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Read MoreJeanny Yu / Bloomberg: Tencent bought back a record $1.3B of shares in December, as China’s gaming rules triggered a selloff; daily buybacks more than doubled since December 22, 2023 — – Tencent share price yet to recover after Dec. 22 plunge — Daily repurchases more than doubled since new proposal
Read MoreKari Paul / The Guardian: Q&A with Jacob Bakkila, who ran the popular @Horse_ebooks Twitter account for two years, on the inspiration for the language bot, AI chatbots, and more — By reusing and repurposing existing writing into viral fragments on Twitter, the account functioned like today’s chatbots.
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Apple has pulled the iOS 17.3 beta 2 because of a boot loop issue. Many users who upgraded to the new software reported that their iPhones got bricked. The bug seems to be related to the Back Tap gesture. Apple rolled out the second iOS 17.3 beta on Wednesday
Read MoreEver feel like the Pi Pico board could be doing way more given its footprint? Does it bother you that the RP2040’s ADC quality is even further decreased because of the noisy onboard switching regulator? Miffed about decisions like the MicroUSB socket, the 2MB flash, or lack of the reset button? [Dmytro] brings us an
Read MoreSarah McBride / Bloomberg: PitchBook: VC investment in the US fell 30% YoY to $170.6B in 2023, the lowest since 2019, and declined 35% YoY to $345.7B globally, the lowest since 2017 — New data paint a bleak picture for Silicon Valley last year. — The value of venture capital deals in the US last
Read MoreCredit: Gary Sims / Android Authority Starbucks is facing allegations from a consumer protection group that it unfairly made a profit of $900 million through its app payment system. The group claims that Starbucks uses a manipulative app design to maximize its profits through unspent consumer money. Starbucks has disputed the allegations, stating that customers
Read MoreTim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on generative AI moving from the cloud into mobile devices, AI changing the UX of smartphones, AI coming into VR, and more — The chief executive of Qualcomm says smarter phones will be transformative both for consumers and for the tech industry
Read MoreCredit: LG LG has launched its new OLED TV lineup ahead of CES 2024. The LG G4 and M4 OLED TVs promise boosted AI performance and picture brightness. US pricing and availability for LG’s 2024 OLED TV lineup will be announced at a later date. I own an LG G2 OLED from 2022, and it’s
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Read MoreSarah Martin / The Guardian: The CEO of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse, introduced to investors in 2021, doesn’t appear to exist; Chainalysis: HyperVerse’s 2022 consumer losses were $1.3B — Exclusive: Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him
Read MoreReliable Robotics has been working on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) since its founding in 2017, with a number of demonstrations for the FAA so far as it works towards getting the technology licensed. Most recently, it flew an unmanned Cessna 208B Grand Caravan with a pilot in a ground-based control center. This comes a few
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The January 2024 security patches are rolling out to Google Pixel smartphones and Pixel Tablet. This month’s update mostly only fixes bugs. The rollout will continue over the next week in phases depending on the device and carrier. It’s a new year and Google is starting 2024 off
Read MoreLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: In a letter to a group of victims of its October 2023 breach, 23andMe blames them, saying that “users negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords” — Facing more than 30 lawsuits from victims of its massive data breach, 23andMe is now deflecting the blame …
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: TikTok aims to grow TikTok Shop US’ merchandise volume tenfold to $17.5B in 2024 and plans to launch TikTok Shop in Latin America in the coming months — – ByeDance’s video app is fast expanding beyond advertising … The 2024 merchandise volume goal for the US version of TikTok Shop …
Read MoreThis week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman talk with benny Vasquez, chair of AlmaLinux, all about the weird road we’ve been on with Enterprise Linux distributions, and how that’s landed us here, where we have AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and multiple other Red Hat downstream distros. What’s the difference between those projects, and why does it
Read MoreImage: LG LG Display, a manufacturer that makes and sells displays to other companies, is showing off a new OLED display that could soon appear in high-end gaming monitors. At 27 inches, this 1440p panel pairs a speedy 0.03ms response time with a 480Hz refresh rate — making it the fastest in OLED displays so
Read MoreCredit: LG LG has unveiled a new 27-inch gaming monitor. The monitor boasts an eye-poppingly high 480Hz refresh rate. LG plans on unveiling 31.5, 34, 39, and 45-inch models at CES 2024. LG is well-known in the industry for its gaming monitors and TVs, which range from your average 27-inch monitors to gigantic ultrawide displays.
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Read MoreIt’s a scam! | Screenshot: Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge The video is almost convincing: it features Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko announcing a “historic day” for Solana. He thanks the “S-O-L” community and offers a giveaway through a QR code and a website. Sure, he sounds a little robotic — his voice is a monotone,
Read MoreNoam Scheiber / New York Times: The US NLRB accuses SpaceX of illegally firing eight employees in 2022 for circulating a letter critical of founder and CEO Elon Musk — The National Labor Relations Board said the rocket company had wrongly dismissed eight people for a letter raising concerns about the chief executive.
Read MoreOracle has introduced JavaScript support in the MySQL database, allowing developers to write JavaScript stored programs, i.e. JavaScript functions and procedures, in the MySQL database server. The capability was announced on December 15, 2023. The JavaScript stored programs will be run with the GraalVM, which provides an ECMAScript-compliant runtime to execute JavaScript programs. Developers can
Read MoreDon’t drop the ball on your health. There are plenty of discounted fitness trackers, including the latest Apple Watch.
Read MoreHaving a game-tailored controller is a level-up in more ways than one, letting you perform in-game actions quickly and intuitively, instead of trying to map your actions to a clunky combination of keyboard and mouse movements. [abzman] took the Pelco KBD300A, a DVR-intended camera controller panel with a joystick, reverse-engineered it, and then rebuilt it
Read MoreMacauley Peterson / Blockworks: Etherscan, the leading block explorer for Ethereum that was founded in 2015, acquires Solscan, a block explorer for Solana founded in 2021 — Solscan and Etherscan “share a vision of providing credibly neutral and equitable access to blockchain data,” the teams say
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