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Keza MacDonald / The Guardian: A profile of Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto, who joined Nintendo in the 1970s and says he has no plans to retire as game director at the company  —  Few people have influenced global pop culture as much as the creator of Mario and Zelda, widely considered the father of modern gaming. http://www.techmeme.com/240101/p3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240101p3

Bloomberg: Filing: Baidu's $3.6B deal to buy Joyy's Chinese livestreaming business YY Live, announced in 2020, expires as China regulators didn't approve it by December 31  —  - Tech industry's focus has turned to generative AI now … The Beijing-based company said its $3.6 billion deal for Joyy's YY Live … http://www.techmeme.com/240101/p2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240101p2

NBC News: California laws leave driverless vehicles immune from traffic tickets, while Texas and Arizona rewrote traffic laws to issue tickets to owners for AV violations  —  City streets are the testing ground for hundreds of self-driving cars in California, despite safety concerns and gray areas surrounding traffic laws. http://www.techmeme.com/240101/p1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240101p1

Mohar Chatterjee / Politico: A look at AI chatbots modeled on real experts, like US psychologist Martin Seligman, that are often created without permission, highlighting a policy gray area  —  New AI-generated digital replicas of real experts expose an unnerving policy gray zone.  Washington wants to fix it, but it's not clear how. http://www.techmeme.com/231231/p8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231231p8

Leslie Katz / New York Times: A profile of Alexander Reben, who will become OpenAI's first artist in residence for three months starting January 2024, amid a debate over the use of AI in art  —  Alexander Reben is taking his tech-savvy perspective to OpenAI, a company that some in the art world believe is a threat to their future. http://www.techmeme.com/231231/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231231p6

Michael Koziol / IEEE Spectrum: A look at Wi-Fi 7, slated for certification in Q1 2024, with multi-link operations that allow devices to spread a data stream across multiple frequency bands  —  Wi-Fi is one of the most aggravating success stories.  Despite how ubiquitous the technology has become in our lives … http://www.techmeme.com/231231/p2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231231p2

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Counterpoint: about 16M foldable phones were sold in 2023, just 1.3% of the 1.2B smartphone market, as foldables start to gain traction in the US and China  —  Samsung, Motorola and Huawei continue to invest in high-priced flip devices despite weak sales  —  Every large smartphone maker except Apple … http://www.techmeme.com/231231/p1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231231p1