Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple Music has quietly discontinued its $4.99/month Voice Plan, which was introduced in 2021 and let users access the Apple Music catalog exclusively via Siri  —  Apple this week held a special event to announce new Macs, but what the company didn’t tell is that it has just quietly discontinued the … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Snowflake announces Snowflake Cortex, a fully managed service designed to help business users and developers work with AI-fueled apps on its Data Cloud platform  —  Companies use Snowflake to store their data in the cloud.  With the ever growing interest in generative AI and large language models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Worldcoin: Worldcoin’s Tools for Humanity says its World App wallet has crossed 4M+ downloads, 100K+ DAUs, 1M+ MAUs, and 22M transactions since its launch in May 2023  —  World App: Designed for simplicity and inclusivity … *Eligibility for Worldcoin (WLD) tokens is restricted based on geography, age, and other factors. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Binance plans to end its partnership with payments firm Advcash that let customers move funds held at sanctioned Russian banks to the crypto exchange  —  Binance plans to shut down a partnership with a payments firm that allowed customers to move funds held at sanctioned Russian banks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

RT Watson / The Block: Coinbase announces that eligible US retail customers can now access bitcoin and ether futures contracts through Coinbase Financial Markets  —  – Coinbase’s service offering crypto futures trading to eligible retail U.S. customers is now active and includes “nano” bitcoin contracts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: The US SEC charges SafeMoon and its exec team for selling unregistered crypto securities and misappropriating investors’ funds the team had said were “locked”  —  SafeMoon’s CEO and chief technology officer were arrested, accused of withdrawing more than $200M to buy luxury cars … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Tobin / Reuters: Apple loses a bid to block a UK lawsuit over allegedly hiding defective iPhone batteries and “throttling” them via updates; Apple calls the lawsuit “baseless”  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Wednesday lost a bid to block a mass London lawsuit accusing it of hiding defective batteries … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Counterpoint Research: Apple shipped 2.5M iPhones in India in Q3 2023, its highest for a quarter; Samsung kept its lead with a 17.2% share, followed by Xiaomi’s 16.6% and Vivo’s 15.9%  —  – With a 17.2% share, Samsung remained the market leader for the fourth consecutive quarter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans new health features for 2024’s Apple Watch, like an elevated blood pressure sensor, and a paid health coaching service, possibly using AI  —  – AirPods will get hearing-aid capability and hearing tests  — AI health coach in the works, as are Vision Pro health tools Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: US v. Google offers a rare look at Google’s top 20 queries by revenue for a week in September 2018: iPhone, insurance, cheap flights, online colleges, and more  —  Not all Google searches make Google money.  Google often says that it only shows ads on about 20 percent of queries, the ones it calls “commercial queries.” Lees verder op Tech Meme