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Global smartphone shipments in Q1 2024 grew 7.8% YoY to 289.4M units; iPhone shipments fell 9.6% YoY, more than any other top brand, and Xiaomi grew 33.8% YoY — Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker , global smartphone shipments increased 7.8% year over year to 289.4 million units in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24).
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Forums: r/apple and r/wallstreetbets
| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google's new Pixel 9 series, next-generation Pixel Fold, and an under-development 5G tablet will use a new Samsung modem that has satellite connectivity — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdwN- WKDVec — Most people don't consider the modem when considering buying a new phone, and why should they?
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Forums: r/Android, r/GooglePixel, and r/hardware
| TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing its Meta AI chatbot with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger users in India and parts of Africa; Meta announced chatbot plans in February 2023 — Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with WhatsApp …
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| Joseph Politano / Apricitas Economics: |
An overview of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which shows California's percentage of US tech jobs has continued to steadily decline since 2020 — The Golden State Used to Dominate Tech Employment—But Its Share of Total US Tech Jobs has Now Fallen to the Lowest Level in a Decade — Thanks for reading!
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Economics
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Elon Musk's xAI previews Grok-1.5 Vision, its first multimodal model, and says the AI model will be available soon to “early testers and existing Grok users” — Elon Musk's OpenAI rival has introduced its first multimodal model. Not only can it understand text …
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| Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic: |
A look at BlackPlanet, a social network for African Americans that went live in 1999, had ~15M users in 2008, and arguably laid the foundation for Black Twitter — Revisiting BlackPlanet, and a lost era when social media was still fun — A few years ago, Stephanie Williams and her husband fielded …
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LinkedIn: Anika Collier Navaroli, Japhy Grant, and Tara Turk-Haynes
| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
As Netflix's new film chief Dan Lin takes charge, the company aims to shift its film strategy to focus on audience appeal and cost efficiency — Dan Lin, the streaming service's new film chief, wants to produce a more varied slate of movies to better appeal to the array of interests among subscribers.| Emma Jacobs / Financial Times: |
LinkedIn: the number of companies with a designated head of AI position or a chief AI officer (CAIO) has almost tripled globally in the past five years — As boards grapple with the opportunity and risk of generative artificial intelligence, companies are leaning into a new role: the chief AI officer.| Anuj Ahooja / augment: |
An experiment to see how a Threads feed would work on Mastodon, using lists and testing third-party clients, which shows the bright future of the fediverse — This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences …
More: Social Media Today, Engadget, Business Today, and CNET
Threads: @nwbrownboi, @jitpal, @mikehos3, @quillmatiq, and @jasongraphix
| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
Sources detail how Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell, who recently proposed a privacy bill, has undermined privacy negotiations for years — Many aides say Maria Cantwell, a powerful Democratic leader, has repeatedly upended privacy negotiations.
Threads: @taylorlorenz. Mastodon: @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange. X: @viacristiano, @viacristiano, @nsqe, @realrussbaker, @viacristiano, @wolfejosh, @michaelsobolik, @cat_zakrzewski, and @viacristiano
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Bluesky says it is now allowing heads of state to sign up, and adds features including hashtags in profile bios and the ability to long press a link to share — Bluesky is apparently ready for a bigger challenge. It says it's allowing heads of state to sign up now, a little over two months after it opened for general signups.
More: Engadget. Bluesky: @bsky.app, @marxcobalt.bsky.social, @dranzone.net, @rhcmuts.bsky.social, @libraryvines.bsky.social, @gingermike55.bsky.social, and @araphel.wtf. X: @bluesky
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Airchat, Naval Ravikant's social media app built around audio recordings, which the app transcribes, relaunches on iOS and Android; the app is invite-only — Airchat is a new social media app that encourages users to “just talk.” — A previous version of Airchat was released last year …
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