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Sources: Nvidia is planning to abandon its Arm acquisition after making little to no progress with regulators; source says SoftBank is preparing an Arm IPO — Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress …
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Google shutters FLoC, its controversial ad tech for replacing third-party cookies, and proposes Topics, which categorizes the sites users visit into 300+ topics — FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google's controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
In a YouTube creator update, Susan Wojcicki defends hiding dislikes, discusses adding NFT support, says creators making over $10K/year jumped 40% YoY, and more — YouTube is touting the explosive popularity of its TikTok-style short-form Shorts video feature — and says it's going to test …
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Twitter code shows it is developing Flock, which lets users create tweets for a curated list of up to 150 people, after teasing the feature in July 2021 — Twitter is developing a feature called Flock that will allow users to curate a list of people to send certain tweets out to, reminiscent of Instagram's Close Friends feature.
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The US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the chip supply chain — The Biden administration has concluded that a global semiconductor shortage will persist until at least the second half of this year … | Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Review of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake-H Core i9-12900HK, tested in a 17-inch MSI Raider GE76 laptop: excellent outright performance with poor energy efficiency — At CES this year, Intel officially announced its expanded Alder Lake processor lineup, including the performance-laptop focused H-Series chips …
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As Microsoft acquires Activision, a look at the state of the gaming industry, which generated $180B in 2021 revenue, double that of the movie industry — Microsoft's audacious $75bn move on games publisher Activision Blizzard has detonated a bomb under the games industry.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Scratchpad, a SaaS productivity workspace built on Salesforce, raises a $33M Series B led by Craft Ventures, following a $13M Series A in February 2021 — Scratchpad, a company that has built a modern productivity workspace on top of Salesforce, has raised $33 million in a series B round of funding.
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Indian smartphone shipments reached a record 162M in 2021, up 12% YoY, led by Xiaomi with 40.5M, Samsung with 30.1M, Vivo with 25.7M, and Realme with 24.2M — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Monday, 24 January 2022
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Dremio, whose business tools streamline and curate data, raises a $160M Series E led by Adams Street Partners, after a $135M Series D in January 2021 — Data lake platform Dremio today announced that it has raised a $160 million Series E funding round led by Adams Street Partners.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta unveils AI Research SuperCluster, a supercomputer for ML training, claiming it will have 16K GPUs and be the world's fastest upon completion in mid-2022 — Designed to train the next-generation of machine learning systems — Social media conglomerate Meta is the latest tech company to build an … | Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
Internal Pentagon doc: Microsoft's HoloLens-based Army goggles, part of a program started in 2018 now worth $22B, are behind schedule and not yet combat ready — Microsoft Corp.'s new multifunction goggle system for the U.S. Army shows promise, but the $22 billion program isn't yet ready … | Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Julian Lennon plans to auction off NFTs of Beatles and John Lennon items, including handwritten notes for Hey Jude; Julian will retain the physical counterparts — “Lennon Connection: The NFT Collection” is presented by NFT marketplace YellowHeart and Julien's Auctions.
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| Aaron Gordon / VICE: |
Google's three years of security updates for its older phones like 2018's Pixel 3 is planned obsolescence; new Pixels get 5 years of support vs. iPhones' ~6 — Three years ago, my Pixel 3 was the latest and greatest Google phone. Now, the company has stopped providing software updates, making it a security risk to use.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Sylvera, which uses ML to analyze visual data like satellite imagery to boost accountability for carbon offsetting projects, raises a $32M Series A — Sylvera, a UK-based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tencent fires 70 people and bans 13 companies for bribery and embezzlement, as China continues oversight of its technology sector — - Chinese internet giant Tencent fired 70 people and blacklisted 13 firms last year as part of anti-graft campaign. — The latest internal investigation comes …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies raises €50M from the European Investment Bank, following a $40M Series A in 2019 — Starship Technologies, one of the bigger names in the world of autonomous delivery robots — those little caboose-like … Sponsor Posts
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