Josh Ye / Reuters: Sources: ByteDance’s VR unit Pico plans to cut “hundreds” of jobs and undertake its biggest overhaul since its 2021 acquisition, as global headset demand lags — ByteDance’s virtual reality (VR) arm Pico will cut jobs and undertake its biggest overhaul since it was acquired …
Read MoreSamsung has launched the S Pen Creator Edition as an unbundled accessory, costing a cool $100 for this passive stylus. The S Pen Creator Edition debuted with the Galaxy Tab S9 series. The S Pen Creator Edition has a similar shape as the Apple Pencil but lacks smart features. The iPad has become the de-facto
Read MoreYouTube’s conversational AI tool can summarize videos and answer questions. | Image: Google YouTube’s latest AI experiments includes a new chatbot that’s designed to give you more information about a video you’re watching. The conversational AI tool, as Google’s support post calls it, aims to answer your questions about a video and can also recommend
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: X CEO Linda Yaccarino is leaning on her media industry links to bring back jittery advertisers, including meeting executives from the NFL and the NBA — Media veteran drums up video deals with NFL, NBA and others as ‘training wheels’ for nervous brands
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority I remember voraciously downloading and switching between ringtones back in the feature phone days. If it wasn’t a polyphonic version of Avril Lavigne’s Sk8er Boi, then it was 50 Cent’s 21 Questions or unofficial videogame ringtones downloaded from a sketchy WAP site. My partner and I were recently
Read MoreReuters: Sources: Baidu ordered AI chips from Huawei in 2023, in a shift from Nvidia; a source says Baidu ordered 1,600 910B Ascend chips, worth ~$62M, for 200 servers — Baidu (9888.HK) ordered artificial intelligence chips from Huawei (HWT.UL) this year, two people familiar with the matter said …
Read MoreThis premium streaming box is a top-notch smart home hub and should be the heart of any Apple household.
Read MoreIn the face of lackluster mental health support, especially for children of marginalized groups, technology and video games can be used to meet young people where they are.
Read MoreBack in the last century, Intel saw itself faced with a need to have ‘second source’ suppliers of its 8088 and 8086 processors, which saw NEC being roped in to be one of those alternative suppliers to keep Intel’s customers happy with the μPD 8086 and μPD 8088 offerings. Yet rather than using the Intel
Read MoreThe AT&T holiday deals are now live, and the offers are particularly good if you’ve got an old device lying around. There are trade-in values of as much as $1,000 to be had, with the flagship Apple and Android phones eligible for the savings. Upgrading from your previous handset could land you a free iPhone
Read MoreKellen Browning / New York Times: Uber reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $9.3B, a $221M net income, gross bookings up 21% YoY to $35.3B, trips up 25% YoY to 2.4B, and a record 6.5M drivers — Revenue was up 11 percent from a year earlier, helping to generate $221 million in net income.
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung launches a $99 S Pen Creator Edition in the US, offering a larger, Apple Pencil-like design while lacking some smart features from other S Pen models — The S Pen has been a key selling point of many of Samsung’s products over the years, and the company is now debuting
Read MorePhoto by Mitchell Clark / The Verge Phone accessory maker Popsocket will now let people design their phone grips with AI via Stable Diffusion and award up to $100,000 in a holiday giveaway for the best designs. Popsocket’s AI Customizer allows people to make their phone holders or cases exude as much personality as they
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company’s 18A chip design will move into test production by Q1 2024, part of its aims to reclaim chip leadership by 2025 — Chipmaker is chasing Samsung and TSMC as Qualcomm and Apple pose fresh challenge — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says his company’s …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is testing new generative AI tools in YouTube. In a small test, AI will be used to summarize the broad topic of the comments section of certain videos. In another test, an AI chatbot will be able to answer questions about the video being watched without interrupting playback.
Read MoreThe growth and success of cloud computing are undeniable. Also undeniable are concerns about increasing prices that have surfaced with this growth, especially as generative AI and associated development are on everyone’s to-do list. Price hikes are inevitable. Those that can produce, operate, and maintain cloud services also have their own increasing bills for talent,
Read MoreWorking with big data can be a challenge, thanks to the performance overhead associated with moving data between different tools and systems as part of the data processing pipeline. Indeed, because programming languages, file formats and network protocols have different ways of representing the same data in memory, the process of serializing and deserializing data
Read MoreFor all the successes of open source, developers are painfully aware of where the model starts to break down. What happens when the de facto lead developer gets tired of doing all the work, or when different groups start to squabble and the project splinters? Say a bug appears but no one can be bothered
Read MoreFrancesco Guarascio / Reuters: Sources: Intel scrapped a planned Vietnam investment in July 2023 that could have nearly doubled its operations, citing power supply and bureaucracy concerns — Intel (INTC.O) has shelved a planned investment in Vietnam that could have nearly doubled the U.S. chipmaker’s operation there …
Read MoreChavi Mehta / Reuters: NXP Semiconductors reports Q3 revenue down 0.3% YoY to $3.43B, beating $3.4B est., and forecasts strong Q4 profit due to strong automotive and industrial demand — Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors (NXPI.O) forecast fourth-quarter profit above Wall Street targets on Monday …
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Shein aims for an $80B to $90B valuation in its US IPO, far exceeding its $50B to $60B valuation in private trades; Shein was valued at $100B in 2022 — – Timing of Shein’s IPO remains uncertain given volatile market — Valuation dropped to $50 billion in recent private trades
Read MoreWhen a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out.
Read MoreVittoria Elliott / Wired: After Big Tech cut thousands of trust and safety staff, Sero AI and other startups now offer the services for a fee, which experts say may not be as effective — The burgeoning trust and safety industry promises to help tech companies navigate scrutiny and regulation. But these services bring problems
Read MoreThe slightly thicker shape of the Creator Edition S Pen should feel more natural to grip — like a real pencil. | Image: Samsung The S Pen Creator Edition tablet stylus that Samsung unveiled alongside its Galaxy Tab S9 series in July is now available to buy in the US for $99.99. Designed with writing,
Read MoreChloe Cornish / Financial Times: Omdia predicts India to be the fastest growing digital economy between now and 2027, with a 9.6% compound annual growth rate, driven by digital ad growth — US tech companies YouTube and Meta can expect to achieve rapid growth in video revenues, say analysts
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