Month: January 2023

Tech Nation, the UK government-sanctioned tech ecosystem builder, plans to cease operations on March 31 after losing its grant funding to a Barclays-run program (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Tech Nation, the UK government-sanctioned tech ecosystem builder, plans to cease operations on March 31 after losing its grant funding to a Barclays-run program  —  After over ten years in operation, Tech Nation, the UK’s government-sanctioned ecosystem builder for UK tech startups …

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NASA’s Perseverance has completed its cache of Martian samples

Perseverance has been depositing secondary samples of rock collected from Mars across the planet’s surface just in case it fails to deliver its onboard samples during a future collection mission. | Image: NASA NASA’s Perseverance rover has dropped the last of 10 sample tubes onto the surface of Mars, thereby completing humanity’s “first sample depot

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Stripperweb, a key forum for sex workers for 20+ years, plans to shut down on February 1, per its website, leading its community to rush to archive its content (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Stripperweb, a key forum for sex workers for 20+ years, plans to shut down on February 1, per its website, leading its community to rush to archive its content  —  The forum’s community is working overtime to archive decades of history  —  There are some people on the internet who don’t

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The Nothing Phone 2 Will Launch in the US Later in 2023

The success of OnePlus may not be entirely thanks to Carl Pei, but the company did change dramatically (and not for the better) when he left. Pei went on to found Nothing Technology, but the firm’s first smartphone, the aptly named Nothing Phone 1, never fully launched in the US. Nothing’s next release, however, will

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Discord is slowing down some Nvidia graphics cards

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord is slowing down graphics card memory clocks on some Nvidia GPUs. A recent Discord update has introduced a bug that slows down memory clocks by up to 200Hz on some Nvidia models, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti. Nvidia says it’s working on a fix.

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A National Labor Relations Board judge rules Amazon violated US federal labor laws as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two New York City facilities (Robert Iafolla/Bloomberg)

Robert Iafolla / Bloomberg: A National Labor Relations Board judge rules Amazon violated US federal labor laws as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two New York City facilities  —  Amazon.com Inc. violated federal labor law as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two facilities in New York City, a National

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How AI Efficiently Responds to Rapid Changes in Warehouse Workload

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has found its application in many industries, including inventory management, supply chain management, and warehousing. In today’s modern marketplace, led by competitive SMBs and interconnected technologies that link sellers and buyers globally, being able to respond to change quickly is of utmost importance. Companies of all sizes experienced demand fluctuations when

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Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announce a venture to explore social apps, the first being Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer: Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announce a venture to explore social apps, the first being Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles  —  EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text  —  Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back.

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Apple HomePod (second-gen) review: great sound quality, useful sensors, speedy Siri, and deep Apple integration, but pricey and best experience needs two units (The Verge)

The Verge: Apple HomePod (second-gen) review: great sound quality, useful sensors, speedy Siri, and deep Apple integration, but pricey and best experience needs two units  —  Apple’s second take on the HomePod doesn’t stray far from the original, but it’s better all around.

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Scientists Use Graphene to Construct Tractor Beam

(Credit: Naeblys/Getty Images) (Credit: Naeblys/Getty Images) Physicists in China report that they have built a tractor beam capable of moving objects on the macroscale. It’s counter-intuitive; like laser cooling, the system does the opposite of what you might expect when you point a laser at it. Instead of pushing, the laser pulls. In the latest issue

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Privacera connects to Dremio’s data lakehouse to aid data governance

Open-source based data governance and security SaaS provider Privacera on Tuesday said that it was integrating with Dremio’s open lakehouse to aid enterprise customers with data governance and data security. A data lakehouse is a data architecture that offers both storage and analytics capabilities, in contrast to data lakes, which store data in native format,

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The stage is set for Samsung’s Ultra pep rally

Samsung is taking its turn in the spotlight as live events return. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s a weird time for in-person tech events. On one hand, companies are just champing at the bit to host them after a few years of lockdown livestreams. Samsung is the latest of them, after

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After the market crashed, Madonna, Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady, and other celebrities have been embroiled in legal difficulties over promoting crypto projects (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: After the market crashed, Madonna, Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady, and other celebrities have been embroiled in legal difficulties over promoting crypto projects  —  Prominent endorsers named as defendants in class-action lawsuits, while agents warn clients away from future deals

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How to watch Samsung’s February Unpacked event

Image: WinFuture At this year’s Samsung’s new Unpacked event, the company is expected to introduce three new Galaxy S23 phones along with (rumor has it) up to five brand-new Galaxy Book laptops — and it is going to announce them at the first in-person Unpacked event since February 2020. So you can look forward to

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All About USB-C: Pinecil Soldering Iron

As many people have pointed out, what matters with USB-C isn’t just the standard, it’s the implementations. After all, it’s the implementations that we actually have to deal with, and it’s where most of the problems with USB-C arise. There is some fault to the standard, like lack of cable markings from the get-go, but

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Wooden Smartphone Sleeve Keeps You on Task

Smartphones are amazing tools, but sometimes they can be an equally amazing time suck. In an effort to minimize how much precious time goes down the drain, [Lance Pan and Zeynep Kirmiziyesil] decided to make a functional and beautiful smartphone sleeve to keep you on task. Most modern smartphones have some form of Do Not

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A roundup of potential rivals to OpenAI’s ChatGPT service: DeepMind’s Sparrow, Google’s LaMDA, Anthropic’s Claude, and Character AI (Sharon Goldman/VentureBeat)

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: A roundup of potential rivals to OpenAI’s ChatGPT service: DeepMind’s Sparrow, Google’s LaMDA, Anthropic’s Claude, and Character AI  —  Today, ChatGPT is two months old.  —  Yes, believe it or not, it was less than nine weeks ago that OpenAI launched what it simply described as an …

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