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US smartphone shipments fell 24% YoY in Q2 2023, the third consecutive quarter of decline; Samsung shipments fell 37% YoY, and Apple's fell 6% — - Shipments declined YoY for the third consecutive quarter amid weak consumer demand. — Android smartphone shipments declined 38% while Apple shipments fell 6% YoY.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to require developers to submit reasons to use certain APIs in their apps starting this fall, to prevent the misuse of those APIs for fingerprinting — The App Store review process is very strict to ensure that apps comply with Apple's guidelines. And soon, this whole process will get even stricter.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Google launches RT-2 or Robotics Transformer 2, a “vision-language-action” model trained on text and images from the web that can output robotic actions — Our sneak peek into Google's new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.
More: DeepMind Blog, The Keyword, Ars Technica, The Verge, RT-2 on GitHub, The Decoder, Business Today, Politico, The Economic Times, Cryptopolitan, BigTechWire, ZDNet, Neowin, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, NBC Bay Area, and XDA Developers
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| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Meta's metaverse VP Vishal Shah on a reboot of Horizon Worlds, starting with a Super Rumble game, a new mobile app, and a transition from VR only to VR first — Who's ready to rumble? … Earlier this week, I was hiding in a tree, dodging bullets, while frantically trying to score some last-second points in a free-for-all brawl.| BBC: |
An investigation citing hundreds of Turkish people claims Android's earthquake warning system failed to send alerts for the 7.8-magnitude quake on February 8 — James Clayton and Ben Derico in San Francisco & Anna Foster in Turkey — Google's earthquake warning system failed …
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| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal Meta emails: Facebook removed content about COVID-19 under pressure from the Biden administration, including posts claiming the virus was man-made — Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing pandemic to man-made virus
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| Stephanie Hirschmiller / Decrypt: |
The British Museum partners with Ethereum-based metaverse game The Sandbox to create NFTs showing the museum's collections and offer “new immersive experiences” — The cultural institution plans to establish an interactive space within the Ethereum-based world, as well as offer up NFT collectibles.
More: The Sandbox, crypto.news, CryptoGlobe, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, Coinspeaker, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, CoinJournal, NFT Evening, and nft now
| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create — In the shade of a coconut palm, Chandrika tilts her smartphone screen to avoid the sun's glare. It is early morning in Alahalli village …
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| Lauren Smiley / Wired: |
The backup driver of a self-driving Uber that killed a pedestrian in Arizona in 2018 pleads guilty to endangerment, in the first automated vehicle fatality case — After five years of purgatory, Rafaela Vasquez, the operator of a self-driving Uber that killed a pedestrian in 2018, pleaded guilty to endangerment.
More: Associated Press and Reuters
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
NASA plans to launch the free streaming service NASA+ later this year on the web, iOS, Android, and streaming media devices, with ad-free original content — The agency is also working on a consolidated web experience. — NASA is launching its very own streaming platform called NASA+ sometime this summer.
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| Gareth Jenkinson / Cointelegraph: |
Crypto.com says it has received approval from the Netherlands' central bank to offer its services in the country, after a comprehensive review — The exchange received the green light from De Nederlandsche Bank to offer services in the country. … Join us on social networks| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
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