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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the 14.4" Surface Laptop Studio 2, offering Intel's 13th Gen i7 H chips, Nvidia's RTX 4050 or RTX 4060, and up to 2TB of storage, for $1,999+ — Microsoft just showed off its new high-end convertible laptop, the Surface Laptop Studio 2, at its launch event in New York City.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Surface Hub 3, with 50" or 85" 4K PixelSense displays and support for smart rotation and portrait mode, available later in 2023 — Microsoft has revealed the Surface Hub 3, the latest version of the company's all-in-one collaborative touchscreen device.
More: Microsoft Tech Community, Neowin, and MSPoweruser
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
| Bloomberg: |
Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk in cash for $157 per share, a 31% premium on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B — - Acquisition is largest deal ever for networking stalwart — Cisco is trying to lessen dependence on one-time sales
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| Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching on September 26 across all its apps and services, including Microsoft 365, Edge, and Bing — Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th. The new “AI companion,” …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release its next Windows 11 update, 23H2, on September 26, offering the new AI-powered Windows Copilot, a redesigned File Explorer, and more — Microsoft will release its next big Windows 11 update, 23H2, on September 26th. The update will include the new AI-powered … | Wes Davis / The Verge: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Apple's failed plan to cut out Qualcomm and develop its own modem chip for the iPhone 15 lineup; sources say the chip was slow and prone to overheating — The company set out to design a silicon chip that would allow it to cut ties with Qualcomm, a longtime supplier and bitter foe
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| Ashley Stewart / Insider: |
Sources: Panos Panay's abrupt departure came after Microsoft made budget and staff cuts, canceled products in his division, and discussed reorganizing the unit — - Microsoft this week announced Chief Product Officer Panos Panay left after nearly 20 years.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts YouTube Create, an app that lets creators edit videos, adding effects, GIFs, royalty-free tracks, and more, in beta on Android in eight markets — YouTube this morning introduced a new app for creators, YouTube Create, that will offer a suite of easy-to-use and free tools …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
South Korea-based game publisher Krafton says Striking Distance Studios' CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new horror game flopped — Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months …
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| Wired: |
Docs: up to a dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects had to be euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk said no primates died because of the implants — Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink's implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon releases Mastodon 4.2, making it easier for users to get started, use its network even when logged out, more easily search for content, and more — As changes at Elon Musk's X continue to push former Twitter users to seek alternatives, the open-sourced, decentralized social network Mastodon …
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| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
Data-labeling firms like Scale AI and Appen are hiring poets and writers with humanities backgrounds to improve the literary quality of their AI writing tools — Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta now lets Facebook users create up to four extra profiles and switch between them without logging out and back in; the profiles don't support all features — Basically, Meta is embracing finstas but for Facebook. — “Whether you're new to Facebook or a longtime user …
More: Meta, The Messenger, and TechCrunch
| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Tether confirms resuming lending its stablecoins to clients, less than a year after committing to end such loans; $5.5B of its assets were loans as of June 30 — Cryptocurrency issuer had said it would cut loans to zero in 2023 — Tether Holdings resumed lending out its own stablecoins to customers …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Facebook's “identity system”, including a logo with a “more confident expression” of the “core blue color”, and refines Facebook's emoji Reactions — Meta is updating Facebook's “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo.
More: Design at Meta, BetaNews, Digital Trends, TechRadar, and Neowin
| Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ removes public access to Google's emails, charts, and internal presentations that came out as evidence in its antitrust lawsuit against the company — Trial is already limited in visibility to those who personally attend court … Google had challenged the government's posting … | Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Google extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as its TPU supplier as early as 2027 and designing the chips itself to save billions of dollars annually — Google executives have extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as a supplier of artificial intelligence chips as early as 2027 …
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Nnete Matima and Joël Carter, two Black ex-TikTok staff, file a civil rights complaint alleging ByteDance fired them because they spoke up about discrimination — TikTok's parent company was accused of racism and retaliation by Black former employees in a complaint …
More: CNN, USA Today, Washington Post, NPR, and The Verge
| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Snap says Snapchat+ now has 5M+ subscribers, up from 3M it disclosed in April 2023; the $3.99/month tier launched in June 2022 — Snap Inc. has gained more than 5 million subscribers for its paid service, an offering that gives users early access to new features like an AI-generated selfie maker for $3.99 a month.
More: PYMNTS.com and TechCrunch
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Amazon's Eero unveils the Eero Max 7, its first Wi-Fi 7 router, offering 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands and an “up to 4.3 Gbps” wireless throughput, for $600 — Eero has announced a powerful new top-of-the-line router called the Eero Max 7. It's Eero's first router to support …
More: Club386, HotHardware, Android Police, Pocket-lint, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, guru3d.com, and BetaNews
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub expands its Copilot Chat beta in Visual Studio and VS Code to Copilot for Individual subscribers, after launching the tool for businesses in July 2023 — Three months ago, GitHub launched Copilot Chat, its ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, out of private preview by making … Sponsor Posts
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