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Fossil Group plans to leave the smartwatch business, and says the company will continue to keep its existing Wear OS watches updated “for the next few years” (Victoria Song/The Verge)

    Victoria Song / The Verge: Fossil Group plans to leave the smartwatch business, and says the company will continue to keep its existing Wear OS watches updated “for the next few years”  —  Fossil Group has decided to call it… Read More »Fossil Group plans to leave the smartwatch business, and says the company will continue to keep its existing Wear OS watches updated “for the next few years” (Victoria Song/The Verge)

    Source: ElevenLabs banned a creator’s account after researchers said the company’s tech was used to make an audio deepfake used in a fake Biden robocall (Bloomberg)

      Bloomberg: Source: ElevenLabs banned a creator’s account after researchers said the company’s tech was used to make an audio deepfake used in a fake Biden robocall  —  Company’s technology used to create fake Biden recording, researchers say  —  The creator… Read More »Source: ElevenLabs banned a creator’s account after researchers said the company’s tech was used to make an audio deepfake used in a fake Biden robocall (Bloomberg)

      Source: MGM Resorts International’s BetMGM is partnering with X to showcase betting odds on X and provide a direct link to BetMGM, allowing users to place bets (Kylie Robison/Fortune)

        Kylie Robison / Fortune: Source: MGM Resorts International’s BetMGM is partnering with X to showcase betting odds on X and provide a direct link to BetMGM, allowing users to place bets  —  Elon Musk’s X to incorporate online gambling statistics… Read More »Source: MGM Resorts International’s BetMGM is partnering with X to showcase betting odds on X and provide a direct link to BetMGM, allowing users to place bets (Kylie Robison/Fortune)

        Spotify says Apple is “forcing developers to stay with the status quo” and calls on the EU to “reject this blatant disregard” of the principles it established (Spotify)

          Spotify: Spotify says Apple is “forcing developers to stay with the status quo” and calls on the EU to “reject this blatant disregard” of the principles it established  —  For almost five years – 1,782 days – we have been… Read More »Spotify says Apple is “forcing developers to stay with the status quo” and calls on the EU to “reject this blatant disregard” of the principles it established (Spotify)

          Mozilla criticizes Apple’s plans to restrict BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps, forcing “Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations” (Emma Roth/The Verge)

            Emma Roth / The Verge: Mozilla criticizes Apple’s plans to restrict BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps, forcing “Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations”  —  Apple’s new rules in the European Union mean browsers like Firefox can finally use… Read More »Mozilla criticizes Apple’s plans to restrict BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps, forcing “Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations” (Emma Roth/The Verge)

            Layoffs.fyi: so far in January, around 23,670 workers have been laid off from 85 tech companies, the most since March 2023 when ~38,000 people were laid off (CNBC)

              CNBC: Layoffs.fyi: so far in January, around 23,670 workers have been laid off from 85 tech companies, the most since March 2023 when ~38,000 people were laid off  —  – So far in January, some 23,670 workers have been laid… Read More »Layoffs.fyi: so far in January, around 23,670 workers have been laid off from 85 tech companies, the most since March 2023 when ~38,000 people were laid off (CNBC)

              Apple’s reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its political and developer goodwill, affecting the success of new platforms like Vision Pro (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

                Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Apple’s reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its political and developer goodwill, affecting the success of new platforms like Vision Pro  —  Apple is on a roll when it comes to having its hand forced… Read More »Apple’s reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its political and developer goodwill, affecting the success of new platforms like Vision Pro (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

                Pixel 8 Pro’s Thermometer app, which uses an infrared sensor to scan the forehead, has a fiddly user experience and appears to have accuracy issues (Victoria Song/The Verge)

                  Victoria Song / The Verge: Pixel 8 Pro’s Thermometer app, which uses an infrared sensor to scan the forehead, has a fiddly user experience and appears to have accuracy issues  —  Earlier this week, Google updated the Pixel 8 Pro… Read More »Pixel 8 Pro’s Thermometer app, which uses an infrared sensor to scan the forehead, has a fiddly user experience and appears to have accuracy issues (Victoria Song/The Verge)

                  iOS 17.4 code shows Apple may be testing two versions of its Ajax LLM for Siri and comparing their responses to OpenAI’s ChatGPT (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

                    Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: iOS 17.4 code shows Apple may be testing two versions of its Ajax LLM for Siri and comparing their responses to OpenAI’s ChatGPT  —  Apple is widely expected to unveil major new artificial intelligence features with… Read More »iOS 17.4 code shows Apple may be testing two versions of its Ajax LLM for Siri and comparing their responses to OpenAI’s ChatGPT (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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