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Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart TV operating system, and plans to partner with TV manufacturers for its rollout, expected in H2 2025 (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart...

Nov 20, 2024

Sara Fischer / Axios: Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart TV...

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Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors (Matt Swayne/The Quantum Insider)

Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning...

Nov 20, 2024

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning...

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Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical trials of its brain implants and plans to run its first non-US trial with Toronto Western Hospital (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical...

Nov 20, 2024

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical...

Palo Alto Networks Full-Year Guidance Disappoints; Shares...

Nov 20, 2024

Palo Alto Networks raised its outlook for the year and said revenue climbed in its...

Elon Musk's xAI Startup Is Valued at $50 Billion in New...

Nov 20, 2024

The artificial-intelligence company has told investors it raised $5 billion in its...

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SpaceX's sixth Starship test flight: Soft splashdown but no booster catch

SpaceX's sixth Starship test flight: Soft splashdown but...

Nov 20, 2024

In this Science segment, we look at SpaceX's latest test flight of its Starship...

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Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: looks like the Watch 7 and has similar health features, but has the guts of 2021's Watch 4, poor battery life, and one size only (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: looks like the Watch 7...

Nov 20, 2024

Victoria Song / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: looks like the Watch...

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Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise...

Nov 20, 2024

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource...

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Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring company LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring...

Nov 20, 2024

Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring...

U.S. Military Selects Little-Known Utah Supplier for Drone...

Nov 20, 2024

The Army chose Teal Drones to provide thousands of reconnaissance aircraft, bypassing...

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With tariffs in mind, Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary

With tariffs in mind, Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick...

Nov 20, 2024

US President-elect Donald Trump has picked Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick...

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Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule vs. the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving manufacturers more time (Mishaal Rahman/Android Police)

Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far...

Nov 19, 2024

Mishaal Rahman / Android Police: Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview,...

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Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service...

Nov 19, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service...

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Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers...

Nov 19, 2024

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers...

Google's $2 Billion Anthropic Investment Gets U.K. Antitrust...

Nov 19, 2024

The Competition and Markets Authority said it wouldn’t open an in-depth investigation...

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EU-Mercosur trade deal: Governments divided over ratification

EU-Mercosur trade deal: Governments divided over ratification

Nov 19, 2024

The EU-Mercosur trade deal faces divisions among governments over ratification....

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Donald Trump appoints TV star Sean Duffy as transport secretary

Donald Trump appoints TV star Sean Duffy as transport secretary

Nov 19, 2024

Sean Duffy, a former lumberjack athlete, MTV star, attorney, Fox News regular, and...

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Trump names China hawk Howard Lutnick as US Commerce Secretary

Trump names China hawk Howard Lutnick as US Commerce Secretary

Nov 19, 2024

US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Haward Lutnick, a Wall Street executive...

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Microsoft unveils new custom chips: the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated HSM, a new in-house cloud security chip (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Microsoft unveils new custom chips: the Azure Boost DPU,...

Nov 19, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft unveils new custom chips: the Azure Boost DPU,...

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Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series...

Nov 19, 2024

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series...

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Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople, raised $50M across seed led by Sequoia and Series A led by General Catalyst (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople,...

Nov 19, 2024

Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople,...

Biden Team Races to Deliver Chip Grants Before Trump Takes...

Nov 19, 2024

Government officials and chip makers like Intel are in talks over billions of dollars...

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The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 (NBC News)

The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email...

Nov 18, 2024

NBC News: The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications...

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Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban (Faris Mokhtar/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia...

Nov 18, 2024

Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia...

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Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too much of a delay between asking a question to the new AI-based Alexa and getting a response or completing a task (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too much of...

Nov 18, 2024

Jason Del Rey / Fortune: Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too much of...

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Why French farmers oppose the EU-Mercosur free trade deal

Why French farmers oppose the EU-Mercosur free trade deal

Nov 18, 2024

As French farmers take to the streets to oppose a potential free trade deal between...

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Roblox debuts new parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts to a child's and banning text chat for under 13s outside games (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

Roblox debuts new parental controls and gatekeeping features,...

Nov 18, 2024

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Roblox debuts new parental controls and...

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PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares...

Nov 18, 2024

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth...

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MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B+ in bitcoin (Dave Liedtka/Bloomberg)

MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between...

Nov 18, 2024

Dave Liedtka / Bloomberg: MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between...

Roblox Adds Parental Controls After Claims It Compromises...

Nov 18, 2024

Videogame company has denied the allegations and says the new protections were planned...

AI Investments Are Booming, but Venture-Firm Profits Are...

Nov 18, 2024

Investors hope the Trump administration will make tech acquisition deals easier.

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Sources detail efforts by Google and Meta to sink KOSA, which passed in the Senate almost unanimously, by dividing US House lawmakers with culture war issues (Wall Street Journal)

Sources detail efforts by Google and Meta to sink KOSA,...

Nov 17, 2024

Wall Street Journal: Sources detail efforts by Google and Meta to sink KOSA, which...

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Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission (John Hendel/Politico)

Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the...

Nov 17, 2024

John Hendel / Politico: Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the...

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Trump: FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the FCC; Carr has suggested limiting Section 230 of the Communications Act to curb Big Tech content moderation (Bloomberg)

Trump: FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the FCC;...

Nov 17, 2024

Bloomberg: Trump: FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the FCC; Carr has suggested...

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The US FTC's DNC Registry data shows the agency received ~1.1M consumer complaints about robocalls in FY 2024, down from ~1.2M in FY 2023 and 3.4M+ in FY 2021 (Federal Trade Commission)

The US FTC's DNC Registry data shows the agency received...

Nov 17, 2024

Federal Trade Commission: The US FTC's DNC Registry data shows the agency received...

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Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention Is All You Need paper, Google's conservatism, ChatGPT's success, biological computers, and more (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention...

Nov 17, 2024

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the...

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Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)

Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six...

Nov 17, 2024

Daniela Dib / Rest of World: Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six...

The 19 Best Tech Gifts of 2024, According to Our Gadget...

Nov 17, 2024

The Journal’s Personal Tech team rounds up our favorite stuff to wear, to help us...

Inside Big Tech's Bid to Sink the Online Kid Safety Bill

Nov 17, 2024

Tech giants and their allies are leaning on culture-war issues to splinter bipartisan...

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FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the "reoffending risks" of prisoners (Ben Quinn/The Guardian)

FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's...

Nov 16, 2024

Ben Quinn / The Guardian: FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's...

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Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the world, peaking at 65M concurrent streams (Bloomberg)

Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson...

Nov 16, 2024

Bloomberg: Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live...

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US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical infrastructure, identifying AI-driven attacks, targeted attacks on AI systems, and design flaws as core risks (GovTech)

US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical infrastructure,...

Nov 16, 2024

GovTech: US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical infrastructure, identifying...

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Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs (ProPublica)

Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free...

Nov 16, 2024

ProPublica: Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity...

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An interview with Apple's Tim Millet and Tom Boger on Apple's chip strategy, making big changes to the Neural Engine after the 2017 transformer paper, and more (Nandagopal Rajan/The Indian Express)

An interview with Apple's Tim Millet and Tom Boger on Apple's...

Nov 16, 2024

Nandagopal Rajan / The Indian Express: An interview with Apple's Tim Millet and...

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A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former Meta lobbyist turned EU Parliament member, who says the EU's Big Tech regulation went too far, too fast (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former...

Nov 16, 2024

Morgan Meaker / Wired: A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former Meta...

A Powerful AI Breakthrough Is About to Transform the World

Nov 16, 2024

The technology driving ChatGPT is capable of so much more. What’s coming next will...

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Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chipset and use Google's Gemini to handle AI tasks (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3...

Nov 15, 2024

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3...

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Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked...

Nov 15, 2024

Wall Street Journal: Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by...

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An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+ (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto...

Nov 15, 2024

Jonathan Greig / The Record: An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running...

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Mark Zuckerberg releases filthy song to celebrate anniversary

Mark Zuckerberg releases filthy song to celebrate anniversary

Nov 15, 2024

Tech giant Meta is feeling the heat, no matter how relaxed its leader Mark Zuckerberg...

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'Drill, baby, drill': What Trump's election victory means for climate change

'Drill, baby, drill': What Trump's election victory means...

Nov 15, 2024

Nations have gathered in Azerbaijan for COP29, under the shadow cast by the re-election...

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Xi Jinping to inaugurate China-backed mega port in Peru

Xi Jinping to inaugurate China-backed mega port in Peru

Nov 15, 2024

The APEC summit is kicking off in Lima, Peru, ahead of the G20 summit in Brazil...

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Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+ (Financial Times)

Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double...

Nov 15, 2024

Financial Times: Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its...

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X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)

X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing...

Nov 15, 2024

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing...

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UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated "scambaiter" tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time (Jibin Joseph/PCMag)

UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated...

Nov 15, 2024

Jibin Joseph / PCMag: UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated...

Elon Musk Ramps Up Legal Fight With OpenAI, Microsoft

Nov 15, 2024

The billionaire accused the ChatGPT maker of anticompetitive behavior in new court...

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Applied Materials reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $7.05B, vs. $6.95B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; AMAT drops 5%+ after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Applied Materials reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $7.05B,...

Nov 14, 2024

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Applied Materials reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $7.05B,...

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TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, available to all advertisers and adds the ability to use content from Getty Images with the tool (Emma Roth/The Verge)

TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative...

Nov 14, 2024

Emma Roth / The Verge: TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio,...

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Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify to profit from royalty fraud, abusing a distribution process effectively based on the honor system (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify...

Nov 14, 2024

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding...

Meta Fined $843 Million by EU Over Marketplace Ads Platform

Nov 14, 2024

The European Commission said the company tied its classified-ads platform to its...

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Xi Jinping set to inaugurate China-backed megaport in Peru

Xi Jinping set to inaugurate China-backed megaport in Peru

Nov 14, 2024

The APEC summit is kicking off in Lima, Peru, ahead of the G20 Summit in Brazil...

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Benefit fraud: Amnesty accuses Denmark of using AI to build 'system of surveillance'

Benefit fraud: Amnesty accuses Denmark of using AI to build...

Nov 14, 2024

Amnesty International is accusing Denmark of using artificial intelligence in a...

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China's Latin America trade ties take centre stage at APEC summit

China's Latin America trade ties take centre stage at APEC...

