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FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions (Matt Burgess/Wired)
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Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers
CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.
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FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions
By Matt Burgess / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 2 years ago
Consensys says the US SEC is closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0 and "will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions" (Ryan Ozawa/Decrypt)
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SEC Is Dropping Its Investigation Into Ethereum, Consensys Says - Decrypt
The Ethereum giant has pushed back against regulatory pressure over the world's second largest cryptocurrency.
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Consensys says the US SEC is “closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0” and “will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions”
By Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 2 years ago
Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the "Metaverse" product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called "Wearables" (Alex Heath/The Verge)
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Meta forms new Wearables group and lays off some employees
Meta’s CTO says its latest smart glasses with Ray-Ban are “a much bigger hit than we anticipated.”
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Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the “Metaverse” product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called “Wearables”
By Alex Heath / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims responsibility for the ransomware attack impacting London hospitals for weeks and demands $50M to end it (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/uk-hospital-hackers-say-they-ve-demanded-50-million-in-ransom
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Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims responsibility for the ransomware attack impacting London hospitals for weeks and demands a $50M ransom
By Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M to resolve a suit from shareholders accusing Qualcomm of defrauding them by hiding its anticompetitive sales and licensing practices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/technology/qualcomm-reaches-75-mln-settlement-over-sales-licensing-practices-2024-06-18/
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Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M to settle a shareholder lawsuit over accusations of defrauding them by hiding alleged anticompetitive sales and licensing practices
By Jonathan Stempel / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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AMD says it is looking into claims that company information was stolen in a hack, after a user on BreachForums said they breached AMD's systems (Ian King/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/amd-is-investigating-claims-that-company-data-was-stolen-in-hack
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AMD is working with police and a host provider to investigate a claim that company data was stolen, after a BreachForums user said they breached AMD
By Ian King / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Appfigures: iOS 18 could "Sherlock" trail apps, grammar helpers, math solvers, password managers, and emoji apps that have an estimated $393M in annual revenue (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue | TechCrunch
Apple's changes may affect apps that today have an estimated $393 million in revenue and have been downloaded roughly 58 million times over th...
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Appfigures: iOS 18 could “Sherlock” trail apps, grammar helpers, math solvers, password managers, and emoji apps that have an estimated $393M in annual revenue
By Sarah Perez / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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An ex-Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where users can create AI personas that then interact with users and other AIs via posts and DMs (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist | TechCrunch
A new app called Butterflies is aiming to create a social network where humans and AIs interact with each other through posts and DMs.
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A former Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where users can create AI personas that then interact with users and other AIs via posts and DMs
By Aisha Malik / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube (Sara Fischer/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/forbes-perplexity-ai-legal-action-copyright
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Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube
By Sara Fischer / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Devs say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators and AltStore apps, to enforce its rules, defeating the point of the EU's DMA (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
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Apple refuses to notarize emulator apps
This apparently happened just before WWDC, so I missed it, but it deserves everyone's attention. Apple has rejected the UTM emulator app, not ...
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Developers say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators, for alternative app stores in EU, possibly in violation of DMA rules
By Jason Snell / Six Colors. View the full context on Techmeme.
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HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed "turnkey" option (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
HPE unveils Private Cloud AI, broad Nvidia partnership aimed at genAI workloads | Constellation Research
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia teamed up to launch a set of private cloud offerings and integrations designed for generative AI workloads. N...
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HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads, coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed “turnkey” option
By Larry Dignan / Constellation Research. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme 2 years ago
Nvidia passes Microsoft during intraday trading to become the most valuable public company, with a ~$3.33T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Nvidia passes Microsoft in market cap to become most valuable public company
Nvidia shares have multiplied by more than nine-fold since the end of 2022, and the chipmaker surpassed Microsoft to become the most valuable publi...
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Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become the world
By Kif Leswing / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/documents-show-how-musk-s-x-plans-to-become-the-next-venmo
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Filings: X is still working on a Venmo-like payments feature, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage overview for queries, and raised a $60M seed led by Lanchi at a $260M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Genspark is the latest attempt at an AI-powered search engine | TechCrunch
Genspark, a new search engine, is taking on startups like Perplexity with its AI-driven, summarized search results.
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AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage overview for queries, and raised a $60M seed led by Lanchi at a $260M post-money valuation
By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources: it's still aiming to debut a cheaper model by end of 2025 (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-suspends-work-on-next-high-end-headset-focused-on-releasing-cheaper-model-in-late-2025
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Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources say Apple still plans a cheaper model by the end of 2025
From The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
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London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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SurrealDB is helping developers consolidate their databases | TechCrunch
SurrealDB, a startup developing a database architecture of the same name, has closed a new round of funding as it readies a managed service.
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London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M
By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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