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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Meta Quest Pro: feels like a sophisticated development kit with a thoughtful design, improved controllers, one to two hours of battery, and more — Meta's new high-end headset introduces eye tracking and mixed reality for $1,499 … The first thing I notice with the Meta Quest Pro is the fit.
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Wired, Washington Post, Oculus Blog, Destructoid, BigTechWire, Road to VR, Fossbytes, Android Central, Engadget, Digital Trends, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, UploadVR, and Kotaku
Tweets: @reckless and @thedextriarchy
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries — Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it's been teasing for the past year.
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Tweets: @boztank, @samro, @laurengoode, @benwood, @mgsiegler, and @thedextriarchy
| Meta on YouTube: |
A video of Meta's Connect 2022 keynote, showcasing the Quest Pro mixed reality headset, plans for the metaverse, new partnerships, and more — See how we're building the future of the metaverse together, and catch the latest updates, announcements and key moments from Connect 2022.Pre-order Meta Que...
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @rmac18, @iansherr, @shiraovide, @jank0, @geoffreyfowler, and @kylebrussell
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Teams, Office, Windows 365, and Xbox Cloud Gaming to Quest VR headsets in the coming months; Teams will use Meta's avatars — Microsoft and Meta looked like they were on a collision course last year, poised to compete heavily for the future of work in the metaverse.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, Oculus Blog, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Android Central, TechRadar, Windows Central, Gamereactor UK, PCMag, UploadVR, Protocol, Neowin, ZDNet, TheGamer, Game Developer, and Android Central
Tweets: @lucasmtny, @tomwarren, @realitylabs, @nickstatt, @giuliano_mana, @kylebrussell, and @tomwarren
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Meta says the Quest Store has generated $1.5B revenue to date from apps and games; over one-third of its 400 titles grossed $1M+ and 33 grossed $10M+ — While outside research data suggests that the number of VR headsets being shipped over the past couple years has surged, the release of new VR titles hasn't always kept pace.| Matt Robinson / Bloomberg: |
Source: the US SEC is investigating whether Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, violated securities laws by selling its NFTs and ApeCoins — The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Yuga Labs Inc., the creator of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club collection of NFTs …
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PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, NFT Evening, BivNFT ⚓, Decrypt, Metaversal, ETH Daily, Watcher Guru, and Fortune
Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @sxtvik, @noondlyt, @loopifyyy, @pt, and @loopifyyy
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta announces Horizon Worlds avatars are getting legs using an AI model to predict the body's position, an avatar store, avatars are coming to Reels, and more — Meta's Horizon avatars will be getting legs. So far, the company's avatars have weirdly just hovered off the ground …
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TechCrunch, PCMag, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Bloomberg, Insider, Vox, Gizmodo, Adweek, Forbes, Engadget, Mashable, and Gearrice
Tweets: @danpfeiffer, @danriffle, @markgongloff, @inafried, @kurtwagner8, @naominixwrites, @dcseifert, and @kevinroose
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Google partners with Coinbase to let some customers pay for cloud services using crypto, starting in 2023; Coinbase will move some apps from AWS to Google Cloud — - Google will start allowing a subset of customers to pay for cloud services with digital currencies early next year.
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Cloud Blog, Decrypt, googlecloudpresscorner.com, The Register, TheStreet, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, The Next Platform, The Daily Hodl, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, Coinspeaker, Fierce Wireless, and CryptoGlobe
Tweets: @asvanevik, @thomasortk, and @brian_armstrong
| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Mango Markets, a DeFi platform on Solana, says a hacker drained some of its funds via an oracle price manipulation; blockchain auditor OtterSec says for $100M+ — The apparent exploit stemmed from the ability of an attacker to manipulate the value of their posted collateral.
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Tweets: @osec_io, @osec_io, @mangomarkets, @mangomarkets, @mangomarkets, @cryptogodjohn, and @0xfoobar
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo predicts that, in the next three to five years, Apple may be able to supply the US market, or ~25% of global shipments, from assembly sites outside of China — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out today with some new predictions on how Apple can continue to reduce its reliance on China.
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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone Hacks, iThinkDifferent, MacDailyNews, and Apple Must
Tweets: @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, and @mingchikuo
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel is planning major job cuts, likely in the thousands, as early as this month; some divisions, including sales and marketing, could see ~20% cuts — Intel Corp. is planning a major reduction in headcount, likely numbering in the thousands, to cut costs and cope …
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Oregonian, 9to5Mac, Reuters, and Barron's Online
Tweets: @iron_man_actual, @iansherr, @jimcramer, and @markgurman
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
In a rare speech, the UK's GCHQ head Jeremy Fleming warns China's tech ambitions, including a CBDC currency, are a security issue “that will define our future” — Confronting Beijing's technological ambitions is ‘the national security issue that will define our future,’ Jeremy Fleming says| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Brex, valued at $12.3B in January 2022, lays off 136, or 11% of its staff, as part of a restructuring, and its CFO departs to join HR software startup Rippling — The startup's CFO is departing to join Rippling, which recently entered the spend management space| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
The Department of Labor proposes a rule that would make it harder for companies to classify US workers as independent contractors; Uber and Lyft drop 5%+ — A proposed rule, long awaited by labor activists, would make it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors.
