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☆ Apple didn't mention the metaverse once
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apple's mixed-reality headset is finally here, but it isn't talking about the metaverse. Apple may see the term metaverse, pushed by Mark Zuckerberg, as confusing and alienating. Apple mixed-reality headset, called Vision Pro, is finally here but for anyone watching the grand unveiling in Cupertino something was conspicuously missing: The metaverse didn't get a single mention. At no point did the Apple CEO use the term metaverse. "In the same way Mac introduced us to personal computing, and iPhone introduced us to mobile computing, Apple Vision Pro will introduce us to spatial computing," he said.

Persons: Apple's, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Mac, Zuckerberg's, Neal Stephenson, Satya Nadella, Gene Munster, That's chunky — Organizations: Morning, Vision, Apple Vision, Apple, Facebook, Meta, Labs, Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Google, Apple Watch, Deepwater Asset Management Locations: Cupertino

"The fresh water is finished," said Khamis Adel, a lifelong fishermen and indigenous Marsh Arab from Al-Khora in Basra. It's a question asked by many who once lived off Iraq's marshlands, rich waterways which gave birth to civilization in ancient Mesopotamia. As the rivers and marshlands dry out, so too does the economy that they sustain. "Now a fisherman is nothing, they are like beggars," he said, pushing his boat along the canal in humid heat. Even after the 2003 U.S. invasion, when parts of the marshes were flooded again, water levels did not fully recover.

Persons: Essam, Khamis Adel, Mohsen, Hasan Moussa, Hasan, Naame Hasan, Adel, Saddam Hussein, Ahmed Saeed, Issam, Timour Azhari, William Maclean Organizations: REUTERS, UNESCO, of, U.N's, Organization for Migration, WE, Thomson Locations: Iraqi, Basra, Iraq, BASRA, NAJAF, Al, Khora, of Eden, Mesopotamia, Turkey, Iran, Najaf, U.S, Issam Sudani, Timour, Baghdad

☆ Elon Musk is set to host anti-vax presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Twitter — weeks after Ron DeSantis' campaign launch flopped on the platform
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk is ready for another conversation with a presidential hopeful. On Monday the billionaire will host anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a Twitter Spaces call. It comes just weeks after Republican candidate Ron DeSantis suffered an embarrassing campaign launch on Twitter. Elon Musk will host outspoken anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr in a virtual call on Twitter as he prepares to take-on President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for the 2024 election — weeks after Ron DeSantis' catastrophic campaign launch on the platform. The billionaire Twitter owner will talk to Kennedy — nephew of late president John F. Kennedy — on Monday in a Twitter Spaces event titled "Reclaiming Democracy," marking his second conversation with a presidential candidate on the platform.

Persons: Elon Musk, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden, Kennedy —, John F, Anthony Fauci, Adolf Hitler, Kennedy, Jack Dorsey, Donald Trump, DeSantis, David Saacks Organizations: Republican, Twitter, Democratic, Fox, Florida Gov, Musk

☆ 16 years ago, people spent days in lines around the block to buy iPhones. Apple is announcing a new gadget today and no one seems to care.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Today, Apple is launching itself into a whole new area of gadgets. No one seems to care, with Apple reportedly projecting low sales the first year. Just about 16 years ago — on June 29, 2007 — the Internet was introduced to a new micro-celebrity. The fact remains that behind him on that day 192 months ago, a line curled around the block. Did you even know, before you opened this post, that today, Apple is launching another massive new product?

Persons: Greg Packer, Dima Gavrysh, REMY, Steve Jobs's, Hasan Chowdhury, Dan Ives, Siri Organizations: Apple, Press, LA, Associated, Reuters, Developers, Bloomberg, Wedbush Securities Locations: New York, France, Cupertino

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Apple's big metaverse push
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Hallam Bullock | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

This week, Apple is preparing to do what no tech firm has managed yet: make the metaverse cool. Apple is ready to enter its metaverse era, but the rest of the world might not be. Some people think it's unwise to ramp up efforts to push into the metaverse — especially at a time when the metaverse is said to be headed to the industry's graveyard of failed ideas. However, it's also unwise to bet against Apple — a company whose epic feats in tech have earned its leaders cult-like status. It's quick, stylish, and high-tech, Insider's Tim Levin writes, but it falls short in range and cargo space.

