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Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Elliott Management has built a ~$1B stake in Match Group and plans to push the online dating company to take steps to boost its languishing stock  —  Activist has roughly $1 billion stake… Read More »Sources: Elliott Management has built a ~$1B stake in Match Group and plans to push the online dating company to take steps to boost its languishing stock (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Josh Ye / Reuters: ByteDance says it is in talks with multiple prospective buyers, including Tencent, to sell its Nuverse gaming unit as part of a plan to exit the gaming industry  —  TikTok owner ByteDance said on Tuesday it… Read More »ByteDance says it is in talks with multiple prospective buyers, including Tencent, to sell its Nuverse gaming unit as part of a plan to exit the gaming industry (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Sony teases a “spatial” VR headset designed for 3D content creation with 4K OLED microdisplays and powered by Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, available later in 2024  —  The company showed off the headset along with… Read More »Sony teases a “spatial” VR headset designed for 3D content creation with 4K OLED microdisplays and powered by Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, available later in 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: The Mayo Clinic partners with Cerebras to use Cerebras’ computing chips and systems to develop its own AI models based on anonymized medical records and data  —  The Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit medical center based in… Read More »The Mayo Clinic partners with Cerebras to use Cerebras’ computing chips and systems to develop its own AI models based on anonymized medical records and data (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Axios: Sources: Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock  —  Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock, Axios… Read More »Sources: Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock (Axios)

Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Asus announces its first mini-PC, the ROG NUC, featuring Intel Core Ultra CPUs, up to an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, quad 4K display support, and Wi-Fi 6E  —  ASUS has introduced its first ROG NUC Mini… Read More »Asus announces its first mini-PC, the ROG NUC, featuring Intel Core Ultra CPUs, up to an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, quad 4K display support, and Wi-Fi 6E (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

Ben Goggin / NBC News: Former X VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin joins Stability AI to oversee its strategy and implementation of safeguarding around issues like child safety and IP  —  Irwin resigned from X in June after… Read More »Former X VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin joins Stability AI to oversee its strategy and implementation of safeguarding around issues like child safety and IP (Ben Goggin/NBC News)

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Intel announces new Core 14th Gen chips, including the HX-series for high-end laptops and 18 chips for desktops, and the new Series 1 for thin-and-light PCs  —  Some are 14th-gen Core and some are Core… Read More »Intel announces new Core 14th Gen chips, including the HX-series for high-end laptops and 18 chips for desktops, and the new Series 1 for thin-and-light PCs (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple plans to offer customers demos of Vision Pro at its US retail stores from February 2 through the weekend on a first-come, first-served basis  —  Apple Vision Pro officially has pre-order and launch dates as… Read More »Apple plans to offer customers demos of Vision Pro at its US retail stores from February 2 through the weekend on a first-come, first-served basis (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Asus announces the ROG Phone 8 series, with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, 5,500mAh battery, 6.78″ 165Hz OLED display, and 32MP front camera, starting at $1,100  —  Asus’ ROG phones have always been targeted squarely… Read More »Asus announces the ROG Phone 8 series, with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, 5,500mAh battery, 6.78″ 165Hz OLED display, and 32MP front camera, starting at $1,100 (Jon Porter/The Verge)