Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is in talks to sign a multiyear deal in which Magic Leap provides IP licensing and contract manufacturing in North America for Meta’s AR products  —  Social media giant seeks technologies to help create an avatar-filled ‘metaverse’  —  Facebook’s parent company is in talks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: An in-depth look at the executive team behind Apple’s upcoming mixed reality headset  —  Apple is just a few weeks away from debuting its mixed-reality headset.  This past week, I gave an in-depth look at the device’s development and features.  Now, here’s a list of the key people involved in the project. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: China says it found “relatively serious” cybersecurity risks in Micron products, warns country’s key information infrastructure operators against buying them  —  China said it found “relatively serious” cybersecurity risks in Micron Technology Inc. products that were sold in the country … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How Mobileye, Cruise, Waymo, and other self-driving system makers are simulating bad drivers, jaywalkers, and edge cases to train and test autonomous vehicles  —  Call it the Mad Max driving test, a gantlet only a Hollywood director—or a mild-mannered engineer—could dream up Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pan / Bloomberg: Analysts say crypto miners pivoting to AI cloud services face an uphill battle due to needing other specialized processors, hardware and staff costs, and more  —  Crypto miners looking to provide services for upstarts in artificial intelligence may be looking at an uphill battle, according to analysts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Meta and Magic Leap are in talks for a multiyear deal in which Magic Leap could provide IP licensing and contract manufacturing for Meta’s AR products  —  Social media giant seeks technologies to help create an avatar-filled ‘metaverse’  —  Facebook’s parent company is in talks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madeleine Ngo / New York Times: The US could be on the cusp of a chipmaking boom, with 50+ projects announced since the CHIPS Act, but officials worry the industry could face a worker shortage  —  Strengthened by billions of federal dollars, semiconductor companies plan to create thousands of jobs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Neeva: Neeva, co-founded by ex-Google ad head Sridhar Ramaswamy, plans to shut down its ad-free search engine on June 2 due to a “vastly changed search environment”  —  We started Neeva with the mission to take search back to its users.  Having worked on search and search ads for over a decade … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Maddox / Wired: A look at the issues fomented by a decentralized web, including a rise in conspiratorial thinking due to more siloed online spaces and increasing app fatigue  —  From social networks to crypto, independently run servers are being touted as a solution to the internet’s problems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based Percent, which operates a private credit marketplace, raised a $29.7M Series B led by White Star Capital, bringing its total funding to $48.2M  —  In 2018, Nelson Chu founded Percent with the goal of bringing investors, borrowers and underwriters together to modernize private credit. Lees verder op Tech Meme