Fri. 12/02 – Will 2023 Be The Year Of The Headset Wars?

Mark Gurman has details on Apple ramping up development of its mixed-reality headset, targeting a launch next year. Elon has had to block his friend Ye from Twitter. Future is shutting down. Airplane mode might be a thing of the past soon. Is Nikola Tesla’s dream of wireless electrical transmission about to be a reality? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Apple Renames Mixed-Reality Software ‘xrOS’ in Sign Headset Is Approaching (Bloomberg)
• Kanye West isn’t buying Parler after all (TechCrunch)
• Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down (Insider)
• Payments giant Stripe jumps into Web3 with tool that helps companies turn cash to crypto (Fortune Crypto)
• AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps (TechCrunch)
• No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights (BBC News)
• Silicon Valley startup beaming electricity wirelessly raises $30 million (Reuters)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Generative AI: autocomplete for everything (Noahpinion)
• Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI (The Atlantic)
• The Grown-Up Art of Andor (The New Republic)
• A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s (New Yorker)

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