Kuration #303 Tech Highlights This Week
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Here is a summary of everything last week 🗓
Headlines 🔥
Adam Neumann is trying to buy back WeWork
Immersive gaming and fitness apps are the key to Vision Pro’s consumer appeal
Following this week’s layoffs, Snap’s stock tanks 30% on Q4 revenue
Mozilla Monitor’s new service removes your personal info from data broker sites automatically
Snapchat’s parent lays off 10% of workforce in order to ‘reduce hierarchy,’ says company
Bumble’s new AI tool identifies and blocks scam accounts, fake profiles
CRED to acquire mutual fund startup Kuvera in wealth management push
Ex-Blue Origin leaders want to mine the moon
Cloud native container management platform Weaveworks shuts its doors
Jio Financial says not in talks to acquire Paytm’s wallet business
Dexa aims to get more out of podcasts with AI-powered search
YouTube says a Vision Pro app is ‘on the roadmap’
Microsoft weighs launching Indiana Jones on the PS5
Elden Ring mobile game reportedly under development at Tencent
Lego’s epic limited-edition Parisian Street and Mountain Fortress are about to go on sale
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
favorite Vision Pro apps (so far)
Pinterest announces a new ad deal with Google as it approaches 500M MAUs
CodeSignal launches a learning platform with an AI-powered guide
Apple eyes a foldable iPhone following Vision Pro launch
Microsoft plans to train 2M Indians in AI, says Nadella
Bluesky gets nearly 800K new users in its first day open to the public, despite outages
Microsoft brings new design-focused features to Copilot
Disney takes a $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games to build a Fortnite ‘entertainment universe’
Todoist adds team workspaces to its task manager
3D scanning app Polycam gets backing from YouTube co-founder
Disney Plus will start its password-sharing crackdown this summer
GoPro will launch new cameras starting at $199 this year.
YouTube is experimenting with red, blue, and green video feeds
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?
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
Weekly Top HackerNews
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
Running Open-Source AI Models Locally with Ruby
Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?
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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