Kuration #317 Tech Highlights This Week
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Here is a summary of everything last week 🗓
Headlines 🔥
Humane pushes Ai Pin ship date to mid-April
Arc browser’s new AI-powered ‘pinch-to-summarize’ feature is clever, but often misses the mark
Google is sunsetting the Google Pay app in the US later this year
Blue Origin raises New Glenn on the launch pad for first time
Sony’s PS VR2 is getting compatibility, possibly by end of year
Google is killing Gmail’s basic HTML view (but not Gmail) in 2024
Stable Diffusion 3 arrives to solidify early lead in AI imagery against Sora and Gemini
Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run their own server
Substack now lets writers curate a ‘network’ of recommended publications for their subscribers
Samsung is bringing Galaxy AI features to more devices
Instagram launches its marketplace to connect brands and creators in 8 new countries
Google pauses AI tool Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after historical inaccuracies
Byju’s says $200 million rights issue that cuts valuation by 99% fully subscribed
Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames
OnePlus took a three-year ‘reflective pause’ before increasing its smartwatch battery
Amazon to launch ‘special store’ for value fashion in India
YouTube rolls out new channel pages for creators on its TV app
Apple Music introduces a monthly version of Replay
Walmart to acquire Vizio in $2.3 billion deal
The women in AI making a difference
Dili wants to automate due diligence with AI
Y Combinator wants 100 times more MRI scans
Nintendo will announce part of its 2024 Switch lineup later this week
Samsung’s Galaxy Ring could arrive in July
Here’s a full-length Netflix movie on YouTube.
A peek inside Alphabet’s $7 billion growth-stage investing arm, CapitalG
Can’t decide between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti’s new app lets you post to all three
Video game startups could be a bright spot for VC in 2024
Threads is running a fact-checking program, but the system isn’t fully rolled out
Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the new generative AI platform
Fortnite will return to iOS in Europe thanks to DMA
Clubhouse’s new feature turns your texts into custom voice messages
OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model
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
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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