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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A Pixel Fold reviewer says the device's flexible OLED screen died after four days of light use, starting at the bottom and moving upwards, likely due to debris — The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen. — A flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/hardware, r/PixelFold, r/GalaxyFold, and Ars OpenForum
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to offer DIY repairs for the Pixel Fold via its iFixit partnership, including the battery and inner, folding display — One of the biggest downsides of foldable smartphones right now is durability and, more so, repairability. Google is breaking new ground with the Pixel Fold …
More: Android Authority, Engadget, XDA Developers, Neowin, iFixit News, Droid Life, PhoneArena, and Digital Trends. Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social. Thanks:@nexusben
| Wall Street Journal: |
How routine drug use by Silicon Valley executives moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, causing issues for boards and tech leaders — Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs
More: Axios. Twitter: @timaeppel, @modestproposal1, @mroliverbarnes, @nycsouthpaw, @bendreyfuss, @sspencer_smb, @karaswisher, @mattyglesias, @tatichin, and @davecbenoit. Forums: r/shroomstocks
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
A survey of 20+ professionals finds all but one do not plan to buy the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, citing Apple's cheaper and similarly powerful laptops and desktops — Apple's latest Mac Pro targets professionals with highly demanding computing workloads. But we talked to those professionals …
More: 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, BGR, MacStories, MakeUseOf, and Forbes
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches new parental controls and other safety features for Messenger and Instagram in the US, the UK, and Canada, including letting parents view contacts — Meta announced new parental control tools across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger today. This includes a new parental supervision hub … | Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Apple says the UK's Online Safety Bill, which would mandate scanning messages for CSAM, should be amended to protect encryption, joining WhatsApp and Signal — Apple has criticised powers in the Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage …
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, Open Rights Group, European Digital Rights, and Supercharged
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A 2019 email by Xbox Game Studios' Matt Booty encouraged acquiring games to “spend Sony out of business”; Microsoft says the company didn't pursue the strategy — Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios chief, Matt Booty, was encouraging Xbox CFO Tim Stuart to spend big money …
More: The Verge, Axios, Ars Technica, Forbes, Thurrott, IGN, Pure Xbox, Gameranx, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, PC Gamer, Dot Esports, Push Square, TechSpot, Metro, Eurogamer.net, WinBuzzer, GamingBolt, Neowin, Game Rant, GameSpot, GameRevolution, IGN, TheGamer, Wccftech, GameSpot, and Windows Central
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Forums: r/xboxone, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, and Slashdot
| Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: |
Source: 3AC liquidators are seeking to recover $1.3B from co-founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, taking action against the duo in a British Virgin Islands court — Three Arrows Capital liquidators are seeking to recover $1.3 billion from the co-founders of the failed crypto hedge fund …
More: CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, and Coinpedia Fintech News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
An internal Microsoft presentation in June 2022, found via FTC v Microsoft, floated building on Windows 365 to enable “full Windows ... streamed from the cloud” — Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365 …
More: Windows Central, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, Thurrott, Guru3D.com, TechRadar, SlashGear, BGR, OnMSFT.com, and WinBuzzer
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Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu claims that its latest LLM, Ernie 3.5, surpasses GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT in general abilities and outperforms GPT-4 in many Chinese-language capabilities — Baidu Inc.'s ChatGPT-style service has outperformed OpenAI's seminal product on several measures, China's search leader said on Tuesday.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Vision Pro documentation: the device has a “system boundary”, defined as a 1.5-meter radius from the headset, when in a “fully immersive VR experience” — Apple has limited a Vision Pro safe area to 10 feet by 10 feet, when using fully immersive VR experiences.
