Smartphone shipments during the holiday quarter were dismal. Have we reached peak smartphone? And if so, what comes next? This week's with is out
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Mark Zuckerberg has caught the generative AI bug.
One of Meta's goals, he says on earnings call, is to build on the company's research to "become a leader in Generative AI."
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"In their first mission, Demo-1, the Jackals will merely spy on each other...If that goes well, Rogers envisages deploying thousands of autonomous spacecraft in service of the US military, controlled by humans & AI to pursue adversaries wherever they fly."
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Bay Area friends! Join me, , and Stanford's Janine Zacharia at an event at the Stanford Faculty Club next week where we'll chat about covering Silicon Valley and finding the signal in the noise
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Samsung has been relatively quiet about VR aside from its Gear VR headset, which it launched several iterations of between 2015 and 2017; says there's more demand now. "Now we believe that we have reached a certain threshold." cnet.com/tech/mobile/sa via
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The Ultra camera does sound super impressive. Phone is thick.
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Analyst from CCS Insight, Leo Gebbie: “The Galaxy S23 demonstrates just how hard it is to tell a new story in today’s market…The latest devices from Samsung are undoubtedly impressive but the emphasis on improvements to camera capabilities and battery life is nothing new.”
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We’ve officially entered era of feature creep. Samsung showing off stunning photography/videography but will it matter in a slowing smartphone market?
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Back at a giant Samsung event and this tweet will haunt me forever
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At the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event and they’ve hired a company called CrowdRX to scan for fevers (!) as people walk into the Palace of Fine Arts. There are stations for hand sanitizer. Executives are greeting people with elbow bumps
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"Refurbished versions of his model can still fetch around $1000, and new ones retail for twice that. Frohnhoefer does not feel indebted to Musk and is in no rush to return the machine. “Im happy letting it sit there and be a brick,” he says." wired.com/story/ex-twitt via
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David Sanford inspired a generation of reporters at the with his raw reporting about AIDS. It was also a topic that was personal to him. Read his '96 pg 1 story: wsj.com/articles/SB847
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There's been an interesting shift in US language about TikTok. It used to be about its potential use to gather intel about Americans. But in recent months the emphasis seems (to me) to have shifted to its potential for influence (spreading a message).
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"Almost without fail, they’ve handled it horribly, with casual brutality and tone-deaf displays—such as at Microsoft, which hosted a private Sting concert at Davos the night before firing 10,000 people." via
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People keep saying “don’t watch The Last of Us right before bed” but then when am I supposed to watch it? Before my morning meetings?
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This is very good by . Last year a SVP of search at Google noted that 40 percent of young internet users are regularly turning to TikTok or Instagram for search. So what kind of results do you get?
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Nah ‘poly-searcherous’ killed me💀🤣
I Spent a Week Using Only TikTok for Search | WIRED
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You can almost feel going slowly mad.
I search for "things like 'how to get a tea stain out' or 'how to cook zucchini noodles.' The noodles are awful, but that’s because they’re zucchini noodles, not because of TikTok."
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In letter to FTC, advocacy group Farm Action says the math behind egg prices doesn't add up, calling it “a collusive scheme among industry leaders to turn inflationary conditions and an avian flu outbreak into an opportunity to extract egregious profits."
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These population panic stories always ignore one key issue: how patriarchy is incompatible with modernity. Why do educated, employed women in Japan, Italy, etc. refuse to have babies in societies where men do not equally share the labor-intensive care of children and homes? Hmm🤔
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Japan PM says country on the brink over falling birth rate bbc.in/3R1aYnS
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I think the DOJ’s big lawsuit against Google's ad business could succeed: in an era where "hipster antitrust" is struggling to make inroads, this is a fairly simple case about a market that got too consolidated and harms people by overcharging them ➡️
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Am I understanding correctly that this means you can now take JFK AirTrain to Jamaica Station to Grand Central and if so how did I miss this
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Worthwhile thread, if you need a break from the dark timeline
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what’s a random line of poetry you say aloud or in ya head from time to time unprovoked?
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As the networks were reporting from Monterey Park, where 11 people were killed, they had to cut away for an attack in Des Moines, which left two students dead. Later in the day came a shooting in Half Moon Bay, which left seven dead.
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A reminder that and several other journalists have been suspended from this platform for more than a month now because the billionaire in charge of it did not like their coverage of him.
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🚨for student + recent grads — if you're a tech intern, waiting for a full-time offer, or had your offer rescinded, I want to talk to you for a piece for WIRED. what does the tech job market feel like to you right now? do you feel screwed by timing? DMs open.
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Wonder if they'll actually weed out the bots/fakes for the folks who pay $60 per month...
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"In a room of partially clothed Emperors, Santos is the most naked. But no one can say anything because then they’d have to acknowledge their own bare butts in the breeze. You almost have to admire the audacity of it."
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“The rhetoric from these companies is that you can make anything you can imagine. But, of course, popular culture follows particular stereotypes and tropes.” wired.com/story/generati via
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Hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the United States have access to a little-known database of 150 million money transfers sent between the US, Mexico, and 22 other regions, according to a report in WSJ.
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"The Capital One Café acts as though it’s a new, isolated, and specific integration of a normal part of our lives—getting coffee, and working from coffee shops—with finance. The Café conceals that this is just already our entire world."
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"As I sat down, I messaged my editor, Jacob Rosenberg, on Slack to let him know “i am in capitol one cafe [sic].” He replied: “Please note in your article I did not require this. I did not ask you to do some gonzo journalism. You’re a sick freak and did this to yourself.”
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"I paid with my hefty, metal millennial-focused grouped Capital One credit card to earn the discount bringing my coffee to an early 2000s price of $1.80 after tax."
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Hopped on this week to talk about whether your gas stove is going to kill you and the earth, and what you can do about it!
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Run Netflix and then chill
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Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings is stepping into the role of exec chairman. He will be replaced with Greg Peters, formerly the company's COO and chief product officer
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Pigs in the US are increasingly slaughtered with CO2 gas chamber systems that can asphyxiate as many as 1,600 pigs an hour. The companies that sell and use them claim they're "stress-free" or "painless" for animals. Hidden spy cams reveal a darker reality.
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