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Sources: Apple's headset will scan users' irises for logging in and making payments and will have two downward-facing cameras to capture users' legs for avatars — By the time Apple introduces its much-anticipated mixed reality headset—planned for sometime next year—Meta Platforms …
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Nvidia “unlaunches” the 12GB RTX 4080 announced in September after a backlash, saying the GPU sharing the 4080 designation with the RTX 4080 16GB is confusing — Nvidia is pausing the launch of its upcoming 12GB RTX 4080 graphics card. After originally unveiling the 12GB RTX 4080 …
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| Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture” — A subsequent statement from Meta says ‘the segment featured animations created from motion capture’
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| Alex Marquardt / CNN: |
Docs: SpaceX told the Pentagon that it can't donate more Starlink terminals to Ukraine or keep funding the service there indefinitely, and asks for funding — Since they first started arriving in Ukraine last spring, the Starlink satellite internet terminals made by Elon Musk's SpaceX …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta plans to end support for Instant Articles, a source says in mid-April 2023, giving news publishers six months to readjust their Facebook strategies — Meta is ending support for Instant Articles, a proprietary mobile format it debuted in 2015 to quickly load news articles on the Facebook app, Axios has learned.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Instacart slashed its internal valuation to ~$13B, its third cut this year, as it seeks to reset investor expectations ahead of an IPO — Instacart, the instant delivery company gearing up to go public, has slashed its internal valuation to about $13 billion, according to two people familiar with the matter.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Cloud computing company Nutanix is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Nutanix has a $5B+ market cap, down from $9B+ in September 2021 — The cloud-computing company is expected to target private-equity and industry players, people familiar with the matter said
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
For mobile search result ads, Google is replacing “Ad” with “Sponsored” and moving the bolded label from beside the URL to above it in a separate line — Over the years, Google has made it harder to separate ads from organic search results at a glance.
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| Washington Post: |
A letter to Senate leaders from ~250 industry groups urges a Senate floor vote for FCC nominee Gigi Sohn to end a 21-month deadlock and enable Biden's agenda — Almost 250 groups will send a letter Friday to congressional leaders, calling for the Senate to vote to confirm Democratic nominee Gigi Sohn
Tweets: @efffalcon, @evan_greer, @digiphile, and @cat_zakrzewski
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Sources: Crypto broker NYDIG, which raised $1B at a $7B+ valuation in December 2021, laid off ~110 people, about a third of its workforce, in September 2022 — Company said last year that it had raised $1 billion at a valuation of more than $7 billion — NYDIG, the bitcoin trading and banking firm …
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| Nigel Gladstone / Sydney Morning Herald: |
A hacker leaks 5TB of data from the Colombian government, exposing the identities and methods of Australian Federal Police anti-narcotics agents — A massive leak of classified government documents has exposed the identities and methods of secret agents working to stop major drug importations to Australia.| Financial Times: |
Chinese internet censors suspend thousands of WeChat accounts and remove posts after a rare protest in central Beijing against “dictator and traitor Xi Jinping” — Banners hung from bridge call for leader's removal ahead of Communist party congress
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| Politico: |
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried backtracks on spending $1B on US political races by 2024, saying it was a “dumb quote”; SBF has donated ~$40M in the 2022 cycle — , which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 5:15 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need …
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