Persons: Hallam Bullock, Tim Cook, Stephen Lam, Insider's Hasan Chowdhury, Apple, it's, Patrick O'Neill, Elizabeth Holmes, Lisa Lake, Theranos, Holmes, Read, Elon, Spriha Srivastava, Gray, Kia, Tim Levin, Kia's, Jack Sommers Organizations: Apple, Developers, Bloomberg, Apple —, Starco Brands, Forbes, Getty, Nvidia, Google, Challenger, Wireless, Amazon Prime Locations: London, Theranos, China, Shanghai

☆ Apple is ready to enter its metaverse era with a mixed reality headset. The rest of the world might not be.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Apple is on the cusp of revealing its future post-iPhone with a big bet on the metaverse. Tim Cook is expected to unveil a new mixed reality headset at WWDC in his riskiest move yet. Apple has the tough task of convincing the world the metaverse is still the future as interest dips. But emerging signs suggest Apple would have a seriously tough time shipping units for its metaverse bet. "If you believe there's something beyond a smartphone then it's probably the metaverse," Munster said.

Persons: Tim Cook, that's, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, it's, Zuckerberg, Palmer Luckey, —, ChatGPT, Gene Munster, he's, Siri, That's, Apple, Munster, Bill Gates, Apple's Cook Organizations: Apple, Developers, Bloomberg, Meta, Deepwater Asset Management, Microsoft Locations: Cupertino

☆ Lewis Hamilton lauds ‘amazing result’ for Mercedes with first double podium of the year, as Max Verstappen wins the Spanish Grand Prix
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Mercedes secured its first double podium of the year as Lewis Hamilton finished second and George Russell third at the Spanish Grand Prix, another race once again won by a dominant Max Verstappen. “What a result for our team,” Hamilton told Sky Sports afterwards. “A sign of things to come hopefully,” Russell told Sky Sports afterwards. Really pleased to be on the podium.”Russell and Hamilton finished on the podium behind Verstappen. While Red Bull has exerted its dominance since, Hamilton finished sixth in the drivers’ championship last year and Russell finished fourth.

Persons: CNN — Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, Max Verstappen, ” Hamilton, “, Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, Russell, Sergio Perez, ” Russell, we’re, Hamilton, Verstappen, Hasan Bratic, Red Bull, Mercedes, Aston Martin, Ferrari, ” Mercedes ’, Toto Wolff, Bull, ” Organizations: CNN, Spanish, Sky Sports, Bulls, Prix, Aston, Ferrari, Getty Locations: Red, Abu Dhabi, British

☆ Muzz, a Muslim Dating App, Takes Its Matchmaking on the Road
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Sadiba Hasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On a Thursday evening in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, about 250 Muslims gathered in a halal Italian restaurant for a singles dating event. Some of them shied away from cameras, citing privacy concerns, while others said they were afraid of appearing “desperate.”The event was hosted by Muzz, a Muslim dating app based in London, with eight million users worldwide, according to the company. Prayer mats were set up in an outdoor dining tent for Maghreb, the fourth of five daily prayers for Muslims. Inside the restaurant, tables and chairs were cleared to make space for the mingling guests, and platters of hummus, chicken kebab wraps and Mediterranean salad were being served. ‌Topics of conversation included halal Thai food in New York (“Top Thai — we should go check it out,” one person said to another) and the difficulty of meeting new people while working remotely.

