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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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| The Information: |
ByteDance investors reassessing what the company's value would be without TikTok, estimate that TikTok lost several billion dollars in 2023 on revenue of ~$20B — TikTok, facing a growing threat of a U.S. ban, has been a global juggernaut over the past few years, drawing more than a billion monthly users … | 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.| 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: About Amazon, TechCrunch, Maginative, PYMNTS.com, Chain Store Age, and GeekWire
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release a unified Teams app on Windows 11 later this year, 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 and 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.
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| Dashiell Wood / TechRadar: |
Lenovo plans to release the Legion Tab, an 8.8" Android gaming tablet currently available in China, in EMEA and other Asian markets this month, starting at €599 — It's set to arrive in March — Technology manufacturer Lenovo has announced that the Lenovo Legion Tab Android gaming tablet …
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| 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 … | 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: Cryptonews, CoinDesk, and The Crypto Times
| 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 …
More: Waymo, Los Angeles Times, The Information, Forbes, and 9to5Google
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| 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| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Sources: Google's Search Generative Experience could cut organic search traffic to publishers by 20% to 60%; Google says it is premature to estimate the impact — Search Generative Experience could upend over 60% of publishers' total organic traffic — Google launched its artificial …
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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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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Filing: Microsoft agrees to settle a patent lawsuit by Caltech, which settled lawsuits with Apple and Broadcom over some of the same Wi-Fi patents in 2023 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) has agreed to settle a patent infringement lawsuit brought by the California Institute of Technology … | 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.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft announces Microsoft Copilot for Security will be generally available on April 1, payable via a new Security Compute Unit that costs $4 per hour — - The Microsoft Copilot for Security will cost $4 per “security compute unit” when it becomes available in April.
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LinkedIn: Andrew Bentley, Evan Williams, Yuliya Slesareva Godoy, Marko Lauren, Shawn Bice, Vasu Jakkal, and Satya Nadella
| 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
X: @christianhern, @rakeshlobster, @rakeshlobster, @davesmiddy, @om, and @stevesi
| CNBC: |
The EU Parliament approves the AI Act, voting 523 in favor and 46 against, despite competition fears; the Act, born in 2021, puts AI tech into risk categories — - The European Union Parliament on Wednesday approved the world's first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/europe, r/UpliftingNews, r/technology, r/ArtistHate, r/anime_titties, and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
The fate of TSMC plants in Japan and the US highlights two different approaches toward high-tech investment; TSMC says the two projects should not be compared — The fate of two TSMC factories highlights different approaches in Tokyo and Washington toward high-tech investment
X: @wsj
| 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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| Washington Post: |
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