Enterprise data management firm Informatica has announced plans to lay off 7% of its total workforce through the first quarter of 2023, the company said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company said it expected the cuts to better align its workforce to its cloud-focused strategic priorities and cut costs
Read MoreJavier Espinoza / Financial Times: How Section 19a of Germany’s Competition Act gives antitrust authorities the power to divest and sanction Big Tech, as the EU slowly rolls out its enforcement — While EU regulators slowly roll out their own enforcement mechanism, Berlin is already holding gatekeepers to account
Read MoreTypical nutcrackers rely on simple pin hinges to join two handles for the cracking task. However, [adam the machinist] has demonstrated that a single-piece nutcracker is possible by using the flexural properties of the right grade of steel. The nutcracker is manufactured out of 17-4 PH stainless steel, heat treated to the H900 condition. A
Read MoreApple’s iPhone 15 Pro is expected to bring a couple of major design changes and updates, here’s what you need to know.
Read MoreJennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: An overview of the adoption of Matter, the new open-source smart home interoperability standard, across the devices and controllers on display at CES 2023 — We round up all the new product announcements and look at what’s next for Matter as companies start to monetize this newfound interoperability.
Read MoreRISC-V is a rival computing architecture to Arm, and it’s been gaining steam over the last few years. However, it recently got a major boost when Google announced that Android will support this new architecture. An Android-powered RISC-V smartphone is still a long way off, but we wanted to know whether you’d buy one. We
Read MoreCade Metz / New York Times: A profile of Character.AI, founded by two former Google researchers to offer “plausible conversation” with famous people, like William Shakespeare and Elon Musk — At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined.
Read MoreThe Toniebox is a toy that plays stories and songs for kids to listen to. Audio content can be changed by placing different NFC enabled characters that magnetically attach to the top of the toy. It can play audio via its built-in speaker or through a wired headphone connected to the 3.5 mm stereo jack.
Read MoreMike Butcher / TechCrunch: London-based Peppy, which offers digital health services for menopause, fertility, pregnancy, and more via a B2B2C model, raised a $45M Series B led by AlbionVC — There are some mega-trends playing out across developed-world workforces that startups are picking up on.
Read MoreCredit: Smartprix Samsung has posted two teaser videos for the Galaxy S23 series. The clips point to more megapixels and better low-light photography. Samsung has finally confirmed a February 1 Unpacked event for its upcoming Galaxy S23 series phones, and the company has now posted its first teaser videos as well.
Read MoreAnto Antony / Bloomberg: Sources: Tata Group’s WeChat-like super app Neu is expected to generate sales of ~$4B in the year to March 31, missing the $8B goal set at the start of 2022 — Tata Group’s ambitious super app is expected to meet just half of the sales target in its debut year, forcing
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Samsung could reportedly skip the Galaxy S24 Plus model in 2024. It’s believed that the Galaxy S22 Plus only accounted for 17% of shipments in 2022. Samsung has offered three Galaxy S flagships for a few years now, dating back to 2020’s Galaxy S20 series. We’ve had the standard
Read MoreChris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Analysis: cybersecurity startups raised $15.3B in 2022, down by a third from a record $22.8B raised in 2021 but still 68% higher than the $9.1B raised in 2020 — Venture capital in cybersecurity hit a record high in 2021 — like it did in many industries — but last year
Read MoreAmanda Pedersen / Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry: A US ITC judge rules that some Apple Watches infringe on one of five Masimo pulse oximeter patents related to using light sensors to measure blood oxygen levels — An International Trade Commission judge ruled that Apple infringed on one of five Masimo patents related to using
Read MoreJai Vijayan / Dark Reading: Microsoft releases 98 security fixes, including 11 critical vulnerabilities and one for an actively exploited privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Windows ALPC — Microsoft’s January 2023 Patch Tuesday security update contains fixes for bugs in multiple products. Here’s what you need to patch now.
Read MoreWhen [Zach Hipps] was faced with a locked safe and no combination, it seemed like calling a locksmith was the only non-destructive option. Well, that or doing something crazy like building a safe-opening robot. Since you’re reading this on Hackaday, we bet you can guess which path he took. So far, [Zach] has managed to
Read MoreReuters: Filing: Google warns Android growth in India will stall due to the CCI’s antitrust order that requires making “far-reaching changes” to its mobile platform — The growth of Google’s Android ecosystem is on the brink of stalling in India due to an antitrust order that asks …
Read MoreApple has released the second developer betas for iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, watchOS 9.3, macOS Ventura 13.2, and tvOS 16.3. Here’s what’s new.
Read MoreA collection of 100 Thieves apparel. | Image: 100 Thieves 100 Thieves, a popular gaming, esports, and lifestyle brand, laid off about 30 employees on Tuesday, according to esports journalist Jacob Wolf. The cuts hit roles in sales, marketing, content and human resources as well as senior positions including chief revenue officer, director of people,
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Apple is reportedly working on designing its own in-house microLED displays to use in devices like the iPhone and Apple Watch, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The report says that the screens could start showing up on devices as early as next year, following almost five years of
Read MoreApple is planning to start using its own in-house displays for its mobile devices as soon as 2024.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority In January 2023, the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) introduced the world to Qi2 — a major update to the Qi wireless charging standard. Coincidentally, a full decade has passed since wireless charging first began appearing on smartphones. With the new Qi2 standard, the WPC hopes to solve the technology’s
Read MoreCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom teased the state’s upcoming digital driver’s license but did not confirm it will be compatible with Apple’s Wallet app.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to start making its own displays for mobile devices, starting with microLED screens for high-end Watches by the end of 2024, iPhones later — Apple Inc. is planning to start using its own custom displays in mobile devices as early as 2024, an effort to reduce its reliance
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Alphabet graduates its X Moonshot project Mineral, which uses AI, ML, and edge computing to “help scale sustainable agriculture”, into a full Alphabet company — In October of 2020, the X Moonshot Factory officially named its “computational agriculture” project …
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