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Apple's new Airpods 🎧, Google launching Airship 🛬, Bendy phone 📱
Apple's new Airpods 🎧, Google launching Airship 🛬, Bendy phone 📱
TechSlicer
October 26, 2023
TechSlice 2023-10-26
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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
Apple is planning to refresh its AirPods lineup, with new models in 2024 and 2025. The standard AirPods and AirPods Max will get updates in 2024, including design changes and improved audio quality. In 2025, the AirPods Pro will receive a new design, a faster chip, and potentially hearing health features.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin's airship company, LTA Research, received an airworthiness certificate for its helium-filled airship, Pathfinder 1. The certificate allows flight tests at Silicon Valley's Moffett Field and Palo Alto airport's airspaces. The airship is designed for humanitarian missions to reach remote areas.
At Lenovo Tech World '23, Lenovo showcased an updated version of its bendable phone concept, which can wrap around the wrist like a cuff-style device and offers improved flexibility compared to the one presented in 2016, featuring various poses without an audible crunching noise when snapping it onto a metal cuff; however, its practicality and market viability remain uncertain as users could face potential issues regarding stability and functionality when using it.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
The human body boasts an astonishing 18 trillion cells dedicated to its defense, forming a formidable immune system. These cells play a pivotal role in safeguarding the body from infections and diseases, illustrating the remarkable complexity of the human body's defense mechanisms. Understanding these defense cells is essential for advancing medical research and improving human health.
Salmon populations in cold-water rivers face dire consequences due to rising global temperatures and climate change. As waters warm, salmon struggle to find suitable habitats for their eggs and young, disrupting their life cycles. These ecological impacts underscore the urgency of addressing climate change to protect fragile ecosystems and biodiversity.
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE
The author reflects on their journey as a startup founder in the tech industry, initially motivated by the desire to achieve financial independence but later facing the complex dynamics of the venture capital world, changing market conditions, and the trade-offs between growth and profitability, ultimately finding satisfaction in building a sustainable business that may not result in enormous wealth.
To expedite web portal development without compromising quality, developers can utilize strategies such as automated documentation generation, container-based development environments, intelligent code generation and review with AI assistance, rapid data prototyping, dynamic routing, API-first development, microservices architecture, and automatic bug reporting and monitoring, thereby enhancing agility, scalability, and user-centric custom web app development.
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MISCELLANEOUS
In this courtroom drama involving the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, a former friend of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried recounted a conversation where he expressed concerns about the company's financial stability. The prosecution is using this "bulletproof conversation" to argue that Bankman-Fried knew about, and concealed, an $8 billion cash shortfall for months before it was revealed. The trial has wider implications for the regulation of the crypto industry and Bankman-Fried faces life in prison if convicted.
Google launches AR Beauty ads, enabling customers to virtually try on lip and eye products and soon, foundation, providing interactive advertising experiences. These ads appear in mobile-specific channels on Google Shopping, and the move reflects the growing belief in augmented reality (AR) as a powerful tool for marketing across the tech and ad industry. Data shows that AR ads can outperform static ads, with higher conversion rates, and are more likely to engage customers, driving the growing adoption of AR in advertising. AR ad revenue is projected to significantly increase by 2025, hitting $6.68 billion.
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QUICK LINKS
Google Pixel phones are receiving an upgraded Call Screen feature that allows users to quickly determine if a call from a saved contact is urgent, helping to reduce distractions and focus on important calls while also improving spam call filtering.
riters and artists are raising concerns about their work being used to train chatbots without permission, leading to class action lawsuits against tech companies, highlighting the need for clearer regulations on fair use for AI.
The U.S. v. Google antitrust trial is facing criticism due to the judge's tendency to allow tech companies, including Google, to redact documents and hold witness testimonies behind closed doors, raising concerns about transparency and public access in a case pivotal to the contemporary antitrust debate over tech giants' practices.
A survey on Microsoft Edge's website, somewhat biased, suggests users should try other browsers like Microsoft Edge over Google Chrome, highlighting its privacy features and energy efficiency while aiming to expand its user base.
Amazon is utilizing generative AI to create product images for advertisers, streamlining the ad creation process and potentially reducing the need for traditional product photography.