Tech Trends: Updates from Apple, Microsoft, and Instacart

Is the iPhone about to lose the notch and join the hole-punch universe? Whole bunch of new features for Microsoft Teams, and also a new Microsoft smart-speaker. Instacart has a monster raise. Grimes has a monster NFT sale. Discovery+ is an interesting dark-horse in the streaming wars. Oh. And “fly” drones.

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Links:

• Kuo: iPhone 13 series to feature smaller notch, 120Hz display, larger batteries, more (9to5Mac)
• All 270 US Apple Stores are open for the first time since March 2020 (9to5Mac)
• Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams (ZDNet)
• Microsoft’s new Intelligent Speakers deliver its promised meeting room of the future (The Verge)
• Instacart’s valuation doubles to $39 billion (CNBC)
• Grimes made $5.8 million in under 20 minutes selling crypto-based artwork (Insider)
• How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million (Reuters)
• Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight. (NYTimes)
• Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones (MIT News)

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