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Apple Vision Pro could cannibalize the iPad; some in Apple's Vision Products Group believe the headset could take four generations to reach its full potential — Apple's Vision Pro will eventually replace the iPad, but the device has hardware and software shortcomings that need to be resolved first.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
A crowd in San Francisco destroyed a Waymo car on February 11, amid tensions over automated vehicles; Waymo says the car “was not transporting any riders” — A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco's Chinatown last night around 9PM PT …
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| Ben Hall / Financial Times: |
Ukraine's GUR military intelligence unit says Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line, confirming media reports of Russia using Starlink — Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow's troops ‘systemic’ — Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which is fighting Sudan's army, has been using Starlink since August 2023, during an internet blackout — - UN slams internet blackout in Sudan during humanitarian crisis — Starlink devices have entered country via Chad and South Sudan
X: @kholoodkhair, @itsantoony, and @unreliefchief
| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
ASML begins gearing up to ship its new $350M High NA EUV machine, which is the size of a double decker bus, and expects to ship “a number” of them in 2024 — Chip toolmaking giant ASML (ASML.AS) said on Friday it was gearing up production of its new $350 million “High NA EUV” …
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| Elena Schneider / Politico: |
Biden's campaign made its first TikTok post, during the Super Bowl, a year after the White House forced US agencies to remove the app from government devices — The move comes about a year after the Biden White House demanded federal agencies remove the app from federal government devices.
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
How generative AI is transforming the advertising industry; WPP and Publicis plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to embed AI in their businesses — At the start of the year, every single one of the roughly 100,000 people working for advertising giant Publicis received a video message … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
With X and Reddit limiting API access, third-party developers are looking into Mastodon and Bluesky, but some are hesitant to build revenue-generating apps — 2023 was the year social networks realized that they were sitting on massive troves of data. And some companies, such as Twitter …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Google One crosses 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from its free plans; YouTube Premium also hit 100M subscribers in February — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One … | Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Bugcrowd, which offers crowdsourced bug bounty tools, raised a $102M Series E led by General Catalyst to expand internationally, and has ~1,000 global customers — Bugcrowd, a 12-year-old crowdsourced cybersecurity startup, has raised $102 million in Series E funding that will help …
| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
How the US plans to use open radio access networks, or Open RAN, to displace Huawei's networking tech, including allocating $1.5B+ to bolster global adoption — The Biden administration has committed more than $1.5 billion to try to persuade the world to use a technology …
Forums: r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Jeff Bezos sold 12M Amazon shares last week, netting just over $2B, his first Amazon stock sale since 2021; Amazon said Bezos plans to sell up to 50M — The sales took place on Wednesday and Thursday and netted just over $2 billion, according to a filing.
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