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Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week after eliminating 13% of its staff, or 11,000 jobs, in November 2022 in its first major layoff — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees …
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Sources: Apple's upcoming 15-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro will feature an 8-core M3 chip, the same core count as the M1 and M2 — We've been hearing rumors about a new MacBook Air for a while, but some details about it remain unclear. 9to5Mac has now heard … | Harshit Rastogi / Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: in 2022, Apple had eight of the top 10 best-selling smartphones, led by the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro Max; Samsung's Galaxy A13 was 4th and A03 came 10th — - Apple captured eight spots in the list of top 10 best-selling smartphones for 2022. — The remaining two spots were taken by Samsung's Galaxy A13 and A03 models.
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Apple announces a yellow finish for the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, the latest new spring color after “alpine green” in 2022, shipping on March 14 — Unlike last year, the new color variant won't be available for the Pro models and will only ship with the base iPhone 14 and the 14 Plus.
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Many VCs question whether generative AI startups, currently attracting huge valuations, will make enough money, fearing a repeat of the crypto investment hype — Silicon Valley VCs fearing a repeat of falling crypto values warn against pouring cash into hype-fuelled start-ups
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Meta tests returning messaging capabilities to the Facebook app, years after moving them to Messenger, hoping to “differentiate” the services from TikTok — New York CNN — — Nearly a decade after Facebook angered some users by splitting off messaging features … | The Block: |
FTX files a lawsuit against Grayscale, CEO Michael Sonnenshein, DCG, and Barry Silbert, citing $1.3B+ in “exorbitant management fees” and seeking $550M+ shares — - FTX' debtors are suing Grayscale Investment, its owners and its CEO over their handling of the Grayscale Bitcoin … | New York Times: |
After Instagram added a prompt to cross-post on Facebook, sources say at Meta's request, some young adults express surprise that their posts are on Facebook — Teenagers and young adults are flummoxed. The reason it keeps happening involves an online prompt and product design.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on rolling out a dedicated video feed, Google and search, moderation, AI, NFTs, growing its 500M+ MAUs, and more — Reddit announces a scrolling video view for your timeline. … Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago …
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Salesforce announces Einstein GPT, bringing OpenAI-based generative AI to Customer 360, Slack, Tableau, and its other products using data from its Data Cloud — - Salesforce clients will be able to exchange Slack messages with a ChatGPT chatbot that can show data from Salesforce.
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Meta stands by its release strategy after LLaMA, an LLM the company gave to approved organizations and researchers, was apparently leaked as a torrent on 4chan — The leaked language model was posted to 4chan. The model was previously only given to approved researchers, government organizations, and members of civil society.| Andrew Marino / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence and producer Giles Martin on the new Era 300 and 100 speakers, spatial audio, Atmos, sustainability, Google lawsuit, and more — They join The Vergecast to discuss Sonos' new Era 300 and 100 speakers, the ins and outs of spatial audio, and why this is the time to get behind it.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitch updates adult nudity policy to ban synthetic non-consensual exploitative images, after a streamer accidentally revealed paying for deepfakes of streamers — Twitch already forbids explicit deepfake images and videos, but it's taking a tougher position against them today.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
TikTok launches Series, letting select creators sell Collections of up to 80 paywalled videos, each up to 20 minutes; creators initially keep 100% of earnings — TikTok is opening up a new monetization spigot for creators on the popular short-form video app.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous trucking software company Embark lays off ~70% of its employees and says the remainder will focus on winding down operations; filing: 230 were cut — Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that went public in 2021 via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
All TV streaming boxes suck in 2023, as the ever-cheaper, ad-supported commodity items fail to improve on smart TVs, most of which are slow and riddled with ads — There are no good streaming boxes, and I blame everybody. … Streaming boxes had so much potential.
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