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Brad Linder<p>Google is buying part of HTC's XR (extended reality) team for $250 million, along with a non-exclusive license for HTC XR IP. It's part of Google's effort to build out its Android XR platform, and feels a bit like when Google bought HTC's phone business to build out its Pixel phone brand. <a href="https://buff.ly/4jve9SC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/4jve9SC</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AndroidXR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndroidXR</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ExtendedReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtendedReality</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VR</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/HTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTC</span></a></p>
John Abbe (aka Slow)<p>Vernor Vinge was (ouch) one of the greats. Coined the term singularity for the Next Big Transformation (most typically, but not necessarily, via tech). He's the first author I read who really helped me contextualize cyberpunk. (Didn't run into Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad until shortly after Vinge's True Names and Other Dangers.)</p><p>So it goes. Will have more to say. <a href="https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/03/21/rip-vernor-vinge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">whatever.scalzi.com/2024/03/21</span><span class="invisible">/rip-vernor-vinge/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoItGoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoItGoes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyberpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExtendedReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtendedReality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a></p>
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