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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google unveils Android XR, a mixed reality OS for headsets and smart glasses, with Gemini built in, and plans a 2025 debut with Samsung's Project Moohan headset — I demoed Google's new Android XR platform, Samsung's Project Moohan, and prototype smart glasses. I felt as close to Tony Stark in a controlled demo as I'll ever be.
More: The Keyword, Android Developers on YouTube, Samsung Newsroom, Android Developers Blog, Ars Technica, Android Authority, TechRadar, The Verge, Android Police, Tabletmonkeys, Android Authority, Sammy Fans, 9to5Google, Financial Times, TechEBlog, The Indian Express, Android Police, NewsBytes, Droid Life, MobileSyrup, Phandroid, MIXED Reality News, Yen.com.gh, How-To Geek, Android Headlines, The Tech Basic, Android Police, Road to VR, AndroidGuys, The Independent, Sammy Fans, TalkAndroid.com, UploadVR, UploadVR, Irish News, BGR, Patently Apple, SamMobile, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, Android Central, Android Central, Road to VR, Road to VR, Droid Life, Engadget, UploadVR, ZDNET, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Yahoo Finance, Lowpass, and MacDailyNews
Bluesky: @omershapira.com, @cloudraven.dev, @openbrush.app, @liveviewnative.dev, @openxr, @vicmsong, @bdsams.com, and @patbits
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith … and @thekhronosgroup@fosstodon.org
Threads: @benedictevans and @parkerortolani
X: @bilawalsidhu, @bilawalsidhu, @mishaalrahman, @android, @firt, @mishaalrahman, @openxr, @spatiallyme, @mishaalrahman, @tom_krikorian, @cesarberardini, @kentbye, @spatialbiggs, @mishaalrahman, @dylanmcd8, @qualcomm, @mishaalrahman, @qualcomm, @dylanmcd8, @dmarcos, @androiddev, @gwanatu, @android, @sherbondy, @justonpayne, @lunayian, @ericmasher, @jasonhowell, @sherbondy, @bdsams, @izadi_shahram, @lunayian, @andybiar, @gwanatu, @xreal_global, and @benz145
LinkedIn: Mario Anima, Chao Guo, Federico Tombari, Shahram Izadi, Lucy Jin, Carlos Vinueza, Guru Somadder, Poorva Gupta, Lolu Bodunwa, Kira Rich, Hector Galindo, Juston P., Benjamin Hersh, Aaron Luber, Rasekh Rifaat, and Sameer Samat
Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, r/singularity, r/VITURE, and r/augmentedreality
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Hands-on with Samsung's Project Moohan headset: lighter and more comfortable than Apple's Vision Pro, Android XR is highly reminiscent of visionOS, and more — - Google aims to mimic phone success with Android XR software — Samsung headset coming next year with Vision Pro-like features
More: Android Police, Auganix.org, Moneycontrol, Road to VR, 9to5Mac, CNET on YouTube, Business Standard, UploadVR, FlatpanelsHD, Notebookcheck, CNET, SamMobile, The Korea Herald, KED Global, Gizchina.com, Sam Lover, Wired, Neowin, The Information, TipRanks Financial, SammyGuru, Chrome Unboxed, MacRumors, PYMNTS.com, The Shortcut, Korea Joongang Daily, Redmond Pie, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, SamMobile, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, 9to5Google, The Shortcut, and 9to5Google
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Forums: r/virtualreality, r/gadgets, and r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to debut its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip in Apple TV and HomePod mini refreshes in 2025, in iPhones later in 2025, and iPads and Macs by 2026 — - Company developing Proxima chip in separate move from modems — New component will be part of Apple TV box and HomePod updates
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| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Yahoo laid off or lost via attrition 40 to 50 people from its 200-strong cybersecurity team in 2024, as it outsources its “red team” under its new CTO — Zack Whittaker Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai — Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
ServiceTitan's shares closed up 42.25% at $101 in its Nasdaq debut, giving the cloud software provider an ~$8.9B market cap after it raised ~$625M in its IPO — ServiceTitan shares popped 42% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday after the provider of cloud software to contractors raised around $625 million in its initial public offering.
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| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft's new version of Recall appears to still capture sensitive data like credit card numbers, even with the default “sensitive information” filter enabled — Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it. … The new version of Recall encrypts …
More: The Verge, Windows Copilot News, Laptop Mag, TechSpot, WinBuzzer, and Digital Trends
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Phi-4, a 14B-parameter language model that it says outperforms comparable and larger models, like Gemini Pro 1.5, in mathematical reasoning — Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence model today that achieves remarkable mathematical reasoning capabilities …
More: Microsoft Tech Community, TechCrunch, Neowin, Microsoft, Maginative, and MarkTechPost
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon plans to donate $1M to Trump's inaugural fund and stream the inauguration through Prime Video; a source says “Bezos is donating through Amazon” — Amazon.com is planning a $1 million donation to president-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund …
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X: @mgsiegler, @danamattioli, @stevehouf, and @mrddmia
Forums: r/politics and r/Conservative
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases Advanced Voice Mode with vision for ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers, letting them share their screen or videos for ChatGPT to respond to — OpenAI has finally released the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed nearly seven months ago.
