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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the Surface Pro 9, combining the Pro X and Pro lines, available on October 25 for $1,000+ with Intel's 12th Gen CPUs or $1,300+ with an ARM SQ3 — Microsoft is combining its Surface Pro X and Surface Pro lines into a single product this year, the Surface Pro 9.
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Tweets: @parkerortolani, @tomwarren, @thurrott, @99_999_965, @pierce, and @markhachman
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Microsoft debuts the Surface Laptop 5 in 13.5-inch and 15-inch models with Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, Wi-Fi 6, and Dolby Vision, available on October 25 for $1,000+ — After a year and a half on the market, this fall Microsoft is updating its mainstream notebook line with the new Surface Laptop 5.
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Tweets: @daniel_rubino and @dcseifert
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft says Apple plans to launch desktop Apple TV and Apple Music apps for Windows in 2023; Windows 11's Photos app will get iCloud integration — Microsoft today announced that desktop Apple TV and Apple Music apps will be available on Windows PCs next year, downloadable from the Microsoft Store.
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Tweets: @mixen, @joannastern, @345triangle, @daniel_rubino, @unixterminal, @maryjofoley, and @tomwarren
| Taylor Locke / Fortune: |
Mango Markets, a Solana DeFi platform, says a hacker stole ~$100M by manipulating its coin's price; the hacker made a DAO proposal to waive any investigations — Mango Markets, a decentralized trading platform on the Solana blockchain, looks to be the latest victim of a massive hack within the crypto realm.| Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
The UK's CMA details its concerns with Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition, like withholding games from rivals; Microsoft says Sony is the market leader — The CMA expects the deal to impact PlayStation and game streaming — The Competition and Markets Authority has detailed …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out support for signing in with passkeys on Android and Chrome to beta testers ahead of a wider launch in 2022 — Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others in the industry want to replace website/app passwords with “passkeys” that just require you to unlock your device.| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse keynote didn't address the enormous skepticism around his vision and shows why VR should have been an R&D project, not Meta's future — As Mark Zuckerberg spoke to the camera in a pre-recorded presentation on Tuesday to kick off Meta Platforms Inc.'s annual …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the 28-inch Surface Studio 2+ with Intel's 11th Gen i7, Nvidia's RTX 3060, Dolby Vision, and 1TB, available for $4,299 or $4,499 — It's been a long time since Microsoft updated its Surface Studio line of all-in-one PCs. While rumors had suggested a Surface Studio 3 was on the way …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft details Edge Workspaces, a shared set of browser tabs for collaboration, and adds new security features and accessibility tools to Edge — It's Microsoft Ignite this week and while a lot of the announcements this week target the kinds of IT professionals and admins who really need … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel is planning major job cuts, likely in the thousands, close to October 27; some divisions, including sales and marketing, could see ~20% cuts — Intel Corp. is planning a major reduction in headcount, likely numbering in the thousands, to cut costs and cope …
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Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware, Silicon Valley Business …, Livemint, TheGamer, iPhone in Canada Blog, Channel Futures, CRN, Redmond Pie, Fast Company, Engadget, Tech Monitor, and The Verge
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| BBC: |
TikTok plans to take prompt action against “exploitative begging” after an investigation found refugees in Syrian camps pleading for digital gifts on the app — BBC Global Disinformation Unit, BBC News Arabic and BBC Eye Investigations — Displaced families in Syrian camps …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Blockchain web search startup nxyz, founded by ex-Google executive Sridhar Ramaswamy, raised a $40M Series A in May led by Paradigm; Ramaswamy also runs Neeva — - Sridhar Ramaswamy, who led Google's advertising business from 2013 to 2018, has launched a Web3 company called nxyz.
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Business Wire, nxyz, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, TechCircle, and The Block. Tweets: @wublockchain. Thanks:@cammylizz
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft plans to integrate DALL-E 2 with the newly announced Microsoft Designer app and Image Creator tool in Bing and Microsoft Edge — Microsoft is making a major investment in DALL-E 2, OpenAI's AI-powered system that generates images from text, by bringing it to first-party apps and services.
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Ars Technica, The Verge, Microsoft 365 Blog, The AI Blog, VentureBeat, XDA Developers, Thurrott, ZDNet, GeekWire, PCMag, PCWorld, Engadget, Windows Central, Neowin, CNBC, Tom Merritt Tech Newsletter, PetaPixel, WinBuzzer, T3, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @liatbenzur, @jakuuire, and @harrymccracken
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Business travel company TripActions raised a Series G of $154M in equity at a $9.2B valuation, up from $7.25B in October 2021, and $150M in structured financing — TripActions, a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 billion …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta announces Horizon Worlds avatars are getting legs using an AI model to predict the body's position, an avatar store, avatars are coming to Reels, and more — Meta's Horizon avatars will be getting legs. So far, the company's avatars have weirdly just hovered off the ground …
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TechCrunch, Mashable, The Guardian, Gizmodo, Washington Post, TechCrunch, BGR India, and TechRadar
Tweets: @metahorizon, @meta, @fred_delicious, @dcseifert, @yo, @dwdavison, @_pem_pem, @ftrain, and @triketora
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Filings: London-based crypto custody startup Copper raised $196M as part of an ongoing Series C; Copper was reportedly valued at $3B in November 2021 — Crypto custodian Copper Technologies Ltd has obtained $196 million in fresh funding this year, as part of an ongoing series C investment in the business.| Laura Cooper / Wall Street Journal: |
PE firm Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire Florida-based KnowBe4, which offers security awareness training and a simulated phishing platform, for $4.6B — Private-equity firm has agreed to pay $24.90 a share to acquire KnowBe4 — Private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners has struck …
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Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, CRN, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, TechCrunch, SecurityWeek, InfoRiskToday.com, and Help Net Security. Tweets: @buccocapital
| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Netflix joins the British ratings agency BARB as a full member, planning to publish independently audited viewing figures on individual shows for the first time — Streaming service's decision to sign up to independent ratings agency is world first and will give insight into its cultural power
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BARB, Insider, New York Post, Mashable, BBC, PhoneArena, Engadget, The Hollywood Reporter, and Fortune
Tweets: @scottygb, @scottygb, @jimwaterson, and @martinsfp
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo predicts that, in the next three to five years, Apple may be able to supply the US market, or ~25% of global shipments, from assembly sites outside of China — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out today with some new predictions on how Apple can continue to reduce its reliance on China.Sponsor Posts
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