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MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square CTO and on Android at Google, dies after reportedly being stabbed in San Francisco — Bob Lee, the chief product officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco.
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| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
Source: Sony is developing a handheld, codenamed Q Lite, which will use Remote Play with the PS5 and feature an 8-inch 1080p touchscreen and adaptive triggers — Following days of speculation, Insider Gaming can report that there's a new PlayStation Handheld in development.| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
Twitter adds a “state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's own policies, which used NPR as an example of an exception — Twitter added a warning to NPR's Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's efforts to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to solve supply chain weaknesses — In late March, when Tim Cook made his first public appearance in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, helping researchers with computer vision and object identification — Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms Inc. said today that they're hoping to democratize a key aspect of computer vision.
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| Kazuyuki Okudaira / Nikkei Asia: |
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the company plans to begin commercializing its generative AI in 2023 and remains at the “very forefront” of the LLM field — Facebook parent expects tech to help clients better reach audiences, reduce costs — TOKYO — Facebook owner Meta intends … | Ethan Shanfeld / Variety: |
Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto says “mobile apps will not be the primary path of future Mario games” after two moderately successful but dwindling iOS games — As Nintendo takes its shot at the box office with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” the first animated film featuring …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack announces Notes, letting users share short-form posts, quotes, links, and more, and says the feature “may look like familiar social media feeds” — Substack announced today that it's introducing a new Notes feature that is designed to let users share posts, quotes, comments, images, links and ideas.
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Ofcom says AWS, Azure, and Google may be limiting competition in the UK cloud computing market after a review since October 2022 and refers the case to the CMA — Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s cloud services could face a full-blown antitrust probe in the UK after the country's digital regulator …
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| Jeff Mason / Reuters: |
Biden says tech companies have a responsibility to ensure AI products are safe before making them public and whether AI is dangerous remains to be seen — U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence is dangerous, but underscored …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Google claims its 4th-gen TPU-based supercomputers, used for AI training, are up to 1.7x faster and 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia's A100 systems — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday released new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models …
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The FBI and over a dozen global partners seize Genesis Market, one of the top cyber fraud forums that sold stolen credentials and tools to weaponize that data — Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners …
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| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
SimilarWeb: of the 2.6M people who visited the Twitter Blue web promo page in March, only 116,000 signed up; Blue is used by less than 1% of monthly users — Twitter Inc. is struggling to sell users on its new subscription product, Twitter Blue, according to a new report.| Rachel More / Reuters: |
Germany's Bundeskartellamt regulator designates Apple as “of paramount significance for competition across markets”, opening the door to antitrust curbs — Germany's antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple (AAPL.O) after deciding that the U.S. tech …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AWS' Center for Quantum Networking partners with De Beers' Element Six division to grow artificial diamonds, hoping they can revolutionize computer networks — Amazon.com Inc. is teaming up with a unit of De Beers Group to grow artificial diamonds, betting that custom-made gems could could help revolutionize computer networks.
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| Financial Times: |
As AI chatbots take off, Helsinki-based Silo AI and other European startups race to improve responses in non-English languages, like German, Hebrew, and Arabic — Companies aim to improve response quality after criticism of reliance on small group of mostly US participants| Amos Zeeberg / Wired: |
How surveillance industry blog IPVM ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war by investigating Hikvision's and Dahua's mass face recognition systems — Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
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| Sam Roberts / New York Times: |
Bing Newcomb, who co-founded E*Trade in 1982, bringing stock trading to personal computers, and took the company public in 1996, died in January at 79 — He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits.| Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired: |
Nintendo and Sony embracing direct-to-audience streams, plus the pandemic, led to E3's demise; fan conventions like PAX and networking events like GDC survived — These days, video game companies can just promote their hardware and new releases via prepackaged livestreams. Why would they bother with a trade show?
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Sources: Chinese regulators have slowed approvals of mergers by US companies, asking some to make products that they sell in other countries available in China — The U.S. encouraged China to set up a robust antitrust regime. Now, Beijing is holding back its required green light for mergers …
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