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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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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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| 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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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with the US DOJ's Jonathan Kanter on the Antitrust Division, the 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.”| 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 … | 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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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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| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
ASML begins gearing up to ship its new $350M High NA EUV machine, which is the size of a double decker bus, and expects to ship “a number” of them in 2024 — Chip toolmaking giant ASML (ASML.AS) said on Friday it was gearing up production of its new $350 million “High NA EUV” …
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Court documents: HP calculates its Autonomy losses at up to $4B, and says Autonomy's ex-CEO and CFO must pay; Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is awaiting a US 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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Nvidia announces a new $625 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, with up to 2x more performance than the previous gen and 16GB of on-board 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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| 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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Jeff Bezos sold 12M Amazon shares last week, netting just over $2B, his first Amazon stock sale since 2021; Amazon said Bezos plans to sell up to 50M — The sales took place on Wednesday and Thursday and netted just over $2 billion, according to a filing.
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