Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 3.2% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.12B est., enterprise revenue up 7.5% to $661M, above estimates, and enterprise customers up 5% to 219,700 — – Company gives revenue forecast in line with projections — Churn of online users slow down to smallest quarterly mark
Read MoreJoe Biden arriving to pardon the National Thanksgiving turkeys on November 20, 2023. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images US President Joe Biden signed up for a Threads account today, as did the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris, and the second gentleman, Douglas Emhoff. Biden’s first post on Meta’s X (formerly Twitter) competitor harkens
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: In a lawsuit, the US SEC accuses Kraken of commingling customer and corporate funds while operating as an unregistered broker, clearing agency, and dealer — The U.S. crypto exchange is the latest targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a series of similar actions being fought in court by other
Read MoreNearly all of OpenAI’s 770 employees have now joined a letter threatening to quit in protest over the board’s decision to fire CEO Sam Altman. They’re demanding he be reinstated.
Read MoreMaria Curi / Axios: The White House launches accounts on Threads for Joe Biden, his campaign, Kamala Harris, FLOTUS, and others; the White House says the move is not related to X — The White House on Monday launched Threads accounts for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Read MoreCredit: Apple A new report claims that Apple plans on launching the Vision Pro in March 2024 in the US. According to the report, Apple may have initially planned to release the headset in January. The device is expected to arrive in other countries by the end of the year. When Apple announced the Vision
Read MorePhoto by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media Last week, Elon Musk appeared to endorse antisemitic conspiracy theories and posted about supporting white pride on his social platform X, formerly Twitter. Musk’s tweets were then highlighted by a Media Matters article that found advertising from major companies had shown up next to pro-Nazi content. Major
Read MoreNewJeans performs at the 2023 League of Legends World Championship in Seoul. | Image: Christina Oh / Riot Games The opening ceremony for the annual League of Legends championship was another impressive blend of music and tech. Continue reading…
Read MoreSmartphones have become so common now that imagining a world without them is hard. But not everyone needs or wants one. Whether you’re looking for a digital detox from a constant barrage of notifications, want to buy a simple and easy-to-use phone for your elderly parents or grandparents, or just want an affordable smartphone alternative
Read MorePre-paid carriers are becoming increasingly popular as more and more consumers are getting savvy to the fact that they don’t have to rely on the Big 3 (T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon), pay exorbitant monthly bills, or be locked into two-year contracts to enjoy excellent mobile service. Tello Mobile is not only a fantastic alternative to
Read MoreEV production often relies on coal power and harmful labor practices. Climate activists in Squid Games costumes disrupted the LA Auto Show this weekend to demand urgent change.
Read MoreOlivia Solon / Bloomberg: OpenAI’s new interim CEO Emmett Shear has made some head-turning posts on X, from slowing down AI development to theories about women having rape fantasies — – Shear had described himself as ‘super opinionated’ on X bio — Previously described working for Microsoft as selling his soul
Read MoreImage: The Verge Music streaming service Spotify struck a seemingly unique and highly generous deal with Google for Android-based payments, according to new testimony in the Epic v. Google trial. On the stand, Google head of global partnerships Don Harrison confirmed Spotify paid a 0 percent commission when users chose to buy subscriptions through Spotify’s
Read MoreToday, there’s open source options for pretty much anything mainstream, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some niches out there that could benefit from the libre treatment. The CinePi project is a perfect example — before today we didn’t even know that an open hardware and software cinema-quality camera was out there. But now
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple recently announced that RCS was coming to iMessage in 2024, opening the door to much-improved texting between Android phones and iPhones. Would you pay for full-fledged iMessage on Android, though? We posed this question to you in a poll a few days ago, and here’s what you told
Read MoreCristiano Lima / Washington Post: The US Senate Judiciary Committee announces it has subpoenaed the CEOs of X, Discord, and Snap to testify at a hearing on children’s online safety on December 6 — Senators subpoena CEOs of Musk’s X, Snap in an attempt to force tech executives to testify as part of a probe
Read MoreBen Purvis / Bloomberg: Marc Benioff says Salesforce will provide matching compensation to any researcher who has quit OpenAI and joins Salesforce’s Einstein Trusted AI research team — – Salesforce CEO makes offer to disaffected employees in X post — Most OpenAI employees have threatened to defect to Microsoft
Read MorePhoto by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sam Altman’s surprise move to Microsoft after his shock firing at OpenAI isn’t a done deal. He and co-founder Greg Brockman are still willing to return to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired him step aside, multiple sources tell The Verge. The promised mass exodus of virtually every
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Amazon launches AI Ready, a program with free AI classes that aims to train at least 2M people by 2025 on basic to advanced AI skills — Company aims to train two million people in AI as fight for skilled workers ramps up with Microsoft, Google — Amazon.com is launching a program
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown Last week was a whirlwind for Nothing. In the span of five days, the company announced, launched, and subsequently removed access to a chat app called Nothing Chats. This app — built in collaboration with a company called Sunbird — promised to bring
Read MoreThe Verge: Sources: Sam Altman’s move to Microsoft is not a done deal; he and Brockman are open to returning to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired him resign — Sam Altman’s surprise move to Microsoft after his shock firing at OpenAI isn’t a done deal. He and co-founder Greg Brockman …
Read MoreBloomberg: Ilya Sutskever and 700+ out of ~770 OpenAI staffers sign a letter saying say they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman — – Majority of OpenAI employees sign letter seeking new board — Board member Ilya Sutskever is among the signatories
Read MoreWe’ll admit we’ve kicked around the idea of a camera that digitally signs a picture so you could prove it hasn’t been altered and things like the time and place the photo was taken for years. Apparently, products are starting to hit the market, and Spectrum reports on a Leica that, though it will set
Read MoreReuters: Cruise co-founder and Chief Product Officer Daniel Kan resigns, a day after CEO Kyle Vogt quit — General Motors’ (GM.N) Cruise co-founder and chief product officer Daniel Kan has resigned, the company told Reuters on Monday, a day after Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt quit.
Read MorePhoto by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sam Altman’s surprise move to Microsoft after his shock firing at OpenAI isn’t a done deal. He and co-founder Greg Brockman are still willing to return to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired him step aside, multiple sources tell The Verge. The promised mass exodus of virtually every
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