Meta rolls out Quest v56, featuring Hand Tracking 2.2, which the company claims reduces latency by up to 40% in typical usage and up to 75% during fast movement
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Source: the three co-founders of AI startup Laserlike, which Apple acquired in 2018, rejoined Google, including Apple search team lead Srinivasan Venkatachary
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Tractor maker Deere, which plans self-driving tractors in 2022, predicts that 10% of its revenue will come from software fees by the end of the decade
including cutting grass, churning it to dry, laying fertilizer, and harvesting — will be entirely automated. https://twitter.com/...
Sources: Apple asks suppliers to ensure shipments from Taiwan to China are labeled as “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei”, after Pelosi's visit stirs tensions
Stepped up scrutiny of import documents raises disruption fears for iPhone maker
As companies race to find practical applications for quantum computers, the short term focus is on boosting machine learning
Companies are jostling to be the first to find a practical application for quantum computers — The race is on to find the first practical use for quantum computing. Tweets: @dand...
Q&A with CEO John Hanke on Niantic's Lightship platform for building AR apps, why VR is an easier tech problem to solve than AR, the metaverse, and more
Katie Haun, a co-chair of a16z's crypto fund, talks about the geopolitics of blockchain, risk, regulation, outlook for the crypto industry, and the fund's focus
Katie Haun, a co-chair of Andreessen Horowitz's new $2.2 billion crypto fund, is betting that the blockchain will be as big as the internet. Tweets: @tomicahtd , @unhedgedchatter ,...
Facebook buys Unit 2 Games, a studio behind Roblox-like Crayta game platform, says it will integrate Crayta's toolset into Facebook Gaming's cloud platform
Facebook has been making plenty of one-off virtual reality studio acquisitions lately, but today the company announced …
With iPhone's privacy changes, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than via third parties, giving its ad business an edge
Under the iPhone maker's new rules, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than through third parties
Sources: Facebook led Libra currency could launch as early as January, but in a limited format with a single coin, backed one-for-one by the US dollar
what this means Andrew Morse / CNET : Facebook's controversial Libra cryptocurrency could launch in January Kollen Post / Cointelegraph : Law Decoded: Cents and stability, Nov. 20-...
Sources: Facebook's Libra currency is preparing to launch as early as January but in an even more limited format with just one dollar-backed coin
Long-awaited project to arrive as soon as January, with just one dollar-backed coin — The long-awaited Facebook-led digital currency Libra …
Sources: Google is laying the groundwork for a fiber-optic network that will connect historical enemies Saudi Arabia and Israel for the first time
watch these spaces: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ ... https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Avi Kaner / @avikaner : Google is preparing a fiber-optic ...
Facebook says it will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests across Facebook and Instagram, starting with select partners
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Profile of Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Alphabet and Google, as she leads the company's $800M small business relief and COVID-19 crisis response
Ruth Porat, Alphabet CFO, in a great interview with @WallStManeet. Read the whole thing: https://www.forbes.com/... @forbes : Ruth Porat, the stalwart chief financial officer of Al...
Driven by the popularity of Cash App, Square's stock is up 28% in the past month and 166% in the past year; Cash App saw revenue double to $325M in Q2 2020
Users have flocked to Cash App, which made it easy for people to accept stimulus checks and unemployment benefits Tweets: @patrickmcgee_ , @unhedgedchatter , and @rabois Tweets: Pa...
Facebook says it has created a new group to run all of its payments projects with David Marcus at the helm; hires former Upwork CEO as VP of Facebook Payments
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PE firm Silver Lake announces it will invest $747M in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, giving it a valuation of $65B, weeks after Facebook invested $5.7B
Weeks after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, private equity firm Silver Lake is following suit.
An inside look at the dropshipping scene in Bali, where expats typically purchase items on AliExpress and have them shipped directly to buyers in the West
In Bali, western immigrants are selling products they've never handled, from countries they've never visited, to consumers they've never met Tweets: @unhedgedchatter , @ramit , @th...
Evan Spiegel on Facebook, Snap's turnaround, and how the controversial redesign, after some tweaking, increased the time users spent on premium content
some of which were quite controversial—start paying off.” https://www.wsj.com/... @wsj : When Snap CEO Evan Spiegel was a kid, he thought “South Park” was a park because his parent...
Snyk, which helps detect security vulnerabilities in open source code and containers, raises $70M led by Accel, source says at a ~$500M valuation
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