Kuration #275 Week Recap

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Once a week, on popular demand we present top links and headlines curated for the last week and send out an issue to help our readers catch-up.

Here is a summary of everything last week 🗓

Headlines 🔥

• The Verge Awards at CES 2024

• Instagram co-founders’ news aggregation startup Artifact to shut down

• Hertz is selling its EVs because it botched the rollout for ride-share drivers

• X-59 ‘Quiet supersonic’ jet from NASA and Lockheed finally rolls out

• Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees

• What CES 2024 told us about the home robot

• The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you

• Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro are matching their best prices to date

• As Disney pushes toward streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024

• The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you

• As Disney pushes toward streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024

• OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots

• Samsung’s Galaxy phones will soon work as a PC webcam for Microsoft Teams

• Alaska Airlines Flight 1282: How could iPhones survive a 16,000-foot drop?

• BlackRock cuts Byju’s valuation by 95% to $1 billion

• Google will allow more real-money games on the Play Store

• Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

• OpenAI launches a store for custom AI-powered chatbots

• WTF is a ‘software-defined vehicle?’

• US approves first spot bitcoin ETF applications for 11 issuers

• CES 2024: The weirdest tech, gadgets and AI claims from Las Vegas

• Google cuts hundreds of jobs in its voice assistance, hardware teams as Fitbit founders leave

• I really wanted to hate the $2,000 earbuds I tried at CES

• Twitch is laying off another 500 employees

• PhotoRoom, the AI photo editing app, is raising $50M-$60M at a $500M-$600M valuation

• OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots

• Samsung’s Galaxy phones will soon work as a PC webcam for Microsoft Teams

• Alaska Airlines Flight 1282: How could iPhones survive a 16,000-foot drop?

• BlackRock cuts Byju’s valuation by 95% to $1 billion

• Google will allow more real-money games on the Play Store

• Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

• OpenAI launches a store for custom AI-powered chatbots

• WTF is a ‘software-defined vehicle?

• CES 2024: Samsung’s bigger, foldier, more rollable displays

• VCs are optimistic that AI investing will move beyond the hype in 2024

• Korean micromobility startup Gbike may buy up the competition before its 2025 IPO

• Uber testing flexible pricing service in over a dozen Indian cities

• Nabla raises another $24 million for its AI assistant for doctors that automatically writes clinical notes

• What to expect at CES 2024

• Coinbase is planning a pivotal acquisition that will allow it to launch crypto derivatives in the EU

• The Humane touch: More MVNOs are being minted than ever

• OpenAI’s app store for GPTs will launch next week

• For just $139, this startup turns your iPhone into a BlackBerry-era relic

• The best note-taking apps for collecting your thoughts and data

• Intel spins out a new enterprise-focused GenAI software company

• Superpedestrian to auction 20,000 e-scooters after shutting down

• TikTok aims to grow its TikTok Shop US business tenfold to $17.5B in 2024, report claims

• Nvidia has some new Super GPUs ready.

• Why Puma is sticking to its web3 bets as crypto shakes off a long-held winter

• Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup set for January 17 debut

• First Starlink satellites launched to connect mobile phone users anywhere on the planet

• MIT scientists are working on a vibrating obesity pill

• Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5%

• Try these apps to reach your New Year’s resolutions in 2024

• WIRED’s Biggest Interviews of 2023

• Bitcoin climbs above $45,000 for first time since April 2022

Catch up on everything that happened last month in technology and media. Read the monthly summary issue 📍

As always thank you for reading ❤️.

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