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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple opens pre-orders for the Vision Pro, which has an M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage options — Apple today finally shared additional tech specs for its Vision Pro headset following the start of pre-orders in the United States.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases Vision Pro accessories, including a travel case, a battery pack, and a Light Seal, all for $199 each, and Solo Knit and Dual Loop bands for $99 — Apple Vision Pro is now available for pre-order, and so are lots of accessories for Apple's first spatial computer. The price for most things?
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| Bloomberg: |
YouTube and, according to a source, Spotify are not planning to launch a native Apple Vision Pro app or to allow their iPad apps to run on the AR/VR platform — - Users of those services will be steered toward the web — Searches indicate apps from Meta may also be unavailable
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Internal video and memo: Apple sees health care, training, and education as key areas for the Vision Pro, and will give employees a 25% discount on the device — - Company has teams focused on enterprise and education uses — Employees to get at least a 25% discount on Apple Vision Pro
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X rolls out audio and video calling to Android, after launching on iOS in October 2023; all users can receive calls, but only Premium subscribers can place them — Elon Musk's own social network X is rolling out the ability to make audio and video calls directly from the app to its Android client.| Piotr Lipinski / Reuters: |
The EU Commission is seeking feedback on concessions Apple offered, including opening its Tap to Pay tech to third-party wallets for 10 years, to settle a probe — The European Commission is seeking feedback from rivals and customers on concessions Apple (AAPL.O) offered … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman has held talks to raise billions, including $8B to $10B from Abu Dhabi-based G42, to set up a network of factories to manufacture chips — - Push reflects concern about potential semiconductor shortage — Project would involve working with major chipmaking companies| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Rabbit's $199 AI device R1 will use Perplexity AI's tech to answer user queries; the first 100,000 R1 buyers will get one year of Perplexity Pro for free — One of the standout gadgets of this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the rabbit r1, will use Perplexity AI's tech to answer user queries … | Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast: |
Author Rie Kudan, this year's winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, reveals that ~5% of her book “quoted verbatim the sentences generated by” ChatGPT — One of the judges praised her winning book as being “flawless.” — At an award ceremony for one of Japan's … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A look at the reasons behind why Artifact failed, such as not growing its user base outside of the US and user confusion about its ever-growing set of features — Last week, Artifact, a buzzy news app from Instagram's co-founders, announced it was shutting down after failing to gain critical mass … | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
Google says 404 Media's report claiming Google is “boosting” AI-written article is misleading since the writer sorted news content by date rather than relevance — In short, Sullivan said that the way they filtered Google News was by date and not relevancy (relevancy filtering is the default) …
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