DTH 2023 : DTH 3/7/2023 Today's date These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Tuesday, March 7, 2023. I'm Rich Stroffolino. TikTok announced a new monetization feature called Series, which lets creators post Collections of content behind a paywall. Each Series can include up to 80 videos, each up to 20 minutes long. The feature launched wil select creators, and will open up to more users in the coming months. At launch creators get 100% of Series earnings, but its unclear what a future revenue split will look like. https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/tiktok-series-creators-sell-premium-episodes-1235545326/ Salesforce released Einstein GPT, an OpenAI-powered tool that will generate sales emails, answer customer questions,and create marketing content. The company also announced an invite-only beta for a ChatGPT Slack bot, which can be used to summarize channel or thread content, as well as a general research tool. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/07/salesforce-launches-chatgpt-slack-app-einstein-gpt-for-sales-service.html Medium opened up its Mastodon instance to all paying Medium community members. Existing Medium usernames will be reserved on the me.dm instance until March 20th. Users will also received hand-picked user recommendation and Medium's Trust and Saftey team will handle moderation on the instance. The company also said it may roll out a "Share to Mastodon" button on Medium in the coming weeks. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/7/23628642/medium-opens-mastodon-subscription-membership-twitter SoundCloud began testing a vertical discovery feed on iOS and Android. With this, SoundCloud also rolled out 30-second previews, users can like these snippets to add the full version to a playlist. SoundCloud also redesigned the Feed tab, which features a new Disocvery page with algorithmically suggested content, as well as a Following page. The Discover page will show captions saying what likes or followed artists it used to determine the suggestion. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/06/soundcloud-is-testing-a-tiktok-like-feed-for-music-discovery/ Sonos announced two new speakers. The $250 Era 100 is designed to replace the Sonor One speaker, with tweeters able to output stereo channels and a 25% larger subwoofer. The $450 Era 300 supports spatial audio and can be paired with a Sonos soundbar as rear surround speakers. Both support Bluetooth, USB-C line-in, and Trueplay tuning for room optimized audio. https://www.engadget.com/sonos-is-betting-big-on-spatial-audio-with-the-450-era-300-speaker-140041530.html?src=rss General Motors announced details about its next-generation Ultra Cruise driver-assistance system. THe system will use lidar sensors behind the windshield and under the rearview mirror, with cameras on the side mirrors, and radar sensors on the bumpers, grill, taillights, and hood ornament. GM says this will cover 95% of driving maneuvers on 2 million miles of roads in the US, although GM still classifies this as a Level 2 system. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/7/23627656/gm-ultra-cruise-sensor-radar-lidar-hands-free Microsoft announced a new "experimental" feature for Edge called Video Super Resolution, which upscales 720p or lower quality video without DRM protection. It works on Nvidia RTX 20, 30 and 40 series cards and AMD Radeon RX 5700 through RX7800 cards. Currently some users of Edge's Canary builds can access the feature.
And Outlook for Mac is now usable for free. You could always download it but until now you needed a Microsoft 365 subscription or license to use it. Now you don't. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/6/23627080/microsoft-edge-video-upscaling-ai-super-resolution-vsr --- https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/280143/outlook-for-mac-now-free-to-use-on-macos Bloomberg's sources say Meta plans to do another round of layoffs as early as this week, potentially impacting thousands of jobs. This comes after Meta cut 13% of its workforce, roughly 11,000 workers, back in November. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/meta-plans-thousands-more-layoffs-as-soon-as-this-week/ar-AA18iIeE The autonomous trucking company Embarkk Trucks plans to cut 70% of its staff and shut down two offices. CEO Alex Rodrigues informed employees remaining staff will focus on winding down operations, saying "we have been unable to identify a path forward for the business in its current form." https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/03/embark-trucks-lays-off-workers-explores-liquidation-of-self-driving-truck-assets/ Weightwatchers announced it intends to acquire the digital health company Sequence for $106 million. Sequence offers telehealth doctor visits who can prescribe medication. Weightwatchers plans to create programs aimed at people using weight-loss drugs to emphasize additional exercise and diet options. https://www.wsj.com/articles/weightwatchers-moves-into-the-ozempic-market-with-telehealth-deal-6ae088b6?mod=djemalertNEWS Samsung denied a report originally published in Business Korea that it began development on its own mobile CPU cores as part of a Galaxy Chip series, rather than using core designs from ARM. Samsung said the report is "not true" saying "we have long had multiple internal teams responsible for CPU development and optimization, while constantly recruiting global talents from relevant fields." https://9to5google.com/2023/03/06/samsung-denies-developing-cpu-cores-galaxy-chip/ Intel recently re-entered the discrete GPU market with the Xe GPU architecture. A lot of times we talk about their Arc consumer GPUs, but the company also introduced Max and Flex series GPUs for high performance computing and data centers last year. Now Intel updated its GPU roadmap, cancelling the follow up cards to its first generation Max and Flex cards. It also pushed back the released of what would have been the third-generation Max Series card to 2025, which will introduce a new “flexible chiplet-based architecture." These cards will introduce CPU cores to this chiplet design after 2025. Intel did not provide a release window for a follow up Flex Series card. https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/intel-makes-cuts-to-data-center-gpu-road-map-delays-falcon-shores-to-2025 Apple announced it will launch Apple Pay in South Korea with support for in-store, in-app, and online purchases. The company also announced a new yellow color for the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus. https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/07/apple-pay-south-korea-launch/ --- https://www.apple.com/kr/newsroom/2023/03/hello-yellow-apple-introduces-new-iphone-14-and-iphone-14-plus/ The makers of the reMarkable 2 e-ink tablet announced a new $199 Type Folio accessory. It offers full size letter keys, offers two screen positions, connects over the reMarkable's magnetic accessory port, and comes in Ink Black or Sepia Brown colors. https://www.engadget.com/remarkable-2-type-folio-keyboard-hands-on-130057978.html YouTube will discontinue overlay ads as of April 6th. These ads only appeared on YOuTube's desktop site. YouTube called them "disruptive for viewers" and said it will move to "higher performing ad formats on desktop and mobile devices." https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/youtube-overlay-ads-going-away Mark your calendars folks. Nothing will announce the Nothing Ear (2) wireless earbuds during a livestream announcement March 22. The Nothing Ear (1) was Nothing's first released product. https://gizmodo.com/nothing-ear-2-wireless-earbuds-announcement-1-stick-1850191945 For more discussion of the tech news of the day subscribe to DailyTechNewsShow.com, [MWF] you can find show notes and links to all headlines there as well, [T-Th-Sat] and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check it out! http://dailytechnewsshow.reddit.com Thanks for listening, we'll talk to you next time. END OF SHOW Published by Google Sheets–Report Abuse–Updated automatically every 5 minutes