Nov 14, 2024

China's President Xi Jinping is expected to inaugurate a new "mega port" built by...

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The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and "imposing unfair trading conditions" on rival websites, the first such fine for Meta (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace...

Nov 14, 2024

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook...

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Google releases a new free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions and chat via text, voice, or camera, as well as use conversational Gemini Live (David Pierce/The Verge)

Google releases a new free Gemini app for iOS, letting...

Nov 14, 2024

David Pierce / The Verge: Google releases a new free Gemini app for iOS, letting...

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Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted (Tony Romm/Washington Post)

Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal...

Nov 14, 2024

Tony Romm / Washington Post: Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal...

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France will not accept Mercosur trade deal in current form, French PM tells EU

France will not accept Mercosur trade deal in current form,...

Nov 14, 2024

As European farmers protest against a renewed push to ratify the controversial free...

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UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim against Apple, seeking £3B in compensation, alleging that Apple locked ~40M UK users into iCloud services (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim...

Nov 13, 2024

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim...

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Google says real-time protections against scam calls and malicious apps are rolling out on Pixel 6 or newer devices and coming soon to more Android phones (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google says real-time protections against scam calls and...

Nov 13, 2024

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says real-time protections against scam calls and...

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Australia plans to enact laws imposing a "digital duty of care" on big tech, which would make companies liable for citizens' safety online (Nicole Hegarty/ABC)

Australia plans to enact laws imposing a "digital duty...

Nov 13, 2024

Nicole Hegarty / ABC: Australia plans to enact laws imposing a “digital duty of...

Advanced Micro Devices to Cut Global Headcount by 4%

Nov 13, 2024

The layoffs would affect about 1,040 employees and are part of a shift in AMD’s...

Spotify Takes Aim at YouTube in Battle for Podcasts

Nov 13, 2024

The audio streaming giant plans to pay hosts to make podcast videos and allow premium...

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Does the global workforce have the skills necessary to fight climate change?

Does the global workforce have the skills necessary to...

Nov 13, 2024

In its 2024 Green Skills Report, social media platform LinkedIn uses data from its...

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Trump taps Musk and Ramaswamy to lead 'Government Efficiency' effort

Trump taps Musk and Ramaswamy to lead 'Government Efficiency'...

Nov 13, 2024

US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and one-time...

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Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)

Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition:...

Nov 13, 2024

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's...

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In a policy blueprint, OpenAI says the US and its neighbors should form a "North American Compact for AI" to compete with China in talent, financing, and more (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

In a policy blueprint, OpenAI says the US and its neighbors...

Nov 13, 2024

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: In a policy blueprint, OpenAI says the US and its neighbors...

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A US judge rules that Meta must face trial in a US FTC lawsuit seeking its break up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush competitors (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

A US judge rules that Meta must face trial in a US FTC...

Nov 13, 2024

Jody Godoy / Reuters: A US judge rules that Meta must face trial in a US FTC lawsuit...

I Spoke Only to Chatbots for 24 Hours. Who Needs Human...

Nov 13, 2024

Joanna Stern strapped chatbots from Meta, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft to a tripod...

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Shell wins appeal against landmark climate ruling

Shell wins appeal against landmark climate ruling

Nov 13, 2024

Oil giant Shell has succeeded in overturning a landmark 2021 court ruling that ordered...

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Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to provide "guidance from outside of Government" (Eric Beech/Reuters)

Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead...

Nov 12, 2024

Eric Beech / Reuters: Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead...

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FrontierMath, a new benchmark for evaluating AI model's advanced mathematical reasoning, shows current AI systems solve less than 2% of its challenging problems (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

FrontierMath, a new benchmark for evaluating AI model's...

Nov 12, 2024

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: FrontierMath, a new benchmark for evaluating AI model's...

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SoftBank's telecom unit plans to build an AI supercomputer in Japan using Nvidia's DGX B200 platform, and a follow-up effort featuring the Grace Blackwell chip (Bloomberg)

SoftBank's telecom unit plans to build an AI supercomputer...

Nov 12, 2024

Bloomberg: SoftBank's telecom unit plans to build an AI supercomputer in Japan using...

In Europe, Instagram Ads Are About to Get Less Personal

Nov 12, 2024

Meta Platforms, the Facebook and Instagram owner, faces pressure in Europe to ask...

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The cost and economic impact of Trump's mass deportation plans

The cost and economic impact of Trump's mass deportation...

Nov 12, 2024

As Donald Trump assembles his team ahead of a second term as US president next year,...

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Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, up from 40M in May 2024 and 22M in January 2024, and 50%+ of sign-ups are for ad plans in supported countries (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, up from...

Nov 12, 2024

Brian Steinberg / Variety: Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, up from...

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Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised a $200M Series C led by Premji, Radical Ventures, and Iconiq at a $1.9B valuation, for $326M raised (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised...

Nov 12, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised...

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New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management...

Nov 12, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management...

When Did Apple's Notes App Become an Extension of Our Brains?

Nov 12, 2024

The simple iPhone app is a receptacle for nearly everything: passwords, grocery...

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Bitcoin passes $89K for the first time, Tesla closes up 8.96%, Coinbase closes up 19.76%, and Robinhood closes up 7.4%, as investors pile into "Trump trades" (Financial Times)

Bitcoin passes $89K for the first time, Tesla closes up...

Nov 11, 2024

Financial Times: Bitcoin passes $89K for the first time, Tesla closes up 8.96%,...

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A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced...

Nov 11, 2024

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced...

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Signal announces a suite of call features, including the ability to share a link to a call, emoji reactions, a "raise hand" button, and a dedicated calls tab (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Signal announces a suite of call features, including the...

Nov 11, 2024

Jay Peters / The Verge: Signal announces a suite of call features, including the...

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Sources: Amazon is developing smart glasses for its delivery drivers to guide them to, around, and within buildings, but the tech may take years to perfect (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Sources: Amazon is developing smart glasses for its delivery...

Nov 11, 2024

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Sources: Amazon is developing smart glasses for its delivery...

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MicroStrategy says it bought 27,200 bitcoin for roughly $2.03B in cash at an estimated $74,463 per coin, taking its total bitcoin holding to 279,420 (Adam James/The Block)

MicroStrategy says it bought 27,200 bitcoin for roughly...

Nov 11, 2024

Adam James / The Block: MicroStrategy says it bought 27,200 bitcoin for roughly...

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11x, which makes AI bots that help salespeople with common tasks, raised $50M led by a16z at a $320M valuation, after raising a $24M Series A in September 2024 (Bloomberg)

11x, which makes AI bots that help salespeople with common...

Nov 11, 2024

Bloomberg: 11x, which makes AI bots that help salespeople with common tasks, raised...

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Climate finance at top of agenda as COP29 opens in Azerbaijan

Climate finance at top of agenda as COP29 opens in Azerbaijan

Nov 11, 2024

As delegates from all over the world attend the opening of COP29 in Azerbaijan this...

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Gurman: the second generation Apple Vision Pro may arrive between the fall of 2025 and spring of 2026 and could feature an M5 around when the first Macs get it (Michael Burkhardt/9to5Mac)

Gurman: the second generation Apple Vision Pro may arrive...

Nov 10, 2024

Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: Gurman: the second generation Apple Vision Pro may...

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An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about Firefox's 20th birthday, growth due to the EU's DMA, privacy, the Google search deal, AI, and more (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about...

Nov 10, 2024

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers...

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Research integrity specialists and scientific publishers raise concerns about the ease with which scientific data can be fabricated using generative AI tools (Diana Kwon/Nature)

Research integrity specialists and scientific publishers...

Nov 10, 2024

Diana Kwon / Nature: Research integrity specialists and scientific publishers raise...

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A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7%-17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs (James Zou/Nature)

A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in...

Nov 10, 2024

James Zou / Nature: A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI...

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Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters (Washington Post)

Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false...

Nov 10, 2024

Washington Post: Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political...

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A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M (Zachary Small/New York Times)

A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which...

Nov 10, 2024

Zachary Small / New York Times: A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI,...

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Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)

Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's launch, and...

Nov 9, 2024

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's...

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Sources: the jump in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is far smaller than the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4; Orion may not outperform predecessors in tasks like coding (The Information)

Sources: the jump in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is far...

Nov 9, 2024

The Information: Sources: the jump in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is far smaller...

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A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé who heads the Chinese intelligence agency accused of likely steering the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks on the US (Chun Han Wong/Wall Street Journal)

A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé...

Nov 9, 2024

Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé...

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Ethereum Foundation financial report: $970.2M in treasury as of Oct. 31, down from $1.6B in March 2022; ~80% of holdings in ETH, which declined 20%+ since 2022 (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)

Ethereum Foundation financial report: $970.2M in treasury...

Nov 9, 2024

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Ethereum Foundation financial report: $970.2M in treasury...

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Data shows open interest on Polymarket fell 64% from $510.95M on November 5 to $184.16M by November 8, highlighting the platform's reliance on political betting (MK Manoylov/The Block)

Data shows open interest on Polymarket fell 64% from $510.95M...

Nov 9, 2024

MK Manoylov / The Block: Data shows open interest on Polymarket fell 64% from $510.95M...

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The 2024 US election cycle showed how crypto has turned out to be a practically perfect special interest group for an era of unlimited corporate spending (Zeke Faux/Bloomberg)

The 2024 US election cycle showed how crypto has turned...

Nov 9, 2024

Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: The 2024 US election cycle showed how crypto has turned out...

New Tech Tries to Catastrophe-Proof Your Home

Nov 9, 2024

Tech once used to make homes more sustainable has fresh applications in making structures...

How ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant

Nov 9, 2024

Chegg’s stock has dropped 99% as students looking for help with homework defect...

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A Michigan man, a member of an online terrorist network called 764, is sentenced to 30 years in prison for preying on kids in Discord servers and chat rooms (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

A Michigan man, a member of an online terrorist network...

Nov 8, 2024

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: A Michigan man, a member of an online terrorist...

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A US judge sentences Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov to 12.5 years for operating crypto mixer Bitcoin Fog from 2011 to 2021, laundering ~$400M (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)

A US judge sentences Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov...

Nov 8, 2024

Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Russian-Swedish national Roman...

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Sources: Upwind, which sells tools to secure cloud infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series B at a $850M-$900M valuation, after raising $50M in September 2023 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Sources: Upwind, which sells tools to secure cloud infrastructure,...

