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Messaging app Signal finally rolls out usernames in beta, letting users conceal their phone numbers; Signal still requires inputting a phone number to register — We tested the end-to-end encrypted messenger's new feature aimed at addressing critics' most persistent complaint. Here's how it works.
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| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Xbox growth, job cuts, and why getting rid of physical Xbox discs is “not a strategic thing for us” — Microsoft's gaming chief Phil Spencer is upbeat about his vast Xbox team's future. But he also tells Game File …
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| Tom Wilson / Reuters: |
Circle no longer plans to mint USDC tokens on the Tron blockchain, effective immediately, to “ensure that USDC remains trusted, transparent, and safe” — Major U.S. crypto firm Circle will end support for its USDC token on the Tron blockchain network, a decision the company said on Wednesday … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Gary Geaves, Apple's longtime VP in charge of acoustics, is stepping down, replaced by Ruchir Davé, adding to the hardware engineering group's upheaval — - Apple acoustics chief Gary Geaves is stepping down from role — Executive has been key to development of AirPods and HomePod
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says the iPhone 15 lineup can retain 80% of its original battery capacity after 1,000 charge cycles, up from its original estimate of 500 charge cycles — In addition to changes to the Battery Health settings in iOS 17.4, Apple has more iPhone battery news to share today.
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Demos from AI chipmaker Groq go viral after the startup's inference engine shows lightning-fast speeds when running LLMs, including for real-time conversations — Two AI companies are claiming the science fiction term, “Grok,” as their own, but only one is turbocharging the AI industry.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
A look at TDCommons, a website launched by Google in 2015 that publishes technical details of ideas from companies and individuals to head off patent disputes — TDCommons is a free space for inventors to lay claim to breakthroughs without having to file a patent. Why is it so off the radar?| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Meta and Microsoft are lobbying EU regulators to reject Apple's proposed App Store changes to comply with the DMA, saying Apple's plans don't go far enough — Meta and Microsoft want Brussels regulators to extract more concessions that unpick iOS mobile software
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
How livestreaming talent agencies in China recruit influencers, often signing them to multiyear contracts that cost tens of thousands of dollars to breach — Chinese livestream agencies promise influencers fame and money, but end up trapping them in multi-year contracts.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's says the $200M rights issue that cuts its valuation by 99% to $20M-$25M is fully subscribed; source: some of Byju's major investors are yet to take part — Byju's says its recently launched $200 million rights issue has been fully-subscribed, but the startup's founder urged … | Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
DefiLlama: the total value of tokens sent to the Bitcoin DeFi market surpassed $1B; CryptoSlam: daily NFT sales volume on Bitcoin beat Ethereum in early January — Bitcoin goes DeFi — In 2013, a 19-year-old Vitalik Buterin proposed the creation of Ethereum because Bitcoin couldn't support …
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Q&A with Intel Foundry Services SVP and GM Stu Pann on the company's goal of becoming the world's second-largest foundry by 2030, making Arm chips, and more — Intel poised to compete with TSMC — Intel's previous struggles with developing new process node technologies resulted … | Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: some ByteDance executives expressed concerns over running the video editing app CapCut from China given the political scrutiny facing TikTok in the US — Last year, the second most downloaded free app in the U.S. on iPhones was CapCut, a video-editing app made by TikTok's parent ByteDance …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts a monthly Apple Music Replay, offering insights like total listening time, top songs, artists, and albums, and releases 2024's Replay Mix playlist — Apple today updated the Apple Music Replay experience, available at replay.music.apple.com, with visualizations of your favorite music habits …
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| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce plans to retire at the end of March after taking the position in 2021; Deputy Director David Luber plans to assume the role — His departure comes amid heightened security fears in 2024 and debate over whether to renew a controversial spying power.
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Samsung sold 1.58M ASML shares, or 0.4% of ASML, worth ~$930M in September 2023, reducing its stake to zero, as Samsung looks to new areas of chipmaking — The world's largest memory maker sold about 1.58 million shares, or 0.4%, of ASML, according to its most recent quarterly financial report filed to regulators.
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| Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: |
Paris-based Bioptimus, which aims to build an LLM to understand biological processes on different scales, launches with a $35M seed led by Sofinnova Partners — Bioptimus plans to build an LLM that is based on the complex data needed to represent organismsSponsor Posts
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