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The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure — The swift rebuke shifts attention to the Senate, where the bill faces significant political barriers and constitutional concerns
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| John Callaham / Neowin: |
Microsoft adds GPT-4 Turbo to the free tier of Copilot, replacing GPT-4; Copilot Pro users still have the option to use GPT-4 — Microsoft is boosting the performance of its Copilot generative AI chatbot today. It has been confirmed that all free Copilot users can now access the GPT-4 Turbo large language model from OpenAI.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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X: @chirag_mehta, @satyanadella, @msftsecurity, and @vasujakkal
LinkedIn: Andrew Bentley, Shawn Bice, and Satya Nadella
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out a generative AI feature that creates a product page, including a description and images, using information from a seller's external website — Sellers on Amazon will soon be able to make product pages with just the copy-and-paste of a link.
More: TechCrunch, About Amazon, Maginative, PYMNTS.com, Chain Store Age, and GeekWire
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release a unified Teams app on Windows 11 later in 2024, letting users switch between multiple tenants and personal or work account types — Microsoft is finally creating a single version of Microsoft Teams that will allow you to switch between personal and work accounts easily.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Block starts shipping Bitkey, its $150 bitcoin wallet debuted in 2022, with a hardware device, mobile app, recovery tools, and Cash App and Coinbase integration — Block, the Jack Dorsey-led payment company, has released its long-in-the-works Bitcoin hardware wallet — but you can't use cryptocurrency to buy it.
More: Bitkey, The Daily Hodl, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, Decrypt, and CoinDesk
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
YouTube revamps its TV app to make the viewing experience more interactive, giving greater prominence to chapters, comments, and video descriptions — YouTube is constantly tinkering with its app design across different platforms and screen sizes, and today, the company shared the latest changes coming to its TV-optimized app.| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Treasury is investigating ~$165M in crypto-linked transactions that may have helped finance Hamas before the group's October 7 attack against Israel — Treasury Department investigates $165 million in digital transactions linked to the militant group
More: Milk Road, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, and The Crypto Times
| Dashiell Wood / TechRadar: |
Lenovo plans to release the €599+ Legion Tab, an 8.8" Android gaming tablet currently available in China, in the EMEA and other Asian markets later in March — It's set to arrive in March — Technology manufacturer Lenovo has announced that the Lenovo Legion Tab Android gaming tablet …
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| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Sources: Google's Search Generative Experience could cut organic search traffic to publishers by 20% to 60%; Google says estimating the impact is premature — Search Generative Experience could upend over 60% of publishers' total organic traffic — Google launched its artificial intelligence …
X: @outonalumb, @edzitron, @alexeheath, @edzitron, @kthomasulland, and @trishlaostwal
| Tim Berners-Lee / World Wide Web Foundation: |
On the web's 35th birthday, there are two issues to address: power concentration, which contradicts decentralization, and exploitation of personal data — Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict …
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| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn reports Q4 revenue down 5.7% YoY to ~$59B, as cloud and networking demand falls, net profit up 33% YoY to $1.69B, and expects flat 2024 consumer demand — Revenue fell on lackluster demand for cloud and networking products and a slowing personal-computer market
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Iraqi News, and Agence France-Presse
| Russ Crupnick / MusicWatch: |
US paid music subscribers hit a record 109M in 2023, rising to 136M including SiriusXM and Amazon Prime Music; seven of every 10 US millennials pay to subscribe — MusicWatch Annual Music Study points to continued health of the US music market, a record number of paid subscribers, and increased spend on recorded music.| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Kaiko: trading volume for the top crypto memecoins reached ~$80B in the past week, the highest since October 2021; total market value of memecoins topped $60B — - Dogwifhat fans raises funds to put meme on Las Vegas Sphere — Total market value of memecoins has surpassed $60 billion| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Waymo plans to debut its Waymo One robotaxi service in LA on March 14, gradually onboarding from a 50K+ waitlist, and in Austin commercially by the end of 2024 — Waymo will begin offering a robotaxi service to the public in Los Angeles this week and in Austin by the end of the year …
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| Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic: |
A look at the costs of a smartphone-based childhood, as Gen Z struggles with poor mental health and lags behind previous generations on many important metrics — The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. — Something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s.
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| Hugo Barra / Hugo's Blog: |
A deep dive into Vision Pro by Meta's ex-VP of VR Hugo Barra: the audacity of Apple's hardware decisions, a dull software story, how Meta can respond, and more — Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product.
More: Cult of Mac and The Verge
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| Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: |
A look at Visa's and Mastercard's efforts to stay relevant in Africa, including by funding local startups, as users switch to digital wallets and QR codes — From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S. giants are steadily increasing their presence on the continent.| Ali Winston / Wired: |
An analysis of 3M+ Discord and Telegram chats in 50+ groups finds a global network of thousands of violent predators who target, groom, and extort kids online — A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
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