Nov 8, 2024

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sources: Upwind, which sells tools to secure cloud infrastructure,...

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Trump could reshape global tech industry, whether Silicon Valley likes it or not

Trump could reshape global tech industry, whether Silicon...

Nov 8, 2024

Tech executives have lined up to congratulate Donald Trump on his US presidential...

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Mercury Research: AMD's desktop CPU market share, in units, grew from 19.1% in Q3 2023 to 28.7% in Q3 2024 and from 19.5% to 22.3% for mobile in the same period (Mark Hachman/PCWorld)

Mercury Research: AMD's desktop CPU market share, in units,...

Nov 8, 2024

Mark Hachman / PCWorld: Mercury Research: AMD's desktop CPU market share, in units,...

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Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7nm or smaller as of this coming Monday (Financial Times)

Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer...

Nov 8, 2024

Financial Times: Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture...

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Kuo: Apple plans to upgrade the wide-angle lens in the high-end iPhone 18 in 2026 to a variable aperture camera (Ming-Chi Kuo)

Kuo: Apple plans to upgrade the wide-angle lens in the...

Nov 8, 2024

Ming-Chi Kuo: Kuo: Apple plans to upgrade the wide-angle lens in the high-end iPhone...

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A US judge dismisses a copyright lawsuit by Raw Story and AlterNet against OpenAI over AI training, for now, saying the outlets couldn't show enough harm (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

A US judge dismisses a copyright lawsuit by Raw Story and...

Nov 7, 2024

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US judge dismisses a copyright lawsuit by Raw Story...

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Block says it is investing less in music streaming app Tidal and winding down decentralized "Web5" venture TBD to focus on bitcoin mining and its crypto wallet (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)

Block says it is investing less in music streaming app...

Nov 7, 2024

Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: Block says it is investing less in music streaming app...

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Source: Baidu plans to unveil smart glasses with built-in cameras and voice support for AI model Ernie next week, launching as soon as early 2025 for under $299 (Bloomberg)

Source: Baidu plans to unveil smart glasses with built-in...

Nov 7, 2024

Bloomberg: Source: Baidu plans to unveil smart glasses with built-in cameras and...

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Trump 2.0: Who would new tariffs hurt the most?

Trump 2.0: Who would new tariffs hurt the most?

Nov 7, 2024

Wall Street rallied on Wednesday, bitcoin hit a new record while German auto stocks...

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Nissan to cut 9,000 jobs as profits plunge 93%

Nissan to cut 9,000 jobs as profits plunge 93%

Nov 7, 2024

Japanese carmaker Nissan says it will cut 9,000 jobs globally, after net profit...

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Germany's ruling coalition collapses over economic issues after finance minister sacked

Germany's ruling coalition collapses over economic issues...

Nov 7, 2024

On Wednesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismissed his finance minister and coalition...

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Anthropic partners with Palantir and AWS to provide US intelligence and defense agencies access to its Claude models and "operationalize" their use (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Anthropic partners with Palantir and AWS to provide US...

Nov 7, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic partners with Palantir and AWS to provide US...

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Donald Trump's win flips the idea that Elon Musk overpaid for X on its head, after Musk turned his feed into a Trump-inspired billboard for his 200M+ followers (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Donald Trump's win flips the idea that Elon Musk overpaid...

Nov 7, 2024

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Donald Trump's win flips the idea that Elon Musk overpaid...

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Matter launches its 1.4 spec, including "enhanced multi-admin" and updates to energy management support, in a bid to get the smart home standard back on track (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Matter launches its 1.4 spec, including "enhanced multi-admin"...

Nov 7, 2024

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Matter launches its 1.4 spec, including “enhanced...

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Trump 2.0: who will possible new tariffs hurt the most?

Trump 2.0: who will possible new tariffs hurt the most?

Nov 7, 2024

Wall Street rallied, bitcoin hit a new record while German auto stocks plunged......

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Bumble reports Q3 revenue down 0.7% YoY to $273.6M, vs. $271.9M est., its first quarterly sales drop since going public in 2021, and 4.3M total paying users (Priyanka.G/Reuters)

Bumble reports Q3 revenue down 0.7% YoY to $273.6M, vs....

Nov 6, 2024

Priyanka.G / Reuters: Bumble reports Q3 revenue down 0.7% YoY to $273.6M, vs. $271.9M...

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Take-Two reports Q2 net bookings up 2% YoY to $1.47B, vs. $1.43B est., net revenue up 4% to $1.35B, and sells its Private Division label to an unnamed buyer (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Take-Two reports Q2 net bookings up 2% YoY to $1.47B, vs....

Nov 6, 2024

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Take-Two reports Q2 net bookings up 2% YoY to $1.47B,...

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Australia plans to introduce legislation that would ban children under 16 from using social media, not exempting those already with accounts or parental consent (Maani Truu/ABC)

Australia plans to introduce legislation that would ban...

Nov 6, 2024

Maani Truu / ABC: Australia plans to introduce legislation that would ban children...

TikTok Canada Unit Ordered to Dissolve Operations on National-Security...

Nov 6, 2024

Canada ordered the domestic unit of TikTok to dissolve its business operations in...

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The EU Commission opens an antitrust investigation into smartphone glass maker Corning over allegedly abusing its market dominance to squeeze out rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

The EU Commission opens an antitrust investigation into...

Nov 6, 2024

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU Commission opens an antitrust investigation into...

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PlayStation 5 Pro review: high fidelity and frame rate, and smaller, lighter, and quieter than the original PS5, but $699 is pricey and a disk drive costs extra (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

PlayStation 5 Pro review: high fidelity and frame rate,...

Nov 6, 2024

Sean Hollister / The Verge: PlayStation 5 Pro review: high fidelity and frame rate,...

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A look at Trump's potential new administration, including Elon Musk, tasked with "a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government" (Financial Times)

A look at Trump's potential new administration, including...

Nov 6, 2024

Financial Times: A look at Trump's potential new administration, including Elon...

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More trade wars to come? A look at Trump and Harris's tariff plans

More trade wars to come? A look at Trump and Harris's tariff...

Nov 6, 2024

As American voters cast their ballots, the rest of the world is watching closely...

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Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell 5.6% YoY to just $1.01M; DJT closed down 1.16% on November 5, but jumped 20%+ after hours (Fred Imbert/CNBC)

Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell...

Nov 5, 2024

Fred Imbert / CNBC: Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell 5.6%...

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How the Salt Typhoon hackers breached US telecommunication infrastructure to carry out targeted espionage against the US for at least eight months (Wall Street Journal)

How the Salt Typhoon hackers breached US telecommunication...

Nov 5, 2024

Wall Street Journal: How the Salt Typhoon hackers breached US telecommunication...

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Coupang reports Q3 revenue up 27% YoY to $7.9B, net retail sales of $6.14B, vs. $6.24B est., and operating income below projections; CPNG drops 8% after hours (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Coupang reports Q3 revenue up 27% YoY to $7.9B, net retail...

Nov 5, 2024

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Coupang reports Q3 revenue up 27% YoY to $7.9B, net retail...

Super Micro Computer to Strengthen Governance, Oversight...

Nov 5, 2024

The server maker said it continues to work on matters related to its filings with...

AI Startup Perplexity to Triple Valuation to $9 Billion...

Nov 5, 2024

The artificial intelligence search company is raising $500 million in its fourth...

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More trade wars to come? A look at Trump's and Harris' tariff plans

More trade wars to come? A look at Trump's and Harris'...

Nov 5, 2024

As American voters cast their ballots, the rest of the world is watching, as the...

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US stocks retreat ahead of Election Day, but long-term trend points to gains

US stocks retreat ahead of Election Day, but long-term...

Nov 5, 2024

All three major indices on Wall Street closed Monday's session in the red ahead...

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TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says the chipmaker now expects to pay more for power in Taiwan than anywhere else; TSMC's electricity prices rose 25% in April 2024 (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)

TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says the chipmaker now expects to...

Nov 5, 2024

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says the chipmaker now expects...

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Polymarket confirms paying US-based influencers, including large Instagram meme accounts, to promote election betting despite being banned in the US (Bloomberg)

Polymarket confirms paying US-based influencers, including...

Nov 5, 2024

Bloomberg: Polymarket confirms paying US-based influencers, including large Instagram...

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French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering (Reuters)

French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's...

Nov 5, 2024

Reuters: French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France...

Beef Up Your Password Security on Three Key Accounts

Nov 5, 2024

If you’re short on time, focus on your bank, email and phone accounts.

Mystery Surrounds Discovery of TSMC Tech Inside Huawei...

Nov 5, 2024

The apparent use of TSMC circuitry, believed to have first routed through a Chinese...

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Meta is extending its ban on new political ads past Election Day in the US, "until later this week" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Meta is extending its ban on new political ads past Election...

Nov 4, 2024

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta is extending its ban on new political ads past Election...

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Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses...

Nov 4, 2024

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses...

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Sources: Canadian authorities arrested Alexander "Connor" Moucka, who is allegedly behind hacks in June and July of up to 165 Snowflake customers including AT&T (Bloomberg)

Sources: Canadian authorities arrested Alexander "Connor"...

Nov 4, 2024

Bloomberg: Sources: Canadian authorities arrested Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who...

U.S. Chip Toolmakers Move to Cut China From Supply Chains

Nov 4, 2024

Applied Materials and Lam Research are telling vendors to follow new restrictions,...

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US housing crisis in focus as voters prepare to choose next president

US housing crisis in focus as voters prepare to choose...

Nov 4, 2024

The US economy is humming with GDP expected to grow at a healthy clip, unemployment...

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Sources: Meta's plans to build a US nuclear-powered AI data center were thwarted in part after a rare bee species was found on land earmarked for the project (Financial Times)

Sources: Meta's plans to build a US nuclear-powered AI...

Nov 4, 2024

Financial Times: Sources: Meta's plans to build a US nuclear-powered AI data center...

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Physical Intelligence, which plans to use AI to create brains for robots, raised $400M led by Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, and Lux Capital at a $2B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

Physical Intelligence, which plans to use AI to create...

Nov 4, 2024

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Physical Intelligence, which plans to...

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Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 review: the new $60 screen is easy to build, works with the latest OS, and holds the Pi on its back, but scrolling can be awkward (Les Pounder/Tom's Hardware)

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 review: the new $60 screen...

