Microsoft unveils a Copilot keyboard key, shipping in new PCs and laptops from its partners, the first major change to the PC keyboard layout in nearly 30 years
Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it's kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs.
The CEO of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse, introduced to investors in 2021, doesn't appear to exist; Chainalysis: consumers lost $1.3B to HyperVerse in 2022
Exclusive: Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him
In a letter to a group of victims of its October 2023 breach, 23andMe blames them, saying that “users negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords”
Facing more than 30 lawsuits from victims of its massive data breach, 23andMe is now deflecting the blame …
LastPass now requires users to set a master password with a minimum of 12 characters, after enforcing the requirement for new accounts or resets in April 2023
LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security.
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2, an update to the XR2 Gen 2 used in Meta's Quest 3, offering 4.3K resolution at 90fps per eye, up from 3K per eye
The new chipset is designed as a step up from the XR2 Gen 2 in the Meta Quest 3, capable of rendering high-resolution visuals like the ones promised by Apple's Vision Pro.
Dell announces the $1,299+ XPS 13, the $1,699+ XPS 14, replacing the XPS 13 Plus, and the $1,899+ XPS 16, offering Intel Core 7 and 9 and up to 4TB of storage
This might not be the biggest shake-up of the Dell XPS lineup ever, but between some bigger laptops and a total revamping of the XPS portfolio, it feels like a big deal.
Sources: TikTok aims to grow TikTok Shop US' merchandise volume tenfold to $17.5B in 2024 and plans to launch TikTok Shop in Latin America in the coming months
- ByeDance's video app is fast expanding beyond advertising … The 2024 merchandise volume goal for the US version of TikTok Shop …
Perplexity, which offers an AI-based “answer engine” with ~10M MAUs to compete with Google, raised $74M at a $520M valuation from IVP, Jeff Bezos, and others
Perplexity, with a fraction of Google's users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup in recent years
As Google restricts third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users, marketers, adtech companies, and publishers say Google has not done enough to prepare the market
Search giant plans to remove a technology seen as critical to the digital-ad industry — Google is going forward …
The White House awards $162M in federal grants to Arizona-based Microchip Technology to expand its Oregon and Colorado facilities, the second CHIPS Act award
The Biden administration said its second grant under a new program would help Microchip Technology expand its facilities in Oregon and Colorado.
TikTok plans to raise TikTok Shop's US seller fees from 2% to 8% over the next few months; a source says TikTok has started reducing some merchant subsidies
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Mobileye stock drops 25% after the self-driving tech company warned that customer orders may fall in Q1 as automakers stocked up during chip shortages
- Mobileye shares plunged as much as 25% Thursday after the company warned that customer order numbers would fall short of the year-ago quarter.
SpaceX launches its first six Starlink satellites capable of offering mobile phone service as part of its Direct to Cell service in partnership with T-Mobile US
On Tuesday, January 2 at 7:44 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites … T-Mobile : First SpaceX Satellites Launch for Breakthrough Direct to Cell Service with T-Mobile Jean-Pierre Joosting /...
Kim Kardashian says her Glu Mobile-developed game, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, will shut down on April 8; between 2014 and 2016, the game made $156M in sales
and Generating Hundreds of Millions in Revenue Chris Morris / Fortune : Taylor Swift couldn't find success in mobile games, but Kim Kardashian did. Now that title is calling it quits Smangaliso Simela...
Etherscan, the leading block explorer for Ethereum that was founded in 2015, acquires Solscan, a block explorer for Solana founded in 2021
Macauley Peterson / Blockworks :
Sources: OpenAI offered some media companies as little as between $1M and $5M per year to license their news articles for use in model training, a tiny amount
OpenAI has offered some media firms as little as between $1 million and $5 million annually to license their news articles for use …
The US NLRB accuses SpaceX of illegally firing eight employees in 2022 for circulating a letter critical of founder and CEO Elon Musk
Xerox plans to cut 15% of its workforce as part of a restructuring; the company had ~20,500 employees as of December 31, 2022, per an SEC filing; XRX drops 12%+
Xerox has been shrinking for years so this may not be a surprise to many. — https://www.cnbc.com/... Bluesky: Emil Protalinski / @epro.social : Here's something you don't see every day: Layoffs foll...
Twitch changes its sexual content policies again and says the platform won't allow streamers to “imply or suggest that they are fully or partially nude”
PitchBook: VC investment in the US fell 30% YoY to $170.6B in 2023, the lowest since 2019, and declined 35% YoY to $345.7B globally, the lowest since 2017
New data paint a bleak picture for Silicon Valley last year. — The value of venture capital deals in the US last year fell to levels …
SteamDB: developers released a record 14,531 game titles on Valve's Steam in 2023, or around 40 per day, breaking 2022's record by just under 2,000 games
Ali Jones / GamesRadar :
Layered Reality announces Elvis Evolution, an AI, AR, and holographic-based show, launching in London in 2024 before traveling to Las Vegas, Tokyo, and Berlin
Paul Sandle / Reuters :
Intel spins out Articul8, an AI company backed by DigitalBridge and others; executives did not share the deal's value or if Intel would retain a majority stake
Stephen Nellis / Reuters :
Fidelity and other spot bitcoin ETF issuers jockey for an early advantage to attract investors, ahead of reported SEC approvals to launch as soon as January 10
Samsung plans to hold its next Galaxy Unpacked event on January 17 at 10am PT in San Jose, and streamed on YouTube, to showcase new Galaxy devices and Galaxy AI
Intel appoints HPE executive Justin Hotard to lead its data center and AI group, a crucial unit to its turnaround, replacing veteran Sandra Rivera on February 1
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Researchers built three AI models to analyze 2,000TB of maritime satellite imagery and create the first global map of vessel traffic and offshore infrastructure
GroupM forms a consortium with Disney, Roku, NBCU, YouTube, and others to push for standardized measurements and ad formats that can be used across streamers
Brian Steinberg / Variety :
Research: deliberate internet shutdowns affected 747M people globally in 2023, with a $9.01B cost; Russia accounted for $4.02B; X was the most blocked platform
South Korea's trade ministry says the electronics sector drew $3B in foreign direct investment in 2023; the country is building a chip cluster south of Seoul
Sam Kim / Bloomberg :
Route package data: Amazon had 29% of global online order volume in the two weeks before Christmas, up from 21% in the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg :
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, the country's No. 2 official, visited YMTC's memory chip production lines, the latest show of support for the US-sanctioned company
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Q&A with Jacob Bakkila, who ran the popular @Horse_ebooks Twitter account for two years, on the inspiration for the language bot, AI chatbots, and more
Kari Paul / The Guardian :
SEC filing: MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor begins selling $216M worth of shares; Saylor remains “optimistic about MicroStrategy's prospects”
A look at the cottage industry of lawyers helping Amazon merchants reactivate their accounts after suspensions, as Amazon cracks down on millions of sellers
Airbus is in talks to acquire Atos' cybersecurity and data unit for up to €1.8B; Atos says another company also made an offer; Thales reportedly showed interest
Tencent bought back a record $1.3B of shares in December, as China's gaming rules triggered a selloff; daily buybacks more than doubled since December 22, 2023
Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg :
Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on generative AI moving from the cloud into mobile devices, AI changing the UX of smartphones, AI coming into VR, and more
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
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