Nvidia and AMD addressed the great GPU shortage today, revealing it may take many months before you’ll easily find a card like the RTX 3080 on shelves. They didn’t say how much a renewed Trump import tax on graphics cards might impact their prices — but now, Nvidia partners EVGA and Zotac may have done
Read MoreAfter big tech firms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, and YouTube, banned Donald Trump, the outgoing president and his supporters flocked Parler, a social network favored by the alt-right. However, that network ran into all sorts of trouble because of content that can potentially incite violence. Amazon Web Services booted it off its cloud infrastructure, and
Read MoreDeepti Sri / Tech in Asia: Report: Grab led SE Asia’s food delivery market in 2020, which grew 183% YoY to $11.9B, with $5.9B of gross merchandise value; Foodpanda had $2.5B+, Gojek $2B — Ride-hailing giant Grab contributed nearly half of Southeast Asia’s food delivery gross merchandize value in 2020, hitting US$5.9 billion. Report: Grab
Read MoreWe don’t know why, but for some reason, the more dangerous something is, the more hacker appeal it seems to have. We like to deal with high temperatures, high voltages, dangerous chemicals, and powerful lasers. So [Tech Ingredient’s] recent video about homemade rocket motors certainly caught our attention. You may need a little commitment, though.
Read MoreThese are exciting times for the artificial intelligence community. Interest in the field is growing at an accelerating pace, registration at academic and professional machine learning courses is soaring, attendance in AI conferences is at an all-time high, and AI algorithms have become a vital component of many applications we use every day. But as with any
Read MoreCatherine Shu / TechCrunch: Ajaib, an Indonesia-based stock trading and investment app that claims to have 1M monthly active users, raises $25M Series A led by Horizons Ventures — Ajaib Group, an online investment platform that says it now runs the fifth-largest stock brokerage in Indonesia by number of trades … Ajaib, an Indonesia-based stock
Read MorePresident Yoweri Museveni accused the company of “arrogance” after it removed fake accounts and pages linked to his re-election campaign. Uganda Blocks Facebook Ahead of Contentious Election Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreUsers have been flocking to new messaging platforms ever since Facebook-led WhstaApp announced its new privacy policy. WhatsApp-rival Telegram gains 25 million new users in the past 72 hours Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreRobot fans, assemble. Weird, cute and vaguely menacing: Here come the robots of CES 2021 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s a new year, but the same dreaded pandemic. We’ve been wearing masks for a long time now, so companies are trying to get creative and offer something unique by way of protective gear. I’ve seen some masks that play on style and some on function — like this one with a Bluetooth headset. Last night, Razer
Read MoreAddressable LED strips, most commonly using the WS2812B, have revolutionized the pursuit of the glowiest and flashiest of builds. No longer does a maker have to compromise on full RGB color or number of LEDs due to the limitations of their chosen microcontroller, or fuss around with multiplexing schemes. However, the long strips of bright
Read MoreObservations from New Horizons at the edge of the solar system indicate there may be fewer galaxies than we thought. NASA spacecraft discovers the universe is less crowded than we thought – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYouTube has suspended President Trump’s account from uploading videos for at least a week. Trump has been suspended from YouTube Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreYouTube is the latest tech company to bar the president from posting online, following Twitter, Facebook and others. YouTube Suspends Trump’s Channel for at Least Seven Days Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreSee what ’70s Wonder Woman actor Lynda Carter looks like as Gadot in 2017’s Wonder Woman movie in these impressive deepfake videos. Wonder Woman deepfake replaces Gal Gadot with Lynda Carter – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe congresswoman on Tuesday recounted some of her experiences at the Capitol riots to her 8.3 million Instagram followers. AOC on Capitol Siege: 'I thought I was going to die' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreVideo-sharing platform cites “ongoing potential for violence” for the action. YouTube suspends Trump's ability to upload new videos – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhat’s the right gift for a 3,000-Martian-day anniversary? Rocks? NASA Curiosity rover celebrates 3,000 days on Mars with extreme panorama – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJoshua Roberts/Getty Images YouTube has removed a new video uploaded to President Trump’s account for violating the company’s content policies on inciting violence. The account has also been issued a “strike” and is unable to upload new content for at least a week. It’s presently unclear exactly which video prompted the action on Trump’s account,
Read MoreAxios: YouTube says it has taken down newly posted video content from Trump for violating its policies against inciting violence, bans new uploads for a week — YouTube said Tuesday that it has taken down newly posted video content from President Trump for violating its policies against inciting violence. YouTube says it has taken down
Read MoreArjun Kharpal / CNBC: Source: Chinese video platform Bilibili files for a secondary Hong Kong listing, which could raise over $2B — – Chinese video platform Bilibili has confidentially filed for a secondary listing in Hong Kong, a source close to the matter told CNBC. — CNBC reported last week that the listing could raise
Read MoreTesla Coils are a favourite here at Hackaday – just try searching through the archives, and see the number of results you get for all types of cool projects. [mircemk] adds to this list with his Extremely simple Tesla Coil with only 3 Components. But Be Warned — most Tesla coil designs can be dangerous
Read MoreFrom Wellerman to Drunken Sailor, sea shanties are the new fascination of landlubber TikTokers. “It went wild. I don’t really know what happened,” says the guy at the center of it all. Sea shanties are taking over TikTok. Here's why – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBaffling scientists, GTA V looks poised to live forever. GTA V's dumbest meme re-created IRL with the game's actual actors – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWill Oremus / OneZero: Facebook has long embraced a “view from nowhere”, favoring political neutrality, but comments from Instagram’s head suggest that agnostic stance is changing — Trump’s extremism is forcing tech companies to abandon the pretense of political objectivity — for now Facebook has long embraced a "view from nowhere", favoring political neutrality, but
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