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April 9, 2024, 4:05 AM

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google debuts its Find My Device network in the US and Canada, initially for lost Android phones and tablets; third-party tracker tag support is coming in May  —  Google is launching its new Find My Device (FMD) network in the US and Canada starting today.  It will initially find lost Android phones …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is confident upcoming Windows laptops with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips will beat an M3-powered MacBook Air in CPU and AI performance  —  Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for “AI PCs” next month at an event in Seattle.
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information:
Source: Meta plans to launch two small non-multimodal versions of Llama 3 next week; the biggest Llama 3 model will be multimodal and is expected this summer  —  Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, according to a Meta employee.
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
IDC: the global PC market grew 1.5% YoY in Q1 2024 to 59.8M shipments, despite weaker demand in China, following two years of decline  —  Global shipments of personal computers returned to growth in the first quarter after two years of decline, according to preliminary results …
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
The Internet Archive is hosting the new Aruba Collection, which contains 100K+ items from Aruba's National Library, National Archives, and other institutions  —  By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation's history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding …
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, as the app's growth in Europe slows  —  TikTok's growth in Europe has slowed down so much that it's rolling out a new app that gives people financial incentives to watch its videos.
Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
Filing: Tesla settles a lawsuit over Apple engineer Walter Huang's 2018 fatal Autopilot crash a day before the trial started; details were not disclosed  —  The settlement amount was not disclosed, court documents say.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla settled a long-running lawsuit over the 2018 death …

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