Source: Meta will not publicly release the first version of its AR glasses, scheduled for 2024, to focus on its second version, unlikely to arrive for years
Meta Platforms has scaled back its plans to release a series of augmented reality glasses over the next several years as part …
Sources: Apple is planning a 15" MacBook Air for 2023, a 12" laptop for the end of 2023 or early 2024, and MacBook Pros with M2 Pro or M2 Max for 2022 or 2023
Apple Inc. plans to expand the lineup of laptops using its new, speedier in-house chips next year, aiming to grab a bigger share of the market …
The UK's CMA plans a market investigation into Apple's App Store restrictions on cloud gaming alongside Apple and Google's market power in mobile browsers
Apple and Google “hold all the cards” with interventions needed to give innovators and competitors a fair chance to compete in mobile ecosystems
Source: Meta will stop selling its Portal smart display as a consumer product, instead focusing on selling future versions to businesses
Janko Roettgers / Protocol :
Source: Meta will distribute the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, exclusively to developers, helping them build software for future devices
It's also canceling a planned smartwatch with two cameras — Meta has decided to not sell the first version of its full-fledged AR glasses …
AMD updates its Zen architecture roadmap, including Zen 4 improvements in 2022 and Zen 5 in 2024 with a mix of 4nm and 3nm processes and AI and ML optimizations
Today is AMD's Financial Analyst Day, the company's semi-annual, analyst-focused gathering. While the primary purpose …
Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z launch The Bitcoin Academy, giving free financial education classes on Bitcoin at the Brooklyn public housing complex where Jay-Z grew up
Is billionaire-funded crypto education really what low-income people need? — Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey …
Sources: some US news outlets prepare for shortfalls as Meta weighs ending fees for news; annual fees averaged $20M+ for NYT, $15M+ for WaPo, and $10M+ for WSJ
Social-media company pays more than $10 million a year to a handful of news organizations to feature their content on its news tab
Alibaba drops as much as 8% after its Ant Group unit said it has no current plans to revive its IPO and a key regulator said it had not evaluated the listing
- Alibaba shares dropped 8% on Thursday after its financial affiliate Ant Group said there were currently no plans to revive a public listing.
Ross Young: Apple is developing a 14.1" iPad Pro with a miniLED display and ProMotion, likely for an early 2023 release; recent rumors corroborate the new model
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors : Source: @dsccross .
AMD's upcoming RDNA 3 GPU architecture will use a chiplet design and target a 50%+ performance-per-watt uplift versus RDNA 2; the first chips are coming in 2022
Ryan Smith / AnandTech :
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox TV app to Samsung's 2022 smart TVs on June 30, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers play 100+ Xbox games without a console
software we download on devices through digital stores — has outlived its usefulness? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Brandon Ross / @brandolightshed : Samsung / Xbox lowering the ...
Seth Green gets his Bored Ape NFT back after losing it to a phishing scam; transaction records suggest Green may have paid 165 ETH, worth ~$297K, to “Mr Cheese”
Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News :
Indian credit card payment service Cred raises $80M as part of a planned $140M Series F at a $6.2B valuation, up from a $4B valuation in October 2021
According to Moneycontrol estimates, the Kunal Shah-led company has raised the money at a valuation of almost $6.22 billion.
Utah-based Whistic, whose Vendor Security Network helps businesses automate vendor assessments, has raised a $35M Series B led by JMI Equity
Helping disrupt a broken infosec requirement for sales and procurement professionals has led over 45,000 companies to turn to Pleasant Grove, Utah-based Whistic.
Stitch Fix plans to lay off 15% of its salaried staff, or ~330 people, and reports Q3 revenue down 8% YoY to $492.9M and a $78M net loss, up from $18.8M YoY
Lauren Thomas / CNBC :
The NHTSA upgrades its Tesla Autopilot investigation to an “Engineering Analysis”, which precedes a possible recall, and expands it from 765K to 830K vehicles
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Google says Chrome 102 will use machine learning running entirely within the browser to silence unsolicited permission requests from websites before they pop up
Richard Lawler / The Verge :
DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $588.7M, vs. $581.8M est., and a $27.4M net loss, up from $8.4M YoY, as the company moderates hiring; stock drops 20%+
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Experts say Amazon's encrypted chat app Wickr is flooded with child sex abuse images and the company is not taking basic safety measures to prevent sharing
Court records show that Wickr Me has become part of a toolkit used by people who exploit children. Tweets: @benjamingoggin , @benjamingoggin , @benjamingoggin , @anthony , @mattmday , and @jasonabbruz...
An in-depth look at the mechanics behind Axie Infinity and the ramifications of the ~$620M hack on players and the game, as Sky Mavis plots its next steps
Over the course of his life, Alejo Lopez de Armentia has played video games for a variety of reasons. Tweets: @caseynewton , @joshuabrustein , @joshuabrustein , @joshuabrustein , @thedextriarchy , @th...
After delivery startup Gorillas raised $1B in October, sources say it is drastically cutting costs, reducing staff benefits, and considering closing warehouses
After Germany's rapid food delivery startup Gorillas Technologies GmbH closed a $1 billion funding round last October … Tweets: @eliotwb , @aggichristiane , @cdanuloff , @aulia , and @shiraovide Tweet...
Source: the SEC is investigating whether the marketing of the TerraUSD stablecoin before it crashed in May 2022 violated federal investor-protection regulations
Matt Robinson / Bloomberg :
Anagenex, which combines AI and large-scale proprietary datasets for drug discovery, has raised a $30M Series A led by Catalio Capital Management
Arundhati Parmar / MedCity News :
America's Frontier Fund, a nonprofit group associated with Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, and others, is lobbying the US government to invest $1B in US chip making
Ephrat Livni / New York Times :
Dell redesigns the $999 XPS 13 to be slimmer and transforms the XPS 13 2-in-1 into a detachable Surface rival, adds Intel's 9-watt 12th Gen CPUs, and more
look out Apple! Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo : Dell's New XPS 13 Is Thinner, More Colorful—And Lacks a Headphone Jack Jackson Chen / Input : Dell's refreshed XPS 13 2-in-1 is more tablet than laptop Brando...
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss that Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not an anti-blockchain conspiracy
lashing out at skeptics in a way usually reserved for CEOs of fraudulent companies. How did we get here? 1/ https://twitter.com/... Ben McKenzie / @ben_mckenzie : One interesting vibe shift is people ...
In a staff memo, Activision Blizzard CEO says it is opening collective bargaining negotiations with workers at Raven Software who recently voted to join a union
Hope King / Axios :
Sources: “AI transformer” startups Inflection, Cohere, Adept, and Anthropic, which collectively raised $1B+, recently poached dozens of scientists from Big Tech
- Four of the best-funded new AI start-ups — Inflection, Cohere, Adept and Anthropic — have recently poached dozens …
Arduino, maker of open source microcontrollers popular with hobbyist hardware developers, raised a $32M Series B from Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Arm, others
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
TSMC and Samsung are grappling with a manufacturing equipment shortage; analyst: shortfalls of the most advanced chips could be as high as 20% by 2024 and later
Wall Street Journal :
Sources and filings: Vy Capital, the third-largest backer of Musk's Twitter bid, is a Dubai-based firm founded by Alexander Tamas, who has links to Yuri Milner
Paris-based Maze, a software product research service for prototype tests and surveys, raises a $40M Series B led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $60M
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