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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple Vision Pro review: marvelous display, great hand and eye tracking, and works seamlessly in the ecosystem, but pricey and video passthrough can be blurry — The Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer headset anyone's ever made — and that's the problem.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Source: Apple has sold upwards of 200K Vision Pro units, after beginning to accept Vision Pro pre-orders on January 19; Kuo estimated 160K-180K on January 22 — Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on January 28, and that the first Neuralink product is called Telepathy — - Elon Musk's neurotech startup Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on Sunday, and the patient is “recovering well,” according to a post on X.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Edge imported open Chrome tabs after a Windows update despite Edge's import tool being disabled; Windows users have reported the behavior for months — Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
X has lifted its ban on Taylor Swift searches, but “will continue to be vigilant”, following the spread of explicit AI-generated images of the singer — Social-media site restricted queries for the singer's name after the digitally altered images hit the platform
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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
US DOJ and SEC file charges in an alleged $1.9B crypto fraud known as HyperFund, which collapsed in 2022, saying “the level of alleged fraud here is staggering” — - The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against two people and the guilty plea of a third person … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
ICANN proposes .INTERNAL, a new TLD available for internal use but never plumbed into the global DNS, taking on the same role as 192.168.x.x IPv4 bloc — The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root - like may already do with a subdomain for an intranet
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox President Sarah Bond says that “Apple's new policy is a step in the wrong direction”, in response to an X post by Spotify's CEO about Apple's DMA changes — Apple's new plan to comply with the European Union's tech regulations has already drawn criticism from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and Spotify.
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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Apple says proposed UK legislation could let the country try “to secretly veto new user protections globally”, preventing Apple from shipping them to customers — Apple has attacked proposals for the UK government to pre-approve new security features introduced by tech firms.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Portal, a startup building a BTC-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, raised a $34M seed from Coinbase and others, taking its funding to $42.5M — - Portal has raised $34 million in a seed funding round from Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures and others.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
After a months-long probe, Italy's data protection authority says OpenAI is suspected of violating EU privacy regulations, giving the company 30 days to respond — OpenAI has been told it's suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of its AI chatbot …
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| Bloomberg: |
Blizzard names Johanna Faries, former general manager for Call of Duty at Activision, as its president, succeeding Mike Ybarra, who left last week after layoffs — Replaces Mike Ybarra who left the video-game company last week as part of mass layoffs under new owner Microsoft
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Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Competitiveoverwatch, and r/gamingnews
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Meta releases Code Llama 70B, a new version of its code generation model, featuring improved code correctness, a variant optimized for Python, and more — Meta AI, the company that brought you Llama 2, the gargantuan language model that can generate anything from tweets to essays …
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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Sources: Binance has bowed to pressure from customers to let them store assets with an independent custodian, highlighting growing unease after the US fines — Customers switch trading collateral to independent banks including Switzerland's Sygnum and Flow
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| Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal: |
Reed Hastings donates $1.1B worth of his Netflix shares, or ~40% of his stake, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech founders — Reed Hastings donates to foundation with $10 billion in assets after gifts from Mark Zuckerberg and other tech founders| Yiwen Lu / New York Times: |
The AI boom has spurred law firms, hospitals, insurance companies, government agencies, and others to create chief AI officer roles to navigate the use of AI — Many feared that artificial intelligence would kill jobs. But hospitals, insurance companies and others are creating roles to navigate and harness the disruptive technology.
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| The Information: |
Source: Alphabet executives told staff at its moonshot X lab that Alphabet will not convert promising investment projects into Other Bets subsidiaries in 2024 — Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is cutting back its commitment to ambitious moonshot projects.
X: @carnage4life and @amir
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