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Appfigures data: 52% of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, vs. 5% of apps in the wider App Store, with an average price of $5.67 — Apple's Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact with apps via spatial computing, but it also offers app developers a way to generate revenue without subscriptions.| Ben Hall / Financial Times: |
Ukraine's GUR military intelligence unit says Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line, confirming media reports of Russia using Starlink — Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow's troops ‘systemic’ — Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line …
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Forums: r/elonmusk and r/Military
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with the US DOJ's Jonathan Kanter on the Antitrust Division, its Google search monopolization and ad tech cases, media consolidation, the EU's DMA, and more — The assistant attorney general says “the resonance these issues have is something that I've never witnessed in my lifetime.”| VideoCardz.com: |
Nvidia announces a $625 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, with 1.5x to 3x more performance than the previous gen and 16GB of GDDR6 ECC memory, up from 12GB — NVIDIA RTX 2000 ADA announced: AD107 GPU, 16GB VRAM and no power connector required NVIDIA formally introduces another low-profile workstation GPU …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Analysts estimate Microsoft Azure's revenue, fueled in part by AI growth, is ~75% as big as AWS', up from ~50% five years ago — - Microsoft's cloud is growing significantly faster than Amazon Web Services of late, thanks in part to its cozy OpenAI relationship.
More: Benzinga and MSPoweruser
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Court documents: HP calculates its Autonomy losses at $4B+, and says Autonomy's ex-CEO and CFO must pay; Autonomy founder Mike Lynch awaits a US criminal trial — - Mike Lynch and his CFO face $4 billion bill for Autonomy sale — Extradited tycoon currently awaiting criminal trial in the US
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
A crowd in San Francisco destroyed a Waymo car on February 11, amid tensions over autonomous vehicles; Waymo says the car “was not transporting any riders” — A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco's Chinatown last night around 9PM PT …
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| Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin pushes through $50K for the first time since December 2021, ahead of April's Bitcoin halving event, which will reduce mining rewards by half — The world's largest crypto has now more than recovered since tumbling below $40,000 in the initial days following the opening of the spot ETFs.
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Solana commits to build its second crypto-focused smartphone after reaching 100,000 preorders, or $45M in sales, in about a month, targeting a 2025 release — Solana Mobile's “chapter 2” smartphone could ship in early 2025. — Unmute — Register Now — Solana is committing … | 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 … | 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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| Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: |
Ireland, Germany, Singapore, China, Amsterdam, and others added restrictions on new data centers in recent years to comply with stringent environmental rules — Ireland, Germany, Singapore and China are imposing rules on building new server farms over energy usage fears
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