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IBM’s US patent count fell 44% YoY in 2022 to 4,743, behind Samsung’s 8,513, losing its top spot after decades as the company refocuses on its core businesses (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM’s US patent count fell 44% YoY in 2022 to 4,743, behind Samsung’s 8,513, losing its top spot after decades as the company refocuses on its core businesses — International Business Machines Corp. dropped from the top spot for US patents in 2022, the first time in decades Big Blue …

The SEC is working on a rule, which could be finalized this quarter, to make it easier for investors to sue VCs for bad behavior, negligence, and recklessness (Sam Sutton/Politico)

Sam Sutton / Politico: The SEC is working on a rule, which could be finalized this quarter, to make it easier for investors to sue VCs for bad behavior, negligence, and recklessness — Editor’s note: Morning Money is a free version of POLITICO Pro Financial Services morning newsletter, which is delivered …

Sources: the SEC and EDNY are scrutinizing transfers between DCG and the lending arm of its subsidiary Genesis; the probes have not accused DCG of wrongdoing (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: the SEC and EDNY are scrutinizing transfers between DCG and the lending arm of its subsidiary Genesis; the probes have not accused DCG of wrongdoing — US authorities are digging into the internal financial dealings of Barry Silbert’s expansive crypto empire, according to people familiar with the matter.

Chataigne: An Open-Source Swiss Army Knife

[Ben Kuper] is a developer with a history of working on art installations, and had hit upon a common problem often cited by artists. When creating installations involving light, sound, and motion, they often spend too much time on the nuts and bolts of electronics, programming, and so on. Such matters are a huge time

China’s Ant Group says founder Jack Ma no longer controls the fintech giant after a series of shareholding adjustments that saw him give up most voting rights (Reuters)

Reuters: China’s Ant Group says founder Jack Ma no longer controls the fintech giant after a series of shareholding adjustments that saw him give up most voting rights — China’s Ant Group said on Saturday that its founder Jack Ma no longer controls the Chinese fintech giant after a series …

Amazon Prime Video averaged 9.6M viewers for its first season as the exclusive rights holder of the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, down 41% from 2021’s average (Daniel Frankel/Next TV)

Daniel Frankel / Next TV: Amazon Prime Video averaged 9.6M viewers for its first season as the exclusive rights holder of the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, down 41% from 2021’s average — The better news? Amazon Prime Video’s median viewer age was seven years younger than any other NFL TV rights package

The LG Gram Style might be the prettiest laptop of 2023

Where’s the touchpad? For the past few years, I’ve been a big fan of the LG Gram 17. It’s got great battery life, a massive screen, and it feels like it weighs basically nothing. But if there’s one hesitation I sometimes have about the line, it’s the aesthetic. The Grams of the past have just

Creative founder Sim Wong Hoo, the man behind Sound Blaster, has died

Sim Wong Hoo, the Singaporean entrepreneur, who founded and ran Creative Technologies. | Image: Creative Creative Technologies founder, CEO and chairman Sim Wong Hoo has died, his company has confirmed. He “passed away peacefully on 4 January 2023,” according to a press release. He was 67 years old. It might seem hard for younger readers

Roku reports ending 2022 with more than 70M accounts globally, up 16.5% from the end of 2021, and says streaming hours grew 19% YoY to 87.4B in 2022 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

Jennifer Maas / Variety: Roku reports ending 2022 with more than 70M accounts globally, up 16.5% from the end of 2021, and says streaming hours grew 19% YoY to 87.4B in 2022 — The customer total was up 16.5% from the end of 2021, when Roku totaled 60.1 million global accounts. — Per Roku, streaming

Is it a Game? Or a Calculator?

