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- Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix adds spatial audio to its $20 per month Premium plan, available for over 700 of its most popular titles; Standard and Basic will get limited support — Listen to this: Netflix is hoping audiophiles will upgrade to the $20-per-month Premium tier to gain access to the streamer's full collection …
- Meta increases its share repurchase authorization by $40B and says it bought back $27.93B in stock in 2022 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- Meta takes a $4.2B restructuring charge in Q4, which includes costs for early office space termination, data center redesign, and severance for laid-off staff (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
- Meta reports $727M Reality Labs revenue in Q4, vs. $715.1M est., a $4.28B operating loss, vs. $4.36B est., a $13.72B loss in 2022, and expects a wider 2023 loss (CNBC)
- AMD announces its Ryzen 7000X3D pricing: 7950X3D for $699, 7900X3D for $599, both available on February 28, and 7800X3D for $449, available on April 6 (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)
- Meta reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $32.2B, net income down 55% YoY to $4.7B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 2.96B; stock jumps 15%+ (Meta)
- Decentralized social network app Damus debuts on the App Store with E2EE for DMs; Damus uses the Nostr protocol, to which Jack Dorsey donated ~14 BTC in 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Samsung says the Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra will ask users to install Adobe Lightroom when handling DNGs and make the app the default raw photo editor (Stephen Shankland/CNET)
- Netlify, a cloud service for automating web development projects, acquires its competitor Gatsby, which had raised $46.8M to date, for an undisclosed price (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Samsung is working with Google and Qualcomm to produce XR products and experiences running an unannounced Android version for devices such as wearable displays (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, a pilot plan with access in peak times, faster response times, and priority access to new features, in the US for $20 per month (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Samsung refreshes its Galaxy Book lineup, adding the Galaxy Book3 Ultra with a 16" 120Hz 3K display and Nvidia's RTX 4050 or 4070, coming February 17 from $2.4K (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
- Samsung unveils the 6.1" Galaxy S23 for $800+ and the 6.6" Galaxy S23+ for $1,000+, with a better selfie camera and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, shipping on February 17 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
- Samsung debuts the $1,200+ Galaxy S23 Ultra, similar to the S22 Ultra but with a 200MP camera, more robust optical image stabilization, and better battery life (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
- Livestream of Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event (Samsung on YouTube)
- Drug discount app GoodRx agrees to pay $1.5M to settle with the FTC, which said the company wrongfully gave intimate health info to Meta, Google, and others (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
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