Nov 4, 2024

Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 review: the new $60 screen...

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Boeing workers to vote on new company offer to end 7-week strike

Boeing workers to vote on new company offer to end 7-week...

Nov 4, 2024

Union machinists vote Monday on whether to accept Boeing's latest contract offer...

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Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)

Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with...

Nov 3, 2024

Sarah Kessler / New York Times: Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC...

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Gurman: Apple is working on a MacBook Pro overhaul featuring a thinner design, but it probably won't be released until 2026 following delays in display tech (Michael Burkhardt/9to5Mac)

Gurman: Apple is working on a MacBook Pro overhaul featuring...

Nov 3, 2024

Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: Gurman: Apple is working on a MacBook Pro overhaul...

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Perplexity launched a dedicated hub for the US general election, including ballot measures and voting results, while rivals like OpenAI have been more cautious (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Perplexity launched a dedicated hub for the US general...

Nov 3, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Perplexity launched a dedicated hub for the US general...

I'm a New Mom. The Latest Wearable Breast Pumps Gave Me...

Nov 3, 2024

Cord-free portable pumps, worn in the bra, allow women to produce milk for their...

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Google Cloud Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.35B with a 17% operating margin, outpacing AWS' 19% YoY revenue growth to $27.45B with a 38% operating margin (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Google Cloud Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.35B with a...

Nov 3, 2024

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Google Cloud Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.35B with a 17%...

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A single grant of $123M has been finalized from $33B+ announced so far under the US CHIPS Act, which is facing criticism on both sides of the political aisle (Politico)

A single grant of $123M has been finalized from $33B+ announced...

Nov 3, 2024

Politico: A single grant of $123M has been finalized from $33B+ announced so far...

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An interview with Steve Ballmer on trying to turn USAFacts, his not-for-profit civic initiative, into a source of dispassionate statistics for US voters (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Financial Times)

An interview with Steve Ballmer on trying to turn USAFacts,...

Nov 3, 2024

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times: An interview with Steve Ballmer on...

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AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs (Devin Gordon/New York Times)

AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains...

Nov 2, 2024

Devin Gordon / New York Times: AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact...

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Filing: US regulators rejected a proposal to let Amazon buy nuclear power for AWS data centers in Pennsylvania over energy grid reliability and other concerns (Laila Kearney/Reuters)

Filing: US regulators rejected a proposal to let Amazon...

Nov 2, 2024

Laila Kearney / Reuters: Filing: US regulators rejected a proposal to let Amazon...

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Interviews with Amazon's health chief Neil Lindsay and others on the company's health care push, the PillPack and One Medical acquisitions, its future, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

Interviews with Amazon's health chief Neil Lindsay and...

Nov 2, 2024

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Interviews with Amazon's health chief Neil Lindsay...

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Bitcoin's 2024 price rally masks a bleaker picture in the wider crypto market, with crypto VC investment remaining a far way off the 2021 bull market and more (Bloomberg)

Bitcoin's 2024 price rally masks a bleaker picture in the...

Nov 2, 2024

Bloomberg: Bitcoin's 2024 price rally masks a bleaker picture in the wider crypto...

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The digital ad market, helped by US political ads, AI ad tools, and consumer spending, drove strong Q3 revenue growth for Alphabet, Meta, Snap, Reddit, and Roku (Sara Fischer/Axios)

The digital ad market, helped by US political ads, AI ad...

Nov 2, 2024

Sara Fischer / Axios: The digital ad market, helped by US political ads, AI ad tools,...

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A Chainalysis study based on digital wallet use data from January 1, 2024 to October 8, 2024 suggests Tether's USDT has gained traction in EMEA time zones (Bloomberg)

A Chainalysis study based on digital wallet use data from...

Nov 2, 2024

Bloomberg: A Chainalysis study based on digital wallet use data from January 1,...

Why Elon Musk's Robotaxi Dreams Are Premature

Nov 2, 2024

Tesla is pushing to build true self-driving vehicles by 2026. The way its CEO wants...

The Budget Hawk Atop a Tech Giant's $64 Billion Spending...

Nov 2, 2024

Amy Hood is at the center of Microsoft’s bet-the-company dive into AI.

People Are Hooked on Costco Hearing Aids, and This Is Why

Nov 2, 2024

Devoted customers come for the free hearing aid cleanings and leave with full carts.

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Polymarket user Fredi9999, a self-described Frenchman, says he bet $30M+ on Trump after analyzing polls; he can't exit his wagers without crashing the market (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)

Polymarket user Fredi9999, a self-described Frenchman,...

Nov 1, 2024

Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Polymarket user Fredi9999, a self-described...

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Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on November 8, after Amazon replaced Walgreens in February; Intel joined the index in 1999 (Bloomberg)

Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average...

Nov 1, 2024

Bloomberg: Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on November...

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Microsoft and a16z jointly share US public policy ideas for AI startups, saying "regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs" (Microsoft)

Microsoft and a16z jointly share US public policy ideas...

Nov 1, 2024

Microsoft: Microsoft and a16z jointly share US public policy ideas for AI startups,...

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Running app Strava found to be international security risk – again

Running app Strava found to be international security risk...

Nov 1, 2024

As we approach the US presidential election, the safety of the candidates, their...

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Canalys: global smartphone shipments grew 5% YoY in Q3 to reach 309.9M units, the strongest Q3 performance since 2021; Samsung led with 57.5M units, Apple 54.5M (Canalys)

Canalys: global smartphone shipments grew 5% YoY in Q3...

Nov 1, 2024

Canalys: Canalys: global smartphone shipments grew 5% YoY in Q3 to reach 309.9M...

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The capital expenditures of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft are set to total over $200B in 2024 as companies accelerate spending chasing AI (Bloomberg)

The capital expenditures of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and...

Nov 1, 2024

Bloomberg: The capital expenditures of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft are...

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Satellite services provider Globalstar says Apple took a 20% ownership stake worth ~$400M, and has committed another $1.1B to expand satellite service capacity (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Satellite services provider Globalstar says Apple took...

Nov 1, 2024

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Satellite services provider Globalstar says Apple took...

OpenAI Adds Search Engine to ChatGPT, Challenging Google

Nov 1, 2024

OpenAI has embedded a search engine in its popular ChatGPT chatbot, as tech companies...

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Russia fines Google a sum greater than world's total GDP

Russia fines Google a sum greater than world's total GDP

Nov 1, 2024

Russia has fined Google $20 decillion, or $20 billion trillion trillion, a sum greater...

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Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.45B, vs. $27.52B est., and AWS operating income of $10.45B, vs. $9.15B est., up from $7B in Q3 2023 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.45B, vs....

Oct 31, 2024

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.45B, vs. $27.52B...

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Google plans to release Android 16 in Q2 2025 "to better align with the schedule of device launches"; major Android releases have been in Q3 or Q4 since 2013 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Google plans to release Android 16 in Q2 2025 "to better...

Oct 31, 2024

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: Google plans to release Android 16 in Q2 2025...

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Ex-Lacework CEO and Facebook's former global head of engineering Jay Parikh joins Microsoft's senior leadership team and will report directly to Satya Nadella (Bloomberg)

Ex-Lacework CEO and Facebook's former global head of engineering...

Oct 31, 2024

Bloomberg: Ex-Lacework CEO and Facebook's former global head of engineering Jay...

I Replied Stop to a Political Text Message. I Got 100 More.

Oct 31, 2024

Our columnist tried to cut off unwanted texts, and a barrage followed. Here’s how...

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Russia fines Google a sum greater than the size of the world’s total GDP

Russia fines Google a sum greater than the size of the...

Oct 31, 2024

Russia has fined Google 20 decillion dollars, or 20 billion trillion trillion dollars…...

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BYD revenue exceeds Tesla's for first time, boosted by Chinese trade-in scheme

BYD revenue exceeds Tesla's for first time, boosted by...

Oct 31, 2024

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD saw its revenue top 200 billion yuan ($28 billion)...

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Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $919M, bookings up 34% YoY to $1.1B, above $1B est., and DAUs up 27% YoY to 88.9M; RBLX jumps 20%+ pre-market (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $919M, bookings...

Oct 31, 2024

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $919M,...

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An investigation finds eight deceptive operations on Meta's platforms that collectively controlled 340+ Pages and placed 160K ads to collect users' information (ProPublica)

An investigation finds eight deceptive operations on Meta's...

Oct 31, 2024

ProPublica: An investigation finds eight deceptive operations on Meta's platforms...

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The Biden admin unveils an $825M investment in an Albany-based chip research and development facility; the NTSC says the facility aims to drive EUV innovation (Reuters)

The Biden admin unveils an $825M investment in an Albany-based...

Oct 31, 2024

Reuters: The Biden admin unveils an $825M investment in an Albany-based chip research...

Samsung Sees Progress in Memory Chips for AI After Delays

Oct 31, 2024

The South Korean tech giant reported better-than-expected net profit but earnings...

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Siemens agrees to buy engineering software company Altair for ~$10B including debt, a 19% premium on Altair's October 21 closing price; deal to close in H2 2025 (Bloomberg)

Siemens agrees to buy engineering software company Altair...

Oct 30, 2024

Bloomberg: Siemens agrees to buy engineering software company Altair for ~$10B including...

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Kraken lays off workers and names Arjun Sethi as co-CEO; sources say the cuts amount to 15% of its workforce, or ~400 employees, including the COO and the CTO (New York Times)

Kraken lays off workers and names Arjun Sethi as co-CEO;...

Oct 30, 2024

New York Times: Kraken lays off workers and names Arjun Sethi as co-CEO; sources...

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Samsung Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to ~$57.4B, net profit up 73% to ~$7.3B, operating profit of ~$6.7B, and chip unit operating profit down 40% QoQ to ~$2.8B (Kwanwoo Jun/Wall Street Journal)

Samsung Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to ~$57.4B, net profit up...

Oct 30, 2024

Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal: Samsung Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to ~$57.4B, net...

Meta Reports Record Revenue, Slower Ad Growth

Oct 30, 2024

The social media giant is spending billions on artificial intelligence and products...

Samsung Profit Beats Expectations but Chip Business Sags

Oct 30, 2024

The South Korean technology giant reported better-than-expected net profit for the...

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US-China tech rivalry continues ahead of election

US-China tech rivalry continues ahead of election

Oct 30, 2024

China is a top priority for US foreign and economic policy, and the trade tensions...

