Tech Meme

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg announces that Xbox Cloud Gaming is “coming to Quest in December”, letting users play hundreds of titles on “a massive screen, anywhere you go”  —  The next-generation of Meta Quest hardware is here, and Meta announced a bunch of software news alongside the Quest 3 VR headset hardware reveal. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: Meta announces AI-generated chat stickers for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and unveils new AI-powered image editing tools for Instagram  —  New generative AI tools announced Wednesday at Meta’s Connect event will allow users to edit images and create stickers using text prompts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Meta unveils a Meta AI assistant for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, and 28 AI characters based on celebrities like MrBeast, Charli D’Amelio, and Snoop Dogg  —  The Meta AI assistant is coming to WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, along with dozens of AI characters based on celebrities like MrBeast and Charli D’Amelio. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Cranz / The Verge: A live blog of Meta’s Connect 2023 event, with details on the upcoming Quest 3 and possibly new software and other hardware  —  After a few years of fairly quiet Meta Connect developer conferences, the big virtual reality show is back with a whole mess of announcements in 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta debuts the $500 Quest 3 with 30% higher resolution than the Quest 2, double the processing power, better lenses, thinner design, alongside new controllers  —  – New mixed-reality headset to start at $500, a $200 increase  — Apple to launch rival device, Vision Pro, early next year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Meta’s VP of infrastructure, who oversees the company’s efforts to develop its own chips for AI work, is leaving at the end of September 2023  —  A Meta Platforms (META.O) executive overseeing the company’s efforts to develop its own chips for artificial intelligence work is leaving … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: NYC- and Tel Aviv-based Gem Security, which offers a cloud threat detection, investigation, and response service, raised a $23M Series A led by GGV Capital  —  Cloud detection and response company Gem Security today announced that it has raised a $23 million Series A round led by GGV Capital … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Filing: the US FTC revives its challenge of Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition, a move that may unwind the deal even after its close by October 18  —  – FTC administrative hearing won’t derail deal from closing  — Companies are likely to win UK regulatory approval for deal Lees verder op Tech Meme

Byron Kaye / Reuters: Researchers say X removed a feature letting users to report election misinformation, launched in the US, Australia, and South Korea in 2021 and expanded in 2022  —  Elon Musk’s X, formerly called Twitter, disabled a feature that let users report misinformation about elections … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Binance exits Russia as operating there “is not compatible with Binance’s compliance strategy”, and sells the business to CommEX, which launched a day earlier  —  – CommEX was launched a day before Binance announced deal  — Perlman says Russia business ‘not compatible’ with compliance Lees verder op Tech Meme