Organizations: Muzz Locations: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, London, Maghreb, New York

☆ Southeast Asian defence pact helps 'balance' region, members say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Chen Lin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

SINGAPORE, June 3 (Reuters) - Top officials from Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Britain said on Saturday that their 52-year-old Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) pact helped keep things in balance amid regional tensions. "The longstanding FPDA... always been an important part of ensuring signalling collective defence in this region," New Zealand defence minister Andrew Little said at a media briefing on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. As the tensions between the United States and China persist, the longstanding relationships among smaller nations are "what keep things in balance", Little said. "I'm comfortable continuing to keep things in balance as different countries including the major powers work out how the relationships are working," he added. Singaporean Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles, Malaysian Defence Minister Seri Mohamad Hasan, Little, and British defence minister Ben Wallace discussed the importance of the FPDA as a constructive and peaceful arrangement.

Persons: Andrew Little, Little, Ng Eng, Richard Marles, Seri Mohamad Hasan, Ben Wallace, Marles, Anthony Albanese, Lloyd Austin, Chen Lin, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Singaporean, Defence, Malaysian Defence, Australian, U.S . Defense, Thomson Locations: SINGAPORE, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Zealand, United States, China, Asia

☆ Musk's China visit ends with burgers for 100 Shanghai Tesla workers — and favor from Beijing as state-affiliated media showcases trip on Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's surprise trip to China ended with burgers and soft drinks for Tesla staff in Shanghai. His trip was showcased on Twitter by Chinese state media. Elon Musk completed his whistle-stop tour of China by treating workers at Tesla's Shanghai plant to burgers and soft drinks, with his visit being showcased on Twitter by China's state-affiliated media. A video published online by Tesla's China team, seen by Insider, showed Musk delivering a speech to a crowd of workers at his Shanghai plant. Elon Musk visited workers at Tesla's Shanghai gigafactory after first China trip in three years.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Elon Musk, Tesla's, China Grace Tao, Grace Tao, Weibo Musk, Jack Ma, Zeng Yuqun, Tesla, Musk Organizations: Twitter, Bloomberg, Tesla's, Global Times, Communist Party's, Shanghai gigafactory Locations: China, Shanghai, Tesla's China, Beijing

☆ Elon Musk hailed as 'Brother Ma' during a trip to China, where he's been lavished with a 16-course meal and treated like a king
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

During a surprise visit to the country, Musk has been inundated with high praise, Reuters reported. His trip has caused a social-media storm, with people eager to recommend places for him to visit. It was the Tesla and Twitter boss's first trip to China in three years, making his visit a high-profile affair for members of the public. Pictures of what's thought to be the menu for Musk's dinner in China are circulating on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform. Screengrab/WeiboReuters reported the evening included a 16-course meal shared with battery executive Zeng Yuqun at the Man Fu Yan restaurant.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Jack Ma, Ma, Zeng Yuqun, Fu, Xi, Tesla Organizations: Reuters, Morning, Twitter, Weibo Reuters, Fu Yan Locations: China, Beijing, Weibo, Peking, Taiwan, Ukraine

☆ Manchin's Mountain Valley Pipeline would get the green light debt ceiling deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The conservative Democrat from West Virginia, who has been critical of the Biden administration’s environmental goals, praised the White House and congressional Republicans this week. “All of a sudden, [the White House] did their job, they negotiated. Manchin has been critical of Biden's climate goals, but praised the White House and congressional Republicans this week for their work on the debt ceiling deal. White House officials backed Manchin’s effort last year, and climate and energy officials – including White House senior adviser John Podesta and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm – voiced support for approving the pipeline more recently. A Hail Mary effort to remove itThere could be a last-ditch effort to undo the pipeline piece of the debt ceiling bill.

Persons: CNN — Sen, Joe Manchin’s, Virginia –, Manchin, Kevin McCarthy, ” Manchin, “, Joe Biden’s, Justin Pearson, Kent Nishimura, Biden, ”, Abdullah Hasan, West Virginia’s Marcellus, James Van Nostrand, John Podesta, Jennifer Granholm –, Chuck Schumer, Mary, Sen, Tim Kaine, “ Sen, Kaine Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Democrat, Biden, White, Republicans, West, Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Keck, Environmental, Los Angeles Times, West Virginia University, White House, Energy, DC, Senate, Virginia Democrats, House, Republican, Kaine Locations: West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, clawing, West, Utica, Texas

