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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A live blog of Microsoft's press event, where more details on its OpenAI partnership and ChatGPT for Bing are expected — Microsoft is holding a surprise event at its Redmond headquarters today, where it's expected to focus on its OpenAI partnership and introduce a version of Bing with ChatGPT.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google debuts a ChatGPT rival named Bard and says the “experimental conversational AI service” will be “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks” — It's official: Google is working on a ChatGPT competitor named Bard.
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| Reuters: |
Ex-Coinbase manager Ishan Wahi pleads guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, after his brother Nikhil was sentenced to 10 months in January — A former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager pleaded guilty on Tuesday in what U.S. prosecutors have called …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Apple executives Tim Millet and Bob Borchers on M2, building on M1, transitioning from Intel, the future of Mac gaming, Metal APIs, and more — On M2 chips, Mac mini and how the Mac will thrive in gaming — Apple's M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when they arrived in late 2021.
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Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wccftech, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, BGR, and Digital Trends
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| Financial Times: |
Filings: Digital Currency Group begins selling shares in investment vehicles run by its subsidiary Grayscale at a steep discount, seeking to repay creditors — Digital assets conglomerate sells down holdings in prized investments at a discount to pay creditors
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CoinDesk, The Information, Reuters, Ethereum World News, Inside Bitcoins, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Coinspeaker, Cryptopolitan, and Forkast
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google plans to blur explicit images in search results by default “in the coming months” but let signed-in users over 18 turn off the new online safety feature — Google is introducing a new online safety feature to help users avoid inadvertently seeing graphically violent …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Meta is revamping Horizon Worlds and plans to open the app to users aged 13 to 17, seeking to improve user retention as metaverse competition intensifies — Memo highlights social-media giant's plan to revitalize app, boost users in 2023 — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 1.29%increase …
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Engadget, Fortune, Gizmodo, and The Verge
Tweets: @saraheneedleman, @sadlyitsbradley, @quinnypig, @jetscott, @mattnavarra, @roundhill, and @astaniscia86
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$5B in Q3, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and less than $350M invested in a few startups, 95% below its $6B average pace — SoftBank Group Corp.'s first earnings report without founder Masayoshi Son went a lot like those he presided over the past few years … | CNBC: |
Gemini plans to provide up to $100M to Genesis' bankruptcy recovery, mainly for its Earn users, who had ~$900M of assets frozen when Genesis paused withdrawals — - Crypto exchange Gemini will contribute $100 million in cash to a recovery plan for bankrupt crypto lender Genesis.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The LockBit ransomware gang claims responsibility for the attack on the UK's Royal Mail that halted international shipping, contradicting an earlier statement — The LockBit ransomware operation has claimed the cyberattack on UK's leading mail delivery service Royal Mail that forced the company …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Samsung Galaxy S23 users say the smartphone uses ~60GB of its storage for Android and pre-installed apps, four times more than the Google Pixel 7 Pro's ~15GB — Samsung's Android build is 4x bigger than Google's—twice the size of Windows 11. — As a smartphone operating system …
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| Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
An Ethereum testnet successfully simulates staked ETH withdrawals for the first time, ahead of Ethereum's highly anticipated Shanghai upgrade set for March 2023 — The upgrade on the Zhejiang testnet was the first of three dress rehearsals for the much anticipated Shanghai hard fork.| Amanda Hoover / Wired: |
Mastodon reports having ~1.4M MAUs, after climbing from ~380K in October 2022 to over 2.5M in November, as many newcomers complain the service is hard to use — Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the exodus from Elon Musk's Twitter, suggesting the decentralized platform is not a direct replacement.
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Tweets: @cheneytsai, @wired, @adamsinger, @tim_stevens, @mattnavarra, @okayy_dan, @rjcc, @dimensionmedia, and @rustybrick
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu's stock jumps 15%+ after the company announced plans to add its ChatGPT-like service “Wenxin Yiyan”, or “Ernie Bot” in English, to search in March 2023 — Baidu Inc. surged more than 15% after affirming it's on track to publicly roll out its ChatGPT-like service in March …
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Tweets: @therealjoshye, @scobleizer, @sino_market, @baidu_inc, and @davidinglestv
| Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: |
Toronto-based Hut 8 Mining plans to merge with Miami-based US Bitcoin Corp, creating Hut 8 Corp, a crypto mining giant in North America with a ~$990M market cap — Canada's Hut 8 Mining Corp. (HUT.TO) plans to merge with rival U.S. Bitcoin in an all-stock deal to create a mining giant in North America, the companies said on Tuesday.
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| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo cuts its 2023 earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and lowers its Switch sales forecast from ~19M to ~18M — Nintendo Co. cut its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, underscoring uncertainty around its aging Switch console and the global gaming environment.
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Tweets: @345triangle, @stevekovach, @tomwarren, and @6d6f636869
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Internal Twitter document: just ~180,000 US users paid for Blue and other subscriptions as of mid-January, implying ~$28M annual subscription revenue globally — Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
After debuting in China last month, the 6.7" OnePlus 11 ships in the US on Feb. 16 at $699, $200 less than OnePlus 10, with a 5000 mAh battery, Wi-Fi 7 support — OnePlus' flagship smartphone is cheaper than it was last year. — After the OnePlus 11's debut in China last month, the phone is finally making it to US shores.
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Android Authority, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, The Verge, Appuals.com, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, and Wccftech
| David Smith / The Guardian: |
How studios increasingly use AI de-aging VFX on actors, including Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, and the possible impact on Hollywood's economics — Stars like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are being rendered younger digitally but voices in the industry express concern about where we might be heading| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp updates Status with a Private Audience Selector, 30-second Voice Status messages, Status Reactions, and more, rolling out on iOS, Android, and the web — WhatsApp has just announced a set of new features for status updates, which will be available to users on both iOS and Android devices over the coming weeks.
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