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Hands-on with the Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Explorer Edition, featuring two micro-OLED screens, three front-facing cameras, and weighing 126g, in prototype (Ben Sin/XDA Developers)

Ben Sin / XDA Developers: Hands-on with the Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Explorer Edition, featuring two micro-OLED screens, three front-facing cameras, and weighing 126g, in prototype  —  Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses are a prototype not meant for commercial release right now, but the hardware feels more than ready

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GSMA unveils Open Gateway, an initiative with 21 carriers offering open-source APIs using AWS and Azure to provide carrier billing, location, and other services (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: GSMA unveils Open Gateway, an initiative with 21 carriers offering open-source APIs using AWS and Azure to provide carrier billing, location, and other services  —  APIs are the building blocks of how the world of technology works: used to integrate applications with each other …

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Sources: Tencent established a team to work on “HunyuanAide”, a ChatGPT-style chatbot using Tencent’s Hunyuan training model, following Alibaba and Baidu (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Josh Ye / Reuters: Sources: Tencent established a team to work on “HunyuanAide”, a ChatGPT-style chatbot using Tencent’s Hunyuan training model, following Alibaba and Baidu  —  Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) has set up a development team to work on a ChatGPT-like chatbot, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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Google announces new features for Android, ChromeOS, and Wear OS, including Fast Pair support for Chromebooks, Keep shortcuts, and Wear OS accessibility modes (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google announces new features for Android, ChromeOS, and Wear OS, including Fast Pair support for Chromebooks, Keep shortcuts, and Wear OS accessibility modes  —  Google has announced a slew of new features for Android, Chromebook and Wear OS that are designed to improve connectivity, productivity and accessibility.

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A look at Dude Perfect on YouTube, as its five founders look to build a theme park; a source says Dude Perfect’s 2022 revenue was ~$25M, up from ~$20M in 2021 (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: A look at Dude Perfect on YouTube, as its five founders look to build a theme park; a source says Dude Perfect’s 2022 revenue was ~$25M, up from ~$20M in 2021  —  The five friends found fame making basketball trick shots and now hope fans can try similar antics

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After a string of high-profile setbacks, the White House and FTC are finding breaking up Big Tech is hard, as Google lawyers up ahead of its court battle (Washington Post)

Washington Post: After a string of high-profile setbacks, the White House and FTC are finding breaking up Big Tech is hard, as Google lawyers up ahead of its court battle  —  Google is hiring teams of former DOJ lawyers to fight antitrust lawsuits as the battle over tech firms’ power shifts to the courts

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Sources: Tencent established a team to work on “HunyuanAide”, a ChatGPT-style chatbot using Tencent’s Hunyuan training model, following Alibaba and Baidu (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Josh Ye / Reuters: Sources: Tencent established a team to work on “HunyuanAide”, a ChatGPT-style chatbot using Tencent’s Hunyuan training model, following Alibaba and Baidu  —  Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) has set up a development team to work on a ChatGPT-like chatbot, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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Filing: China Renaissance says founder Bao Fan is “co-operating in an investigation”, more than a week after disclosing his unexplained disappearance (Hudson Lockett/Financial Times)

Hudson Lockett / Financial Times: Filing: China Renaissance says founder Bao Fan is “co-operating in an investigation”, more than a week after disclosing his unexplained disappearance  —  Investment bank reports Bao Fan is assisting Chinese authorities with investigation  —  China Renaissance said its missing founder Bao Fan …

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Some crypto projects are abandoning terms like NFTs, which became associated with unsavory get-rich-quick scams, in favor of terms like “digital collectibles” (Stephen Graves/Decrypt)

Stephen Graves / Decrypt: Some crypto projects are abandoning terms like NFTs, which became associated with unsavory get-rich-quick scams, in favor of terms like “digital collectibles”  —  It’s the technology that dare not speak its name.  —  Are you looking for NFTs on Reddit or Instagram?

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A Milliwatt Of DOOM

The seminal 1993 first-person shooter from id Software, DOOM, has become well-known as a test of small computer platforms. We’ve seen it on embedded systems far and wide, but we doubt we’ve ever seen it consume as little power as it does on a specialized neural network processor. The chip in question is a Syntiant

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Satellite connectivity on Android phones is about to go far and wide

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Qualcomm’s satellite connectivity tech is coming to phones from Motorola, Nothing, Oppo, and other Android manufacturers. All future Qualcomm 5G modems and Snapdragon processors will support the tech. Qualcomm has finally revealed the names of all the smartphone manufacturers launching new Android phones equipped with its Snapdragon Satellite platform.

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Hackaday Links: February 26, 2023

It’s probably safe to say that most of us have had enough of the Great Balloon Follies to last the rest of 2023 and well beyond. It’s been a week or two since anything untoward was spotted over the US and subsequently blasted into shrapnel, at least that we know of, so we can probably

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