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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning a 15" MacBook Air for 2023, a 12" laptop for the end of 2023 or early 2024, and MacBook Pros with M2 Pro or M2 Max for 2022 or 2023 — Apple Inc. plans to expand the lineup of laptops using its new, speedier in-house chips next year, aiming to grab a bigger share of the market …
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Tweets: @anthony, @mgsiegler, @markgurman, @harrymccracken, and @saranbyte
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Ross Young: Apple is developing a 14.1" iPad Pro with a miniLED display and ProMotion, likely for an early 2023 release; recent rumors corroborate the new model — Apple is reportedly developing an iPad Pro with a 14.1-inch mini-LED display, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst Ross Young.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta halted the two-year development of a smartwatch with dual cameras, targeted for a spring 2023 release for ~$349, to focus on other wrist devices — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Source: Meta moved away from its goal of establishing its Portal smart display as a consumer product, instead focusing on selling future versions to businesses — Meta is moving away from its goal to establish its Portal smart display as a consumer product, Protocol has been able to confirm.
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The Verge. Tweets: @jank0, @alexeheath, @keithdsouza, @mg, @kylebrussell, @mgsiegler, and @stevekovach
| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Source: Meta decided not to release the first version of its AR glasses, scheduled for 2024, to focus on its second version, with a release unlikely for years — Meta Platforms has scaled back its plans to release a series of augmented reality glasses over the next several years as part …
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9to5Google, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Variety
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox TV app to Samsung's 2022 smart TVs on June 30, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers play 100+ Xbox games without a console — Samsung's 2022 smart TVs will be the first to get the Xbox app — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app later this month …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Project Moorcroft, meant to bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass, rolling out within the next year, initially focused on indie developers — Designed to bring back the excitement of E3 game demos — Microsoft is working on Project Moorcroft, a program designed …
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Xbox Wire, Windows Central, The Verge, Windows Experience Blog, Gameranx, TechRadar, purexbox.com, XDA Developers, The Verge, Wccftech, TheGamer, Mashable, Polygon, VentureBeat, GameSpot, IGN, and Stevivor
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss that Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not an anti-blockchain conspiracy — Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
The NHTSA upgrades its Tesla Autopilot investigation to an “Engineering Analysis”, which precedes a recall and expands it from 765,000 to 830,000 vehicles — Upgrading to an Engineering Analysis, which precedes a recall — The federal government is upgrading its investigation …
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| Matt Robinson / Bloomberg: |
Source: the SEC is investigating whether the marketing of the TerraUSD stablecoin before it crashed in May 2022 violated federal investor-protection regulations — The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether the marketing of the TerraUSD stablecoin before it crashed … | Wall Street Journal: |
TSMC and Samsung are grappling with a manufacturing equipment shortage; analyst: shortfalls of the most advanced chips could be as high as 20% by 2024 and later — TSMC and Samsung are grappling with technological hurdles and a shortfall in manufacturing equipment| Washington Post: |
Despite Facebook's ban on gun sales in 2016, internal guidance shows users can violate its rule 10 times before being banned, or five if they call for violence — The company discloses little information about how it enforces its prohibition of firearm sales on the site, leaving its punishment system shrouded in secrecy
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Browser maker Vivaldi releases a free built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with its Calendar and RSS Feed Reader integrated, for Windows, macOS, and Linux — It's available to use starting today — Vivaldi has launched its own free built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi's Calendar and Feed Reader integrated.
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Vivaldi Browser, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Neowin, The Register, gHacks Technology News, and OnMSFT.com
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Dell redesigns the $999 XPS 13 to be slimmer and transforms the XPS 13 2-in-1 into a detachable Surface rival, adds Intel's 9-watt 12th Gen CPUs, and more — While all eyes are on the flashy new XPS 13 Plus, Dell hasn't forgotten about its mainstay premium ultraportable or its convertible cousin.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok expands its screen time controls, adding a dashboard to monitor usage and letting users set time limits; teens will get more restrictions and reminders — TikTok is rolling out more screen time controls to help users manage how much time they are spending in the app.
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TikTok, CNN, The Verge, b'dot.LA', MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, KnowTechie, RTÉ, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @fosi
| Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News: |
Seth Green gets his Bored Ape NFT back after losing it to a phishing scam; transaction records suggest Green may have paid 165 ETH, worth ~$297K, to “Mr Cheese” — Seth Green's “kidnapped” Bored Ape has been returned to its original owner, ending weeks of frantic speculation … | Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google says Chrome 102 will use machine learning running entirely within the browser to silence unsolicited permission requests from websites before they pop up — And soon it could swap out your browser buttons — Google Chrome has built-in phishing detection that scans pages …
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TechCrunch, The Keyword, Engadget, Android Police, XDA Developers, and 9to5Google
| Emily Peck / Axios: |
Twitter, Coinbase, and other companies are rescinding lucrative job offers as a cost-cutting strategy instead of the usual mix of layoffs and slower backfills — Before accepting a job at Twitter, 23-year-old Iris Guo turned down five other offers. Twitter paid well …
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MarketWatch. Tweets: @burtchen, @puppykhan, @matthewphillips, @quinnypig, @wstafrican, @c0up, and @emilyrpeck
| Bloomberg: |
Sources and filings: Vy Capital, the third-largest backer of Musk's Twitter bid, is a Dubai-based firm founded by Alexander Tamas, who has links to Yuri Milner — Elon Musk's bid for Twitter Inc., which has been upended by the billionaire's threat to walk away, attracted a bevy of big-name backers and Silicon Valley mainstays.
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Orderly Network, a DEX protocol built on the NEAR blockchain for permissionless spot and future order book trading, raises a $20M Series A — The decentralized exchange offers permissionless spot and future order book trading infrastructure. — Orderly Network, a decentralized exchange … | Ephrat Livni / New York Times: |
America's Frontier Fund, a nonprofit group associated with Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, and others, is lobbying the US government to invest $1B in US chip making — A group that includes Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel isn't simply funding the effort itself: It wants American taxpayers to help foot the bill.
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Sources: Chinese financial regulators have begun early talks with Ant Group to revive its IPO, a sign that China is dialing back its tech industry crackdown — Chinese financial regulators have started early stage discussions on a potential revival of Ant Group Co.'s initial public offering …
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Reuters, Nikkei Asia, CNBC, Pandaily, Axios, Tech in Asia, and Quartz. Tweets: @tommackenzietv
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub plans to sunset Atom, its text editor for developers introduced in 2011, and to archive all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022 — GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011.
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The GitHub Blog, TechRadar, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @adrian271, @carnage4life, and @cra
| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents show Cerebral used social media ads to grow its ADHD drug business, as federal prosecutors investigate possible Controlled Substance Act violations — The online mental health company surged to a $4.8 billion valuation after it started dispensing ADHD medication …
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Newslit Daily. Tweets: @theo_wayt, @anshelsag, @anfuller, @contingentvalue, @maxwellstrachan, @mkarolian, @anfuller, @tomfitton, @richardhanania, and @marcelolprince
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft plans to stop adding noncompete clauses to US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, add salary ranges to US job posts, and more — Bending to employee sentiment and legislative mandate, Microsoft announced a series of reforms Wednesday that will curtail …
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Microsoft On the Issues, Wall Street Journal, Insider, Seattle Business Journal, Windows Central, Neowin, The Register, Computerworld, Engadget, and OnMSFT.com
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