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npub1t0qu...ayut 11 months ago
Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January (Tom Warren/The Verge)
The Verge
Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
The RTX 50-series is officially here.
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Nvidia unveils RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090 and a $999 RTX 5080 coming on January 30 and a $749 RTX 5070 Ti and a $549 RTX 5070 in February
By Tom Warren / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Apple is gearing up for a battle with app makers and legislators over whether regulation of teen's social media use should happen in apps or at the device level (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-helped-nix-part-of-a-child-safety-bill-more-fights-are-expected-23905d4d
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How Apple successfully lobbied Louisiana legislators to remove from a bill the requirement for app stores to verify users
From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Sources: Huawei, which is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on HarmonyOS, nears a deal with Tencent to exclude WeChat from revenue sharing (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
Bloomberg.com
Huawei, Tencent Near Deal to Exclude WeChat From Revenue Sharing
Huawei Technologies Co. is nearing a deal to let Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat super app operate fully on its Harmony mobile platform without sh...
Techmeme
Sources: Huawei, which is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on HarmonyOS, nears a deal with Tencent to exclude WeChat from revenue sharing
By Pei Li / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
A Google DeepMind study involving 20 professional comedians who already use AI in their work finds LLMs struggled to produce material that was original or funny (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)
MIT Technology Review
What happened when 20 comedians got AI to write their routines
“I’ve tried to prompt AI to be funny or surprising or interesting or creative, but it just doesn’t work.”
Techmeme
A Google DeepMind study involving 20 professional comedians who already use AI in their work finds LLMs struggled to produce material that was original or funny
By Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Fengate Asset Management acquires over two-thirds stake in eStruxture, which operates data centers in 15 locations in four Canadian cities, in a $1.3B deal (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/fengate-acquires-canada-data-storage-firm-estruxture-in-1-3-billion-deal-ed53d33f?st=l6ntf0pel38stz5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Fengate Asset Management acquires over two-thirds stake in eStruxture, which operates data centers in 15 locations in four Canadian cities, in a $1.3B deal
By Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions (Matt Burgess/Wired)
WIRED
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers
CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.
Techmeme
FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions
By Matt Burgess / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Consensys says the US SEC is closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0 and "will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions" (Ryan Ozawa/Decrypt) https://decrypt.co/236039/sec-dropping-ethereum-investigation-consensys
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Consensys says the US SEC is “closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0” and “will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions”
By Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the "Metaverse" product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called "Wearables" (Alex Heath/The Verge)
The Verge
Meta forms new Wearables group and lays off some employees
Meta’s CTO says its latest smart glasses with Ray-Ban are “a much bigger hit than we anticipated.”
Techmeme
Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the “Metaverse” product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called “Wearables”
By Alex Heath / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims responsibility for the ransomware attack impacting London hospitals for weeks and demands $50M to end it (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
Bloomberg.com
UK Hospital Hackers Say They’ve Demanded $50 Million in Ransom
A cohort of Russian-speaking hackers is demanding $50 million from a UK lab-services provider to end a ransomware attack that has paralyzed service...
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Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims responsibility for the ransomware attack impacting London hospitals for weeks and demands a $50M ransom
By Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M to resolve a suit from shareholders accusing Qualcomm of defrauding them by hiding its anticompetitive sales and licensing practices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/technology/qualcomm-reaches-75-mln-settlement-over-sales-licensing-practices-2024-06-18/
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Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M to settle a shareholder lawsuit over accusations of defrauding them by hiding alleged anticompetitive sales and licensing practices
By Jonathan Stempel / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
AMD says it is looking into claims that company information was stolen in a hack, after a user on BreachForums said they breached AMD's systems (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Bloomberg.com
AMD Is Investigating Claims That Company Data Was Stolen in Hack
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the second-largest maker of personal computer processors, is looking into claims that company information was stolen i...
Techmeme
AMD is working with police and a host provider to investigate a claim that company data was stolen, after a BreachForums user said they breached AMD
By Ian King / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Appfigures: iOS 18 could "Sherlock" trail apps, grammar helpers, math solvers, password managers, and emoji apps that have an estimated $393M in annual revenue (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
TechCrunch
iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue | TechCrunch
Apple's changes may affect apps that today have an estimated $393 million in revenue and have been downloaded roughly 58 million times over th...
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Appfigures: iOS 18 could “Sherlock” trail apps, grammar helpers, math solvers, password managers, and emoji apps that have an estimated $393M in annual revenue
By Sarah Perez / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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