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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Sony will raise PlayStation Plus annual subscription prices in September; Essential will go from $60 to $80, Extra from $100 to $135, Premium from $120 to $160 — Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation Plus subscription next month. The service's annual Essential plan will go from $60 to $80 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to address a Windows 11 “unintended behavior” that for months has caused malware-like notification pop-ups promoting Bing search to Chrome users — I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend. There I was minding my own business in Chrome …
More: Ars Technica, Thurrott, Windows Central, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing 3D printing the stainless steel Apple Watch Series 9's chassis to speed up production, boost sustainability, and lower costs over time — - New approach will use less material and be more eco-friendly — Company is trying out the process with steel Apple Watches
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
An image with the alt text “A person takes a call on a Pixel 8 Pro phone in Porcelain” popped up on a Google Store page, revealing the as-yet-unannounced device — Continuing the storied tradition of Google's Pixel devices being some of the most-leaked hardware ever …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces a hardware event on October 4 at 10am ET in New York City, where the company is expected to unveil the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, and Pixel Watch 2 — Google this morning announced that it will be hosting its annual Pixel hardware event on Wednesday, October 4.
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| Reuters: |
Huawei quietly launches the ~$960 Mate 60 Pro, without any advance notice or ads; some investors speculate that the Mate 60 Pro uses a Huawei-produced 5G chip — Chinese chip stocks rallied on Wednesday following Huawei Technologies' (HWT.UL) launch of its new Mate 60 Pro phone … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung launches Food, an AI-powered food and recipe app in eight languages and 104 countries, with 160K+ recipes based on a database by Whisk, acquired in 2019 — It builds on Whisk, an app it acquired a few years back. — As it promised last week, Samsung has launched Food, a …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
JBL announces the $330 Authentics 200, $700 Authentics 500, and portable $430 Authentics 300, the first smart speakers featuring both Alexa and Google Assistant — Three new JBL smart speakers from Harman will be the first to offer simultaneous voice assistants, so you can ask Alexa to start the music and then ask Google to stop it.
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
In July 2023, the NHTSA ordered Tesla to provide data on Autopilot's “Elon mode”, which eliminates prompts for drivers to their keep hands on the wheel — - Tesla received a special order from the National Highway Transportation Administration in late July requiring …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is on pace to generate $1B+ in revenue over the next 12 months by selling its AI tools and the computing capacity for them, up from $28M in 2022 — OpenAI is currently on pace to generate more than $1 billion in revenue over the next 12 months from the sale …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Hyperproof, which offers SaaS risk and compliance management tools, raised $40M led by Riverwood Capital, taking its total funding to $66.5M — Hyperproof, a software-as-a-service risk and compliance management company, today announced that it raised $40 million in a funding round led …
More: SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, FinTech Global, Hyperproof, and FinSMEs
| Gabriel Sanchez / Bloomberg: |
Bumble, Match, and Grindr explore more expensive subscription tiers for users seeking a more curated experience; Bumble says some users feel $40 to $50 is “low” — - New weekly subscriptions are driving Gen Z subscription growth — Premium tiers are also planned as paying user growth stalls| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Court filing: X faces 2,200 arbitration cases from employees laid off after Elon Musk took over; the filing fees alone could be $3.5M for such a volume of cases — - Elon Musk's X Corp. is facing 2,200 arbitration cases, a court filing in Delaware revealed on Monday.
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| Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat: |
Data.ai and IDC project that consumers will spend $108B on mobile games in 2023, or ~55% of game spending globally, $43B on consoles, and $40B on PC and Mac — While the games industry isn't growing according to Data.ai and IDC's latest report, spending declines are leveling off faster than expected.
More: Data.ai, Pocket Gamer.biz, and Mobilegamer.biz
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Fairphone announces the €699 Fairphone 5, with a 6.46" 90Hz OLED display, dual 50MP cameras, 30W charging, and eight years of patches, shipping on September 14 — The Fairphone 5 is the latest sustainably produced and repairable handset from Dutch smartphone company Fairphone.
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| Caiwei Chen / Rest of World: |
Chinese sextortion scammers have flooded X, harassing political dissidents and influential opinion leaders since the site added paid blue checks in April 2023 — Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
More: MIT Technology Review and New York Post
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is internally testing the ability to create Reels up to 10 minutes long; TikTok expanded its maximum video length to 10 minutes in February 2022 — Instagram is internally testing the ability to create Reels that are up to 10 minutes in the length, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday.| Bloomberg: |
China starts approving the first batch of generative AI services for public rollout; Baidu receives approval to launch its Ernie Bot to the public on August 31 — - Regulators may give out the green-light as soon as this week — Beijing deems AI a business as well as political imperative| Leo Lewis / Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese hackers accessed Japanese cybersecurity agency NISC's emails for up to nine months; experts: China may be behind Port of Nagoya's July 4 attack — Infiltration comes as allies scrutinise Tokyo's defences against hacking — The organisation responsible for Japan's national defences …
More: Security Affairs, The Record, Metacurity, and The Information
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
A look at the wave of child safety legislation in the US aimed at age-gating minors' access to the internet, backed by Republicans and Democrats alike — By the end of this month, porn will get a lot harder to watch in Texas. Instead of clicking a button or entering a date of birth … | Financial Times: |
UAE-linked G42, MBZUAI, and Cerebras launch Jais, an open-source, English and Arabic bilingual LLM; the UAE once trained an LLM, Falcon, using 300+ Nvidia GPUs — Jais software part of regional powers' effort to take world-leading role in technology's development
More: Gulf News, G42, EnterpriseAI, The National, and Reuters
| Blassy Boben / Reuters: |
India says 32+ international electronics firms, including HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, and Lenovo, applied to the country's $2B incentive program under “Make in India” — At least 32 international electronics companies have applied to India's incentive programme to make laptops …
More: ZDNet, Bloomberg, and International Business Times
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