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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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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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| Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: |
Grow Therapy, which provides services like patient-provider matching and EHR to help therapists run their own practices, raised an $88M Series C led by Sequoia — mental health funding round venture capital (VC) Sequoia Capital — Grow Therapy, a mental health technology startup … | Financial Times: |
Interviews with 12+ former and current employees: ByteDance faces backlash from its US TikTok staff over large tax bills on stock shares they are unable to sell — Current and former employees of video app's Chinese parent ByteDance in outcry over stock award liabilities| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's role in protecting free speech online, operating in war zones, moderation, never doing layoffs, and more — What free speech, war zones, and Aristotle have to do with internet infrastructure. … Today, I'm talking with Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince.
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
A look at Android 15's Private Space feature, which creates a separate profile for hiding apps and data, similar to Samsung's Secure Folder — With Private Space in Android 15, you can hide your most sensitive apps and data from other people. — • — TL;DR| Shira Stein / San Francisco Chronicle: |
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