Apple says developers have optimized 600+ apps for the Vision Pro in time for its February 2 launch, including Airmail, Box, MUBI, Night Sky, Parcel, and PCalc
Apple today announced that over 600 apps with native support for visionOS will be available on the Vision Pro when the headset launches in the U.S. this Friday.
An interview with Tim Cook, Greg Joswiak, James Cameron, Jon Favreau, and others on the Apple Vision Pro, using the device, developing the headset, and more
Inside Apple Park, the tech giant's CEO talks about the genesis of a “mind-blowing” new device that could change the way we live and work.
Microsoft says that Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Copilot features will be available on Apple Vision Pro at launch on February 2
Teams, Word, Excel and more are going virtual, and there's even Copilot Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Microsoft shows off its day one Vision Pro apps, including Copilot AI integration Devesh Beri / MSPowe...
Microsoft says Pocket Pair's Palworld, still technically in early access, is the biggest third-party Xbox Game Pass launch in history, reaching 7M players
Surprise viral gaming hit Palworld continues to reach new player milestones. Today, developer Pocketpair announced that the game …
UMG begins pulling its artists' music from TikTok after negotiations failed; videos featuring UMG-owned songs will be muted, and users can pick a new soundtrack
- Publisher behind Drake and Taylor Swift pushes for better pay — Videos featuring Universal Music-owned songs will be muted
Apple releases visionOS 1.0.2, fixing a WebKit vulnerability that, if exploited, allowed malicious code execution; Apple included a patch in iOS 17.3 last week
A day after reporters published their first hands-on review of Apple's Vision Pro, the technology giant released its first security patch …
An interview with Unity Create President Marc Whitten, as the company launches support for building spatial apps for Apple's visionOS to all its subscribers
Unity has unveiled its support for spatial experiences including support for the Apple Vision Pro that launches on February 2.
Celsius emerges from bankruptcy and plans to distribute $3B+ to its creditors, who will also get a stake in the company's new Ionic Digital mining operation
The distribution will be made through PayPal and Coinbase. — Register Now — Celsius will be shipping out more than $3 billion …
A recap of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, with testimony from the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord
Q&A with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on the company's music festival in Arizona, his background, TikTok and music, US scrutiny, music labels, moderation, and more
A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he's trying to make TikTok better.
Email to subscribers: Hulu changed its agreement to ban sharing accounts outside of the user's household “unless otherwise permitted by your Service Tier”
The Disney-owned streaming service changed its subscriber agreement to ban sharing of accounts outside of individual households.
Google launches ImageFX, an AI image generator underpinned by Imagen 2, with “expressive chips”, or keyword suggestions; Google will bring Imagen 2 to Bard
Taylor Swift deepfakes be damned, Google is releasing a new AI-powered tool, TextFX, for image creation.
Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to parents in the audience of a US Senate hearing who say that Meta's apps contributed to their children's suicide or exploitation
After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot, whose robot vacuum market share has steadily eroded since 2014, could become an also-ran as Chinese companies gain
By abandoning its deal to buy iRobot, Amazon has left the robot vacuum maker stuck under the couch. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @tess@mastodon.social . X: @gergelyorosz Forums: Hacker News and ...
CISA orders US federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti VPN appliances vulnerable to multiple actively exploited bugs before Saturday, February 3
CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti Connect Secure or Policy Secure VPN appliances vulnerable to multiple actively exploited bugs …
Sources: SK Hynix plans to build an advanced chip packaging plant in Indiana, for stacking DRAM chips to create High Bandwidth Memory chips for Nvidia's GPUs
South Korean company's memory chips will be packaged with Nvidia processors to create more powerful AI products
The Allen Institute for AI open sources OLMo, or “Open Language MOdels”, and its data set Dolma; OLMo was created with Harvard, AMD, Databricks, and others
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen …
US adults survey: 83% use YouTube, 68% use Facebook, 47% use Instagram; 27% to 35% use Snapchat, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest; 22% use X and Reddit
YouTube and Facebook are by far the most used online platforms among U.S. adults; TikTok's user base has grown since 2021
Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA
how much they care & the promises—are empty. It is the voices & stories of the advocates who joined me today that will create real change. We will win this fight for the Kids Online Safety Act. [image...
Sources: Nvidia opens pre-orders for its new China-specific H20 AI chips, each costing $12K to $15K; specs show Huawei's 910B as more powerful in some key areas
Nvidia (NVDA.O) has started taking pre-orders for a new China-specific artificial intelligence (AI) chip from distributors …
Memo: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says the company plans to lay off 400 employees, or ~7% of its staff, as the “reality is that costs are still too high”
KEY POINTS — Identity management company Okta said on Thursday in a message to employees that it would lay off 400 employees, about 7% of the company's headcount.
