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Interviews with Disney executives about Apple Vision Pro, how the device is changing the studio's production pipelines, future plans for the device, and more — Years in the works, the new Disney+ app has an immersive new twist. But the company sees it as one small step into a new entertainment medium with rich possibilities.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook compares Vision Pro debut to the birth of Mac, iPod, and iPhone in a memo to employees — Apple Inc. faithful lined up at its US stores on Friday to pick up the first Vision Pro headsets, ushering in what the company calls “the era of spatial computing.”
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple details Vision Pro's Bluetooth accessories support, saying it isn't compatible with Bluetooth mice but works with the Magic Trackpad and most keyboards — Apple has published a new support document today detailing more about Vision Pro's support for Bluetooth accessories.
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| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
California records show Apple's self-driving cars drove about 452K miles in 2023, up 4x from 2022 and 30x from 2021, but well below Waymo's 6M+ miles — Government records show Apple's secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023.| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
More than 100 human rights and LGBTQ groups and many kids condemn the Kids Online Safety Act after the January 31 hearing, saying it is “to control information” — Gen Z TikTokers, LGBTQ organizations and free speech advocates react angrily to Wednesday's hearing
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
A look at Reddit's third-party app ecosystem seven months after API changes: most current apps now charge users a monthly fee, some are profitable, and more — Apollo dev: “I don't believe Reddit's leadership... cares about developers anymore.” — Last year, Reddit sparked massive controversy … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple plans to acquire Brighter AI, a German startup specializing in anonymizing face and license plate data, to enhance privacy features on Vision Pro — Sources indicate Apple plans to acquire Brighter AI, a German AI startup specializing in anonymizing face and license plate data.| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
The US Treasury sanctions six Iranian government officials for their role in targeting devices at a Pennsylvania water utility in November 2023 — The Iranian attack targeted a device manufactured by an Israeli company. — The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions … | David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
The rise and fall of Ben Armstrong, aka BitBoy, who was one of the most popular crypto YouTubers, lost much of his wealth, and now faces personal turmoil — Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, was once the most popular cryptocurrency YouTuber in the world. Now his empire has collapsed.| Ryotaro Yamada / Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: ByteDance spent $8.74M on US lobbying activities in 2023, up 77% YoY, and Shein spent $2.12M, up 7.6x from 2022, amid rising US-China trade tensions — Chinese firms seek to minimize effects of alarm over bilateral tensions — ByteDance increased its lobbying spending by 77% in 2023 over the previous year.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Synergy: enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services was ~$74B in Q4 2023, up 20% YoY, and $5.6B over Q3 2023, the largest QoQ increase ever achieved — For the last several quarters we've seen a lull in the expansion of the cloud infrastructure market, with lower growth numbers … | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, which is responsible for Llama, is made up largely of women; sources say ~60% of FAIR's leadership team are women — In the high stakes, brutally competitive AI race, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been an outlier. While most of the big foundation … Sponsor Posts
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