Fri. 09/06 – Telegram Blinks.
Pavel Durov speaks, and Telegram blinks, both for the first time since the French arrest. Are XR glasses tethered to smartphones the next big product category? What if your smartphone could cure your vision problems? And in the longreads, if Waymo is about to scale, what, exactly, is the business model, long-term?
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Show Notes
Pavel Durov speaks, and Telegram blinks, both for the first time since the French arrest. Are XR glasses tethered to smartphones the next big product category? What if your smartphone could cure your vision problems? And in the longreads, if Waymo is about to scale, what, exactly, is the business model, long-term?
Links:
- Pavel Durov: Telegram founder says France arrest is ‘misguided’ (The Guardian)
- Exclusive: Qualcomm explores acquiring pieces of Intel chip-design business (Reuters)
- Qualcomm says it’s working on mixed reality smart glasses with Samsung and Google (CNBC)
- Review: Honor Magic V3 (Wired)
- Exclusive: Honor's latest devices use AI to try to reverse nearsightedness (Android Central)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Waymo’s Robot Taxis Are Almost Mainstream. Can They Now Turn a Profit? (NYTimes)
- When the Bitcoin Scammers Came for Me (The Atlantic)
- Among the Idlers (Curbed)
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