Activist investor Elliott Management builds a “sizable” Etsy stake, a source says a roughly 13% position, and Elliott partner Marc Steinberg joins Etsy's board
- Activist investor Elliott Management has a “sizable” investment in e-commerce firm Etsy.
The FBI and US DOJ disrupt Volt Typhoon, a uniquely dangerous Chinese hacking operation to hijack hundreds of Cisco and Netgear routers at end-of-life status
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen confirms “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts”, after ZachXBT noted outflows of 213M XRP, worth $112.5M
but its co-founder was Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Crooks stole around $112 million worth of XRP from Ripple's co-founder Finextra : Ripple co-founder's personal XRP accounts hacked Trista...
Qualcomm reports Q1 adjusted revenue up 5% YoY to $9.92B, vs. $9.51B est., handset chip sales up 16% YoY to $6.69B, and net income up 24% YoY to $2.77B
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Sources: the US CPSC is preparing an order that could classify Amazon's online business as a distributor of goods, potentially leading to lawsuits and recalls
Order from Consumer Product Safety Commission could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims
An FTX lawyer says the defunct crypto exchange expects to fully repay its customers and has abandoned efforts to restart the platform, due to a lack of buyers
Google signs power purchase deals with two new Dutch offshore wind farms, its biggest deals yet, and expects its Dutch centers to hit 90% clean energy in 2024
Justine Calma / The Verge :
Paytm plans to cease work with its associate Paytm Payments Bank and accelerate work to partner with other banks, after the RBI's clampdown on the payment bank
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
OpenAI says GPT-4 poses “at most” a slight risk of helping people create biological threats, per the company's early tests to evaluate “catastrophic” LLM risks
Mark Zuckerberg; Struggling Startups Are Looking For the Exits Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : OpenAI study reveals surprising role of AI in future biological threat creation Tom Carter / Business Insid...
Sources: Binance's efforts to re-enter the UK market are being frustrated after UK's financial regulator expressed concerns to prospective local partners
- UK regulator had expressed concerns to firms about Binance — New CEO Teng is trying to rebuild credibility with regulators
Amsterdam-based DataSnipper, which helps automate critical accounting and auditing tasks, raised a $100M Series B led by Index Ventures at a $1B valuation
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune :
The US CPSC says Snap will recall all 71,000 Pixy selfie camera drones as their batteries pose a fire risk, and users should “immediately stop” using the drone
Snap gave up on its Pixy flying selfie camera drone after just four months, but it turns out the company sold 71,000 drones …
Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers on a usage basis, raised a $43M Series B led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $78M+
a huge distraction from their product. Bri Kimmel / @briannekimmel : If you've ever worked on billing, it's anything but streamlined and delightful Congrats to Metronome for powering OpenAI, Anthropic...
The US DOJ says eBay agreed to pay $59M to settle allegations of violating the Controlled Substances Act by allowing the sale of pill presses and other items
Shopify releases new features, including an AI-powered image editor for products, improved semantic search, and tools for better merchandising
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Meta plans to deploy its second-gen in-house chips, referred to internally as Artemis, to its data centers in 2024, alongside “commercially available GPUs”
Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) plans to deploy into its data centers this year a new version of a custom chip aimed …
The US sentences Joseph Garrison, a 19-year-old involved in the 2022 DraftKings hack, to 18 months in jail; Garrison admitted to stealing $600K from 1,600 users
Bloomberg :
The US adds 12+ Chinese companies, including YMTC, Megvii, and lidar maker Hesai, to a DOD list to flag firms that are allegedly working with China's military
MediaTek reports Q4 revenue up 19.7% YoY to $4.1B and net profit up 38.9% YoY to $820M, posting its first YoY increases in revenue and profit in five quarters
Hideaki Ryugen / Nikkei Asia :
Sources: Cruise does not expect to see its robotaxis on city streets again until Q4 2024 and is considering Houston and Dallas as likely cities for a relaunch
Owner.com, which offers an all-in-one platform for independent restaurants that includes online ordering and a website builder, raised a $33M Series B
Christine Hall / TechCrunch : X: @deanbloembergen X: @deanbloembergen : Thrilled to announce that https://owner.com/ raised a $33M Series B! 🎉 3 years ago we set out level the playing field for local...
Robotaxi company Motional loses capital support from automotive supplier Aptiv, the other half of a $4B joint venture with Hyundai that created Motional in 2019
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
As the pharmaceutical industry adopts AI to speed up drug development, a look at the challenges facing the industry to prove the effectiveness of AI-aided drugs
Bloomberg :
Q&A with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready on why social media turned toxic, his vision for a less toxic platform that can use AI for good, activist investors, and more
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times :
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