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An interview with Tim Cook, Greg Joswiak, James Cameron, Jon Favreau, and others on the Apple Vision Pro, using the device, developing the headset, and more — Inside Apple Park, the tech giant's CEO talks about the genesis of a “mind-blowing” new device that could change the way we live and work.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says developers have optimized 600+ apps for the Vision Pro in time for its February 2 launch, including Airmail, Box, MUBI, Night Sky, Parcel, and PCalc — Apple today announced that over 600 apps with native support for visionOS will be available on the Vision Pro when the headset launches in the U.S. this Friday.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases visionOS 1.0.2, fixing a WebKit vulnerability that, if exploited, allowed malicious code execution; Apple included a patch in iOS 17.3 last week — A day after reporters published their first hands-on review of Apple's Vision Pro, the technology giant released its first security patch … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
An interview with Unity Create President Marc Whitten, as the company launches support for building spatial apps for Apple's visionOS to all its subscribers — Unity has unveiled its support for spatial experiences including support for the Apple Vision Pro that launches on February 2.
More: Unity Blog, Road to VR, AppleInsider, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, Developer Tech News, O'Grady's PowerPage, iMore, MIXED Reality News, Chronicle-Tribune, Techgenyz, Business Wire, Chronicle-Tribune, Best Stocks, UploadVR, and Game Developer
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
UMG begins pulling its artists' music from TikTok after negotiations failed; videos featuring UMG-owned songs will be muted, and users can pick a new soundtrack — - Publisher behind Drake and Taylor Swift pushes for better pay — Videos featuring Universal Music-owned songs will be muted
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| Dexter Thomas / Wired: |
Q&A with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on the company's music festival in Arizona, his background, TikTok and music, US scrutiny, music labels, moderation, and more — A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he's trying to make TikTok better.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google launches ImageFX, an AI image generator underpinned by Imagen 2, with “expressive chips”, or keyword suggestions; Google will bring Imagen 2 to Bard — Taylor Swift deepfakes be damned, Google is releasing a new AI-powered tool, TextFX, for image creation.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA orders US federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti VPN appliances vulnerable to multiple actively exploited bugs before Saturday, February 3 — CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti Connect Secure or Policy Secure VPN appliances vulnerable to multiple actively exploited bugs …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot, whose robot vacuum market share has steadily eroded since 2014, could become an also-ran as Chinese companies gain — By abandoning its deal to buy iRobot, Amazon has left the robot vacuum maker stuck under the couch.
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @tess@mastodon.social. X: @gergelyorosz
Forums: Hacker News and r/roomba
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
Celsius emerges from bankruptcy and plans to distribute $3B+ to its creditors, who will also get a stake in the company's new Ionic Digital mining operation — The distribution will be made through PayPal and Coinbase. — Register Now — Celsius will be shipping out more than $3 billion …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Pocket Pair's Palworld, still technically in early access, is the biggest third-party Xbox Game Pass launch in history, reaching 7M players — Surprise viral gaming hit Palworld continues to reach new player milestones. Today, developer Pocketpair announced that the game …
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Forums: r/XboxSeriesX, r/Games, r/xboxone, r/Palworld, and r/XboxGamePass
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Memo: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says the company plans to lay off 400 employees, or ~7% of its staff, as the “reality is that costs are still too high” — KEY POINTS — Identity management company Okta said on Thursday in a message to employees that it would lay off 400 employees, about 7% of the company's headcount.
More: TechCrunch, Cybersecurity Dive, SiliconANGLE, CRN, Bloomberg, and The San Francisco Standard
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Allen Institute for AI open sources OLMo, or “Open Language MOdels”, and its data set Dolma; OLMo was created with Harvard, AMD, Databricks, and others — The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: SK Hynix plans to build an advanced chip packaging plant in Indiana, for stacking DRAM chips to create High Bandwidth Memory chips for Nvidia's GPUs — South Korean company's memory chips will be packaged with Nvidia processors to create more powerful AI products| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia opens pre-orders for its new China-specific H20 AI chips, each costing $12K to $15K; specs show Huawei's 910B as more powerful in some key areas — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has started taking pre-orders for a new China-specific artificial intelligence (AI) chip from distributors …
More: Hindustan Times, Wccftech, Huawei Central, TipRanks Financial, and Asia Financial. Forums: r/hardware
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Activist investor Elliott Management builds a “sizable” Etsy stake, a source says a roughly 13% position, and Elliott partner Marc Steinberg joins Etsy's board — - Activist investor Elliott Management has a “sizable” investment in e-commerce firm Etsy.
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US CPSC is preparing an order that could classify Amazon's online business as a distributor of goods, potentially leading to lawsuits and recalls — Order from Consumer Product Safety Commission could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Email to subscribers: Hulu changed its agreement to ban sharing accounts outside of the user's household “unless otherwise permitted by your Service Tier” — The Disney-owned streaming service changed its subscriber agreement to ban sharing of accounts outside of individual households.
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| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
YouTube says YouTube Premium and Music have a combined 100M subscribers; CEO Neal Mohan says subscriptions have become a “meaningful part” of YouTube's business — YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told Forbes the subscription services are now a “meaningful part” of the business.| Jeffrey Gottfried / Pew Research Center: |
US adults survey: 83% use YouTube, 68% use Facebook, 47% use Instagram; 27% to 35% use Snapchat, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest; 22% use X and Reddit — YouTube and Facebook are by far the most used online platforms among U.S. adults; TikTok's user base has grown since 2021
More: Engadget, Hindustan Times, Music Ally, PhoneArena, Social Media Today, and TechCrunch
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google plans to roll out a Google Maps feature that uses LLMs to analyze data on 250M+ places and recommend places, starting in the US — Google is bringing generative AI to — where else? — Google Maps, promising to help users find cool places through the use of large language models (LLM).
More: ZDNet, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Keyword, Tom's Guide, and The Stack
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The US CPSC says Snap will recall all of its Pixy selfie camera drones as their batteries pose a fire risk; Snap sold less than 71,000 drones — Snap gave up on its Pixy flying selfie camera drone after just four months, but it turns out the company sold 71,000 drones …
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| Reuters: |
Meta plans to deploy its second-gen in-house chips, referred to internally as Artemis, to its data centers in 2024, alongside “commercially available GPUs” — Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) plans to deploy into its data centers this year a new version of a custom chip aimed … | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance's efforts to re-enter the UK market are being frustrated after UK's financial regulator expressed concerns to prospective local partners — - UK regulator had expressed concerns to firms about Binance — New CEO Teng is trying to rebuild credibility with regulatorsSponsor Posts
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