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Source: PayPal is pausing work on its stablecoin as regulators increase their scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and its key partner Paxos faces a probe in New York — PayPal Holdings Inc. is pausing work on its stablecoin as regulators increase scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and a key partner …
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Source: Microsoft shut its Industrial Metaverse Core team, formed in October 2022 to build tools for industrial settings, and laid off the team's ~100 employees — In a surprising reversal, Microsoft has killed a team it formed four months ago to help customers use the metaverse in industrial settings … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft cuts jobs in its Surface, HoloLens, and Xbox units; heavy cuts to the HoloLens hardware team raise questions about the third goggles version — Microsoft Corp., implementing the layoff of 10,000 workers announced last month, on Thursday cut jobs in units including Surface devices …
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Some under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers say a Twitter API paywall would jeopardize studies of influence campaigns and platform manipulation — For years, Twitter, like other social media platforms, has freely given its platform data to independent researchers …
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Analysis: Apple's 2020-2022 revenue per new hire was $2.51M, up from $1.17M during 2017-2019, and above Meta's $0.79M, Microsoft's $1.06M, and other peers — There's a reason why Apple Inc. is under less pressure than tech peers to slash jobs during the current slowdown: It hired more efficiently in the first place.| Mark Spoonauer / Tom's Guide: |
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review: powerful 200MP camera, awesome display, excellent battery life, and fast processor, but expensive and no charging speed upgrade — The Galaxy S23 Ultra packs a stunning 200MP camera along with very fast performance and much longer battery life
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Sources: China Telecom and China Mobile withdrew their ~20% investment in an Asia-Europe subsea cable project after US firm SubCom was chosen to build the line — Telecoms groups withdrew investment in Sea-Me-We 6, which will transmit data between Asia and western Europe
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Former staff say Twitter needs to update its systems to enact Elon Musk's asks, but the mass layoffs have brought code freezes and vast concurrent code changes — Twitter's outage on Wednesday, which saw the site rendered unusable for most users by blocking people from tweeting within the app …
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A look at Otonomo and Wejo, two struggling startups trying to monetize connected car data; Otonomo plans to merge with roadside assistance tech startup Urgently — Auto companies promising billions in new software revenue by the end of the decade have been hiring engineers left and right … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon is in talks with Times Internet to acquire MX Player, a top VOD streaming service in India; Times Internet acquired MX Player for $140M in 2018 — Amazon is engaging with Times Internet to explore the acquisition of MX Player, one of the largest on-demand video streaming services in India … | Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Researchers: some Reddit usernames and other keywords cause ChatGPT to give bizarre responses, likely due to the web data OpenAI scraped to train its model — Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses. — Chloe Xiang
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JD.com plans to launch an “industrial version” of a ChatGPT-like tool called ChatJD for retail and finance, after Alibaba's and Baidu's chatbot announcements — - JD.com said it will release an “industrial version” of ChatGPT called ChatJD. — It will be a chatbot product focused on the fields of retail and finance.
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