Apple unveils iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max with larger 6.3" and 6.9" screens, four titanium finishes, Camera Control, A18 Pro, 48MP ultrawide, 5x telephoto cameras
Apple today announced the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max—its latest flagship smartphones—featuring larger displays …
Apple debuts the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus with an Action button, a 3nm A18 chip for 30% faster CPU performance vs iPhone 15, a side Camera Control button, and more
Apple today announced the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, which Apple said “is built from the ground up” for Apple Intelligence.
The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, confirming a 2016 decision; filing: Apple will incur a ~$10B charge in Q4
Europe's top court on Tuesday ruled against Apple in the tech giant's 10-year court battle over its tax affairs in Ireland.
Sony announces the PS5 Pro, offering a better GPU and faster memory for up to 45% faster game rendering, but no disc drive, available from November 7 for $700
In a CNET exclusive, I visited Sony's PlayStation headquarters to play the all-new PS5 Pro and ask Sony executives what makes this midcycle upgrade different.
Apple announces an AirPods Pro 2 hearing health software update to add features like a “clinical grade” hearing aid mode and a clinically-validated hearing test
Apple has announced some new hearing health related features, coming as a software update for AirPods Pro 2.
The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services
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iPhone 16 Pro, Pro Max hands-on: despite larger displays, they don't feel that much bigger, helped by thin bezels; the Camera Control button is ultrasensitive
iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max hands-on: don't call it a shutter button Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal : iPhone 16 First Look: While We Wait for Apple Intelligence, Check Out These Buttons Cherlynn ...
The touch-sensitive Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 models can launch an AI-powered Visual Intelligence feature and be used to control the camera app
The iPhone 16's Best New Feature Is An Absurdly Over-Engineered Button Tim Brookes / How-To Geek : Should You Upgrade to the iPhone 16? — iPhone 15 Users: Consider Upgrading for Apple Intelligence Ja...
Apple discontinues its FineWoven iPhone cases, introduced in 2023 to replace leather cases, and emphasizes its Clear and Silicone cases for the iPhone 16 lineup
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Oracle shares are up 50%+ YTD, well outpacing the Nasdaq's 14% rise, as the 47-year-old company becomes an attractive cloud-computing provider for AI developers
Long-stagnant stock is up 34% thanks to its neutral status in the booming market for AI computing power
Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in beta in October for US English language users, in more English countries in December, and in other languages in 2025
Apple today announced that Apple Intelligence will begin in beta starting in October, with iOS 18.1.
Oracle and AWS debut Oracle Database@AWS, which lets customers access select Oracle products within AWS, following Oracle's Azure and Google Cloud partnerships
⚡ Zero-ETL integration between Oracle Database service — ⚡ Migration flexibility … Scott Rosecrans : Customers have been asking for a very long time to be able to run Oracle DB on AWS. This partner...
Apple unveils two new AirPods 4 models with an H2 chip and USB-C; AirPods 4 for $129 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $179, coming September 20
here's what's missing Damilola Makinde / TechCabal : Apple's new 2024 AirPods lineup features, pictures and prices Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena : Apple's AirPods 4 with ANC is tiptoeing around AirPod...
Huawei unveils the Mate XT trifold phone with a screen that folds into 6.4" or 7.9" and unfolds into 10.2", available in China from September 20 for $2,800+
BEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Huawei said Tuesday its trifold smartphone will start at the equivalent of more than $2,800.
Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.31B, vs. $13.23B est., cloud infrastructure revenue up 45% YoY to $2.2B, and $2.93B in net income; ORCL jumps 10%+
the entry price for a real frontier model from someone who wants to compete in that area is about $100 billion. Let me repeat, around $100 billion. That's over the next 4, [image] @radnorcapital : Lar...
Election officials across the US say false election rumors spread by Elon Musk to his 197M+ followers often coincide with calls by locals to purge voter rolls
The X billionaire's false posts about noncitizen voting spur officials to fact-check him, lead to requests to purge voter rolls … Threads: @lorakolodny Threads: Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : 👇🏼why dID...
Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 10, with a thinner design, a bigger screen, smaller bezels, a Jet Black finish, faster charging, more, coming Sept. 20 for $399+
similar to the Series 9 — but they are in other regions. Apple, however, is not advertising the O2 sensor on any page in any region. … Victoria Song / @vicmsong : Fast charging def takes the sting ou...
Testing the Apple Intelligence beta shows the prerelease software still has a long way to go, with hallucinations, marking scam emails as priority, and more
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An excerpt from the book “Character Limit” on Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction
In an excerpt from their new book, Character Limit, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac detail how Musk's “goons” … Bluesky: @ishaav.bsky.social . X: @rmac18 , @rmac18 , and @ranimolla Bluesky: Isha / @ishaav.bs...
Sources: OpenAI aims to release Strawberry, its reasoning-focused AI, within two weeks as a model that users can pick in ChatGPT; the model isn't yet multimodal
Strawberry, OpenAI's reasoning-focused artificial intelligence, is coming sooner than we thought. Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI Forums: r/singularity : New Details on OpenAI's Strawberry; OpenAI ...
How VC John Hering bet his career, time, and money on Elon Musk's businesses, including investing $4B+, more than half of his firm Vy Capital's reported assets
Venture capitalist John Hering bet his career, time and money on Musk enterprises, seeking a favored seat beside the world's richest man
The FBI says that losses from crypto-related frauds increased 45% YoY to $5.6B in 2023, with losses from investment scams accounting for 71% of the total
FBI Tanzeel Akhtar / Cryptonews : FBI Reports $5.6B Lost to Crypto Fraud, 45% Increase in Loss Since Prev Year Associated Press : Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams, t...
In the first day of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, prosecutors allege Google abused its size to dominate the sector through acquisitions and more
Jody Godoy / Reuters :
Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search across apps used at a company, raised $260M+ at a $4.6B valuation, after raising $200M+ at $2.2B in February 2024
Glean was founded by former Google engineers in 2019 as a search engine for companies, helping employees access internal data.
US charges leaders of white supremacist gang The Terrorgram Collective, which uses Telegram to celebrate attacks on minorities, with trying to incite a race war
and the state of far-right domestic terrorism — is to operate in a kind of decentralized, leaderless movement. In fact, the structure of so many attacks proves that leaders are circulating instruction...
Ofcom: internet replaced TV as UK's most popular news source; 71% of adults get news online, vs. 70% via TV; 52% use social media for news, up from 47% in 2023
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Google Pixel Watch 3 review: solid battery life, improved display, and comprehensive health-tracking features, but slightly bulky with some software quirks
Google has created masterpieces recently, but the Pixel Watch still needs more time in the oven. Andrew Gebhart / PCMag : Google Pixel Watch 3 Review Tom’s Guide on YouTube : Google Pixel Watch 3 Revi...
Startups say Pakistan's new China-like firewall is making it harder for them to raise funds, amid complaints about censorship and internet speeds falling by 40%
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid / Rest of World :
Israel-based Quantum Source, which is developing a photonic quantum computer, raised a $50M Series A led by Eclipse, bringing its total funding to $77M
Meytal Vaizberg / Globes Online :
Alibaba's stock rises 5%+ after being made directly accessible to mainland China investors for the first time, following an upgrade to Hong Kong primary listing
Financial Times :
Apple will release iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2 on September 16
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica :
Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation tools for businesses, raised a $43M Series C led by Left Lane Capital, bringing its total funding to $70M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Mike Krieger on his new role as chief product officer at Anthropic, co-founding and selling news app Artifact, copyright issues, AI safety, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge :
Audible plans to invite some US-based audiobook narrators to train AI on their voices, cloning them and paying for title recordings via a royalty-sharing model
Now in Beta: Narrator Voice Replicas on ACX — Audible continues to hear … Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Amazon's Audible Invites Narrators to Train AI Voice Replicas Katie Scott / Tech.co : Your Next Ama...
South Korean police arrest two former Samsung officials on suspicion of stealing tech worth $3.2B+ to build a chipmaking plant in China
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg :
HyperWrite's 70B parameter AI model, Reflection, has its performance questioned, after CEO Matt Shumer said something about its upload to Hugging Face was off
something got fucked up during the upload process. Will fix today. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA : Smh: Reflection was too good to be true - reference article
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