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UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves to unveil 'big budget' to parliament

UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves to unveil 'big budget'...

Oct 30, 2024

Four months after taking office, the UK's Labour government and its Finance Minister...

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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says the company is laying off 528 employees, or 20% of its workforce, as it enters a "transitional period" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says the company is laying off...

Oct 30, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says the company is laying off...

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Kindle Colorsoft review: color display, quick page-turns, pinch-to-zoom, auto-adjusting front light, and no lockscreen ads, but pricey and screen has a blue hue (Valentina Palladino/Engadget)

Kindle Colorsoft review: color display, quick page-turns,...

Oct 30, 2024

Valentina Palladino / Engadget: Kindle Colorsoft review: color display, quick page-turns,...

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Sources: in August, Andy Jassy called Trump to explain Amazon's future plans, and Trump said Amazon should cut him a large check for his presidential efforts (Washington Post)

Sources: in August, Andy Jassy called Trump to explain...

Oct 30, 2024

Washington Post: Sources: in August, Andy Jassy called Trump to explain Amazon's...

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EA reports Q2 net bookings up 14% YoY to $2.08B vs. $2.04B est., revenue up 6%, raises its FY 2025 bookings forecast, as its American football titles outperform (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

EA reports Q2 net bookings up 14% YoY to $2.08B vs. $2.04B...

Oct 29, 2024

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: EA reports Q2 net bookings up 14% YoY to $2.08B vs. $2.04B...

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Research: China's industrial policy to make the nation a leader in emerging technologies has largely been a success, despite US efforts to contain the country (Bloomberg)

Research: China's industrial policy to make the nation...

Oct 29, 2024

Bloomberg: Research: China's industrial policy to make the nation a leader in emerging...

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Data: anti-government militia activity has grown on Facebook in the US, with the platform even auto-generating some group pages, despite the issue being flagged (Tess Owen/Wired)

Data: anti-government militia activity has grown on Facebook...

Oct 29, 2024

Tess Owen / Wired: Data: anti-government militia activity has grown on Facebook...

X Algorithm Feeds Users Political Content---Whether They...

Oct 29, 2024

A WSJ experiment found that accounts supporting Trump and Harris dominate feeds...

Elon Musk's xAI in Talks to Raise Funding Valuing It at...

Oct 29, 2024

The new fundraising effort would substantially increase startup’s valuation from...

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Oil prices expected to continue on downward trend despite Middle East tensions

Oil prices expected to continue on downward trend despite...

Oct 29, 2024

The World Bank Group forecasts that oil and commodity prices as a whole will continue...

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Endorsement for cash: how influencers are being paid to court US voters

Endorsement for cash: how influencers are being paid to...

Oct 29, 2024

Influencers are getting offered millions to support US presidential candidates…...

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Barcelona-based brain-computer interface startup Inbrain, which uses graphene, raised $50M led by Imec.xpand and plans to trial its device in up to 10 patients (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

Barcelona-based brain-computer interface startup Inbrain,...

Oct 29, 2024

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Barcelona-based brain-computer interface startup Inbrain,...

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Sources: in a first, Apple is using an Indian factory to do the early manufacturing work for the base iPhone 17; the primary iPhone 17 Pro sites remain in China (Wayne Ma/The Information)

Sources: in a first, Apple is using an Indian factory to...

Oct 29, 2024

Wayne Ma / The Information: Sources: in a first, Apple is using an Indian factory...

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Why Meta is well positioned to be AI's main beneficiary in the short, medium, and long term: generative AI, ads, infinite content, XR, "generative UI", and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Why Meta is well positioned to be AI's main beneficiary...

Oct 29, 2024

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Why Meta is well positioned to be AI's main beneficiary...

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Interviews with current and former staffers detail Evan Spiegel's efforts to revive Snap, his divisive AR bet, high senior staff turnover, and more (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Interviews with current and former staffers detail Evan...

Oct 28, 2024

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Interviews with current and former staffers detail...

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The Biden admin finalizes rules to limit US investments in AI and other tech sectors in China that could threaten national security, effective January 2 (Reuters)

The Biden admin finalizes rules to limit US investments...

Oct 28, 2024

Reuters: The Biden admin finalizes rules to limit US investments in AI and other...

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Gili Raanan's VC firm Cyberstarts has helped launch successful startups like Wiz but faces ethical questions about a profit-sharing program with industry execs (Forbes)

Gili Raanan's VC firm Cyberstarts has helped launch successful...

Oct 28, 2024

Forbes: Gili Raanan's VC firm Cyberstarts has helped launch successful startups...

iOS 18.1 Is Here: Apple Intelligence, New Siri Look, AirPod...

Oct 28, 2024

If you’ve got an iPhone 15 Pro or any new 16 model, AI now summarizes notifications,...

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Volkswagen plans major layoffs, factory closures

Volkswagen plans major layoffs, factory closures

Oct 28, 2024

Volkswagen staff have sounded the alarm over plans to cut 'tens of thousands' of...

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After Japan's snap election, political uncertainty leads to weaker yen and stock gains

After Japan's snap election, political uncertainty leads...

Oct 28, 2024

For the first time since 2009, Japan's ruling coalition, led by the Liberal Democratic...

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Loops, a fediverse TikTok competitor, begins accepting signups, plans to become open-source and integrate with ActivityPub, and seeks user donations (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Loops, a fediverse TikTok competitor, begins accepting...

Oct 28, 2024

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Loops, a fediverse TikTok competitor, begins accepting...

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Robinhood says US users that meet a certain criteria can trade a Kamala Harris or Donald Trump contract via its Robinhood Derivatives unit and ForecastEx (John Melloy/CNBC)

Robinhood says US users that meet a certain criteria can...

Oct 28, 2024

John Melloy / CNBC: Robinhood says US users that meet a certain criteria can trade...

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The Open Source Initiative releases version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition, after years of collaboration with academia and the industry (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

The Open Source Initiative releases version 1.0 of its...

Oct 28, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: The Open Source Initiative releases version 1.0 of its...

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Q&A with Precision Neuroscience executives about the uses of brain-computer interfaces, human trials, brain implants becoming consumer devices, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Q&A with Precision Neuroscience executives about the uses...

Oct 27, 2024

Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Precision Neuroscience executives about the uses of...

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Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on Agility's humanoid robot Digit, which was demoed on stage sorting laundry, automation's impact on jobs, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on Agility's...

Oct 27, 2024

Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on Agility's humanoid...

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Musk said there's a "chance" HW3 systems, now in millions of Teslas, do "not achieve the safety level" for unsupervised FSD and mentioned free upgrades from HW3 (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

Musk said there's a "chance" HW3 systems, now in millions...

Oct 27, 2024

Fred Lambert / Electrek: Musk said there's a “chance” HW3 systems, now in millions...

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Japan has too many startups that IPO too early amid a lack of late-stage funding, hurting unicorn ambitions; data: funding is set to fall ~33% from 2022 to 2024 (Leo Lewis/Financial Times)

Japan has too many startups that IPO too early amid a lack...

Oct 27, 2024

Leo Lewis / Financial Times: Japan has too many startups that IPO too early amid...

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Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI transforming the world much faster than the internet, Arm's global operations and China's role, geopolitics, and more (Bloomberg)

Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI transforming the world...

Oct 27, 2024

Bloomberg: Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI transforming the world much faster than...

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How militaries around the world are using warfare simulation video games like Slitherine Software's Command: Professional Edition to run battle scenarios (Wall Street Journal)

How militaries around the world are using warfare simulation...

Oct 27, 2024

Wall Street Journal: How militaries around the world are using warfare simulation...

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Sources: Google plans to preview an AI product codenamed Jarvis, which takes over a user's web browser to complete tasks like booking a flight, in December (Erin Woo/The Information)

Sources: Google plans to preview an AI product codenamed...

Oct 26, 2024

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google plans to preview an AI product codenamed...

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A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among tech workers with ~4M copies sold over eight years, as it releases its first expansion pack (Financial Times)

A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult...

Oct 26, 2024

Financial Times: A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among...

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China, the leading producer of rare minerals, has made it harder in recent weeks for foreign companies, particularly chip makers, to buy such materials in China (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)

China, the leading producer of rare minerals, has made...

Oct 26, 2024

Keith Bradsher / New York Times: China, the leading producer of rare minerals, has...

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Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly less than the reported peak production capacity, implying sales are almost in line with Apple's expectations (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly less...

Oct 26, 2024

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly...

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The ramifications of a potential US crackdown against Tether, a noticeable player in the market for US debt, will extend beyond the digital asset industry (Bloomberg)

The ramifications of a potential US crackdown against Tether,...

Oct 26, 2024

Bloomberg: The ramifications of a potential US crackdown against Tether, a noticeable...

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Analysis: X is on track to fall well short of its goal of $100M in 2024 political ad revenue, raising just $15M to date, mainly from GOP and Trump campaigns (Financial Times)

Analysis: X is on track to fall well short of its goal...

Oct 26, 2024

Financial Times: Analysis: X is on track to fall well short of its goal of $100M...

AI Solves My Most Annoying Chore: Meal Planning for a Toddler

Oct 26, 2024

You can have a complete menu in seconds instead of searching endless recipe sites.

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Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M (David Shepardson/Reuters)

Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused...

Oct 25, 2024

David Shepardson / Reuters: Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused...

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A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages (Christopher Yasiejko/Bloomberg Law)

A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's...

Oct 25, 2024

Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg Law: A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding...

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Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $43M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $285M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize...

Oct 25, 2024

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize...

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Your AI assistant can now use your computer (and anything on it)

Your AI assistant can now use your computer (and anything...

Oct 25, 2024

With the public demo of Anthropic's "computer use" feature for its Claude chatbot,...

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Microsoft launches Black Ops 6, the first Call of Duty game to debut on Xbox Game Pass, in the biggest test of its gaming strategy since acquiring Activision (Ramsay Hodgson/Financial Times)

Microsoft launches Black Ops 6, the first Call of Duty...

Oct 25, 2024

Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times: Microsoft launches Black Ops 6, the first Call...

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Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI planning to launch its next frontier model Orion by December, Sam Altman says "fake news out of control" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI planning...

Oct 25, 2024

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI...

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Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, bringing its total funding to $11.1B (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand...

Oct 25, 2024

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand its...

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A look at the White House's big bet on Intel; sources: Gina Raimondo urged companies to order Intel's US chips, but most favored TSMC's more advanced techniques (New York Times)

A look at the White House's big bet on Intel; sources:...

