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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Amazon refreshes its Alexa-powered Echo Frames glasses: enhanced speech processing, better noise isolation, 15% thinner, and a six-hour battery life for $270  —  Amazon today unveiled a new generation of Echo Frames, its Alexa-powered glasses, with enhanced speech processing, better noise isolation and a $269.99 price tag. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI debuts DALL-E 3, which can be summoned and controlled using ChatGPT, and plans to make it available to ChatGPT+ and enterprise customers in October  —  OpenAI is offering an early look at DALL-E 3, the next version of its image generation tool.  The update allows DALL-E 3 to be summoned … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon unveils the $180 Echo Hub, a wall-mountable smart home controller with an 8 touchscreen, and Map View, a new interface that shows a home’s floor plan  —  Designed specifically as a smart home controller, the Echo Hub is a slimline version of an Echo Show 8 or a shrunken version of a Show 15. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Everything Amazon announced at its product event: Alexa Emergency Assist for $6/month, the Alexa Eye Gaze accessibility feature, the $50 Echo Pop Kids, and more  —  Amazon is kicking off its annual fall product announcements at its HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Victoria Song / The Verge: Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 review: Double Tap is great, but Precision Finding requires an iPhone 15, and the Siri and brightness improvements feel minor  —  Iterative updates aren’t flashy, but these smartwatches are mainly for folks who don’t have Apple Watches yet. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Sources: as equities soared in 2020, Apple and Goldman were working on an iPhone stock trading feature but shelved the project when markets turned south in 2022  —  – Apple was exploring the launch of an iPhone feature that would let users buy and sell stocks, according to three sources familiar with the plans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Latin America-focused rapid grocery startup JOKR raised a ~$50M Series D led by Convivialité at an $800M valuation, down from a $1.3B valuation in February 2023  —  Online grocery delivery company JOKR is out to show that it can continue to be a leader in the industry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Legit Security, whose service helps identify app vulnerabilities from code, raised a $40M Series B led by CRV, taking its total funding to $77M  —  Legit Security, a cybersecurity company developing a platform to identify app vulnerabilities from code, has raised $40 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Latin America-focused rapid grocery startup JOKR raised a ~$50M Series D led by Convivialité at an $800M valuation, down from a $1.3B valuation in February 2023  —  Online grocery delivery company JOKR is out to show that it can continue to be a leader in the industry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Sources: the Kirin 9000S SoC has four CPUs that use Arm designs, the other four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon developed the GPU and NPU, and more  —  Facing US sanctions, Chinese company emulates Apple by using its own designs in chips for Mate 60 Pro Lees verder op Tech Meme