☆ Your next job may depend on how well you understand AI tools like ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Companies are looking at ways to implement tools like ChatGPT into their products and workflows. But pretty much anyone with a job, beyond just tech, will need to get to grips with AI and its potential. On Monday, Jensen Huang, the CEO of chip giant Nvidia, suggested workers should find a way to make AI work to their favor. ChatGPT shifted priorities for corporatesThe release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November has coincided with a shift in priorities for companies across the board. Meanwhile a survey of 3,000 employed Americans by HR software firm Checkr found that 79% of workers are feeling the pressure to learn more about AI tools.

☆ CEOs see ChatGPT as an 'Ozempic' miracle drug that can cut costs and boost efficiency. Right now, they're wrong.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ozempic and ChatGPT have blown up in the year of the cure-all. As Justine Moore, investment partner at Silicon Valley VC firm a16z, tweeted this month: "By 2025, America is going to run on Ozempic and ChatGPT." CEOs running businesses that have nothing to do with AI are talking about ChatGPT during their quarterly earnings calls. But like Ozempic, AI comes with side effects. Samsung banned its employees from using generative AI tools after finding some of its engineers accidentally leaked internal source code by uploading it to ChatGPT in April.

☆ An ex-GOP Florida congressman who opposed Trump says DeSantis would be 'far more dangerous' if elected president
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ron DeSantis is "far more dangerous" than Donald Trump, an ex-GOP Florida congressman said on MSNBC. Former Rep. David Jolly called DeSantis "a cultural warrior who wants to take us back 100 years." Ron DeSantis, would be "far more dangerous" for the United States than Trump. "I say this with conviction — I think Ron DeSantis is far more dangerous than Donald Trump for a very specific reason," former Rep. David Jolly said Sunday on MSNBC's, "The Mehdi Hasan Show." "But Donald Trump is a transactional figure and he'll do whatever it takes to win."

☆ Bayern win Bundesliga with last-gasp goal in dramatic season finale
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Bayern finished on 71 points, ahead on goal difference from Dortmund. RB Leipzig and sensational Union Berlin are third and fourth respectively and will also compete in the Champions League next season. "It is unbelievable that I experience such a title race," said Bayern's Thomas Mueller, who celebrated a league-record 12th Bundesliga title. While the title win rescues some silverware in what has been a frustrating season for Bayern, the club sacked CEO Oliver Kahn, who was not in Cologne, and sports director Hasan Salihamdizic minutes after the title win. Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Christian RadnedgeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ A Union That Felt Like ‘a Love Letter to Black Culture’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Sadiba Hasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“Black love is a form of resistance.”The phrase became a mantra for Tristan St. John Thompson, who is an academic and culture dean at Dream Charter High School in the South Bronx. He frequently talks about “places of resistance” with the students “who look like me and are from where I’m from,” said Mr. Thompson, 31, who was born and raised in the Bronx. “Even education is a form of resistance in a world that is sometimes telling you that you aren’t enough and you aren’t doing enough.”As his relationship with Tyla Jenel Wade, 29, developed, he began seeing their love, too, as a form of resistance. “We are going to do whatever we have to in order to make sure that we support each other and the people around us,” Mr. Thompson said.

☆ Even Apple will have a hard time making the metaverse cool
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Apple must do what no other tech company has done: make the metaverse cool. The iPhone maker is widely expected to debut its mixed-reality headset next month. The company's making a risky move as the tech world retreats from the metaverse and fixates on AI. In other words, Apple has more to lose by not making a wager on a mixed-reality headset than if it did. "If you believe there's something beyond a smartphone then it's probably the metaverse," Munster said.

☆ Layoffs aren't over yet for tech giants as managers prepare to tighten on the 'laptop generation,' says tech investor Gene Munster
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tech layoffs are far from over, according to tech investor Gene Munster. He also sees them getting tighter on the "laptop generation" who refuse to return to the office. More layoffs could be on their way at big tech firms as bosses prepare to tighten on the "laptop generation," according to Gene Munster. Munster's comments come as tech companies shift their tone away from growth to focus on efficiency. Munster thinks that "there has been this laptop generation" that "some of these tech companies are going to tighten on."

