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Stadia was doomed from the start, because Google knows nothing about gaming, and users hesitated to invest in it, not trusting Google to keep it alive for long — There's a lot of chatter right now about the “surprise” shutdown of Stadia, Google's game-streaming service.
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Local media: South Korea's Fair Trade Commission raided Apple's Seoul offices over allegations the App Store is charging 33% IAP fees rather than the stated 30% — Officials from Korea's Fair Trade Commission conducted a dawn raid on Apple's offices in Gangnam-gu, Seoul …
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| Reuters: |
SEC filing: Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye files for an IPO and reports H1 2022 revenue of $854M, up 21% from H1 2021 — Mobileye, Intel Corp's (INTC.O) self-driving unit, on Friday filed for an initial public offering in the United States, revealing a 21% jump in revenue for the first half of the year.
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Report: Bruce Willis sold his “digital twin” likeness rights to Deepcake, for use in ads and possibly even movies; a Russian ad already used a Willis deepfake — Tech will allow Willis' doppelgänger to continue working despite language disorder diagnosis.
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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
Tech companies working with AI are shielding themselves from accountability by outsourcing data collection and model training to academic and nonprofit groups — Yesterday, Meta's AI Research Team announced Make-A-Video, a “state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text.”| Jennifer A. Kingson / Axios: |
Surveys of ~16,000 US adults per brand: 86% of Gen Z adults aged 18-25 have a “somewhat” or “very” favorable opinion of YouTube, 73% of Instagram, 69% of TikTok — The youngest generation of adults is so crazy for tech companies that YouTube, Google …
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Sources: Tencent is resetting its M&A strategy, seeking to own majority or even controlling stakes in overseas targets, mainly in gaming companies in Europe — Tencent is resetting its M&A strategy to put more focus on buying majority stakes mainly in overseas gaming companies … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft confirms two zero-days in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild; security firm GTSC suspects a Chinese threat actor — Microsoft has confirmed that two recently reported zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
At this weekend's F1 Grand Prix, Singapore will not allow crypto ads at the track or in the local areas, underscoring a changing regulatory stance toward crypto — At Formula One's Miami Grand Prix in May, the dizzying displays of crypto companies sponsoring the sport were inescapable … | Ellen Barry / New York Times: |
A research project is trying to stop suicides by using AI to analyze at-risk people's smartphone and Fitbit wearable data and identify periods of high danger — A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors …
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| The Verge: |
At Tesla AI Day, Musk shows an Optimus humanoid robot prototype that he claims shares AI software and sensors with Autopilot and will “probably” cost under $20K — Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of a humanoid “Optimus” robot that shares some AI software and sensors …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok plans to launch live shopping in the US with LA-based partner TalkShopLive; TikTok's in-house e-commerce experiments in the UK didn't take off — Partnership with TalkShopLive comes after in-house experiments with ecommerce in UK struggled to take offSponsor Posts
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