Oct 24, 2024

New York Times: A look at the White House's big bet on Intel; sources: Gina Raimondo...

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Notion previews Mail, an email client that uses AI to organize, archive, or draft emails and handle scheduling and follow-ups, saying it is "coming soon" (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Notion previews Mail, an email client that uses AI to organize,...

Oct 24, 2024

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Notion previews Mail, an email client that uses...

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Identity verification service provider Socure agrees to acquire Effectiv, which helps businesses manage fraud prevention tools, for $136M in cash and equity (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

Identity verification service provider Socure agrees to...

Oct 24, 2024

Emily Mason / Bloomberg: Identity verification service provider Socure agrees to...

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As World Bank turns 80, how to tackle 21st-century problems?

As World Bank turns 80, how to tackle 21st-century problems?

Oct 24, 2024

As the International Monetary Fund and World Bank mark 80 years since their founding,...

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Social media and kids: What to be aware of

Social media and kids: What to be aware of

Oct 24, 2024

In this edition of Entre Nous, we speak to Elizabeth Milovidov, the founder of DigitalParentingCoach.com,...

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Boeing machinists vote to extend strike, rejecting 35% pay raise offer

Boeing machinists vote to extend strike, rejecting 35%...

Oct 24, 2024

Boeing workers have voted to continue their strike, with 64 percent of them rejecting...

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Strike-hit Boeing announces $6.2 billion loss in third quarter

Strike-hit Boeing announces $6.2 billion loss in third...

Oct 24, 2024

Boeing has reported a staggering $6.2 billion loss for the third quarter, as it...

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Lawsuit filed against McDonald's over E. coli outbreak

Lawsuit filed against McDonald's over E. coli outbreak

Oct 24, 2024

A lawsuit has been filed against McDonald's over an E.coli outbreak linked to its...

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The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic partnership, sets a December 19 deadline; Google planned to invest $2B in 2023 and signed a cloud deal (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)

The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic...

Oct 24, 2024

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic...

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Apple now lets third-party browsers add web apps to an iPhone's Home Screen using their own custom engine in the EU in iOS 18.2 beta 1 (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Apple now lets third-party browsers add web apps to an...

Oct 24, 2024

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple now lets third-party browsers add web apps to an...

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How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan's detention in February 2024, which US officials said hurt the two allies' relationship (New York Times)

How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive...

Oct 24, 2024

New York Times: How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan's...

SK Hynix Profit Momentum Continues on AI-Chip Demand

Oct 24, 2024

SK Hynix posted record earnings in the third quarter as it continued to ride strong...

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Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys drone startup Aerodome, sources say for $300M+; both are a16z-backed and have raised $680M+ and $28M respectively (Margaux MacColl/TechCrunch)

Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys drone startup...

Oct 23, 2024

Margaux MacColl / TechCrunch: Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys drone...

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SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to a record ~$12.7B, vs. ~$13.2B expected, and operating profit of ~$5.1B, vs. ~$5B expected, on continued AI chip demand (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to a record ~$12.7B,...

Oct 23, 2024

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to a record ~$12.7B,...

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Fixify, which combines AI and human analysts to identify and fix IT problems, raised a $25M Series A co-led by Costanoa, Decibel, and Paladin Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Fixify, which combines AI and human analysts to identify...

Oct 23, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Fixify, which combines AI and human analysts to identify...

Perplexity CEO Proposes Revenue Deals for Publishers After...

Oct 23, 2024

Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones sued the AI startup this week, alleging copyright...

WSJ Tech Live: Executives, Investors and Artists Debate...

Oct 23, 2024

Andreessen Horowitz’s Martin Casado says tech policy is in a ‘dangerous place.’

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Tokyo Metro jumps 45% on market debut in Japan's biggest IPO in years

Tokyo Metro jumps 45% on market debut in Japan's biggest...

Oct 23, 2024

Tokyo Metro, the main operator of the Japanese capital's sprawling underground rail...

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Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and painting app, free to users, removing a subscription for premium features, to compete with Procreate and others (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and painting...

Oct 23, 2024

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and painting...

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Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro production since early summer, and could stop making the existing version entirely by the end of 2024 (The Information)

Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro production...

Oct 23, 2024

The Information: Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro production since...

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A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-year-old son became obsessed with a chatbot before his suicide; Character.AI says it plans new safety features (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-year-old...

Oct 23, 2024

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-year-old...

Meet Hollywood's AI Doomsayer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Oct 23, 2024

The actor says AI companies use movies and TV to make money without fairly compensating...

Apple Intelligence Isn't Very Smart Yet---and Apple's OK...

Oct 23, 2024

Our columnist reviews the first wave of AI features coming to iPhones with iOS 18.1,...

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Russia attempts to end dollar dominance and bypass Western sanctions

Russia attempts to end dollar dominance and bypass Western...

Oct 23, 2024

At this year's BRICS summit, one of the main issues on the agenda is Russian President...

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Runway rolls out Act-One, a Gen-3 Alpha tool for animating AI-generated characters with realistic facial expressions using video and voice recordings as inputs (Runway)

Runway rolls out Act-One, a Gen-3 Alpha tool for animating...

Oct 22, 2024

Runway: Runway rolls out Act-One, a Gen-3 Alpha tool for animating AI-generated...

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Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm...

Oct 22, 2024

Ian King / Bloomberg: Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use...

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Socket, which provides tools to help detect open source code vulnerabilities, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract Ventures, taking its total funding to $65M (David Prosser/Forbes)

Socket, which provides tools to help detect open source...

Oct 22, 2024

David Prosser / Forbes: Socket, which provides tools to help detect open source...

WSJ's Tech Live: Andreessen Partner Sounds Alarm on America's...

Oct 22, 2024

Journal subscribers can watch live interviews including with SF Federal Reserve...

Dye & Durham to Consider Sale as Strategic Review Process...

Oct 22, 2024

Review comes after shareholders expressed concerns about the cloud-based software...

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Cuba restores electricity to part of Havana, but crisis far from over

Cuba restores electricity to part of Havana, but crisis...

Oct 22, 2024

Cuba has restored 50 percent of electricity to Havana following Hurricane Oscar,...

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Russia's attempt to end dollar dominance and bypass Western sanctions

Russia's attempt to end dollar dominance and bypass Western...

Oct 22, 2024

At this year's BRICS summit, one of the main issues on the agenda is Vladimir Putin's...

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Harris raises record $1 billion in a single quarter as polls show extremely tight race

Harris raises record $1 billion in a single quarter as...

Oct 22, 2024

With just two weeks to go before American voters choose their next president, Kamala...

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WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon, after previously relying on the local contact book, and developed a new IPLS encrypted storage system (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon,...

Oct 22, 2024

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon,...

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TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for Huawei, circumventing export controls; sources: the chips resembled 910Bs (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)

TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have...

Oct 22, 2024

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt...

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A UK court says prominent Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri can sue Saudi Arabia in London court over claims of targeting him with NSO Group's Pegasus (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

A UK court says prominent Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri...

Oct 22, 2024

Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK court says prominent Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri can...

Nuclear-Powered AI: Big Tech's Bold Solution or a Pipedream?

Oct 22, 2024

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are investing billions in nuclear power, but the projects...

WSJ's Tech Live: Reid Hoffman Calls Out Elon Musk; Amazon...

Oct 22, 2024

Journal subscribers can watch live interviews including with SF Federal Reserve...

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Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store, avoiding Apple's cut (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign...

Oct 21, 2024

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign...

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The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit CTOs and other senior tech professionals as uniformed, paid reservists to help in cybersecurity, data analytics, more (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit CTOs and other...

Oct 21, 2024

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit...

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Mumbai-based Neysa, a provider of AI infrastructure to enterprise customers, raised a $30M Series A co-led by NTTVC, Z47, and Nexus Venture Partners (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Mumbai-based Neysa, a provider of AI infrastructure to...

Oct 21, 2024

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Mumbai-based Neysa, a provider of AI infrastructure...

Pentagon Seeks Silicon Valley Elite to Join Reserves

Oct 21, 2024

A new Defense Department initiative would recruit top technical minds as part-time...

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Cuba restores electricity to part of Havana, but the crisis is far from over

Cuba restores electricity to part of Havana, but the crisis...

Oct 21, 2024

Cuba has restored 50% of electricity to Havana, but a chronic lack of fuel and deteriorating...

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Trial opens over mining giant BHP's liability in 2015 Mariana dam disaster

Trial opens over mining giant BHP's liability in 2015 Mariana...

Oct 21, 2024

A long-awaited civil trial related to one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters,...

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Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered deweeding robot for farmers, raised a $70M Series D led by BOND, taking its total funding to $157M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered...

Oct 21, 2024

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered...

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Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more; in a follow-up, an exec said "at the very least the end portion of your interview should be deleted" (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more;...

Oct 21, 2024

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more;...

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Zip, which uses AI to help businesses manage buying goods and services, raised $190M led by BOND at a $2.2B valuation, up from $1.5B in May 2023 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Zip, which uses AI to help businesses manage buying goods...

Oct 21, 2024

Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Zip, which uses AI to help businesses manage buying goods...

Wanted: Weekend Warriors in Tech

Oct 21, 2024

A new Defense Department initiative would recruit Silicon Valley’s top technical...

We Tried Apple's New Hearing Test---and the New AirPods...

Oct 21, 2024

Apple’s new clinical-grade diagnostics and hearing assistance are potential life...

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After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter a day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says "law enforcement could take a look at" the plan (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter...

Oct 20, 2024

Alexandra Marquez / NBC News: After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state...

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Sources: Perplexity is looking to raise ~$500M to double its valuation to $8B or more; Perplexity's annualized revenue is ~$50M, up from ~$10M in March (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Perplexity is looking to raise ~$500M to double...

Oct 20, 2024

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Perplexity is looking to raise ~$500M to double its...

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At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments (Wired)

At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the...

Oct 20, 2024

Wired: At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't...

AI Startup Perplexity in Funding Talks to More Than Double...

Oct 20, 2024

The search-based chatbot is seeking to raise around $500 million in what would be...

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In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to strengthen restrictions on sales of chipmaking equipment to China or risk facing US curbs on Japanese companies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to strengthen...

Oct 20, 2024

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to strengthen...

