Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Threads has largely replicated Instagram’s algorithm, prioritizing posts by creators and friends over hard news, and is relying on Instagram moderators  —  Facebook’s parent company downgrades current affairs on Threads app and refuses to engage with Canadian law designed to fund media groups Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wayne Ma / The Information: Sources: Meta’s timeline for releasing AR glasses has slipped to at least 2027, as setbacks caused dropping microLED display tech, lidar, a 3D projector, more  —  In March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic began to transform the world, the company then known as Facebook struck a deal to buy … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: France issues Societe Generale Forge the first license to offer crypto services under the country’s new crypto rules  —  – Forge awarded permissions to act as custodian, trade crypto  — License will help meet demand from institutional clients: CEO Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sahil Patel / The Information: Sources: Netflix told advertisers in the last two weeks that its ad-supported tier has around 1.5M subscribers in the US; Hulu’s ad tier has ~30M US subscribers  —  Around 1.5 million people in the U.S. have signed up to pay for Netflix’s tier of service that carries ads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Humphries / PCMag: Intel grants Asus a non-exclusive license to its NUC designs; Asus plans to make, sell, and support 10th to 13th gen systems and can develop new system designs  —  The agreement covers existing NUCs and allows Asus to design new models. … , Asus is granted a non-exclusive license … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Meta launches a WhatsApp app for Wear OS 3 smartwatches, letting users start chats, reply to messages, and take calls without having their connected phone  —  WhatsApp has finally launched its standalone app for smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS, after much anticipation and months-long beta testing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Clark / The Information: Michael Moritz leaves Sequoia Capital to focus on the firm’s wealth management business; source: Mike Vernal is also leaving; Daniel Chen left in recent months  —  Sequoia Capital has shaken up its senior ranks, the latest indication of how its leader, Roelof Botha, is reshaping … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Sacramento-based Unstructured, which offers a service to extract and stage enterprise data in a way that LLMs can use, raised $25M across a Series A and seed  —  Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 are the building blocks for an increasing number of AI applications. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Nasdaq halts the launch of its digital-asset custodian business in the US and pursuing a related license, citing a shifting business and regulatory environment  —  The exchange operator is also halting its efforts to pursue a license related to the business but will continue to build out its technological capability to handle crypto. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Unity launches PolySpatial, which was unveiled alongside the Vision Pro at WWDC to help developers port and create 3D experiences for Apple’s visionOS, in beta  —  Unity this morning announced that it has opened the beta version of its development platform for visionOS. Lees verder op Tech Meme