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Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital — Y Combinator has tapped an outsider as its next president — sort of. — The storied Bay Area-based accelerator …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Trademark filings suggest Apple is considering calling its mixed reality headset “Reality One” or “Reality Pro” and its specialized chip “Reality Processor” — Trademark filings suggest that Apple Inc. may be staking claim to potential names …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Snap adds a Dual Camera feature to Snapchat for iOS, letting users capture photos and videos using their phone's front-facing and rear cameras simultaneously — Snapchat is the latest app to add dual camera functionality. The app is launching the “Dual Camera” recording feature …
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Meta partners with JioMart, an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms, to launch a grocery shopping service on WhatsApp in India — Meta and an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms are bringing JioMart grocery shopping to WhatsApp …
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China opened corruption probes in July 2022 into some top executives in its semiconductor industry, as it rethinks its gold rush approach to chip self-reliance — Wearing a laboratory coat, China's top leader, Xi Jinping, inspected a subsidiary of Yangtze Memory Technologies Company, a national semiconductor company based in Wuhan.
Tweets: @brianmannadk, @liyuan6, @yangxifan, @neysunm, @andreasharsono, @nytimes, and @pstasiatech
| Daniel Van Boom / CNET: |
Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed at MTV's Video Music Awards in Yuga Labs' game Otherside, morphing into the Bored Yacht Ape NFT avatars that they own — Just like the video clip for the song, Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed “From The D 2 The LBC” as their Bored Apes during Sunday's Video Music Awards.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Reliance Jio, which has 421M+ subscribers, plans to spend $25B to launch a 5G network in October 2022 and expand to “every town” in India by the end of 2023 — Reliance Jio Infocomm, India's top telecom mobile operator, has earmarked a spending of $25 billion on the rollout …
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Livemint, PYMNTS.com, Moneycontrol, Android Authority, Reuters, RCR Wireless News, Bloomberg, and BGR India
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Gabe Leydon, a co-founder of free-to-play game studio Machine Zone that sold to AppLovin for $600M, raised $200M in 2021 for blockchain game startup Limit Break — Gabe Leydon was a pioneer of free-to-play mobile games at Machine Zone, which was sold for $600 million in 2020 to AppLovin.
Tweets: @gabrielleydon
| New York Times: |
How Taiwan's centrality in the global chip supply chain may help keep the peace by providing the island with a “silicon shield” against a Chinese invasion — TAIPEI, Taiwan — As Chinese warships rehearsed a blockade of Taiwan this month, they simulated a scenario global leaders …
Tweets: @epro, @ldrogen, @jchengwsj, @amfchina, @martijnrasser, @paulmozur, and @nytimestech
| Brandon Katz / The Wrap: |
SEC filing: Triller raised $200M and is targeting a $3B valuation in its IPO before the end of 2022; source: Triller is on track for a $250M run rate in 2023 — Triller, a video-sharing social network service, has raised $200 million in financing as it eyes an initial public offering (IPO) of $3 billion before the end of this year.
Tweets: @jstrauss and @lthomasnews
| Alberto Romero / The Algorithmic Bridge: |
Unlike DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion is open source and can run on high-end consumer GPUs, while its CreativeML Open RAIL-M license “strives for” “responsible” use — A state-of-the-art AI model available for everyone through a safety-centric open-source license is unheard of.
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Simon Willison's Weblog, Towards Data Science, and Things I Think Are Awesome
Tweets: @emostaque, @emostaque, @hardmaru, @bartwronsk, @josourcing, @unironictechbro, @martinnebelong, and @josourcing
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India says it won't restrict Chinese companies from selling smartphones cheaper than $150, after a report said it planned to do so to boost its local firms — India is not proposing to restrict Chinese smartphone manufacturers from operating in the sub-$150 price range, a key minister said Monday …
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