Apple announces a new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3, offering an 8-core CPU and up to a 10-core GPU, starting at $1,099 or $1,299 and shipping on March 8
Apple today announced its next-generation M3 MacBook Air range, in 13-inch and 15-inch sizes. The new models are available to order today, and will start shipping March 8.
Apple says Spotify was the “primary advocate” and “biggest beneficiary” of the EU's ruling, Spotify pays Apple nothing, and that “free isn't enough for Spotify”
Today, the European Commission announced a decision claiming the App Store has been a barrier …
The EU Commission fines Apple €1.8B for stifling competition from rival music streaming services, the EU's third-largest antitrust fine; Apple plans to appeal
iPhone maker hit by first-ever Brussels fine as competition watchdogs step up scrutiny of Big Tech
A look at how Apple's hubris doomed its electric car project, its spring hardware updates that won't have a dedicated event, and Dan Riccio's retirement plans
Apple's belief that it could create a better car than Tesla and the rest of the automotive industry ultimately led to the downfall of the project.
Indian watchdog MeitY issues an advisory asking developers to seek the government's “explicit permission” before testing or deploying AI models or AI algorithms
In its advisory sent late on Friday, the IT ministry has also said that such platforms will have to explicitly seek permission …
Anthropic announces Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, aiming to reduce AI model hallucinations; Opus and Sonnet are available now, and Haiku in the coming weeks
The startup says new versions of Claude will be twice as likely to answer a question correctly.
Anthropic says Claude 3 outperforms GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra on some benchmarks, and adds multimodal support for photos, charts, docs, and more for the first time
- Anthropic on Monday debuted Claude 3, a chatbot and suite of AI models that it calls its fastest and most powerful yet.
As work on 6G standards continues, telcos are talking about 5.5G, or 5G Advanced, set to bring faster uplink speeds, network slicing, and enhanced positioning
- Telecom operators haven't yet finished rolling out 5G mobile internet. They're already talking about building “5.5G,” or “5G Advanced.”
Chinese city governments plan to offer “computing vouchers”, worth $140K to $280K, to AI startups, to try to level the playing field with China's tech giants
Chinese tech giants are hogging scarce cloud resources to develop generative AI models as US restrictions bite
A profile of Lanny Smoot, Disney's first and only research fellow who holds 100+ patents and has built an omnidirectional HoloTile Floor to let users walk in VR
106 right now. He is the only the second Disney employee ever inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The first? Walt Disney himself. [image] @wired : Lanny Smoot builds realistic, extendab...
India's communications and IT minister says delisting of popular Play Store apps “cannot be permitted”; Google reinstates some apps without IAPs
Saudi Arabian e-commerce software startup Salla raised $130M from Investcorp, Sanabil, and others, in what is likely to be its last funding round before an IPO
- Sanabil, STV also participated in the pre-IPO fundraising — Salla is part of bevy of Saudi startups prepping for listing
Razor and Perch merge and raise $100M at a $1.7B valuation, amid more consolidation in the e-commerce aggregation space, known for buying up Amazon retailers
Just days after the bankruptcy of Thrasio, two other significant players in the world of e-commerce aggregators are merging …
Inside “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good
AMD is unable to release an open-source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021
Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft's research lab, which said GPT-4 showed “sparks” of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI
Baseten, which helps companies launch open-source or customized AI models, raised a $40M Series B led by IVP and Spark, a source says at a $200M+ valuation
Baseten has raised $40 million to make it easier for companies to actually deploy AI applications in a practical way after growing …
Some users turn to AI chatbot therapists, finding them cheap, quick, available 24/7, and easy to talk to, but experts warn about the lack of a human connection
instead of leading with the ‘gee whiz AI’ angle — journalism in this space started with privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending healthcare regulation doesn't apply...
Sea reports Q4 revenue up 4.8% to $3.6B, above $3.5B est., and adjusted EBITDA down 74% YoY to $126.7M, above $88M est., due to marketing costs; SE jumps 11%+
Sea Limited Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results Sea Limited : Sea Limited Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results
A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules
Analysis: between 2019 and the end of 2023, women's share of tech jobs rose from 31% to 35% in the US, 23% to 25.2% across the EU, and 29% to 32%+ in the UK
Financial Times : Threads: @folletto.and . LinkedIn: Karen Blake Threads: Erin ‘Folletto’ Casali / @folletto.and : Remote work policies (which implies flexible hours and can allow for hybrid) have co...
A look at Microsoft Office's Clippy, one of the most annoying assistants ever that has also remained among Microsoft's most recognizable brands over two decades
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : Threads: @robertcmcmillan . X: @garymarcus , @vmochama , and @glenkacher Threads: Robert McMillan / @robertcmcmillan : People hated Clippy; now they love him. ...
As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips
Reece Rogers / Wired : Bluesky: @crowslabyrinth.com . X: @wiredculture See also Mediagazer Bluesky: @crowslabyrinth.com : My bet is that UMG's actions will accelerate the adoption of AI generated mus...
An EU court rules that regulators should pay €786K of Qualcomm's legal fees, not the €12M the company sought after winning appeal against a 2018 antitrust fine
How AI is used to evaluate the authenticity of paintings, as conservators express concerns over whether the tech can account for wear, damage, and other factors
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