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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
The iPhone, in its third year of a three-year design cycle, may be overhauled in 2023; Apple may delay Pay Later to 2023 and may not host an October 2022 event — I've spent the last week or so testing out the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and I believe it sets the stage for larger changes next year.
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Counterpoint: the average selling price of iPhones could rise to $892 in Q3 2022 and $944 in Q4 2022, as buyers choose Pro models; the record is $873 in Q4 2021 — Upward trajectory driven by customers buying more expensive ‘Pro’ models that command higher margins
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms that a Foxconn plant near Chennai is manufacturing iPhone 14 models; locally assembled phones will be sold in India later in 2022 — Apple has started assembling the iPhone 14 models in India, it said Monday, locally producing the current lineup for the first time in the same calendar year …
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Livemint, The Economic Times, Digit, Firstpost Tech, Times of India, and Business Today
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| Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair: |
A look at Kyiv-based Respeecher, which uses performers' archival voice recordings and AI to create new dialogue, including for Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi — As the conflict raged, Ukrainian tech workers at Respeecher hurried to bring back James Earl Jones's legendary voice for Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Mashable, The Register, Variety, The Verge, Gizmodo, IGN, New York Post, Engadget, The Hill, TheGamer, and Deadline
| Voice of America: |
The US Treasury updates its guidance to let US tech companies expand their internet services in Iran, after the country took most of its ~83M citizens offline — The U.S. Treasury Department said Friday that it was updating guidance to U.S. tech firms to expand the range of internet services available …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user's plausible pose from only the Quest 2's sensors using reinforcement learning — Meta researchers demonstrated Quest 2 body tracking without extra trackers. — Current VR systems ship with a headset and held controllers …
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arXiv.org, Alexander Winkler on YouTube, Digital Trends, and MIXED
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows — With machine translation, dubbing apps and VPNs, Chinese creators are shortening movies for Americans.
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Mashable
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today's most popular approaches to AI won't lead to human-level machine intelligence — (Article is updated with a rebuttal by Gary Marcus in context.) — Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist of Meta Properties …
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The Road to AI We Can Trust
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
A look at The Follower, an art project using open-source facial recognition software to match Instagram photos with EarthCam video footage of people taking them — A tech-savvy artist unearthed video footage of people working hard to capture the perfect shot for Instagram.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers say Slack and Microsoft Teams have fundamental issues vetting third-party apps and should overhaul their app model to be more like traditional OSes — New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods — A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties.
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The Overspill and USA Today
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| Patricia Allen / EU-Startups: |
Paris-based Zenchef, which offers restaurants tools to enhance the customer experience and optimize front-of-house operations, raised €50M+ from PSG Equity — Restaurant tech player Zenchef has raised over €50 million from PSG Equity as it consolidates its position as a European leader in this space.
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