Wed. 01/11 – Maybe Software Needs To Eat The Airline Industry

Yet another software snafu with the airlines this morning. Apple’s about to do its own screens, its own modems, what is left? Twitter makes a change that they’ve tried to make several times before. Why all the interesting raises are in AI right now. And what to expect from the Surface Duo 3.

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Links:

• U.S. air travel rumbles back to life after FAA computer outage (Reuters)
• Apple to Begin Making In-House Screens in 2024 in Shift Away From Samsung (Bloomberg)
• Twitter defaults to a For You page now, just like TikTok (The Verge)
• DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft scraps plans for dual-screen Surface Duo 3, pivots to new foldable screen design (Windows Central)
• Samsung confirms February 1st Unpacked, its first in-person event in three years (The Verge)

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