™️ Trademark Filings Suggest Apple May Be Securing 'Reality' Names for AR/VR Headset

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Trademark Filings Suggest Apple May Be Securing 'Reality' Names for AR/VR Headset. Trademark filings suggest that Apple Inc. may be staking claim to potential names for its highly anticipated mixed-reality headset, part of the tech giant's push into its first new product category in years. Applications were filed in the US, EU… (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman @markgurman

New story: ‘Reality Pro’, ‘Reality One’ and ‘Reality Processor’ - A set of shell companies that are linked to Apple has secretly trademarked potential names for Apple’s upcoming AR/VR headset.

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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One Man's Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense. David Ferrucci, who led the team that built IBM's famed Watson computer, was elated when it beat the best-ever human “Jeopardy!” players in 2011, in a televised triumph for artificial intelligence. But Dr. Ferrucci understood Watson's… (Steve Lohr / The New York Times)

Steven Pinker @sapinker

This is the kind of approach that @GaryMarcus and I have been advocating for decades, starting with language. One Man’s Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense

nytimes.comOne Man’s Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common SenseArtificial intelligence systems can process vast amounts of data in seconds, but they can’t make sense of the world or explain their decisions. David Ferrucci wants to change that.

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Everyone's a Landlord-Small-Time Investors Snap Up Out-of-State Properties. Jack Cronin found San Francisco-area homes too expensive or too far from the city center to buy when he lived there in 2020. The tech worker still wanted a piece of the hottest housing market of his lifetime, so he started looking farther afield. (Will Parker via Wall Street Journal)

Nicole Friedman @NicoleFriedman

“What we’re seeing is people sort of decoupling where they live from where they own.” The rise of the laptop landlord: Individual investors are buying homes in other states to rent out, adding more competition to the housing market. wsj.com/articles/every… w/@_willparker_

wsj.comEveryone’s a Landlord—Small-Time Investors Snap Up Out-of-State PropertiesWith the help of recent technologies, laptop landlords are buying homes across the U.S., and lower-cost Southern cities have been especially popular. As a result, even small housing markets have grown less local.

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Meta and Jio launch grocery shopping on WhatsApp in India. Meta and an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms are bringing JioMart grocery shopping to WhatsApp in what they said was the first end-to-end shopping experience of this kind on the popular instant messaging platform. The… (Manish Singh / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Meta and Jio launch grocery shopping on WhatsApp in India tcrn.ch/3ATltDj by @refsrc and @JagmeetS13

tcrn.chMeta and Jio launch grocery shopping on WhatsApp in India – TechCrunchMeta and an e-commerce venture between India’s Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms are bringing JioMart grocery shopping to WhatsApp in a global-first collaboration.

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Why NASA Is Going Back to the Moon. That is the catch phrase that NASA is using in the lead-up to the debut flight of its new moon rocket, which could launch as early as Monday at 8:33 a.m. Eastern time. It is a phrase repeated by agency officials, added as a hashtag on social media… (Kenneth Chang via The New York Times)

The New York Times @nytimes

NASA is set to launch a massive rocket on Monday, kicking off a return to Earth’s closest neighbor after many scientists and policymakers had once moved on. But officials argue that today's missions are not simply a do-over of the Apollo moon landings.

nyti.msWhy NASA Is Going Back to the MoonThe agency is set to launch a massive rocket on Monday, kicking off a return to Earth’s closest neighbor after many scientists and policymakers had once moved on.

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