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Hands-on with Samsung's Project Moohan headset: lighter than the Vision Pro, Android XR is highly reminiscent of visionOS, Gemini is the killer app, and more — - Google aims to mimic phone success with Android XR software — Samsung headset coming next year with Vision Pro-like features| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google unveils Android XR, a mixed reality OS with Gemini built in for headsets and smart glasses, and plans a 2025 launch with Samsung's Project Moohan headset — I demoed Google's new Android XR platform, Samsung's Project Moohan, and prototype smart glasses. I felt as close to Tony Stark in a controlled demo as I'll ever be.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Meta donates $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources say Mark Zuckerberg gifted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27 — President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving
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| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Australia plans a levy on tech companies like Meta with $250M+ in local revenue to force them to pay publishers for journalism, after Meta quit the prior deal — Move is designed to close loophole after Meta walked away from existing deal to use media content| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Gemini 2.0 Flash LLM early impressions: spatial reasoning performance is impressive, and its new streaming API is one of those “we live in the future” moments — Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says Russia-backed hacking group Secret Blizzard targeted Ukraine's military using other cybercriminals' tools, “to make attribution more difficult” — A Russian-government backed hacking group targeted Ukraine's military using tools and infrastructure developed by cybercriminals, according to new research.
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| Matt Yoder / Awful Announcing: |
YouTube tells customers that the monthly price for YouTube TV's base plan will jump from $73 to $83 in January 2025, after raising it from $65 to $73 in 2023 — YouTube TV logo — Streaming services became a popular alternative to cable and satellite television because they were available …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Telefónica, one of the world's largest carriers, plans to preinstall the Epic Games Store on every new compatible Android phone it sells, including Samsung's — Telefónica, one of the largest carriers in the world serving the UK, Spain, Germany, and Latin America with the O2 … | Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Harvard releases a high-quality dataset of nearly 1M public-domain books, created with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, that anyone can use to train AI tools — The project's leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM pulling the plug on Cruise's robotaxi experiment in favor of “privately owned” driverless cars is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles — Eight years and $10 billion later, GM has decided to pull the plug on its grand robotaxi experiment.
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| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
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| Reuters: |
Forbes: Elon Musk's net worth crossed $400B on December 12, boosted by Tesla stock and SpaceX's valuation; Jeff Bezos has a $244B net worth, the second highest — Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk's net worth crossed $400 billion on Thursday, the Forbes real-time billionaires list showed … | Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Current and former Netflix staff say the company has walked back its parental-leave benefits, after shifting its focus from subscriber growth to profitability — Employees worry the pullback and other new restrictions mean the entertainment giant is losing the identity that fueled its success
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon delayed the deployment of Microsoft 365 for its 1.5M employees for a year to resolve security concerns about Microsoft's Midnight Blizzard hack — - Companies teamed up to make sure cloud-based product is secure — Amazon employees were expected to receive software this year| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Character.AI announces more parental controls and a separate LLM for users under 18, after two US lawsuits claimed its chatbots harmed young users — In an announcement today, Chatbot service Character.AI says it will soon be launching parental controls for teenage users …
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| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive into AI scaling laws, including an outline of the old pre-training scaling trend and the new scaling trends for post-training and inference time — In our pursuit of becoming a better full service research firm, we've moved off Substack. For any questions please read https://semianalysis.com/faq/ #substack
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| George Winslow / Tv Technology: |
The FCC opens all 1,200 megahertz of the 6GHz band for unlicensed use by very-low-power devices, citing growth in wearables, AR/VR, and other cutting-edge tech — The move, which the agency says will spur innovation, had been opposed by the NAB for its potential impact on newsgathering
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
An interview with Evan Williams on his new app Mozi, which raised $6M and aims to foster in-person connections as a return to social media's original intention — Evan Williams's new app, Mozi, is aimed at fostering in-real-life connections.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
The crypto industry's impact on the 2024 US elections shows that crypto is a perfect anti-establishment technology for the turbulence and distrust of the 2020s — An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age — For years, crypto skeptics have asked, What is this for?| Julia Jacobs / New York Times: |
The NLRB issues a complaint against Netflix's Love Is Blind and classifies its contestants as employees, a case that could have ripple effects across reality TV — The National Labor Relations Board's case against the Netflix hit could have ripple effects across the reality TV industry.
More: Quartz and Media Play News
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Forums: r/television and r/LoveIsBlindNetflix
| James Hunt / The Block: |
Layer 1 blockchain project Avalanche raised $250M via a locked token sale co-led by Galaxy Digital, Dragonfly, and ParaFi, to support its Avalanche9000 upgrade — - Layer 1 blockchain project Avalanche has raised $250 million in a locked token sale led by Galaxy Digital, Dragonfly and ParaFi Capital.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The Information: Apple this past summer canceled the development of a high-performance Mac chip to let some engineers in Israel work on its first AI server chip — Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, in a piece today for The Information (paywalled up the wazoo, sadly), “Apple Is Working on AI Chip With Broadcom”:
| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Binance and Circle partner to promote USDC; Binance plans to list more crypto trading pairs denominated in USDC and hold USDC for its own corporate treasury — - Circle faces increased challenges in the stablecoin market — Binance will support more USDC usage on its platform| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Google rolls out two updates to Android's unknown tracker alerts feature, letting users pause location updates from their phone and pinpoint unfamiliar trackers — Google is rolling out two new updates to its unknown tracker alerts feature that should make it easier for Android device owners … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Gigs, which helps companies become mobile virtual network operators, raised a $73M Series B led by Ribbit Capital, after a $20M Series A in 2022 — Gigs, a platform that makes it easier for any company to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), has raised $73 million in a Series B round of funding.
More: Tech.eu, Light Reading, and Reuters
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Zürich-based robotics startup Anybotics raised a $60M Series B extension, taking the round, announced in May 2023, to $110M and its total funding to $130M — Swiss robotics company Anybotics has raised an extra $60 million to close its Series B round off at $110 million … Sponsor Posts
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