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Apple releases visionOS marketing style guidelines, asking developers to refer to Apple Vision Pro apps as “spatial computing apps”, not AR, VR, XR, or MR apps — Apple on Monday finally confirmed that Vision Pro will arrive in stores early next month.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
X suspended several podcasters and journalists, including The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein and Texas Observer's Steven Monacelli, with little to no explanation — Elon Musk's “free speech” social media platform banned a number of accounts recently critical of Israel.
More: VICE, Mashable, NBC News, The Messenger, New Republic, and Business Insider
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon announces Matter Casting, an Apple AirPlay-like feature to send videos from Android and iOS to Amazon devices, initially supporting Echo Show devices — Amazon.com Inc. introduced a new feature that mimics Apple Inc.'s AirPlay while working across different platforms … | Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to start automatically restricting teen Instagram and Facebook accounts from harmful content, including posts about self-harm, in the coming weeks — Efforts to curb harmful material and reduce unwanted interactions with teen social-media accounts come as states sue parent company Meta
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| Bloomberg: |
Beijing's judicial bureau says a state-backed institution cracked Apple's AirDrop to identify message senders, and police found multiple suspects via the method — - Beijing agency claims to have found way to identify senders — Declaration follows efforts to crack down on sensitive content| Nelson Aguilar / CNET: |
Google and Samsung merge their respective Nearby Share and Quick Share features under the Quick Share name, for a more unified cross-Android sharing option — Apple has AirDrop. Android now has Quick Share. — At CES 2024 today, Google announced Quick Share, a collaboration with Samsung … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
In a first, the US FTC bans the data broker X-Mode Social, now known as Outlogic, from selling phone location data and orders it to delete collected data — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users' sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday.
More: Federal Trade Commission, BleepingComputer, The Record, Reuters, and Politico
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
How the internet reshaped itself around Google's search algorithms, including via SEO tricks, and the company's role in many websites now using similar designs — How the internet reshaped itself around Google's search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. — Animations by Richard Parry
More: Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Journal, MSPoweruser, and GamingOnLinux
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| Eric Geller / The Messenger: |
Source: the US is planning rules would require hospitals impose new cybersecurity requirements to get federal funding, amid a barrage of hacks in the industry — The White House sees the policy as essential for patient safety. The hospital industry has vowed to oppose it.| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A profile of OpenAI VP of Global Affairs Anna Makanju, who helped transform Sam Altman from a startup darling into an AI ambassador and worked in Obama's admin — This summer, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a pilgrimage to India to discuss the artificial intelligence revolution with a towering figure: Prime Minister Narendra Modi.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Microsoft finds a material that could replace ~70% of lithium in a battery, by using Azure Quantum Elements HPC resources to run simulations and AI models — Recently, Microsoft built a clock. — Well, “built” may be overstating things. Members of the company's quantum computing team found …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU begins investigating whether Microsoft's OpenAI investment should be vetted under its rules, and asks for feedback on generative AI and virtual worlds — - EU watchdog follows UK regulator in weighing a probe — Move comes after furore over firing and rehiring of Sam Altman
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| New York Times: |
Elections and disinfo are colliding like never before in 2024, as social networks reduce protections and state influence campaigns and AI-fueled disinfo ramp up — A wave of elections coincides with state influence operations, a surge of extremism, A.I. advances and a pullback in social media protections.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
In November 2023, Apple challenged the EU's DMA designation of its five App Stores as a single service, iOS' interoperability, and iMessage's NIICS designation — Apple (AAPL.O) has challenged EU tech rules designating its five App Stores as a single core platform service subject to onerous obligations …
More: iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, Supercharged, The Verge, and EU Law Live
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Micron announces LPCAMM2, thinner and lighter laptop RAM that may replace SODIMM, the nearly 25-year-old standard, as Samsung, Dell, and more also make progress — It's thinner and lighter than standard notebook RAM, and it's upgradeable unlike soldered memory. — Laptop RAM is facing a conundrum.
More: Tom's Hardware, Liliputing, VideoCardz.com, Blocks and Files, Wccftech, OC3D, and guru3d.com
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Filing and memo: Unity Software plans to lay off ~25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, by the end of March 2024, its largest layoff ever and affecting all teams — Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will target laying off approximately 25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
PerformYard, which offers staff retention, management, and upskilling tools, raised $95M from Updata Partners after being mostly bootstrapped besides a $3M seed — Employee performance reviews take time and effort — and aren't always conducted very efficiently.
More: FinSMEs
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Luma, which is training AI models that can generate 3D models from text prompts, raised a $43M Series B, a source says at a valuation between $200M and $300M — A couple of years ago, Alex Yu and Amit Jain came together to found a company that'd let people capture objects in 3D using their smartphones …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Asus revamps the Zenbook Duo with two 14" 120Hz OLED displays and a detachable bluetooth keyboard; in the UK it will debut in late January for £1,699 — Asus is back with another Zenbook Duo, the latest device in its range of dual-screened laptops. But rather than including … | Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Elliott Management has built a ~$1B stake in Match Group and plans to push the online dating company to take steps to boost its stock; MTCH jumps 5%+ — Activist has roughly $1 billion stake and intends to meet with Match to discuss ways to improve online dating company's performance
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Sony teases a “spatial” VR headset for 3D model creation, offering 4K OLEDs, a ring and a pointer controller, and a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, coming later in 2024 — The company showed off the headset along with a unique pair of controllers today during a presentation at CES 2024.
More: Sony Corporation, Engadget, Engadget, iMore, PetaPixel, eeNews Europe, Silicon Republic, SamMobile, Sparrows News, Kotaku, Auganix.org, TweakTown, MIXED Reality News, The Messenger, and UploadVR
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| Axios: |
Carta plans to close its liquidity services business, which matched private company stock buyers and sellers, as people will “worry that we are using the data” — Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock, Axios has learned.| Charlotte Van Campenhout / Reuters: |
Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €355M from the Gates Foundation, Germany's largest supermarket group Edeka, and others to expand in France and Germany — Dutch online grocery store Picnic has raised 355 million euros ($388.02 million) from its investors and plans to further expand …
More: TNW, nltimes.nl, and TechStartups
| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Netflix defeats a shareholder lawsuit claiming the company hid the impact of account sharing; NFLX fell ~50% from January to April 2022 after growth warnings — Netflix (NFLX.O) has defeated a lawsuit filed by shareholders in a federal court in California that accused the streaming entertainment company … Sponsor Posts
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