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Sources: Apple's headset will scan users' irises for logging in and making payments and will have two downward-facing cameras to capture users' legs for avatars — By the time Apple introduces its much-anticipated mixed reality headset—planned for sometime next year—Meta Platforms …
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Nvidia “unlaunches” the 12GB RTX 4080 announced in September after a backlash, saying the GPU sharing the 4080 designation with the RTX 4080 16GB is confusing — Nvidia is pausing the launch of its upcoming 12GB RTX 4080 graphics card. After originally unveiling the 12GB RTX 4080 …
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Instacart slashed its internal valuation to ~$13B, its third cut in 2022 and 67% below its 2021 valuation, to reset investor expectations for its IPO — Instacart, the instant delivery company gearing up to go public, has slashed its internal valuation to about $13 billion, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta plans to end support for Instant Articles, a source says in mid-April 2023, giving news publishers six months to readjust their Facebook strategies — Meta is ending support for Instant Articles, a proprietary mobile format it debuted in 2015 to quickly load news articles on the Facebook app, Axios has learned.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
For mobile search result ads, Google is replacing “Ad” with “Sponsored” and moving the bolded label from beside the URL to above it in a separate line — Over the years, Google has made it harder to separate ads from organic search results at a glance.
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Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture” — A subsequent statement from Meta says ‘the segment featured animations created from motion capture’
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Sources: cloud computing company Nutanix is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Nutanix has a $5B+ market cap, down from $9B+ in September 2021 — The cloud-computing company is expected to target private-equity and industry players, people familiar with the matter said
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A look at TikTok's rise, as US viewers spend longer in the video app than Facebook and Instagram combined, and ongoing issues with its Chinese ownership — The world's most popular app has pioneered a new age of instant attention. Can we trust it? — On the night Shelby Renae …
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| Washington Post: |
A letter to top senators from ~250 industry groups urges a Senate floor vote for FCC nominee Gigi Sohn to end a 21-month deadlock so Biden can ratify his agenda — Almost 250 groups will send a letter Friday to congressional leaders, calling for the Senate to vote to confirm Democratic nominee Gigi Sohn
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| Bloomberg: |
OnlyFans strategy chief Keily Blair says the platform wants to dump its “secretive” past, engage with lawmakers and journalists, and expand beyond adult content — OnlyFans Ltd. executives have mapped out a plan to become more transparent and highlight less-explicit content …
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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried backtracks on plans to spend $1B on US political races by 2024, calling it a “dumb quote”; SBF donated almost $40M in the 2022 cycle — , which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 5:15 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need …
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| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
Dutch e-commerce company Prosus plans to sell its Russian online marketplace Avito to Kismet Capital for ~$2.46B; Avito was valued at ~$6B before Russia invaded — Prosus (PRX.AS), the Dutch-based technology investor, said on Friday it has agreed to sell its Russian online marketplace Avito …
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