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Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024 — If you're willing to clip the Ai Pin to your chest, you can talk, gesture, and tap to take photos or summon a powerful virtual assistant.
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| New York Times: |
A look at Humane's $699 clip-on Ai Pin, the culmination of five years of work, $240M in funding, and 25 patents; Humane expects to sell ~100K in the first year — Humane, a company started by two former Apple employees, says its new artificial intelligence pin can stop all the scrolling.
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| Bloomberg: |
Experts say LockBit is behind the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China hack, a “ransomware as a service” group behind UK's Royal Mail hack among others — - LockBit is what's known as a ‘ransomware as a service’ group — It is one of the most prolific ransomware attackers in world
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| Financial Times: |
A ransomware attack stopped the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's largest bank, from settling US Treasury and some equity trades — Chinese bank says it has contained a hack that affected some fixed income and equities transactions — A ransomware attack …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft: MOVEit hackers are exploiting a zero-day flaw in IT support tool SysAid in “limited” attacks to access corporate servers and deploy Clop ransomware — Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the service management software SysAid to gain access …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A review of Valve's $549 Steam Deck OLED: a great screen, a longer battery life, and better ergonomics, but refresh rate issues and the platform is not stable — A new screen, a pile of improvements, and better pricing make this everything the original should have been.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tumblr is downscaling its ambitions after failing to reach its goals for a new audience and plans to focus on the site's “core functionality” in 2024 — Tumblr is downscaling its ambitions after failing to reach goals for a new audience, aiming to move some staff members to other divisions of parent company Automattic.
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Qualcomm ends its partnership with Iridium to bring satellite connectivity to Android phones, after launching the Snapdragon Satellite platform in January 2023 — However, Iridium says it's now free to talk with other smartphone and chip vendors on enabling another satellite connectivity deal.
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| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Sources: Amazon is working on Vega, a new OS to replace Android on Fire TVs, smart displays, and other devices and could ship Fire TV devices with Vega in 2024 — Vega, baby! … Amazon has been working on a new operating system to replace Android on Fire TVs, smart displays and other connected devices …
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| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle the US DOJ claims that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over US citizens and green card holders for some jobs — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will pay $25 million to settle claims by the U.S. Department of Justice that the company illegally favored immigrant workers … | Soma Biswas / Wall Street Journal: |
A bankruptcy court lets Celsius Network end its bankruptcy case, return most of its deposits back to users, and form a new company focused on mining and staking — A bankruptcy judge allowed the onetime crypto lender to return some of its customers' deposits while forming a new company focused on mining and staking| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta strikes a preliminary deal with Tencent to sell a new, lower-priced VR headset in China, beginning in late 2024 — Chinese videogame maker Tencent agrees to start selling a new lower-cost headset from Meta late next year — SINGAPORE—Meta Platforms has struck a preliminary deal … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Unity reports Q3 revenue up 69% YoY to $544.2M, missing estimates of $553.7M partly because of the fallout from new rules on video games in China; U drops 15%+ — - Unity's revenue growth fell short of estimates, partly because of fallout from new rules on video games in China.
More: The Verge, Unity, Pocket Gamer.biz, Seeking Alpha, MarketWatch, and Benzinga
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: internal documents show Google offered Netflix to pay only 10% of its in-app payments on Android in 2017; Netflix didn't take the deal — Netflix did, too. — In 2017, Google offered Netflix a special discounted rate of 10 percent of its in-app payments on Android …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI announces Data Partnerships to collaborate with organizations to build public and private datasets that “reflect human society” for AI model training — It's an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. — Image corpora tends to be U.S …
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon and Meta are testing a feature that shows US shoppers real-time prices and lets them buy products on Amazon directly from ads on Instagram and Facebook — - Consumers can link Amazon accounts to social-media profiles — Instagram ads urge users to use Amazon purchase button
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LinkedIn: Maurice Rahmey, Adrian Tilley, and Spencer Soper
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Helsinki-based Noice, a game livestreaming service that lets viewers participate in the gameplay experience, raised a $21M Series A — Noice has raised $21 million to revolutionize social gaming with a combination of livestreaming and multiplayer gaming in one platform.
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| David Attlee / Cointelegraph: |
47 countries including all 38 OECD member states issue a joint pledge to “swiftly transpose” OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework into their domestic laws — The Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework is the new international standard for the automatic exchange of information between tax authorities.
More: Treasury.gov.au, CoinGape, Cryptonews, and CoinStats
| Mai Ngoc Chau / Bloomberg: |
Apple supplier Luxshare plans to increase its investment in Vietnam by $330M to $504M total, as the AirPods manufacturer further diversifies away from China — The company is increasing its Bac Giang investment by $330 million to a total of $504 million through its Vietnam unit Luxshare-ICT …
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