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Anthropic evaluates four "sabotage" threat vectors for its Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models and finds that "minimal mitigations are sufficient" (Anthropic)

Anthropic evaluates four "sabotage" threat vectors for...

Oct 20, 2024

Anthropic: Anthropic evaluates four “sabotage” threat vectors for its Claude 3 Opus...

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After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's Amazon Studios show Beast Games, industry insiders call for more safety oversight on creator-run sets (Daysia Tolentino/NBC News)

After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's...

Oct 20, 2024

Daysia Tolentino / NBC News: After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's...

The 'October Theory' of Changing Your Life

Oct 20, 2024

As part of the “October Theory” trend, people are rethinking their approach to the...

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Meta Quest 3S teardown: uses Quest 2's same LCD panel and cheap Fresnel optics, replaces Quest 3's depth sensor with two IR flood illuminators, and more (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

Meta Quest 3S teardown: uses Quest 2's same LCD panel and...

Oct 19, 2024

Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News: Meta Quest 3S teardown: uses Quest 2's same LCD...

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Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools (Bloomberg)

Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors...

Oct 19, 2024

Bloomberg: Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most...

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How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid (Steven Levy/Wired)

How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted...

Oct 19, 2024

Steven Levy / Wired: How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted...

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A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research...

Oct 19, 2024

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research...

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Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short (Marah Eakin/Wired)

Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition...

Oct 19, 2024

Marah Eakin / Wired: Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition...

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Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic surge during the pandemic helped it build an AI-ready "connectivity cloud", balkanization of the internet, more (Om Malik/Crazy Stupid Tech)

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic surge during...

Oct 19, 2024

Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic surge...

How College Students Beat Boeing in a Battle to Take Down...

Oct 19, 2024

A device that blasts sound waves shows how smaller players are competing against...

Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks...

Oct 19, 2024

Electrostatic motors are in testing and have massive potential

How San Francisco Learned to Love Self-Driving Cars

Oct 19, 2024

Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis. Now locals and tourists...

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Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new startup, which aims to build AI products based on proprietary models (Reuters)

Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds...

Oct 18, 2024

Reuters: Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new startup,...

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Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non-commercial use only (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal...

Oct 18, 2024

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal...

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Notes on an inexpensive and effective "video scraping" technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini (Simon Willison's Weblog)

Notes on an inexpensive and effective "video scraping"...

Oct 18, 2024

Simon Willison's Weblog: Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping”...

WSJ's Tech Live: Netflix's Ted Sarandos, LinkedIn's Reid...

Oct 18, 2024

Journal subscribers can watch live interviews including with SF Federal Reserve...

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Ubisoft: What's behind the fall of France's video games darling?

Ubisoft: What's behind the fall of France's video games...

Oct 18, 2024

"Assassin's Creed" played a starring role in the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony,...

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Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating how much equity Microsoft gets when OpenAI becomes a for-profit company, for which OpenAI has two years (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating how much...

Oct 18, 2024

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating how much equity...

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Nebius Group, previously Yandex NV, says it will resume trading on Nasdaq on October 21, after being halted following Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine (Reuters)

Nebius Group, previously Yandex NV, says it will resume...

Oct 18, 2024

Reuters: Nebius Group, previously Yandex NV, says it will resume trading on Nasdaq...

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Verizon will buy some of US Cellular's spectrum licenses for $1B, contingent on closing a deal announced in May to sell some US Cellular assets to T-Mobile (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)

Verizon will buy some of US Cellular's spectrum licenses...

Oct 18, 2024

Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: Verizon will buy some of US Cellular's spectrum licenses...

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X updates its ToS to steer any disputes by users to the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, whose judges often favor conservative litigants (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

X updates its ToS to steer any disputes by users to the...

Oct 17, 2024

Nate Raymond / Reuters: X updates its ToS to steer any disputes by users to the...

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Sources: the US is probing if TSMC has been making AI or smartphone chips for Huawei in breach of US sanctions, including Huawei buying chips via intermediaries (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Sources: the US is probing if TSMC has been making AI or...

Oct 17, 2024

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: the US is probing if TSMC has been making...

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Sources describe OpenAI and Microsoft's fraying relationship, OpenAI renegotiating its deal for more computing power, Microsoft's own LLM efforts, and more (New York Times)

Sources describe OpenAI and Microsoft's fraying relationship,...

Oct 17, 2024

New York Times: Sources describe OpenAI and Microsoft's fraying relationship, OpenAI...

Google Executive Overseeing Search and Advertising Leaves...

Oct 17, 2024

Prabhakar Raghavan, the most senior Google executive overseeing its search engine...

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Sustainable sipping: How the drinks industry can reduce its carbon footprint

Sustainable sipping: How the drinks industry can reduce...

Oct 17, 2024

Just how sustainable is your happy hour? The beverage industry is among those facing...

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ECB cuts interest rates again amid sluggish Eurozone growth

ECB cuts interest rates again amid sluggish Eurozone growth

Oct 17, 2024

The European Central Bank policymakers have decided to lower interest rates by a...

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Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for using $25 meal credits to buy household items, as it restructures WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs teams (Financial Times)

Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for using...

Oct 17, 2024

Financial Times: Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for using $25 meal...

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Q&A with Marissa Mayer on AI, her startup Sunshine, its Shine app, Google News, Yahoo, selling to Verizon, Yahoo Weather, feminism, being a geek, and more (Virginia Heffernan/Wired)

Q&A with Marissa Mayer on AI, her startup Sunshine, its...

Oct 17, 2024

Virginia Heffernan / Wired: Q&A with Marissa Mayer on AI, her startup Sunshine,...

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Private equity firm Permira acquires Squarespace after raising its bid to $7.2B; Squarespace sells restaurant reservation service Tock to Amex for $400M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Private equity firm Permira acquires Squarespace after...

Oct 17, 2024

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Private equity firm Permira acquires Squarespace after...

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China pledges more support to troubled property sector, but disappoints investors

China pledges more support to troubled property sector,...

Oct 17, 2024

China's Housing Minister Ni Hong has announced a series of measures to support the...

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Can Europe get up to speed? Turbulent switch to electric vehicles

Can Europe get up to speed? Turbulent switch to electric...

Oct 17, 2024

Can Europe compete? Part of the answer is on display in Hall 5 of the Paris Motor...

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Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia as it seeks to grow into a super app; Expedia, valued at nearly $20B, would be Uber's largest acquisition (Financial Times)

Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia as...

Oct 16, 2024

Financial Times: Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia as it seeks...

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Robinhood launches its long-awaited desktop platform Robinhood Legend, and plans to add futures and index options trading to its mobile app in the coming months (Reuters)

Robinhood launches its long-awaited desktop platform Robinhood...

Oct 16, 2024

Reuters: Robinhood launches its long-awaited desktop platform Robinhood Legend,...

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Everstage, which offers sales performance management software, raised a $30M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures, bringing its total raised to $45M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Everstage, which offers sales performance management software,...

Oct 16, 2024

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Everstage, which offers sales performance management...

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Amazon joins Google, Microsoft in going nuclear

Amazon joins Google, Microsoft in going nuclear

Oct 16, 2024

As Big Tech companies consume more energy for data centres and artificial intelligence,...

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Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguides instead of wires in chips, raised a $400M Series D led by T. Rowe Price at a $4.4B valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguides...

Oct 16, 2024

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguides...

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Kindle Colorsoft hands-on: bold and sharp color on a 7" display, wireless charging, and comfortable, lightweight design, but pricier than other Kindles at $280 (Tony Polanco/Tom's Guide)

Kindle Colorsoft hands-on: bold and sharp color on a 7"...

Oct 16, 2024

Tony Polanco / Tom's Guide: Kindle Colorsoft hands-on: bold and sharp color on a...

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ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says he expects a slow chip market recovery to extend "well into 2025" due to "customer cautiousness", as the US' China rules bite (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says he expects a slow chip...

Oct 16, 2024

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says he expects a slow chip market...

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Poppins, the French app designed to help kids with dyslexia

Poppins, the French app designed to help kids with dyslexia

Oct 16, 2024

The 2024 Ivy Tech Prize for France's young entrepreneur of the year was awarded...

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Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity tools for enterprises, raised a $27M Series A led by Toyota Ventures, taking its total funding to $38M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity tools...

Oct 15, 2024

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity...

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Filing: Chinese smart-driving company Horizon Robotics is targeting to raise ~$700M in its Hong Kong IPO; Alibaba and Baidu are among its cornerstone investors (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)

Filing: Chinese smart-driving company Horizon Robotics...

Oct 15, 2024

P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal: Filing: Chinese smart-driving company Horizon...

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Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5M to pro-Trump super PAC Right For America; Andreessen also gave ~$844K to the GOP and Trump campaign (Bloomberg)

Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated...

Oct 15, 2024

Bloomberg: Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5M to pro-Trump...

Alibaba, Baidu Invest in Chinese Smart-Driving Tech Company's...

Oct 15, 2024

Alibaba and search-engine giant Baidu are investing in a nearly $700.0 million equity...

Intel, AMD Create Advisory Group to Shape Future of X86...

Oct 15, 2024

The two companies and other technology giants will work together to shape the future...

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Boeing seeks to shore up its finances

Boeing seeks to shore up its finances

Oct 15, 2024

Boeing is trying to shore up its struggling finances, to the tune of $35 billion....

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Google teams up with nuclear energy startup to power AI data centres

Google teams up with nuclear energy startup to power AI...

Oct 15, 2024

Tech giant Google is backing US nuclear energy startup Kairos Power to build seven...

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YouTube rolls out new features: granular playback speed controls, an improved miniplayer on iOS and Android, updated playlists, a sleep timer, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)

YouTube rolls out new features: granular playback speed...

Oct 15, 2024

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube rolls out new features: granular playback speed controls,...

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Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple Intelligence, and the same 8.3" display, starting at $499 with 128GB of storage, available to pre-order (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple...

Oct 15, 2024

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple...

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Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on recent searches and YouTube history, coming to mobile first, and adds AI-generated shopping tips (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on...

Oct 15, 2024

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on recent...

Why the Oura Smart Ring Has a Cult Following

Oct 15, 2024

The best health tracker is the one you don’t take off.

New York Times to Bezos-Backed AI Startup: Stop Using Our...

Oct 15, 2024

Publisher demands that Perplexity stop accessing its content. Startup isn’t interested...