☆ The next election can't handle a world powered by ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Even the man who runs ChatGPT-maker OpenAI worries about the influence of AI on 2024's election. The devastation caused by social media in America's recent political history could look like child's play by comparison to AI. Even Altman thinks AI will make humans stupidFor now, Altman said, humans understand that AI is in its infancy and are aware that bots like ChatGPT routinely make mistakes. Altman correctly (and self-interestedly) called during the session for AI to be regulated, including a suggestion that AI-generated content is clearly labeled. The same slowness just won't cut it in a world running to embrace ChatGPT.

☆ Elon Musk's tirade about the 'laptop classes living in la la land' is the latest step in his crusade against remote working
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's attack on remote working is just one of many in recent years. The billionaire made clear in an interview with CNBC that he still wasn't a fan of the practice. Elon Musk has attacked the practice of remote working again, mocking those who do so as the "laptop classes" who are "living in la la land." Musk's most recent attack on remote working came in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC on Tuesday. In the CNBC interview, Musk said that people working from home was as much a "moral issue" as it was a productivity one.

☆ You Don’t Need to Speak Another Language to Love a Bilingual Edition
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Hasan Altaf | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In “The Rebel’s Silhouette,” for example, an untitled Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz on Page 50 is placed opposite its translation, by the Kashmiri American poet Agha Shahid Ali, on Page 51. Even if you don’t read Urdu, the original is sharply outlined: four lines in two couplets, taking up barely a third of the page. One great charm of a bilingual edition is that you don’t have to give up one for the other, as you would with a translation. You can have both at the same time, and treat language as a Jenga tower, moving its pieces but preserving its structure. Look at the beginning of another untitled poem and you can hear the music of “Passará/tem passado/passa com a sua fina faca” — the time-traveling verb, the echoing sibilants, the alliteration.

☆ Welcome to Richie’s World
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Sadiba Hasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

For Richie Shazam, becoming a Bollywood princess was not a manifestation. It was a realization. The model, photographer and director thinks that the term “manifestation” has become a buzzword that removes accountability, she explained in Ludlow House, a social club on the Lower East Side, in between puffs from her turquoise-colored vape. “You could say, ‘I spoke something into existence,’” she said, “but what are you actually doing to realize it?”When she was growing up, she watched hours of Bollywood films in her bedroom in the Jamaica section of Queens, marveling at actresses like Kajol. “Seeing that rich brown skin and watching the beautiful Bollywood icons really allowed me to embody an identity behind closed doors,” she said, recalling that she told herself, “‘One day I’ll be able to be this person.’”

☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is ready to tell Congress that the ChatGPT-led AI era he's ushered in needs rules — before it's too late
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman is ready to tell Congress that his AI invention ChatGPT needs to follow some rules. The OpenAI CEO is due to appear before Congress on Tuesday as concerns grow over AI risks. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to make his debut appearance before Congress to address growing concerns about the societal threats posed by a ChatGPT-led era of AI. The testimony comes at a crucial moment as the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November introduced the world to consumer-led AI. The spread of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT has caused concern among lawmakers about the potential harm they could cause.

☆ Elon Musk denies taking financial advice from Jeffrey Epstein, following US Virgin Islands' decision to subpoena the Twitter chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk has denied taking financial advice from Jeffrey Epstein. Elon Musk has denied taking financial advice from Jeffrey Epstein after he was subpoenaed in a lawsuit over JPMorgan's ties to the convicted sex offender. "The notion that I would need or listen to financial advice from a dumb crook is absurd," Musk tweeted. It makes Musk the latest high-profile person to be subpoenaed in a series of lawsuits revolving around JPMorgan's ties to Epstein. Earlier this month, it was reported that the US Virgin Islands couldn't find fellow Google cofounder Larry Page to serve him a subpoena.

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