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How Apple’s commitment to supporting old iPhones allowed it to capture a part of the US market once cornered by the inexpensive Android phones (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How Apple’s commitment to supporting old iPhones allowed it to capture a part of the US market once cornered by the inexpensive Android phones  —  It’s not just lavish marketing and the threat of green bubbles—Apple’s commitment to supporting old phones has allowed it to capture a part … […]

Indian streaming service JioCinema plans to add 100+ films and TV series and charge for content; JioCinema had 22M viewers for an IPL cricket match on April 12 (P R Sanjai/Bloomberg)

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P R Sanjai / Bloomberg: Indian streaming service JioCinema plans to add 100+ films and TV series and charge for content; JioCinema had 22M viewers for an IPL cricket match on April 12  —  Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s streaming service will add more than 100 films and TV series to its platform, building on the popularity […]

Nigeria: Nigeria’s Cash Crisis Driving Digital Transactions to All-Time High

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[Premium Times] The scarcity is driving Nigerians in droves to sign up for digital and electronic banking services from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/f3RBbAF

A look at OpenAI’s “red team” of 50 academics and experts, hired in 2022 to look for issues such as toxicity, prejudice, and biases in GPT-4 before its release (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A look at OpenAI’s “red team” of 50 academics and experts, hired in 2022 to look for issues such as toxicity, prejudice, and biases in GPT-4 before its release  —  Microsoft-backed company asked an eclectic mix of people to ‘adversarially test’ GPT-4, its powerful new language model from Techmeme https://ift.tt/IHgqkR6

Asus unveils ROG Phone 7 with a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and clip-on cooling fan, starting at €999 and available for preorder in Europe (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Asus unveils ROG Phone 7 with a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and clip-on cooling fan, starting at €999 and available for preorder in Europe  —  The clip-on fan interfaces with a trap door that opens up for internal cooling.  —  Some companies may be giving … from […]

Court filings in California’s suit against Amazon say the company blocked sellers from offering lower prices on rival sites despite claiming to end the policy (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)

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Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Court filings in California’s suit against Amazon say the company blocked sellers from offering lower prices on rival sites despite claiming to end the policy  —  Amazon.com Inc. continued blocking sellers from offering lower prices on rival sites, despite assuring antitrust enforcers it ended … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/kAxEXg9

A San Francisco federal judge rules Google must face trial, set for May 8, over Sonos’ patents, but invalidates two of four patents and narrows Sonos’ claims (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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Blake Brittain / Reuters: A San Francisco federal judge rules Google must face trial, set for May 8, over Sonos’ patents, but invalidates two of four patents and narrows Sonos’ claims  —  Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) received a mixed ruling on Thursday from a San Francisco federal judge in a patent lawsuit brought by Sonos Inc […]

Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Digg’s collapse, Reddit going public after 17 years, TikTok and regulation as its biggest threats, its longevity, and more (Robert Leedham/British GQ)

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Robert Leedham / British GQ: Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Digg’s collapse, Reddit going public after 17 years, TikTok and regulation as its biggest threats, its longevity, and more  —  First, he has some thoughts to share on teetotalism, the Twitter Files and TikTok  —  For 17 years now … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/bJSN91R

Filing: Elon Musk has created X.AI Corp., a new AI company privately held and incorporated in Nevada, and authorized the sale of 100M shares (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal: Filing: Elon Musk has created X.AI Corp., a new AI company privately held and incorporated in Nevada, and authorized the sale of 100M shares  —  Name of new Nevada-incorporated organization suggests link to billionaire’s interest in everything app  —  Elon Musk has created … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/PVfzjkI

Daily Crunch: Less than a year after buying Heardle, Spotify will shutter music game on May 5

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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Friday, our crunchiest of friends! Over the last few days, we’ve been telling you about all the cool stuff that’s happening at Disrupt. Well, guess what — we’re getting a hardware […]

FAA grants launch license to SpaceX, clearing way for Starship orbital flight test

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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has issued a launch license to SpaceX for the Starship orbital flight test, which could now take place as soon as Monday. The long-awaited launch license came at the very end of business on Friday. “After a comprehensive license evaluation process, the FAA determined SpaceX met all safety, environmental, policy, […]

Discord leak suspect charged with stealing and sharing military secrets

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After his arrest yesterday, the U.S. Air National Guard airman suspected of sharing a trove of national security secrets with his Discord chat group now faces charges under the Espionage Act. 21-year-old Jack Teixeira was charged Friday with the unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents. […]

Montana lawmakers approve a first-of-its-kind bill that bans TikTok and bars app stores from offering the app within the state starting on January 1, 2024 (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal: Montana lawmakers approve a first-of-its-kind bill that bans TikTok and bars app stores from offering the app within the state starting on January 1, 2024  —  Supporters of the first-of-its-kind-bill expect legal challenges if the governor signs the legislation from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3TSRbhf

Sources: Sega is nearing a deal to acquire Rovio for ~$1B; Rovio was in talks to sell itself to Playtika for $800M+, but the negotiations ended in March 2023 (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sega is nearing a deal to acquire Rovio for ~$1B; Rovio was in talks to sell itself to Playtika for $800M+, but the negotiations ended in March 2023  —  Japan-based entertainment conglomerate expected to pay about $1 billion for Rovio Entertainment from Techmeme https://ift.tt/RZ7Llw6

James Zhong, who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from Silk Road in 2012, is sentenced to one year and one day in prison (David Voreacos/Bloomberg)

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David Voreacos / Bloomberg: James Zhong, who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from Silk Road in 2012, is sentenced to one year and one day in prison  —  A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road drug-trafficking site before his cache hit $3.35 billion in value must serve a year […]

CMU taught a robot dog to walk a balance beam

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While discussing humanoid robots not long ago, someone told me their main issue with the form factor is that — from an evolutionary standpoint — we’re not built particularly well. That’s not to say that our bodies haven’t served us well, of course. They’ve done the trick for a few hundred thousand years. It’s more […]

Apple TV rolls out multiview feature in beta to sports fans

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The rumors going around about Apple TV launching a multiview feature  — which was spotted by developer Steve Moser — are coming true. Tonight, Apple is launching a beta version of the feature on the Apple TV 4K during its MLB Friday Night Baseball livestream, TechCrunch has learned. Users participating in the Apple beta software […]

Elon Musk reportedly rushing to assemble a rival to OpenAI

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Not satisfied with dismantling Twitter, Elon Musk is reportedly planning to take on his erstwhile ally OpenAI, and is currently attempting to collect the money and people necessary to do so. The busy billionaire may tap the resources of his several companies to accelerate the work, but there is good reason to be skeptical of […]

Court docs show FBI used billing records provided by Discord to help identify Jack Teixeira, the alleged leaker of classified Pentagon documents (Associated Press)

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Associated Press: Court docs show FBI used billing records provided by Discord to help identify Jack Teixeira, the alleged leaker of classified Pentagon documents  —  A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak of highly classified military documents appeared in court Friday as prosecutors unsealed charges … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QDrX1bH

Developer logs: Apple is testing a laptop with a CPU similar to current models, likely a 15″ MacBook Air with the same screen resolution as the 14″ MacBook Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Developer logs: Apple is testing a laptop with a CPU similar to current models, likely a 15″ MacBook Air with the same screen resolution as the 14″ MacBook Pro  —  Apple Inc. is ramping up testing of fresh Macs with processors on par with the current M2 chip, making headway on […]