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Sources: Apple has considered a fitness ring, smart glasses, and adding cameras and more advanced AI to AirPods, but is not actively developing these devices — Apple has explored the idea of developing new wearable devices — including a fitness ring, smart glasses and even AirPods with cameras …
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| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
Sources detail their concerns with Apple Arcade, including declining developer payouts, cancelled projects, and its shift to focus on family-friendly games — Multiple mobilegamer.biz sources have voiced their concern for Apple Arcade's future, citing a glut of cancelled projects and ever-declining developer payouts.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils Galaxy Ring at MWC 2024; the device is centered around health and wellness, comes in three colors, and will be available later this year — After teasing it (again) yesterday, Samsung has finally shown off the Galaxy Ring in physical form at Mobile World Conference (MWC 2024) and revealed some additional details.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Lenovo demos the ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop concept, with a 17.3-inch MicroLED panel and a built-in drawing tablet — The ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop concept even comes with a built-in drawing tablet. Lenovo just needs to find something worth seeing on the other side.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils AI Hub, a new library of 75+ pre-optimized AI models, X80 5G modem, and FastConnect 7900, a chip that integrates Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and UWB — Qualcomm unveiled a suite of AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
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| Financial Times: |
Microsoft partners with Mistral as regulators probe its OpenAI alliance; Microsoft takes a minor stake in Mistral and help bring Mistral's AI models to market — Tech giant unveils partnership with French AI start-up, as regulators probe $13bn alliance with ChatGPT maker| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Google announces new Android features, including Gemini integration with Messages, AI-powered text summaries for Android Auto, and AI-generated image captions — The Android updates announced at MWC also include new accessibility features and casting controls for Spotify.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches RTX 500 and RTX 1000, its new laptop GPUs for on-the-go AI processing powered by the Ada Lovelace architecture, available in Spring 2024 — Nvidia launched its RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop graphics processing units (GPUs) for on-the-go AI processing.
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| Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
Broadcom sells its end-user computing unit to KKR in a deal valued at about $4B — Chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is selling its business which allows users to access desktops and applications from any device to KKR (KKR.N) in a deal valued at about $4 billion, the private equity firm said on Monday.
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| Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News: |
A consultant working for Rep. Dean Phillips, who challenged Biden in NH's primary, admits to producing the deepfake robocalls, saying anyone can do it for $500 — Steve Kramer acknowledged Sunday that he created the fake Joe Biden robocall at the center of a multistate investigation after NBC News reported about his involvement.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Avail, a modular blockchain project spun out of Polygon in 2023 to streamline the rollup experience, raised a $27M seed co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly — - Avail has raised $27 million in seed funding co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly. — Avail is a modular blockchain project that spun out of Polygon last year.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Omdia estimates that the bill of materials for Apple Vision Pro is $1,542, with both of the 1.25-inch Micro OLED displays from Sony costing about $228 each — - Apple's Vision Pro headset starts at $3,499. — The Vision Pro includes lots of pricey state-of-the-art parts.
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