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.
Zoom details its visionOS app, which will support 3D file sharing, “real-world pinning” of up to five meeting participants, Apple's Persona feature, and more
complete with facial expressions Carrie Marshall / T3 : Zoom is coming to Apple Vision Pro Digital Trends : Zoom unveils immersive app for Apple's Vision Pro headset Asma Hussain / iThinkDifferent : Z...
Elon Musk says that Neuralink implanted its first device in a human on January 28, and its product, Telepathy, will enable control of a user's phone or computer
- 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.
Source: Apple has sold upwards of 200K Vision Pro units, after beginning to accept Vision Pro pre-orders on January 19; Kuo estimated 160K to 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.
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.
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 …
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
X blocking “Taylor Swift” searches as explicit AI images spread was a blunt measure to accomplish a basic moderation task after gutting “trust and safety” staff
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @vrandecic@mas.to : Interesting choice: someone seemingly flooded Twitter with fake nudes of Taylor Swift. Instead of removing them, Twitter currently blocks any s...
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.
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
New York's AG sues Citibank over allegedly failing to defend customers from online scams, citing poor responses to red flags and failing to reimburse victims
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Citibank over its failure to defend customers against hacks and scams and refusing …
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.
German police seize nearly 50K bitcoin, worth ~$2.17B, from two suspects who allegedly acquired the bitcoin with profits from an illegal file-sharing platform
German prosecutors provisionally seized nearly 50,000 Bitcoin worth about $2.1 billion as part of an investigation into what they see as an illegal file-sharing platform.
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 …
Sources: by the end of 2022, <10% of Instagram teens had parental supervision settings on, showing barriers for parents like limited understanding of the tools
Inside the company, kids safety experts have long raised red flags about relying on such features, citing infrequent use.
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
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
Bloomberg :
Meta releases Code Llama 70B, a new version of its code generation model, featuring improved code correctness, a variant optimized for Python, and more
available under the same license as previous Code Llama models. Download the models ➡️ https://ai.meta.com/... • CodeLlama-70B • CodeLlama-70B-Python • CodeLlama-70B-Instruct [image] Awni Hannun / @aw...
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.
Sources and documents: TikTok managers sometimes tell Project Texas staff to send data, including email and IP, to ByteDance without going via official channels
Popular video-sharing app said it had walled off American data in so-called Project Texas, but employees say data is still sometimes shared with its China-based parent
After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot plans to lay off 31% of its staff, or ~350 people, and says chair and CEO Colin Angle would step down; IRBT drops 5%+
Rohan Goswami / CNBC :
Apple says proposed UK legislation could let the country try “to secretly veto new user protections globally”, preventing Apple from shipping them to customers
This is like banning encryption on steroids. 🤯 — https://www.bbc.com/... Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : Really interesting (and concerning, if predictable) moves by the UK govern...
Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 staffers, amid industry-wide cutbacks
The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019 — Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday … Threads: @thekenyeung , @markstenberg3 , @martinsfp , and @frederi...
GM plans to cut Cruise spending by half in 2024, or by ~$1B, but remains committed to the self-driving unit and will “soon” give a timeline to resume operations
General Motors (GM.N) said Tuesday it is cutting spending in half on troubled robotaxi unit Cruise …
Codeium, whose AI tools help companies write code, raised a $65M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, a source says at a $500M valuation, and reports 300K+ users
- Kleiner Perkins led $65 million investment in startup — Codeium uses AI to improve software developer productivity
Berlin-based Delivery Hero plans to sell 68.2M shares of Deliveroo, or a ~4.5% stake worth ~£83M, and does not expect to hold any Deliveroo stock afterwards
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times :
Meta partners with the Center for Open Science to share data for researching online well-being, before January 31's Congressional hearing on kids' online safety
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says the company is in the early stages of planning a London IPO, appointing two banks, after considering a listing in early 2022
Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg :
OpenAI partners with Common Sense Media on new AI guidelines, curating a family-friendly section of OpenAI's GPT Store, educational materials, and more
Ina Fried / Axios :
Kore.ai, which offers enterprise-focused conversational AI and GenAI tools, raised $150M led by FTV Capital, Nvidia, and others, taking its funding to ~$223M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
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
Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal :
A look at Intel's mistakes during Brian Krzanich's CEO tenure, and Pat Gelsinger's attempt to turn Intel into a foundry for chip developers, partnering with UMC
There are time when being a semiconductor CEO is rather easy. Just consider Brian Krzanich: when he took over the Intel job in 2013, I wrote in The Intel Opportunity: X: @stratechery X: @stratechery ...
Sources: the US DOJ and FBI received legal authorization to disable aspects of Volt Typhoon, a Chinese hacking operation that compromised thousands of devices
An interview with Google Play VP and General Manager Sam Bright on Play Store curation, AI, the quality gap between Android and iOS apps, openness, and more
Daniel Bader / Android Police :
TikTok is testing a feature that could make all posts shoppable, by identifying objects in videos and prompting users to “find similar items on TikTok Shop”
who can only link to the product in the description) gets the referrer commission. — TikTok also gets to sell “preferred vendor” access and other nonsense to further predate on their users. — It f...
South Korea-based Rebellions, which develops AI chips, raised a ~$124M Series B led by KT at a ~$658M post-money valuation, taking its total raised to ~$210M
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
PitchBook: US VCs have $311B in unspent cash, as investors shy away from risky bets and focus on dividends, after raising a record $435B between 2020 and 2022
Financial Times :
Sema4.ai, a three-month-old startup led by ex-Cloudera CEO Rob Bearden aiming to automate business tasks with AI, raised $30.5M and acquires AI startup Robocorp
Source: Alphabet executives told staff at its moonshot X lab that Alphabet will not convert promising investment projects into Other Bets subsidiaries in 2024
The Information : X: @carnage4life and @amir X: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Google has told employees at its X unit that it won't be converting any moonshots to subsidiaries. It looks like Google...
A look at chip equipment maker J.E.T, which is up 166% since its September 2023 Tokyo IPO, as the company eyes subsidy-fueled demand to lower its China reliance
Bloomberg :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.