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Sources: John Giannandrea's team built a next-gen search engine, “Pegasus”, for Apple's own apps, used in Spotlight and Siri, and coming soon to the App Store — Apple has the wherewithal to launch its own search engine, a replacement for Google. And Microsoft even approached the company about helping make that happen.| Patrick Holland / CNET: |
Apple confirms issues causing “iPhone to run warmer than expected” like bugs in iOS 17 and apps like Uber and Instagram, amid complaints about the 15 Pro models — Widespread complaints about overheating of the new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can be traced to several factors … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Google launches Chromebook Plus certification for premium Chromebooks, with qualifying specs like a 1080p webcam and display, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage — Google has introduced Chromebook Plus, a new certification that's meant to help shoppers identify high-quality Chromebooks to buy.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Between ChatGPT's surprisingly human voice and Meta's AI characters, we may be witnessing the rise of a new consumer internet era featuring synthetic companions — Between ChatGPT's surprisingly human voice and Meta's AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever| Financial Times: |
In an open letter, the CEOs of 20 European telcos including BT, Telekom, and Telefónica, ask the EU to make Big Tech pay a “fair share” for using their networks — BT, Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica CEOs among those calling for internet traffic drivers to contribute to investment| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
A profile of New York-based GlobalFoundries, spun out of AMD in 2009, which makes “essential” 12nm chips and above for image sensors, power management, and more — WATCH NOW — How GlobalFoundries rose to be the world's third-biggest chip foundry| Zoë Corbyn / The Guardian: |
Q&A with researcher Tamara Kneese on her book Death Glitch and why tech companies need to improve how they handle posthumous digital remains on their platforms — Our digital profiles and possessions are ever-expanding, but what happens to them after our deaths?| Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: |
Filing: LG suspends including IP-based broadcast signaling standard ATSC 3.0 in its 2024 lineup of US TVs due to a “challenging and uncertain patent landscape” — Citing a ‘challenging and uncertain patent landscape,’ LG has suspended the inclusion of ATSC 3.0 tech in its 2024 TV lineup.| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Nick Clegg says Meta used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new AI assistant and took steps to filter out private details from training datasets — Meta Platforms (META.O) used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train parts of its new Meta AI virtual assistant … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on competing with Nvidia's H100, PyTorch, AI regulation, the US CHIPS Act, diversifying from TSMC, the global supply chain, and more — At this year's Code Conference, the CEO of one of the world's largest computer chip companies discusses competing with Nvidia's leading GPU … | New York Times: |
The number of fact-checking sites has declined worldwide, as social media platforms reduce disinformation efforts and false AI content keeps fact-checkers busy — The momentum behind organizations that aim to combat online falsehoods has started to taper off.| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Singapore grants Coinbase a Major Payment Institution license, letting it offer a wider range of Digital Payment Token services to institutions and customers — - The license paves the way for Coinbase to offer a wider range of Digital Payment Token services in the region.
Deep analysis for deep questions — Introducing Superagent. A new research product from Airtable: Subagents deeply interrogate your topic and turn it into boardroom-ready reports, slides, docs, or websites.
Turn any GTM idea into reality — Clay helps GTM teams combine AI agents, enrichment, and intent data to move faster and turn insights into action.
App Spotlight: Plug&Play AI Email Assistant for Zoho CRM — Our App Spotlight brings you hand-picked apps to enhance the power of your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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