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Apple plans to start shipping the $3,499+ Vision Pro on February 2 in the US after opening pre-orders on January 19 at 8am ET — It's finally time: Apple has announced it will start shipping its Vision Pro headset on February 2nd in the United States. Pre-orders begin January 19th.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says the base Vision Pro model has 256GB of storage and the ZEISS Optical Inserts for readers cost $99 and prescription ZEISS Optical Inserts cost $149 — Apple has announced more details on Vision Pro availability. In a press release today, Apple announced that Vision Pro …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Linear's CEO, who uses Carta to manage Linear's cap table, says Carta tried to sell Linear shares without his consent; Carta's CEO blames a rogue employee — “This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups” — Carta, an ambitious 12-year-old Silicon Valley outfit …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
The Wi-Fi Alliance begins certifying Wi-Fi 7 devices, which could offer big speed and efficiency gains over Wi-Fi 6 in new phones, laptops, and routers in 2024 — The Wi-Fi Alliance is now officially certifying devices that support Wi-Fi 7, the next generation of wireless home internet.
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| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
HP debuts the $1,600+ Omen Transcend 14, with a 14-inch OLED display, Intel Core Ultra 7 or Ultra 9, two USB-A and two USB-C, and RTX 4070, weighing just 1.6kg — HP's Omen Transcend 14 weighs just 3.5 pounds while packing up to an RTX 4070 GPU. — Senior Writer, Reviews
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia plans to begin mass producing its chips designed for China, the H20, L20, and L2, in Q2 2024, after the original November 2023 goal was delayed — U.S. chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) plans to begin mass production in the second quarter of 2024 of an artificial intelligence (AI) …
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| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Twilio co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO and from the board, replaced by Khozema Shipchandler, amid slow growth and activist investor pressure — Lawson will be replaced by Khozema Shipchandler, who most recently led the communication business unit, Twilio said in a statement Monday.
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| IEEE Spectrum: |
How Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3 produce “plagiaristic outputs”, even when not directly asked to do so, which could expose users to copyright infringement claims — This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
What's On Netflix data: Netflix released about 130, or 16%, fewer original programs in 2023 than 2022, after a decade of increasing output — After years of spending more on new shows, the company is finally shrinking how much new it has to offer. — Over the last 18 months …
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
Letter: bipartisan House lawmakers call on the Biden administration to take stronger action to stem China's growing dominance in making older-generation chips — House panel sends letter urging Biden administration to seek tariffs or take other moves to counter growing Chinese microchip industry| Sisi Wei / The Markup: |
Q&A with University of Michigan researchers about their research into the effectiveness of using prompts to assign interpersonal and professional roles to LLMs — A conversation with Mingqian Zheng, Jiaxin Pei, and David Jurgens — Happy New Year. It's Sisi here.
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| Raphael Minder / Financial Times: |
The European Commission urges Google, Meta, and others to help dissident Belarusian media by promoting their stories higher than those from pro-regime outlets — Journalists claim groups including Google and Meta are ‘tools’ of Minsk's totalitarian regime — The European Commission … Sponsor Posts
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