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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
The iPhone, in its third year of a three-year design cycle, may be overhauled in 2023; Apple may delay Pay Later to 2023 and may not host an October 2022 event — I've spent the last week or so testing out the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and I believe it sets the stage for larger changes next year.
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Counterpoint: the average selling price of iPhones could rise to $892 in Q3 2022 and $944 in Q4 2022, as buyers choose Pro models; the record is $873 in Q4 2021 — Upward trajectory driven by customers buying more expensive ‘Pro’ models that command higher margins
Tweets: @kevinctofel, @patrickmcgee_, @teamweicrypto, @thomasbcn, and @200pipss
| Voice of America: |
The US Treasury updates its guidance to let US tech companies expand their internet services in Iran, after the country took most of its ~83M citizens offline — The U.S. Treasury Department said Friday that it was updating guidance to U.S. tech firms to expand the range of internet services available …
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| Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair: |
A look at Kyiv-based Respeecher, which uses performers' archival voice recordings and AI to create new dialogue, including for Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi — As the conflict raged, Ukrainian tech workers at Respeecher hurried to bring back James Earl Jones's legendary voice for Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows — With machine translation, dubbing apps and VPNs, Chinese creators are shortening movies for Americans.
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
A look at The Follower, an art project using open-source facial recognition software to match Instagram photos with EarthCam video footage of people taking them — A tech-savvy artist unearthed video footage of people working hard to capture the perfect shot for Instagram.| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today's most popular approaches to AI won't lead to human-level machine intelligence — (Article is updated with a rebuttal by Gary Marcus in context.) — Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist of Meta Properties …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods — A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties.
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| Patricia Allen / EU-Startups: |
Paris-based Zenchef, which offers restaurants tools to enhance customer experience and optimize front-of-house operations, has raised €50M+ from PSG Equity — Restaurant tech player Zenchef has raised over €50 million from PSG Equity as it consolidates its position as a European leader in this space.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Governor Newsom vetoes a crypto regulation bill that required licenses to facilitate transactions; the California State Assembly passed the bill in August 2022 — The California Assembly passed the bill, which would create a licensing regime and stablecoin stipulations, at the end of August.
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PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Barron's Online, Cryptonews, Bloomberg, Crowdfund Insider, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, The Block, and California Governor
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| Che Pan / South China Morning Post: |
A profile of YMTC, China's top memory chip maker that may be in the crosshairs of US sanctions; Minsheng: YMTC had a 1% global memory chip market share in 2020 — A few months before the US-China trade war started in July 2018, local media coverage of President Xi Jinping was focused …
Tweets: @scmpnews
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Bulgaria arrested a Russian native and the likely RSOCKS botnet owner in June 2022 at the US' request; he asked for, and was granted, extradition to the US — A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested … Sponsor Posts
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