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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square's 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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Jenny Lee, Matthew King, and Wesley Chan
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| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
Source: Sony is developing a PlayStation handheld, codenamed Q Lite, featuring Remote Play with the PS5, an 8-inch 1080p LCD touchscreen, and adaptive triggers — Following days of speculation, Insider Gaming can report that there's a new PlayStation Handheld in development.
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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
Twitter adds a “US state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's previous policy that 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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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, hoping to help 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 proprietary generative AI in 2023 and is 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 … | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Source: Binance rejected buying Tron founder Justin Sun's Huobi stake due to Huobi's alleged ties to China; Sun's Huobi involvement is shrouded in secrecy — Binance has no interest in buying Huobi due to its rumored ties to China, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack unveils Notes, letting users share posts, quotes, images, links, and more, shown in a short form feed that “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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's gamble to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to address 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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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Ofcom's investigation opened in October 2022 finds that Amazon, Microsoft, and Google may be harming UK cloud market competition 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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| 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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@harrymccracken, @nintendeal, and @variety
| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
SimilarWeb: of the 2.6M people who visited the Twitter Blue sales webpage in March 2023, only 116K signed up; less than 1% of monthly users subscribe to Blue — Twitter Inc. is struggling to sell users on its new subscription product, Twitter Blue, according to a new report.
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Mashable, Business Post, and Insider
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@aishacounts, @marketminute, @karengeier, and @edzitron
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Play Store apps that allow account creation will soon need to offer an option to let users delete accounts and data from within the app and online — Google is continuing its work on Data safety in the Play Store by requiring that developers provide a way for users to delete their account data.
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Android Developers Blog, Android Authority, The Verge, Engadget, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, Neowin, and SlashGear. Tweets:
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group agrees to acquire mobile game maker Scopely for $4.9B; founded in 2011, Scopely was reportedly valued at $5.4B in October 2021 — Savvy Games Group announced an agreement to acquire Scopely, a maker of mobile games including “Star Trek Fleet Command,” …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Google claims its fourth generation TPU, used in supercomputers for AI training, is 1.2x to 1.7x faster and 1.3x to 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia's A100 — 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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Network World, arXiv.org, CNBC, TechCircle, and CoinGape
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@manan, @firstadopter, @stephennellis, and @stephennellis
| 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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@settostun and @gharleydude
| Rachel More / Reuters: |
Germany's Bundeskartellamt designates Apple as a “company 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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Euractiv, TechCrunch, Bundeskartellamt, and Agence France-Presse
| 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.| Reuters: |
Deutsche Telekom announces that it now holds a majority stake in T-Mobile US — Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) now holds a majority in T-Mobile U.S. (TMUS.O), the chief executive of the German telecoms company said on Wednesday. — The company reached a majority stake in T-Mobile U.S late Tuesday …
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DCD, Light Reading, and Total Telecom
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe processed $817B of transactions in 2022, up 26% YoY, vs. a 60% growth from 2020 to 2021; new customers grew 19% YoY, of which 55% were outside the US — Stripe, the payments and fintech giant currently valued at $50 billion, sometimes feels like it has been forever on the brink of a public listing.
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Bloomberg, Business Post, and Stripe, Inc.
| 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.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's Ministry of Electronics and IT says the government does not plan to regulate the growth of AI, calling it a “significant and strategic” sector — India does not plan to regulate the growth of AI within the South Asian market, identifying the sector as a “significant and strategic” area for the nation.| 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 participantsSponsor Posts
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5G's most deployed platform — Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN. That's the power of Intel Inside®
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Zoho:
Introducing intelligent document processing with Zoho RPA — Documents are a major bottleneck at many organizations. Invoices, contracts, forms, ID cards, receipts: They all arrive in different shapes and sizes …
Introducing intelligent document processing with Zoho RPA — Documents are a major bottleneck at many organizations. Invoices, contracts, forms, ID cards, receipts: They all arrive in different shapes and sizes …
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