More: Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, TweakTown, Techlusive, Tom's Guide, Lifewire, and T3
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more — In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
More: MIT Technology Review, The Overspill, Beyond Search, NewsGuard, and The Verge
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Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Prosus, a top Byju's shareholder, cuts the value of its stake, implying a $5.1B valuation, far below the Bengaluru-based edtech giant's $22B valuation in 2022 — Prosus, the largest non-founder shareholder in Byju's, has drastically slashed the worth of its stake in the edtech giant … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok plans to shut down TikTok Now, its BeReal clone unveiled in September 2022, without giving a reason; user estimates suggest that BeReal has faded in 2023 — TikTok is killing off its BeReal clone TikTok Now, according to notifications being sent to users.| Mike Corder / Associated Press: |
French and Dutch police say the 115M+ communications obtained by cracking the encryption of EncroChat phones, announced in 2020, has led to 6,558 arrests so far — Investigations triggered by the cracking of encrypted phones three years ago have so far led to more than 6,500 arrests worldwide …
More: BleepingComputer, Europol, Reuters, The Hacker News, and Help Net Security
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Some doctors say that their current best use for generative AI is to ease the heavy burden of documentation, which takes hours a day and contributes to burnout — The best use for generative A.I. in health care, doctors say, is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes them hours a day and contributes to burnout.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says WhatsApp Business crossed 200M MAUs, up from 50M in 2020, adds a tool to let users create “click-to-WhatsApp” ads without a Facebook account, and more — Meta announced today that WhatsApp Business, its app designed specifically for small businesses …
More: WABetaInfo, PYMNTS.com, Moneycontrol, Android Police, WhatsApp Business, Tech.co, Neowin, TechRadar, Techlusive, Coinspeaker, The Verge, and International Business Times. Twitter: @sarthakgh
| Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: |
John B. Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the lithium-ion battery used in mobile devices and EVs, dies at 100 — An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, he is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise to the batteries powering today's electronic devices.
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LinkedIn: Paulo Ferreira. Twitter: @readingkafka, @kamatlabnd, @nytscience, @jp_loksatta, @silananotech, @nytimes, and @quantamagazine
Forums: r/chemistry and Slashdot
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman told developers in May that OpenAI plans to turn ChatGPT into a “supersmart personal assistant for work”, setting up a Microsoft rivalry — In the span of half a year, ChatGPT has become one of the world's best-known internet brands.
More: TweakTown, The Decoder, and Fast Company
Bluesky: @iamnow.bsky.social. Twitter: @aaronpholmes, @toughsf, @fromvalue, and @amir. Forums: Slashdot
| Jane Lee / Reuters: |
Snowflake partners with Nvidia to let customers build generative AI models using their own data; Nvidia plans to embed NeMo Framework into Snowflake Data Cloud — Snowflake (SNOW.N) a cloud data analytics company, is partnering with computing company Nvidia (NVDA.O) to allow customers ranging … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Tel Aviv-based enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a $500M valuation; Sequoia and others participated — The Israeli company's data security platform learns an enterprise's unique data and business purpose using large language models …
More: TechCrunch, SecurityWeek, and Cyera US
| Axios: |
Betr, a sports micro-betting app co-founded by Jake Paul, raised a $35M at a $300M pre-money valuation, in an extension to its $50M Series A in August 2022 — Betr, a media and sports micro-betting platform co-founded by social media star and boxer Jake Paul, on Tuesday said it's secured $35 million …
More: Sportico
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Decentralized social media app Damus says Apple rejected an app update and told the company to remove its tipping feature or use Apple's in-app purchase system — Damus, a decentralized social networking app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be removed from the App Store due to Apple's strict payment rules.
More: AppleInsider, CryptoGlobe, Watcher Guru, Developer Tech News, International Business Times, Decrypt, and mjtsai.com
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Forums: r/apple and r/ethtrader
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Thomson Reuters plans to acquire YC-backed Casetext, which builds AI/ML-powered workflows and tools for lawyers, for $650M in cash, expected to close in H2 2023 — Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed legal tech startup.
More: Reuters, Metaverse Post, Fortune, Thomson Reuters, Y Combinator, and PYMNTS.com
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Amazon's army of AI-powered warehouse robots, including Proteus, which carries suitcase-sized bins filled with packages and works alongside humans — A wave of advanced machines is coming to the company's facilities thanks to better AI and robots smart enough to work with—and without—humans.Sponsor Posts
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