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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
A look at the Apple Vision Pro's features in the visionOS SDK, including a “Moving at Unsafe Speed” alert, a “Travel Mode” for airplanes, and a “Guest Mode” — Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC 2023. But even so, there are still a lot of details …
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| Anja Karadeglija / National Post: |
Meta plans to remove news content from Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada after the Online News Act passed Canada's Senate and received royal assent — With Bill C-18 on the verge of becoming law, Canadians could soon see news removed from their Facebook pages and Google searches
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In a private email, PlayStation chief Jim Ryan said the Microsoft-Activision deal wasn't about Xbox exclusives, counter to Sony's public arguments and filings — We're only minutes into the FTC v. Microsoft hearing, and we've already had a bombshell revelation.
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Filing: Microsoft says Xbox “lost the console wars”, with a 16% share of console sales in 2021, behind Nintendo and PlayStation, and a 21% installed base share — Xbox “in third place” behind PlayStation and Nintendo, with a sales market share of 16%.
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| Anand J / Moneycontrol: |
Sources: Apple is in talks to launch Apple Card in India, and has met with HDFC and the RBI; a source says Apple is holding Apple Pay discussions with the NPCI — This comes in the wake of Apple's decision to stop card payments in India on its App Store and for its iCloud services.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Thierry Breton says he sees a “strong willingness” from Twitter to comply with the EU's DSA and that the company was the first to undergo the law's stress test — Social-media platform did voluntary stress test as a dry run before law takes effect late August
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| Bloomberg: |
A mistakenly released FDIC doc lists SVB customers before its collapse: Sequoia with $1B, Beijing-based Kanzhun with $902.9M, Altos Labs with $680.3M, and more — When federal regulators stepped in to backstop all of Silicon Valley Bank's deposits, they saved thousands of small tech startups …
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| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan expands its JPM Coin, launched in 2019 for USD transactions, to euro payments; the bank has used the token to process ~$300B in transactions to date — JPMorgan Chase & Co. expanded one of the most high-profile projects to bring blockchain technology to traditional banking …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Internal records undercut claims that Twitter censored pro-Trump views before the Capitol riot and show a reluctance to suspend Trump's account until January 8 — In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS plans to invest $100M in a new program to help companies, like Highspot and Twilio, build generative AI tools by connecting them with AWS AI and ML experts — - Amazon's cloud unit said Thursday that it's allocating $100 million for a center to help companies use generative artificial intelligence.
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Reddit's revenue rose 38% YoY to ~$670M in 2022, a steep drop from 2021's 100%+ growth, adding to IPO uncertainties and suggesting a $3.3B+ valuation — A stark business reality faced Reddit before a user uprising engulfed its site this month: slowing sales growth.| Ethan Millman / Rolling Stone: |
Over 100 artists including Tom Morello call for a live event facial recognition ban and pledge to boycott venues using the tech, citing privacy and bias risks — The artists are among 100 other performers and venues calling for the ban of facial recognition technology at live events| Lee Harris / American Prospect: |
Sources: most of the ~12K workers at TSMC's Arizona fab are non-union contractors; workers detail wage theft, accidents of loads dropped from cranes, and more — TSMC's $40 billion semiconductor facility in Phoenix, an open shop that resisted signing an agreement with labor unions …
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