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Meta begins testing “top topics” on Threads in the US, surfaced in the app on the Search page and in the For You feed, that can feature political content — After acknowledging last week that Meta's X competitor Threads would not actively recommend political content …
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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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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.| 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 with Ada architecture
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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.”| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Analysts estimate that Microsoft Azure's revenue, thanks in part to its close relationship with OpenAI, 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.
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Apple releases visionOS 1.0.3, the first update since the Vision Pro launch, adding an option to reset the device if the passcode has been forgotten — Apple today released a visionOS 1.0.3 update for the Vision Pro headset, marking the first update that Apple has provided since the device launched.
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| 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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| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
How the US plans to use open radio access networks, or Open RAN, to displace Huawei's networking tech, including allocating $1.5B+ to bolster global adoption — The Biden administration has committed more than $1.5 billion to try to persuade the world to use a technology … | 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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| 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 … | 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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