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Lyft, CNBC, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, U.S. Department of Labor, The Register, Gizmodo, U.S. Department of Labor, Bloomberg, The Rideshare Guy Blog …, Fast Company, Associated Press, and Fortune
Tweets: @noamscheiber, @uber_comms, @jessicaramos, @carlszabo, @senmarkey, @jonscollins, @usdol, and @caroljsroth
| The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on the Quest Pro, mixed reality, the Microsoft partnership, metaverse plans, TikTok, BeReal, the Discovery Engine approach, and more — A year after rebranding Facebook to Meta, Mark Zuckerberg is still all in on building the metaverse
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AppleInsider, Oculus Blog, The Verge on YouTube, TIME, The Verge, MarketWatch, SiliconANGLE, and CNBC
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google announces Chromebooks for cloud gaming: the $650 16-inch Acer 516 GE, the $600 16-inch Lenovo IdeaPad, and the $400 15.6-inch ASUS Vibe CX55 Flip — ASUS, Acer and Lenovo built Chromebooks optimized to run services like GeForce Now. — Three new laptops from ASUS, Acer and Lenovo
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Chromebook on YouTube, The Keyword, TechCrunch, The Verge, BetaNews, Lenovo StoryHub, Kotaku, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, Acer, Laptop Mag, SlashGear, CNET, and Neowin
Tweets: @google, @rosem2silicon, @serghei, and @mkbhd
| Justin Baer / Wall Street Journal: |
New York grants BNY Mellon, the US' oldest bank, permission to receive some customers' BTC and ETH; BNY will store keys, offer bookkeeping services, and more — Founded by Alexander Hamilton, BNY Mellon is the first large U.S. bank to safeguard digital assets alongside traditional investments
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BNY Mellon, CoinDesk, Crypto Adventure, crypto.news, PYMNTS.com, Protocol, CoinGape, and The Daily Hodl
Tweets: @aoverk, @mayazi, @scaramucci, @cz_binance, and @bnymellon
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
A look inside Meta's Reality Labs, with demos of its neural input wristband, 3D audio, photorealistic avatars with Codec Avatars 2.0, and 3D object scanning — My visit to a future that isn't quite here yet: neural wristbands, ghostly 3D audio and lifelike avatars. Plus, the new Meta Quest Pro.
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Financial Times, Associated Press, and UploadVR
| Kollen Post / The Block: |
Crypto exchange Bittrex agrees to a $29.3M settlement with the US Treasury Department over potential liability for sanctions violations between 2014 and 2017 — - Bittrex is facing record fines from the U.S. Treasury Department over the exchange's lack of sanctions controls between 2014 and 2017.
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| Washington Post: |
Under Texas' social media law, Kanye West's antisemitic posts on Twitter and Instagram would likely stay up, signaling a difficult future for social media — Taking down the rapper's bigoted posts was an easy call for Twitter and Instagram. That could change if Elon Musk and some GOP leaders have their way.
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Gizmodo, The Hill, The Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, CNN, and Deadline
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Over a dozen job openings hint TikTok plans to open fulfillment centers in the US as the company looks to build an “international e-commerce fulfillment system” — TikTok is planning to build its own product fulfillment centers in the U.S., creating an e-commerce supply chain system …
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The Information, CNN, Associated Press, Gizmodo, Tubefilter, LinkedIn, and GeekWire
Tweets: @accountabletech, @thedragonfeeder, @mattahertz, @liahaberman, and @realjdenton
| Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal: |
Billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner renounced his Russian citizenship in August 2022, after leaving Russia in 2014; Milner became an Israeli citizen in 1999 — His firm, DST Global, has invested in technology companies including Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4090 review: great 4K performance, DLSS 3 transforms frame rates, and 24GB of VRAM, but a 450W power draw, a dongle adapter, huge, and expensive — The RTX 40-series starts with a big performance leap — I had to triple check my benchmarks over and over during this review, because I couldn't quite believe my eyes.
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TechSpot, BabelTechReviews, PCGamesN, Forbes, PCWorld, Ars Technica, HotHardware, VideoCardz.com, Digital Trends, Engadget, Eurogamer.net, Forbes, Gizmodo, and Neowin
Tweets: @tomwarren and @powergpu
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
CNN closes its “Vault by CNN” NFT project, opened in 2021 to let anyone “own a piece of history”, and plans to compensate users with FLOW tokens or stablecoins — You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace …
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CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, Gizmodo, and Bitcoinist.com
Tweets: @vaultbycnn, @parkermolloy, @mdudas, @tomgara, @genepark, and @parkermolloy
| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Intel and Google announce a co-designed E2000 chip for data centers, aiming to improve security and efficiency; Intel can sell the E2000 to other customers — Intel Corp (INTC.O) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud on Tuesday said they have launched a co-designed chip that can make data centers more secure and efficient.
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