If you are a certain age, you probably remember the Mattel Football game. No LCD screen or fancy cartridges. Just some LEDs and a way to play football when you should be in class. While these might seem primitive to today’s kids, they were marvels of technology in the 1970s when they came out. [Sean

An Ohio man pleads guilty to stealing 712+ bitcoins seized by the IRS in a case against his brother, who was convicted of running money laundering service Helix (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)

Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: An Ohio man pleads guilty to stealing 712+ bitcoins seized by the IRS in a case against his brother, who was convicted of running money laundering service Helix — Gary Harmon, brother of Helix CEO Larry Harmon, stole his brother’s forfeited crypto right out from under the IRS’s nose, and spent

Games Done Quick founder steps down after completing 13-year any% speedrun

Photo: Games Done Quick Mike Uyama, who launched the first GDQ in his mother’s basement in 2009, is stepping away due to health reasons. Continue reading…

Software engineer allegedly stole $300K from an e-commerce site by copying Office Space

A file was discovered on the software engineer’s work computer titled “OfficeSpace Project,” with the accused admitting to naming the scheme after the 1999 comedy. | Illustration by Beatrice Sala A former Zulily employee has been charged with stealing over $300,000 from the e-commerce site after allegedly being inspired by the 1999 film Office Space.

Microsoft is running an ad in The Washington Post to say that it’s cool with unions

It’s running the ad in partnership with the CWA. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been going out of its way to encourage regulators to approve its proposed $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard, and in its latest move, the company is running an ad in The Washington Post spelling out

Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they had not received information about the severance they were promised (Wired)

Wired: Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they had not received information about the severance they were promised — Staff laid off by Elon Musk were assured they would be compensated following mass cuts. As the deadline passes, the silence has been deafening.

Apple has reportedly canceled the next iPhone SE

SE fans may have to go a long time between upgrades. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge We may not be getting a new iPhone SE in 2024, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who bases his predictions on sources in the supply chain. On Friday, Kuo wrote in a blog post that Apple

Microsoft doesn’t own the rights to Minecraft’s ending — no one does, its author claims

Poem’s end. | Image: Minecraft There is no question who wrote the poem at the end of Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time. Julian Gough is the one who gave the game’s unseen gods their voice, beautifully telling the player how the universe loves them — and how the player is the universe,

MSI made a stylus that is also a pencil

I don’t really know, either. | Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Okay, so. This is a pencil. You can draw with it on paper, the way you would with a pencil. Then, you can bring it up to your laptop screen and write on that, as you would with a stylus. This MSI

Seven free alternatives to the LastPass password manager

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Back in February 2021, the LastPass password manager announced it was changing its free version so that it would only work on one type of device and that people who wanted to use it on both their computer and mobile devices would have to start paying for a

The EPA wants to strengthen air pollution rules — does its plan do enough?

People walk along an overpass above the Cross Bronx Expressway, a notorious stretch of highway in New York City that is often choked with traffic and contributes to pollution and poor air quality on November 16th, 2021, in New York City. | Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images For the first time in over

Arduino Synthesizer Uses Modified Slide Pots

There comes a point in every Arduino’s life where, if it’s lucky, it becomes a permanent fixture in a project. We can’t think of too many better forever homes for an Arduino than inside of a 3D-printed synthesizer such as this 17-key number by [ignargomez] et al. While there are myriad ways to synthesizer, this

This Week in Space: Orion, Tomatoes, and the Wolf Moon

Hello readers, and Happy New Year! Welcome to the first edition of This Week in Space of 2023. It’s the twelfth day of Christmas — and the first full moon of the year, the Wolf Moon, rises tonight. And TGIF, am I right? Today, we’ve got updates from the Artemis project, and a fun video

Irish DPC’s €390M Meta fine, issued at the behest of European Data Protection Board, is a harbinger of how EU may crack down on Big Tech in the next two years (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Irish DPC’s €390M Meta fine, issued at the behest of European Data Protection Board, is a harbinger of how EU may crack down on Big Tech in the next two years — Meta Platforms Inc. is used to batting away the occasional fine from European regulators as a cost of doing

OnePlus could be getting close to launching its rumored tablet

Rumor suggests that OnePlus is working on a new tablet. The rumor claims the tablet is currently being tested in India. The tablet is believed to be codenamed “Aries” and could launch sooner than later. A new challenger appears to be entering the Android tablet fray — OnePlus. The manufacturer may not only working on

Skynet Smiles: AMD Unveils Monster Instinct MI300 Hybrid AI Accelerator

At AMD’s CES keynote this week, Chairman and CEO Dr. Lisa Su seemingly saved the best for last. At the very end, she held up an absolute monster of an APU, describing it as the first data center chip that combines a CPU, GPU, and memory on a single package. It’s called the AMD Instinct

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