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...Silicon Valley’s search for a consumer device to succeed the smartphone has revived an idea that crashed and burnt almost a decade ago: Google Glass-style headsets....
...In Silicon Valley, this has been met with deep apprehension. It is seen as a government attempt to override years of design and technical decisions made by product managers and engineers....
...It has been met with deep concern in Silicon Valley, where it is seen as a government attempt to override years of design and technical decisions made by product managers and engineers....
...The search giant said its “largest, most capable and most general” AI system would be available as a free app through Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS app stores....
...The case also comes as tensions have increased over Silicon Valley’s links to China....
...They include a deal with Apple that makes Google’s search engine the default on Apple’s devices, bringing in billions of dollars a year....
...Everyone from small start-ups to legacy carmakers to Apple and China’s Baidu were taken with the idea....
...The two Silicon Valley giants have been rivals in the smartphone market since Google acquired and popularised the Android operating system in the 2000s....
...Like Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists, retail investors have gone cold on the sector too....
...Silicon Valley’s culture of founder-dominated companies stands in direct conflict with the Wall Street tradition of activism by outside shareholders....
...These are uncertain times for Silicon Valley. Tech companies are firing staff who they hired in the pandemic. Twitter, under Elon Musk, has repelled advertisers....
...Apple is the largest tech company yet to announce any significant cuts....
...The move by Apple, a bellwether of Silicon Valley, has led to growing disquiet among tech workers on whether their company will follow....
...Everyone from SoftBank to Apple was investing in autonomous vehicles. Since then, however, the sector’s fortunes have waned....
...Regardless, I’m a massive fan of Apple — and of Android, I have lots of devices that cover the spectrum. A big portion of our customers are very successful on the Apple platforms....
...“Now it is changing with Apple and Facebook slowing hiring.”...
...It was also a boost to the new rules aimed at curbing the power of Silicon Valley in the bloc....
...“The effect will be much stronger than a member state calling Silicon Valley to ask for a change.” But the leaden pace at which the DMA is coming into force risks leaving Brussels behind....
...Apple’s electric car project, dubbed the iCar, is nowhere to be seen. I had no complaints about my Cruise robotaxi trip. Still, outperforming human driver competence is a work in progress....
...Earlier this year, it struck an agreement with Major League Baseball to broadcast Friday night games, joining Silicon Valley peers such as Amazon in taking on traditional broadcasters for the rights to live...
...Silicon Valley’s clout also fuels growing disquiet in the US. Lina Khan, chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, is one of its most vocal critics....
...Democrats and Republicans have found rare common cause in recent years in their attempts to rein in the corporate power enjoyed by Silicon Valley’s largest companies....
...Now, the EU is dramatically escalating its antitrust war on big tech, and the Silicon Valley giants have been frantically trying to shape it to their own ends....
...The company reckons its vision is an “open” alternative to the platforms that Silicon Valley companies such as Apple and Meta have built....
...The closure is a sign of the increasingly different policy objectives of its Big Tech members, said observers, with Microsoft in particular looking to distance itself from its Silicon Valley peers....
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