Fuji Soft to Consider Bain Capital's Offer

Oct 15, 2024

Fuji Soft said it would sincerely consider Bain Capital’s tender offer, which beat...

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Hands off the Doliprane: French outcry over plan to sell popular painkiller to US

Hands off the Doliprane: French outcry over plan to sell...

Oct 15, 2024

Politicians from across the political spectrum are up in arms over healthcare giant...

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Q&A with Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn on gamifying language learning, how the app makes money, investing in AI, founder mode, return to office, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn on gamifying...

Oct 14, 2024

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn on gamifying...

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Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first "commercially safe" text-to-video generative AI model that was trained on licensed and public domain content (Jeremy Gray/PetaPixel)

Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first "commercially...

Oct 14, 2024

Jeremy Gray / PetaPixel: Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first “commercially...

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Sources: the US mulls capping AI chip sales from Nvidia and others on a country-specific basis, with a focus on the Middle East, for national security reasons (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Sources: the US mulls capping AI chip sales from Nvidia...

Oct 14, 2024

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: the US mulls capping AI chip sales from...

Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI

Oct 14, 2024

Startup Kairos Power plans to build small reactors to help supply electricity to...

U.S. Tech Firms to Invest More Than $8 Billion in U.K....

Oct 14, 2024

Surging AI demand has led to a combined investment of $8.23 billion in U.K. data...

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Not the Doliprane: French outcry over plan to sell popular painkiller to US

Not the Doliprane: French outcry over plan to sell popular...

Oct 14, 2024

Politicians from across the political spectrum are up in arms over healthcare giant...

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Unleashing the economic potential of second-hand clothing

Unleashing the economic potential of second-hand clothing

Oct 14, 2024

Second-hand clothing can help countries meet environmental targets, and drive economic...

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Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in...

Oct 14, 2024

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model...

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Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable, excellent controllers, and large app library, but Fresnel lenses lead to artifacts and average MR cameras (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable, excellent...

Oct 14, 2024

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable,...

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At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop, like Distraction Removal, and makes Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and more generally available (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop,...

Oct 14, 2024

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop,...

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Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi looks to sell consumer health unit, sparks political uproar

Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi looks to sell consumer health...

Oct 14, 2024

France's Economy and Industry ministers, Antoine Armand and Marc Ferracci, are heading...

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A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans for a ~$2K headset in 2025, Vision Pro 2 in 2026, and Ray-Ban Meta-like glasses and AirPods with cameras in 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans for a ~$2K...

Oct 13, 2024

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans for a ~$2K...

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Analysis: US regulators have secured $19.45B across eight settlements from crypto firms so far in 2024, including FTX's $12.7B, and ~$32B since January 1, 2019 (Lim Yu Qian/CoinGecko)

Analysis: US regulators have secured $19.45B across eight...

Oct 13, 2024

Lim Yu Qian / CoinGecko: Analysis: US regulators have secured $19.45B across eight...

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How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI, crypto drainers, Starlink terminals, and other tools to expand their pig butchering operations (Wired)

How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI,...

Oct 13, 2024

Wired: How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI, crypto drainers,...

SpaceX Catches Huge Booster Back at Launchpad

Oct 13, 2024

The Super Heavy booster lifted off from Texas on Sunday and propelled the Starship...

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The Northwest-AI-Hub, which is researching hybrid gain cell memory that combines DRAM's density with SRAM's speed, gets a $16.3M CHIPS Act grant via the US DOD (Katherine Bourzac/IEEE Spectrum)

The Northwest-AI-Hub, which is researching hybrid gain...

Oct 13, 2024

Katherine Bourzac / IEEE Spectrum: The Northwest-AI-Hub, which is researching hybrid...

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A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting (Samanth Subramanian/Bloomberg)

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which...

Oct 13, 2024

Samanth Subramanian / Bloomberg: A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar,...

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How some architects and designers are creating photorealistic virtual spaces in the metaverse; report: 41% of architectural practices use AI to some degree (Victoria Woodcock/Financial Times)

How some architects and designers are creating photorealistic...

Oct 13, 2024

Victoria Woodcock / Financial Times: How some architects and designers are creating...

Apple Headset Stalls, Struggles to Attract Killer Apps...

Oct 13, 2024

Many of the most successful virtual-reality software developers haven’t built apps...

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Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough to crack down on illicit use of Starlink terminals by Russia to power its advance in Ukraine (Washington Post)

Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough...

Oct 12, 2024

Washington Post: Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough to crack...

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Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is "forking" Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away "without consent" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is "forking" Advanced Custom...

Oct 12, 2024

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom...

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Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more (John Pavlus/Quanta Magazine)

Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics...

Oct 12, 2024

John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics...

SpaceX's Starship Cleared For New Test Flight

Oct 12, 2024

SpaceX is squaring off against government regulators as it seeks to test launch...

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The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and...

Oct 12, 2024

Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton...

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Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents a significant conflict of interest but has also dragged the WordPress community into a legal mess (Mathew Ingram/The Torment Nexus)

Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents...

Oct 12, 2024

Mathew Ingram / The Torment Nexus: Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only...

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Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal...

Oct 12, 2024

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal...

This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat

Oct 12, 2024

Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warnings...

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Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay (Bloomberg)

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers...

Oct 11, 2024

Bloomberg: Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost...

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TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation (Rozanna Latiff/Reuters)

TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including...

Oct 11, 2024

Rozanna Latiff / Reuters: TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including...

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An essay on what a "powerful AI" may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more (Dario Amodei)

An essay on what a "powerful AI" may look like and how...

Oct 11, 2024

Dario Amodei: An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively...

The Dark Side of Meta's Algorithms

Oct 11, 2024

Key articles from The Wall Street Journal’s 2023 investigation into how Instagram...

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Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023, up from $2.6B in 2022; losses grew to $1.3B, up from $512M YoY; ByteDance set aside $1B for EU fines (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023,...

Oct 11, 2024

Iain Martin / Forbes: Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023,...

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Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the last week, and investigators don't know what they were seeking (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some...

Oct 11, 2024

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts...

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Faulty court filing redactions show TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for teenagers despite internal research validating concerns (NPR)

Faulty court filing redactions show TikTok executives were...

Oct 11, 2024

NPR: Faulty court filing redactions show TikTok executives were unconcerned with...

They're Desperate for Work---and Being Brutally Open About...

Oct 11, 2024

Job seekers are putting pink banners and the word #Desperate on their LinkedIn profiles.

TikTok Makes Layoffs as It Rejigs Content Moderation Operations

Oct 11, 2024

The China-owned social-media platform is laying off employees as part of a revamp...

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Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox App on Android starting in November, after a judge ordered Google to open up Play Store (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games...

Oct 10, 2024

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games...

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Glooko, whose diabetes management app is used by more than 4.4M patients and 10K clinics globally, raised a $100M Series F led by Georgian (Conor Hale/Fierce Biotech)

Glooko, whose diabetes management app is used by more than...

Oct 10, 2024

Conor Hale / Fierce Biotech: Glooko, whose diabetes management app is used by more...

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LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the last year; it launched the marketplace in 2021 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services...

Oct 10, 2024

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its...

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Can Europe get its industrial groove back?

Can Europe get its industrial groove back?

Oct 10, 2024

Can European industry regain its competitive edge on the global stage? A new EU...

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How crypto power couple Ryan Salame, an FTX executive who gave millions to GOP politicians, and Michelle Bond, who ran for Congress, now both face prison time (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

How crypto power couple Ryan Salame, an FTX executive who...

Oct 10, 2024

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: How crypto power couple Ryan Salame, an FTX...

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Taiwan says China detained four employees at Foxconn's iPhone factory in Zhengzhou and says Foxconn said it didn't suffer a financial loss tied to their actions (Joyu Wang/Wall Street Journal)

Taiwan says China detained four employees at Foxconn's...

Oct 10, 2024

Joyu Wang / Wall Street Journal: Taiwan says China detained four employees at Foxconn's...

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Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has excellent battery and fitness tracking and an OLED display, but costs $350 more than the Fenix 7 and lacks LTE (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has excellent...

Oct 10, 2024

Victoria Song / The Verge: Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has excellent...

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French PM to present 2025 budget to cabinet with financial markets in mind

French PM to present 2025 budget to cabinet with financial...

Oct 10, 2024

France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier will hold a cabinet meeting this Thursday...

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The US GSA says Login.gov is opening up its face recognition capabilities, which compare a live selfie with the photo on a photo ID, to government agencies (Natalie Alms/Nextgov/FCW)

The US GSA says Login.gov is opening up its face recognition...

Oct 9, 2024

Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: The US GSA says Login.gov is opening up its face recognition...

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Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and raised just over $73M, shuts down after failing to secure enough funding to continue its services (CNBC)

Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and...

Oct 9, 2024

CNBC: Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and raised just over $73M,...

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Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a "malicious cyberattack", about two weeks after hackers put 31M customers' alleged personal data on Telegram (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a "malicious...

Oct 9, 2024

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a...

Amazon to Add 20 New U.S. Cities to Same-Day Pharmacy Delivery...

Oct 9, 2024

Amazon.com said it plans to further expand its pharmacy business by more than doubling...

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Ring unveils a new $20 per month Ring Home Premium subscription, adding 24/7 recording and AI-powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Ring unveils a new $20 per month Ring Home Premium subscription,...

Oct 9, 2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ring unveils a new $20 per month Ring Home Premium subscription,...

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London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold model outperforms AlphaFold 2 at predicting proteins, raised a $60M Series B, for $85M in total funding (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold...

Oct 9, 2024

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold...

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The All England Club says AI will make "out" and "fault" calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test (Associated Press)

The All England Club says AI will make "out" and "fault"...

Oct 9, 2024

Associated Press: The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls...

OpenAI to Open Asia-Pacific Hub in Singapore

Oct 9, 2024

The maker of ChatGPT plans to open a Singapore office later this year to serve as...

A Godfather of AI Just Won a Nobel. He Has Been Warning...

Oct 9, 2024

Geoffrey Hinton hopes the prize will add credibility to his claims about the dangers...

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US Justice Department considers breaking up Google in search monopoly case

US Justice Department considers breaking up Google in search...

Oct 9, 2024

The US Justice Department has told a federal judge that it is mulling over recommending...

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Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for batches of up to 10K queries that are processed within 24 hours and cost 50% less than standard API calls (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for batches...

Oct 8, 2024

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for...