Month: December 2022

Want To Play With FPGAs? Use Your Pico!

Ever want to play with an FPGA, but don’t have the hardware? Now, if you have one of those ever-abundant Pi Picos, you can start playing with Verilog without getting an FPGA board. The FakePGA project by [tvlad1234], based on the Verilator toolkit, provides you with a way to compile Verilog into C++ for the

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Ernst & Young: US tech IPO deal proceeds plummeted 94%, from $155.8B in 2021 to $8.6B in 2022; FactSet: no tech IPO raised $1B in 2022, compared to 15 in 2021 (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Ari Levy / CNBC: Ernst & Young: US tech IPO deal proceeds plummeted 94%, from $155.8B in 2021 to $8.6B in 2022; FactSet: no tech IPO raised $1B in 2022, compared to 15 in 2021  —  – IPO deal proceeds plummeted 94% in 2022, according to Ernst & Young’s IPO report published in mid-December.

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Turn a Webpage into a Desktop App With Gluon

Electron is software for running web-written apps in the same way as native ones, and has gotten plenty of bad press for its RAM appetite around these parts. But while the execution might leave something to be desired, the concept itself is quite solid —  if you’ve already got code written for the web, a

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Meta’s dramatic implosion, Elon Musk’s Twitter train wreck, and Amazon’s labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech (Brian Merchant/The Atlantic)

Brian Merchant / The Atlantic: Meta’s dramatic implosion, Elon Musk’s Twitter train wreck, and Amazon’s labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech  —  The companies that define our digital lives have hit a wall.  —  The dramatic, multidimensional implosion of Meta …

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Predictions for 2023: competition for Meta’s metaverse, Apple’s AR/VR headset debut, generative AI integration into products, continuing crypto gloom, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Predictions for 2023: competition for Meta’s metaverse, Apple’s AR/VR headset debut, generative AI integration into products, continuing crypto gloom, and more  —  Our tech columnists look ahead to an Apple headset, Netflix password crackdowns, the next DALL-E and more  —  Big layoffs at Meta, Amazon, Snap and others?

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Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance and remains the undisputed decision maker despite having quit many frontline roles (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance and remains the undisputed decision maker despite having quit many frontline roles  —  Richard Liu Qiangdong, the billionaire founder of JD.com , has ended a low-profile period and stepped forward to lecture executives …

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Audio Old And New Meet In Perfect Harmony

There’s an uneasy meeting in the world of audio between digital and analogue. Traditional analogue audio reached a level of very high quality, but as old-style media-based audio sources have fallen out of favor there’s a need to replace them with ones that reflect a new digital audio world. To do this there are several

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A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled (Ryan Broderick/Polygon)

Ryan Broderick / Polygon: A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled  —  The NFT gaming community only grew more niche and scam-filled in 2022  —  Less than 12 months ago, it felt as if 2022 …

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FTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value was ~$296M when transferred on November 12 and is now ~$167M (Nathan Crooks/The Block)

Nathan Crooks / The Block: FTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value was ~$296M when transferred on November 12 and is now ~$167M  —  – FTX Trading and its affiliated debtors said Friday that they would seek the return of crypto held by the

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Twitter will soon let you swipe between tweets, topics, and trends

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will soon let you swipe to switch between different views containing recommended and followed tweets, trends, topics, and more. In a tweet, Elon Musk announced that support for the navigation feature will arrive in January. Musk first hinted at the feature earlier this month, noting the “main

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Meta acquires smart lensmaker Luxexcel as it works toward AR glasses goal

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s throwing more money into the metaverse with its acquisition of Luxexcel, a Netherlands-based company that specializes in 3D-printing prescription lenses for smart glasses. The news was first reported by Dutch outlet De Tijd (via TechCrunch), but Meta has since confirmed to The Verge that it purchased the

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Italy’s parliament approves a 26% tax on gains of €2,000+ from crypto trading per tax period and offers incentives for declaring crypto profits for tax purposes (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: Italy’s parliament approves a 26% tax on gains of €2,000+ from crypto trading per tax period and offers incentives for declaring crypto profits for tax purposes  —  Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s new bill also includes an incentive for those declaring crypto for tax purposes.

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