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Source: Apple is planning a $3,000+ mixed-reality headset with 8K displays, eye-tracking tech, and 12+ cameras to track hand movements and show the real world — A mixed-reality headset Apple is developing will be equipped with more than a dozen cameras for tracking hand movements …
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Amazon has started deploying AI-powered Netradyne cameras, which are always on and automatically upload footage, in its US delivery vehicles to monitor drivers — - Amazon has begun rolling out AI-enabled cameras from Netradyne in vehicles at a handful of contracted delivery partners across the U.S., CNBC has learned.
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Amazon is quietly transitioning its US warehouse workers to 10-hour graveyard shifts; labor experts say the move is to cut costs and pay for fewer benefits — The company has been quietly transitioning warehouse workers at Amazon warehouses nationwide to a 10-hour graveyard shift, known as the “megacycle.”
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Viva, an employee intranet with LinkedIn integration, access to communication tools like SharePoint and Yammer, training content, and more — Microsoft today launched Viva, a new “employee experience platform,” or, in non-marketing terms, its new take on the intranet sites …
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Sources: Google is exploring a less-stringent Android alternative to Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature, resembling planned Chrome changes — - Internet giant mulls bringing web privacy approach to Android — Google balancing user privacy with developer, advertiser needs
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google says Pixel users will be able to use their phone cameras to measure pulse and breath rates through the Google Fit app, starting next month — Like many of us, Google is getting more interested in our health. The company is announcing today new features that will allow …
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| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
Incoming head of Senate antitrust subcommittee Amy Klobuchar introduces an antitrust bill that would raise the bar for tech acquisitions — Incoming head of Senate panel will propose broad changes as Democrats press issue of perceived monopoly power — WASHINGTON—Sen. Amy Klobuchar …
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Sources: Apple and Hyundai-Kia close to a car manufacturing deal; first “Apple Cars” will be “designed to operate without a driver and focused on the last mile” — - Apple is close to finalizing a deal with Hyundai-Kia to manufacture an Apple-branded autonomous electric vehicle …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Instagram says it unmasked members of OGUsers community, who hack, extort, and scam people to get high value usernames, and has sent cease and desist letters — The action centres around the OGUsers community. It is highly unusual for social media companies to publicly announce …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone 13 is now more likely to feature an upgraded Ultra Wide camera with significantly improved low-light performance thanks to a new lens supplier — The iPhone 13 is now more likely to feature an upgraded Ultra Wide camera with significantly improved low-light performance … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Canada's privacy authority says what Clearview AI does is mass surveillance, calls it illegal and unacceptable, and tells it to delete citizens' facial images — Canadian authorities declared that the company needed citizens' consent to use their biometric information, and told the firm to delete facial images from its database.| Kristen V Brown / Bloomberg: |
23andMe to go public through a merger with VG Acquisition Corp., a SPAC founded by Richard Branson, at a valuation of $3.5B — - CEO Wojcicki and SPAC leader Branson each invest $25 million — DNA-testing company has been expanding its health-care profile
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Carta, which launched a private stock exchange CartaX to help employees and investors sell stock in private startups, is now valued at $6.9B — Launching an exchange to help employees and investors sell stock in private startups may seem an odd choice for this year, given the boom in public listings that promise imminent cashouts.
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Medium. Tweets: @coryweinberg, @ychernova, @nolanchurch, @rickheitzmann, @semil, @andrewparker, @allen, @shaig, @jaredmermey, @baburkhwaja, @scottehartley, @karimbhalwani, @jstrauss, @amir, @scottbelsky, and @zerobeta
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mexican neobank Flink raises $12M Series A led by Accel — Here in the U.S., we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. So while we can get in an uproar about the various ways Robinhood may or may not be acting responsibly, it can be easy to forget that not everyone … Thanks:@cckarl
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Andy Jassy will become CEO at the most politically perilous moment in Amazon's history; it remains to be seen if he will try to make inroads with lawmakers — Jeff Bezos is stepping aside as CEO of Amazon at the most politically perilous moment in the history of the company he founded.
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New York Times, CNN, CNET, Game Rant, Input, 9to5Google, and TalkAndroid.com. Tweets: @cat_zakrzewski
| Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese-founded Agora, which a source says provides back-end communications tools for Clubhouse, rose 30% on Monday to $73.60 as Elon Musk joined Clubhouse — Agora saw its stock jump 30 per cent on Monday amid broader awareness that the start-up Clubhouse uses the company's real …
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In an internal memo, John Matze says he has been terminated as Parler's CEO by its board of directors — “The future of Parler is no longer in my hands,” Matze wrote — EXCLUSIVE - Parler has terminated CEO John Matze, according to a memo Matze sent to staffers that has been obtained by Fox News.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Drone mapping and analytics service DroneDeploy raises $50M Series E, bringing its total raised to $142M — DroneDeploy, a platform that offers businesses access to commercial drone operators to capture professional-grade imagery of an environment and carry out data analysis, has raised $50 million in a series E round of funding.
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