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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Business Today, Business Standard, Wccftech, Appleosophy, MacRumors, The Verge, Supercharged, Benzinga, Business Insider, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, Forbes, PhoneArena, iThinkDifferent, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, and Cult of Mac
X: @markgurman, @newsynick, @markgurman, and @tina__nigro
Forums: r/hardware, r/VisionPro, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: Hankyung, Benzinga, PCMag, AppleInsider, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, and NewsBytes
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
PeckShield warns that MicroStrategy's X account has been compromised; ZachXBT: the hacker stole about $440K from users that were scammed by the phishing post — - PeckShield flags compromise of MicroStrategy account — Attackers hoodwinked users by offering free new tokens
More: Metaverse Post, Cryptopolitan, The Block, Milk Road, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, and Cointelegraph
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Honor announces global availability of Magic 6 Pro with a 6.8" 120Hz OLED display, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and 5,600mAh battery, set to retail for €1,299 in Europe — A month and a half after debuting the Magic 6 Pro in China, Honor is announcing global availability of its latest flagship at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
More: Gizmochina, Tech Advisor, Wccftech, Phandroid, Reuters, Android Headlines, Android Authority, Nikkei Asia, and Gizchina
| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
Many redditors say they are not enthusiastic about Reddit's IPO and expect CEO Steve Huffman to run the site into the ground while trying to make it profitable — There's the mention of r/WallStreetBets. (Five mentions in total, actually.) There's the stockpile it's amassed of Bitcoin and Ethereum.
More: The Verge, Matt Mullenweg, Cryptopolitan, and Wired
Threads: @alexheath, @alexheath, @moskov, @trevorcroker, @aeromunch, @barbarosozturk, and @mike_isaac
Mastodon: @Cefr@beige.party, @stefan@stefanbohacek.online, and @dangillmor@mastodon.social
X: @buccocapital, @eshear, @eshear, @eshear, @levie, @eshear, @jonahlupton, @therealdavey2, @sdw, and @carnage4life
Forums: r/technology and Beehaw
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Xiaomi launches Xiaomi 14 Ultra with a 6.73" LTPO 120Hz display, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and 50MP camera with a 1-inch-type Sony LYT-900 sensor, starting at €1,499 — Xiaomi is using MWC to launch two of its flagships for a global audience — though not including the US, as usual.
More: CNET, Ubergizmo, Android Headlines, GSMArena.com, PhoneArena, and HotHardware
| 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.| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
A year after EU governments moved to restrict TikTok over security concerns, politicians are flocking to the app to attract the youth vote in upcoming elections — A year after banning the Chinese-owned app, Europe's politicians are popping up on TikTok to fight for re-election.| Liz Hoffman / Semafor: |
Q&A with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about the meme-stock craze, launching in the UK and EU, becoming customers' primary financial institution, and more — On The Record — Three years ago, an army of bored, stimulus-rich day traders upended the stock market.| David Jeans / Forbes: |
In a letter to Elon Musk, Rep. Mike Gallagher says SpaceX may be in breach of DOD contracts after sources say Starshield is inactive around Taiwan for US troops — Rep. Mike Gallagher, who led a delegation to Taiwan this week, said in a letter to Musk that SpaceX could possibly be in breach of its …
More: Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Interesting Engineering
Threads: @kazweida, @lorakolodny, and @alexrkonrad
X: @davidjeans2, @alexrkonrad, and @phelimkine
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: Broadcom is nearing a $3.8B deal to sell its end-user computing unit to private equity firm KKR — Chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is nearing a $3.8 billion deal to sell its business that allows users to access desktops and applications from any device to private equity firm KKR (KKR.N) …
More: Bloomberg, The Register, SiliconANGLE, and CRN
LinkedIn: Kyle Davies, Jason Ruby, and Pramod Gosavi
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Filing: Google said Microsoft offered to sell Bing to Apple in 2018, but Eddy Cue said Microsoft had search quality issues and was investing less than Google — - In 2018, Microsoft offered to sell Apple its Bing search engine or start a Bing joint venture, Google said in a newly unsealed filing.
More: The Register, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Forbes, TweakTown, PhoneArena, Neowin, United States District Court, and NewsBytes
Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @justinpalmer.bsky.social. X: @rustybrick and @rogoswami
Forums: r/apple and r/technology
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