Kuration #296 Tech This Week
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Here is a summary of everything last week 🗓
Headlines 🔥
Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app
Arc is building an AI agent that browses on your behalf
Apple Vision Pro: Here’s everything you need to know
YouTube is not building a Vision Pro app, so Apollo for Reddit dev made one
Google Maps experiments with generative AI to improve discovery
Snap is recalling and refunding every drone it ever sold
Google releases GenAI tools for music creation
AI and blockchains might need one another to evolve
Google’s Bard chatbot gets the Gemini Pro update globally
Google launches an AI-powered image generator
Byju’s investors seek to remove edtech group’s founder
Nightshade, the tool that ‘poisons’ data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
Yes, the tech layoff surge you are feeling is real
Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal leaves board
Tesla to spend $500M to bring its Dojo supercomputer project to Buffalo factory
Opera to launch new AI-powered browser for iOS in Europe following Apple’s DMA changes
Deck.blue brings a TweetDeck experience to Bluesky users
Shazam now lets you identify music in apps while wearing headphones
Fossil is quitting smartwatches
Here’s the new Apple tax every developer is going to hate
Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
Apple’s answer to EU’s gatekeeper rules is new ‘core tech’ fee for apps
Ola founder’s AI startup becomes unicorn in $50M funding
Fortnite and the Epic Games Store are coming to iOS in Europe
OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
Google extends its Project IDX development environment with built-in iOS and Android emulators
Tesla says EV sales growth may be ‘notably lower’ in 2024
Google announces new AI-powered features for education
Worldcoin to launch new Orb to make its eyeball scanning device look “more friendly”
Pokemon Company says it intends to investigate Palworld
Twitch announces 60/40 revenue split in expanded Plus Program
Soon you’ll be able to play Dungeons & Dragons in VR . . . if you want
MLCommons wants to create AI benchmarks for laptops, desktops and workstations
Amie brings your email inbox to its calendar app
Klarna introduces $7.99 ‘Klarna Plus’ subscription plan as it approaches an IPO
TikTok spotted testing 30-minute uploads as it continues to inch into YouTube’s territory
The Verge’s favorite mobile phone gadgets
Microsoft Teams now supports 3D and VR meeting
iPhone users should turn on Apple’s stolen device protection feature
Google Chrome gains AI features, including a writing helper, theme creator, and tab organizer
Google’s new Gemini-powered conversational tool helps advertisers quickly build Search campaigns
Artisse AI raises $6.7M for its ‘more realistic’ AI photography app
Navigate the GenAI era with this startup map
X adds support for passkeys on iOS after removing SMS 2FA support last year
OnePlus launches the OnePlus 12 series in global markets
Netflix is turning into cable TV
Netflix is going to take away its cheapest ad-free plan
MrBeast made $263K from a video on X, but calls the payout ‘a bit of a facade’
Only 150+ apps have been designed specifically for Apple’s Vision Pro, so far
Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M
Byju’s seeks new funding at less than $2 billion valuation, a 90% drop
Apple will pay artists more to have a spatial audio version on Apple Music
Palworld is a hit, and it’s easy to see why
Google Podcasts is going away but we’ve got some alternatives.
The top five RSS readers for keeping up with your news feeds
Sony tells Zee it’s terminating the $10 billion India merger
The Vision Pro’s first killer app is the web, whether Apple likes it or not
Google is making it easier to unsubscribe to emails.
TikTok usage is starting to slow — is TikTok Shop to blame?
Half of Apple’s India smartphone shipments are now iPhone 15
Amazon’s iRobot deal could be blocked by European Union
Sony tells Zee it’s terminating the $10 billion India merger
The Vision Pro’s first killer app is the web, whether Apple likes it or not
Google is making it easier to unsubscribe to emails.
TikTok usage is starting to slow — is TikTok Shop to blame?
Half of Apple’s India smartphone shipments are now iPhone 15
Amazon’s iRobot deal could be blocked by European Union
After Netflix says no, other app makers debate a Vision Pro launch
Samsung’s smart ring might signal the start of a new wearable era
Forget Apple Vision Pro — rabbit r1 is 2024’s most exciting launch yet
X is rolling out audio and video calls to Android
TikTok is experimenting with a feature that uses AI to create songs based on prompts
Amazon confirms more layoffs, impacting its Buy with Prime unit
OpenAI signs up its first higher education customer, Arizona State
Plex confirms plan to launch TV and movie rentals next month
The rabbit r1 will use Perplexity AI’s tech to answer your queries
Weekly Book Recommendations 📚
The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Weekly Top HackerNews
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries
Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it
Simulating a Minimal Cell in the Browser
Why lowercase letters save data
Snowcraft – Building a Lego Snowfort from giant Lego snow-bricks
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