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Meta begins testing “today's topics” on Threads in the US, surfaced in the app on the Search page and in the For You feed, that can feature political content — After acknowledging last week that Meta's X competitor Threads would not actively recommend political content …
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| Rachel Phua / Bloomberg: |
Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions of dollars, to boost US growth; its US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in Dec. and 4.8% in Jan. — - Observed sales and users fell month-on-month in Dec. and Jan. — Chinese e-commerce app offers users $10 million in giveaways
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| John Archer / Forbes: |
Amazon's Prime Video basic ad tier, which began on Jan. 29 in the US as a downgrade to subscribers, quietly cut Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos sound support — Amazon AMZN caused a furor recently when it announced that it was introducing advertisements right across its Prime Video streaming service.| Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: |
Cloudflare defeats another “patent troll”, invalidating parts of Sable Networks' patents after crowd-sourcing prior art findings through Project Jengo — The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss — When it comes to defeating patent trolls with crowd-sourced prior art …
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Threads: @gergelyorosz_. X: @cloudflare and @eastdakota. LinkedIn: Steven Callahan. Forums: Hacker News
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures data: 52% of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, vs. 5% of apps in the wider App Store, with an average price of $5.67 — Apple's Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact with apps via spatial computing, but it also offers app developers a way to generate revenue without subscriptions.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Analysts estimate that Microsoft Azure's revenue, thanks in part to its close relationship with OpenAI, is ~75% as big as AWS', up from ~50% five years ago — - Microsoft's cloud is growing significantly faster than Amazon Web Services of late, thanks in part to its cozy OpenAI relationship.| Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
ContextLogic agrees to sell the discount online retailer Wish for $173M to Singaporean company Qoo10; Wish had a $14B valuation when it when public in 2020 — The parent of discount online retailer Wish has agreed to sell its assets and liabilities for $173 million to Singaporean e-commerce company Qoo10.
More: Wish, San Francisco Business Times, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, and The Information
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Nvidia announces a $625 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, with 1.5x to 3x more performance than the previous gen and 16GB of GDDR6 ECC memory, up from 12GB — NVIDIA RTX 2000 ADA announced: AD107 GPU, 16GB VRAM and no power connector required — NVIDIA formally introduces another low-profile workstation GPU with Ada architecture| Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: |
Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the state of the platform, its future, collaborating with Meta on ActivityPub, Bluesky's AT protocol, and more — Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
How the US plans to use open radio access networks, or Open RAN, to unseat Huawei's lead in telecom tech, including committing $1.5B+ to bolster global adoption — The Biden administration has committed more than $1.5 billion to try to persuade the world to use a technology …
More: AT&T News …, National Telecommunications …, The Verge, Samsung Newsroom, Verizon, Ericsson, Open RAN Policy Coalition, Samsung Newsroom, RCR Wireless News, Fierce Wireless Industry News, Light Reading, and Telecompetitor
X: @openranpolicy, @attnews, @samsungnetworks, @mikeddano, @markwarner, @samsungnetworks, and @markwarner
LinkedIn: Yossi Cohen, Chris Boyer, and Yigal Elbaz
Forums: r/politics, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Ben Hall / Financial Times: |
Ukraine's GUR military intelligence unit says Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line, corroborating multiple media reports in recent days — Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow's troops ‘systemic’ — Russian forces are using Starlink terminals …
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X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @ralee85, @deitaone, @sambendett, @jayinkyiv, @iaponomarenko, @eliothiggins, @eliothiggins, @dougklain, @wartranslated, @reuters, @glasnostgone, and @g900ap. Forums: r/elonmusk
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A US federal judge blocks the enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps — A federal judge on Monday prevented Ohio from implementing a new law that requires social media companies, including Meta Platform's (META.O) … | Reuters: |
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