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Bluesky: @nealunger. X: @openai, @openai, @caromcc_, @sama, @stevenheidel, @gdb, @shuchaobi, @kevinweil, @_alice_evans, and @edkrassen
| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
Texas AG Ken Paxton opens investigations into Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and 11 others over their privacy and safety practices for minors — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Thursday his office launched investigations into over a dozen technology platforms over their privacy and safety practices for minors.
More: TechCrunch, The Record, Texas Attorney General, KXAN-TV, and Austin American-Statesman
X: @txag and @kenpaxtontx
| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
Vapi, which helps businesses deploy AI-powered voice agents, raised a $20M Series A from Bessemer, Y Combinator, and others, a source says at a $130M valuation — Vapi, a San Francisco-based startup that helps businesses deploy artificial intelligence-powered voice agents … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 51% YoY to $14.05B vs. $14.09B est., FY 2024 AI revenue up 220%, expects Q1 revenue just above est.; AVGO jumps 10%+ after hours — Broadcom reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday and said artificial intelligence revenue for the year more than tripled.
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Bluesky: @firstadopter. X: @economyapp, @brandonvanzee, @danielnewmanuv, @thetranscript_, and @thetranscript_
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US teens aged 13 to 17 shows 73% use YouTube daily, 57% TikTok, 50% Instagram, and 20% Facebook; 17% use X daily, down from 23% in 2022 — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among U.S. teens; some say they're on these sites almost constantly
More: Associated Press, Social Media Today, Business Insider, PCMag, The Information, TechCrunch, Courthouse News Service, The Independent, and The Verge
Bluesky: @scriban, @rayminehane, @adrianweckler, @rachelmcohen, @conradhackett, and @faineg
Threads: @npmigreg and @technicallymims
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
YouTube removed the ability to click video titles in YouTube Player for Publishers; outlets give up ad revenue by using the standard player to link to YouTube — For about a year, I've gotten notes from readers asking why our YouTube embeds are broken in one very specific way … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Threads is testing collections of profiles to follow, curated by a “handful of Threads community leaders”, built around topics like fashion, food, and books — Meta's Threads is getting another feature seemingly inspired by Bluesky: curated groups of accounts that you can follow all at once.
More: TechCrunch, Neowin, PhoneArena, Engadget, and Social Media Today
Bluesky: @om.co, @o.simardcasanova.net, @edzitron.com, @birchtree.me, @durumcrustulum.com, and @lauraolin. Mastodon: @joesteel@duck.haus
Threads: @mosseri, @quillmatiq, @mosseri, @digiphile, @guillecummings, @nycolehampton, @jackcarterbenjamin, @quillmatiq, @theromit, and @matthewfacciani
| Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times: |
How US SMB owners, celebrities, and retailers on TikTok are using livestreaming to boost their sales one year after TikTok Shop's launch in the country — From noon until midnight, Aaliyah Arnold sold products from her beauty brand, BossUp Cosmetics, during a TikTok livestream filmed in Culver City last month.| The Information: |
Sources detail Anthropic and OpenAI's rivalry: OpenAI boosted ChatGPT's coding skills in response to Claude, Anthropic's safety focus, exec bad blood, and more — OpenAI has a lot of rivals nipping at its heels. None of them has given the company's executives the jitters quite like Anthropic has, though.| FinSMEs: |
Australia-based Fleet Space, whose ExoSphere service helps find minerals in space using AI, sensors, and more, raised a AU$150M Series D at a AU$800M+ valuation — Fleet Space Technologie s, an Adelaide, Australia-based space exploration company, raised USD$100M in Series D funding, at USD$525M valuation.
More: Fleet Space Technologies, TechCrunch, and SpaceNews
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
In a strategy change, Netflix plans to make its Squid Games battle royale game available for free to non-members for a limited time after its December 17 launch — Netflix is going against its tradition of paywalling its steadily growing offering of mobile games by making its upcoming …
More: GamingBolt, Screen Rant, About Netflix, Engadget, Pocket Gamer, Polygon, Deadline, VentureBeat, and CNET. X: @netflixgames_
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
An interview with Evan Williams on his new app Mozi, which raised $6M and aims to foster in-person connections, as a return to social media's original intention — Evan Williams's new app, Mozi, is aimed at fostering in-real-life connections.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
More: Ev Williams, A Whole Lotta Nothing, and Daring Fireball
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @knguyen, @natepentz, @couts, @bijansabet.com, @chaykak, @timfernholz, @sippey.com, and @ering
X: @joshuaogundu, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ev, and @jsmarr
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is selling a $120 Vision Pro comfort strap with modular counterweights, made by sleep apnea device maker ResMed, to address complaints about extended use — Aside from the $3500 starting price, there's one common complaint about Apple Vision Pro that most customers experience.
More: Resmed Inc, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
Threads: @markgurman. X: @greengart, @markgurman, @markgurman, @anshelsag, and @sigjudge. Forums: MacRumors Forums
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