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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Facebook announces Oculus Quest 2, starting at $299, with a lighter design, 50% better resolution, 90Hz refresh rate, up to 256GB storage, coming October 13 — The Oculus Quest 2 is here, and it sounds like a tremendous upgrade over the original in every way.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus Quest 2 review: sharp screen, great price, and strong ecosystem, but requires a Facebook sign-in, Link cable and better strap cost extra, and it's bulky — At a passing glance, the Quest 2 looks like a dramatically new headset. Facebook-owned Oculus has become known … | Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Facebook details Infinite Office, a virtual space for working from home, coming to Quest 2 later this year — A couple of years ago, Facebook announced Oculus for Business, a software suite for enterprise-grade VR. But today, at Facebook Connect, the company is introducing … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Snowflake opened at $245, after pricing its shares at $120, far above the original range of $75-$85 from last week, and closed at over $250 — - Snowflake began trading Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange. — Stock began trading at $245 per share. — Snowflake begins trading in the biggest software IPO ever
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Cloud data warehousing company Snowflake raised $3.4B in its IPO, making it the largest software IPO ever, valuing the company at over $44B — Snowflake, a Silicon Valley cloud data warehousing company, on Tuesday night raised $3.4 billion in what is the largest software IPO ever.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook says it has partnered with Ray-Ban maker Luxottica to develop consumer “smart glasses”, coming next year, but shared few details — The company partnered with Ray-Ban maker Luxottica — Facebook says its first pair of consumer “smart glasses” will be releasing next year …
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Facebook: Facebook Reality Labs. Tweets: @hbarra, @hypervisible, @johnpaczkowski, @nickstatt, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @kantrowitz
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Interview with Facebook's Andrew Bosworth on Project Aria, its AR glasses project that is using ~100 testers in Seattle and SF to refine the experience — We won't be wearing our magic Tony Stark AR smartglasses this year, or the year after, or maybe not even the year after that.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
In a new filing, Apple says “Epic started a fire, and poured gasoline on it”, arguing that the game developer's injuries are “entirely self-inflicted” — Apple lays out its case for keeping Fortnite off the App Store — Apple has responded to Epic's demands …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle's bid for TikTok falls short of addressing Trump administration's national security concerns; a final decision has not yet been reached — Oracle Corp.'s bid for TikTok falls short of resolving concerns of Trump administration officials that the Chinese-owned video-sharing app poses …
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Developers are frustrated at Apple for launching iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7 with just one day's notice — Apple fans who were waiting for an iPhone 12 unveiling at the Apple Event today may be a little disappointed. But, Apple gave them a treat to hold them over instead: an announcement that iOS 14 is being released tomorrow.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
NYT and Facebook announce a multi-year partnership to co-develop AR filters and effects on Instagram that help users access and contextualize NYT stories — The New York Times and Facebook have struck a multi-year partnership to co-develop augmented reality (AR) filters and effects on Instagram …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Music adds podcasts for free across its subscription and ad-supported tiers, with 70K+ titles to start, much smaller than Apple's 1M+ or Spotify's 1.5M — Company looks to draw new listeners with 70,000 titles, including originals from DJ Khaled — Now playing on Amazon Music: podcasts.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Sources: at an all-hands, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek defended keeping Joe Rogan's transphobic podcasts available; Spotify passed on some other old Rogan episodes — Multiple sources inside Spotify described an all-hands meeting in which Spotify CEO Daniel Ek discussed the company's handling of the controversial podcaster.| Eric Tucker / Associated Press: |
DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting 100 companies and institutions in the US and elsewhere; two Malaysian businessmen were arrested — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting more than 100 companies and institutions …
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
A safety driver who was riding in an autonomous Uber vehicle in Tempe, AZ, during its fatal 2018 crash has been charged with negligent homicide — Investigators said the woman had been watching a video on her phone when the vehicle killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
As Evernote rolls out a redesigned iOS app, CEO Ian Small discusses the challenges facing the company, which rebuilt all of its apps over 18 months — “Silicon Valley is addicted to momentum,” Evernote CEO Ian Small said, by way of explaining how his company had come to be, as he put it, stuck.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Apple One bundles launch with discounts on services including Music, TV+, Arcade, iCloud storage, Fitness+, and News+ and tiers between $15 and $30/month — The hardware giant leans into its software offerings — The long-rumored bundle bringing together Apple Music, Apple TV Plus …
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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
As TypeScript turns 10 in December, its co-creator talks about getting Microsoft to embrace open source and how it became a go-to language for building web apps — After initial internal Microsoft resistance, open-source TypeScript is now a go-to language for building web apps.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers unveil a Bluetooth LE attack impacting billions of devices, leaving them vulnerable to spoofing; most vendors do not have patches but Apple does — New BLESA attack goes after the often ignored Bluetooth reconnection process, unlike previous vulnerabilities, most found in the pairing operation.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to open 1,000 small delivery hubs in cities and suburbs across the US, with a goal of about 1,500 hubs, to speed up deliveries — Amazon.com Inc. plans to open 1,000 small delivery hubs in cities and suburbs all over the U.S., according to people familiar with the plans.| Financial Times: |
Money launderers are using Chinese online shopping sites to funnel billions of dollars to offshore gambling accounts using fake transactions — Police busts show people topping up offshore gambling accounts using fake transactions on popular platforms — Money launderers have used … | Becca Farsace / The Verge: |
Review of GoPro's new $449 Hero9: 5K video is crisp and a welcome addition, front-facing screen is useful, and it's rugged, but it's pricier than Hero8 — If only I was as cool as this camera — GoPro has been the industry standard for action cameras for over 15 years.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Zwift, an indoor training app for cyclists and runners, raises $450M Series C led by KKR at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $620M — Zwift, a 350-person, Long Beach, Calif.-based online fitness platform that immerses cyclists and runners in 3D generated worlds …
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
PS5 will launch November 12 in the US for $500 for the Blu-ray drive version and $400 for the Digital Edition, will launch in more regions on November 19 — Sony provided more details about the upcoming PlayStation 5. During a video event today, the company explained what you can expect in terms of a PS5 release date and price.
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| MIT Technology Review: |
Many AI ethics advisory boards consist mostly of people based in Europe or the US, which may lead to standards that are biased and insensitive to local cultures — Too many councils and advisory boards still consist mostly of people based in Europe or the United States.
Tweets: @dorotheabaur, @hypervisible, @swisscognitive, and @hkanji
| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
A look at Gen Z Mafia, a Discord server where young people in tech who are seeking to break into the industry can discuss ideas and collaborate — A group of young tech enthusiasts are carving their own path on Discord. — For young people, breaking into the cutthroat tech industry … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Nvidia's purchase of Arm makes financial sense, but Arm's neutrality is a mismatch for Nvidia's business model, unless Nvidia's data center ambitions pan out — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — Back in 2010, Kyle Conroy wrote a blogpost entitled, What if I had bought Apple stock instead?:| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Facebook says Messenger and Portal will support third-party AR effects from next year; over 600M people use AR across Facebook apps and devices every month — You might already be aware of third-party AR effects on Instagram and Facebook, many of which have become increasingly popular during quarantine.Sponsor Posts
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