A look at Apple's Game Porting Toolkit based on a 20K line of code patch to Wine easing ports to Apple silicon and possible paths Apple may take with gaming (Christina Warren/Inverse)

Christina Warren / Inverse:
A look at Apple's Game Porting Toolkit, based on a 20K line of code patch to Wine, easing ports to Apple silicon, and possible paths Apple may take with gaming  —  At WWDC last week, most of the focus was rightfully on the new Apple Vision Pro headset and the new visionOS.

Analysis: US spending on Temu was 20% higher than Shein in May 2023; Apptopia: Temu has been the top iOS app on the US App Store during most days in 2023 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Analysis: US spending on Temu was 20% higher than Shein in May 2023; Apptopia: Temu has been the top iOS app on the US App Store during most days in 2023  —  This time last year, hardly anyone in the US knew what Temu was.  Now, as American consumers grapple with runaway inflation …

The European Commission issues a preliminary antitrust complaint against Google over its ad business suggesting breaking up the unit; Google can now reply (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
The European Commission issues a preliminary antitrust complaint against Google over its ad business, suggesting breaking up the unit; Google can now reply  —  The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business, saying that its preliminary view is that …

Gmail on Android and iOS gets Help Me Write feature: Heres how to use it

Google announced the new 'Help Me Write' feature last month at its annual developer conference Google I/O 2023. The company announced that its AI-based feature will work in Gmail and Google Docs. The tech giant has now started rolling out the Help Me Write feature for Android and iOS beta testers. The beta users who have enrolled to the Workspace Labs program can now access the Help Me Write feature. https://ift.tt/ZL8soET

Samsung plans to let non-factory full-time chip staff in South Korea take one Friday off each month after SK Hynix adopted a similar policy in 2022 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Samsung plans to let non-factory, full-time chip staff in South Korea take one Friday off each month, after SK Hynix adopted a similar policy in 2022  —  Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest memory chipmaker, is giving staff in South Korea one Friday off each month in a bid …

Comprehensive.io: salaries for senior engineers who specialize in AI and ML are 12% higher than for those who do not; AI-related salaries rose 4% in a year (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
Comprehensive.io: salaries for senior engineers who specialize in AI and ML are 12% higher than for those who do not; AI-related salaries rose 4% in a year  —  There have been many innovations in Silicon Valley over the past decade, but for people who aspire to work in the tech industry …