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Apple Vision Pro could cannibalize the iPad; some in Apple's Vision Products Group believe the headset could take four generations to reach its full potential — Apple's Vision Pro will eventually replace the iPad, but the device has hardware and software shortcomings that need to be resolved first.
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Forums: r/hardware, r/technology, r/gadgets, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
With X and Reddit limiting API access, third-party developers are looking into Mastodon and Bluesky, but some are hesitant to build revenue-generating apps — 2023 was the year social networks realized that they were sitting on massive troves of data. And some companies, such as Twitter …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Google One crosses 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from its free plans; YouTube Premium also hit 100M subscribers in February — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One …
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about opening sign-ups to the public, not “enshittifying” the service with ads, crowdsourcing deepfake porn moderation, and more — WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening sign-ups to all, how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more.
More: Cryptopolitan, New York Times, Route Fifty, and The Fediverse Report
Mastodon: @bunnyhero@mstdn.ca. Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social. X: @neilturkewitz and @knibbs. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| Elena Schneider / Politico: |
Biden's campaign made its first TikTok post, during the Super Bowl, a year after the White House forced US agencies to remove the app from government devices — The move comes about a year after the Biden White House demanded federal agencies remove the app from federal government devices.
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| Cory Doctorow / Financial Times: |
How the erosion of competition, regulation, self-help, and worker power ushered in the “enshittocene” era, or the slow decay of online platforms like Facebook — The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we've entered the ‘enshittocene’?
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LinkedIn: Gregory Sims, Regina Phelps, Laura MacCleery, and Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
With SBF set to face sentencing in March 2024, FTX customers look at the possibility of recouping their money, stemming largely from the crypto market's rebound — - With Sam Bankman-Fried preparing to face sentencing next month and a potential life behind bars, FTX customers are looking at the possibility of recouping their money.| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
How generative AI is transforming the advertising industry; WPP and Publicis plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to embed AI in their businesses — At the start of the year, every single one of the roughly 100,000 people working for advertising giant Publicis received a video message …
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Letter and source: Xiaomi told India's government that Chinese smartphone component suppliers are wary about setting up in the country due to heavy scrutiny — China's Xiaomi has told New Delhi that smartphone component suppliers are wary about setting up operations in India amid heavy scrutiny …
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The Fed, regulators, and others worry that stablecoins, with a total market value of $136B as of late January, could one day impact the wider financial market — The tokens connect volatile digital-asset trading to the wider financial world, raising concerns that they could one day rock traditional markets| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
A look at Aware, whose AI tools let companies track real-time employee sentiment and flag toxicity by monitoring staff chatter on Slack, Teams, and other apps — - Aware, an AI firm specializing in analyzing employee messages, said companies including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile …
More: Benzinga, CryptoGlobe, and Patently Apple
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Futurology, r/technews, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, r/technology, r/privacy, r/antiwork, r/WorkReform, and r/business
| Menaka Doshi / Bloomberg: |
The RBI's clampdown on Paytm has created confusion for millions of customers and raises questions about the Indian central bank's opacity and regulatory actions — Multiple Penalties, Yet Stakeholders Stunned By Paytm Bank Wreck. Why? — The financial meltdown of a digital payments pioneer …
More: Entrackr, Hindustan Times, Times of India, and Inc42 Media
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