65 million investment in startup — Codeium uses AI to improve software developer productivity
More: VentureBeat, FinSMEs, and Codeium
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at Intel's mistakes under CEO Brian Krzanich, and CEO Pat Gelsinger's attempt to turn Intel into a foundry for chip developers including via its UMC deal — There are time when being a semiconductor CEO is rather easy. Just consider Brian Krzanich: when he took over the Intel job in 2013, I wrote in The Intel Opportunity:
X: @stratechery
| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
The US DOJ and SEC file charges over HyperFund, an alleged $1.9B crypto scheme that collapsed in 2022, saying “the level of alleged fraud here is staggering” — - The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against two people and the guilty plea of a third person … | Mark Stenberg / Adweek: |
Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 employees, amid media industry-wide cuts — The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019 — Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
X lifted its ban on Taylor Swift searches on January 29, but “will continue to be vigilant”, following the spread of explicit AI-generated images of the singer — Social-media site restricted queries for the singer's name after the digitally altered images hit the platform
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| Reuters: |
GM plans to cut Cruise spending in half in 2024, or by ~$1B, but remains committed to the self-driving unit and will “soon” share timing for resuming operations — General Motors (GM.N) said Tuesday it is cutting spending in half on troubled robotaxi unit Cruise …
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Sources: by the end of 2022, <10% of Instagram teens had parental supervision settings on, showing barriers for parents like limited understanding of the tools — Inside the company, kids safety experts have long raised red flags about relying on such features, citing infrequent use.| Daniel Bader / Android Police: |
An interview with Google Play VP and General Manager Sam Bright on Play Store curation, AI, the quality gap between Android and iOS apps, openness, and more — Android Police spoke to Sam Bright, VP and General Manager of Google Play, in his first public interview since taking the job in early 2023| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Sources: Binance bowed to pressure from customers to let them hold their assets with an independent custodian, highlighting growing unease after the US' fines — Customers switch trading collateral to independent banks including Switzerland's Sygnum and Flow
More: Crypto Daily, The Block, Metaverse Post, Blockonomi, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, and Watcher Guru
| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: by the end of 2022, <10% of Instagram teens had parental supervision enabled, showing barriers for parents, like a limited understanding of the tools — Popular video-sharing app said it had walled off American data in so-called Project Texas, but employees say data is still sometimes shared with its China-based parent| Yiwen Lu / New York Times: |
The AI boom has spurred law firms, hospitals, insurance companies, government agencies, and others to create chief AI officer roles to navigate the use of AI — Many feared that artificial intelligence would kill jobs. But hospitals, insurance companies and others are creating roles to navigate and harness the disruptive technology.
More: The Information, Pulse 2.0, Cryptopolitan, and Help Net Security. Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host
| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Apple says proposed UK legislation could let the country try “to secretly veto new user protections globally”, preventing Apple from shipping them to customers — Apple has attacked proposals for the UK government to pre-approve new security features introduced by tech firms.
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