Acer’s ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop will do 3D without glasses, Apple is considering adding health features to AirPods, and Sony is reportedly in talks with TSMC to build a chip fab in Japan.
A Swiss Federal Institute of Technology robotics engineering student Ken Pillonel stuffed a USB-C port that can transfer data as well as charge into an iPhone X. A San Francisco court orders Tesla to pay $136.9 million to a former contract employee who alleged discrimination and hostile work environment, and Microsoft and Nvidia created the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model or MT-NLP which they call the “most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date”.
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LG will cover majority of costs for GM’s Bolt EV battery recall, the SEC is communicating with Facebook whistleblower’s lawyers, and Waze teams up with Headspace for a more chill commute.
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Facebook’s Nick Clegg announced the company’s plans to “nudge” teenagers away from harmful content, Google will reportedly offer a Pixel Pass service bundle, and Apple will appeal in its lawsuit with Epic.
Facebook provided details on the cause of the October 4th outage, Twitch’s source code and creator payouts leaked, and William Shatner gets set for space.
Microsoft has now agreed to let independent third-party study the impact of making Microsoft devices easier to repair. Google SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer offers an invitation to Apple to help them implement RCS on the iPhone. CNET’s Brian Cooley notes that Michelin and GM plan to have airless tires available for street use as early as 2024.
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