Month: January 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to all eight charges, including defrauding customers and laundering money; if convicted, he faces up to 115 years in prison (Tom Warren/BuzzFeed News)

Tom Warren / BuzzFeed News: Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to all eight charges, including defrauding customers and laundering money; if convicted, he faces up to 115 years in prison  —  If convicted, the founder and former CEO of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX faces 115 years in prison.

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Fool a Drone With a Fixed Battery

Lithium-ion and lithium-polymer rechargeable batteries have given us previously impossible heights of electronics power and miniaturization, but there’s a downside they have brought along with them. When a battery pack has to contain electronics for balancing cells, it’s very easy for a manufacturer to include extra functions such as locking down the battery. Repair a

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The Problem With Passwords

By now it’s probable that most readers will have heard about LastPass’s “Security Incident“, in which users’ password vaults were lifted from their servers. We’re told that the vaults are encrypted such that they’re of little use to anyone without futuristic computing power and a lot of time, but the damage is still done and

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Apple’s market cap sinks below $2T in intraday trading, as its stock continues to slide; a year ago, Apple was the first company to reach a $3T market cap (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Apple’s market cap sinks below $2T in intraday trading, as its stock continues to slide; a year ago, Apple was the first company to reach a $3T market cap  —  Dramatic fall from $3tn in the past year comes amid investor fears over disruptions to its China-based factories

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Nvidia upgrades its $19.99/month GeForce Now Ultimate plan to support 240 FPS streaming, ultrawide monitors, and more by using RTX 4080-class GPUs (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Nvidia upgrades its $19.99/month GeForce Now Ultimate plan to support 240 FPS streaming, ultrawide monitors, and more by using RTX 4080-class GPUs  —  Nvidia announced some new features for its cloud gaming service during its virtual CES press conference.  The company is upgrading …

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Nvidia brings the GeForce RTX 40 GPU to laptops, offering the RTX 4080 and 4090 for $1,999+ on February 8, followed by the RTX 4050 for $999+ on February 22 (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

Jon Fingas / Engadget: Nvidia brings the GeForce RTX 40 GPU to laptops, offering the RTX 4080 and 4090 for $1,999+ on February 8, followed by the RTX 4050 for $999+ on February 22  —  It didn’t take long for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 graphics to reach portable PCs.  The company has introduced RTX 40

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President Biden plans to renominate Gigi Sohn as a member of the deadlocked FCC, as he tries again to confirm dozens of nominees that had failed to be confirmed (Ken Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal: President Biden plans to renominate Gigi Sohn as a member of the deadlocked FCC, as he tries again to confirm dozens of nominees that had failed to be confirmed  —  Nominees, including Eric Garcetti as ambassador to India, to be resubmitted after failing to win Senate confirmation last year

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Nvidia relaunches the 12GB RTX 4080 as the RTX 4070 Ti, dropping its price by $100 to $799 after Nvidia paused the card’s rollout in October 2022 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia relaunches the 12GB RTX 4080 as the RTX 4070 Ti, dropping its price by $100 to $799 after Nvidia paused the card’s rollout in October 2022  —  Nvidia is officially relaunching its “unlaunched” 12GB RTX 4080 graphics card as the RTX 4070 Ti.  After accidentally posting specs …

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Apple’s market cap sinks below $2T in intraday trading, as its stock continues to slide; a year ago, Apple was the first company to reach a $3T market cap (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Apple’s market cap sinks below $2T in intraday trading, as its stock continues to slide; a year ago, Apple was the first company to reach a $3T market cap  —  A steady slide in Apple Inc. shares pushed the iPhone maker’s market value below $2 trillion, the latest casualty in the tech stock rout.

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