Pei Li / Bloomberg: Sources: Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao Network Technology plans to file for its Hong Kong IPO as soon as next week, aiming to raise at least $1B — – The logistics unit could be among the first to go public — Citic and JPMorgan earlier replaced CICC in arranging the IPO
Read MoreYour Prime Video experience is about to be downgraded unless you cough up an extra $3 each month. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has announced plans to start placing “limited advertisements” in TV shows and movies running on the company’s Prime Video streaming platform, to allow the e-commerce giant to “continue
Read MoreChristopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true.
Read MoreDoes your electronics desk have a lap drawer? And is it filled with random, disorganized detritus? Well, [Handy Bear] is here to show you that you can put so much more in every drawer you’ve got if you do it right. And boy, it sure looks like [Handy Bear] did it right. Hidden inside this
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Facebook now allows you to make up to four additional profiles on the platform. Each profile can have a different name, its own messages, independent privacy settings, and separate notifications. Some features like Dating, Marketplace, Professional mode, and payments will be unavailable for additional profiles at launch. Facebook is
Read MoreCredit: YouTube Google has launched a beta version of the YouTube Create app. This is a simplified, AI-powered video editing app for Android. Google also announced a few more AI-powered features for YouTube. We’ve seen apps like CapCut launching in recent years, offering a streamlined, AI-powered video editing experience. Now, it looks like YouTube is
Read MoreKatharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA says Microsoft’s revised offer to acquire Activision, which includes selling some gaming rights to Ubisoft, appears to address its concerns — – CMA says revised offer opens the door to deal approval — Microsoft Corp.’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. looks set …
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The UK says it’s moving forward with the US data bridge deal, allowing UK citizens’ data to be exported to the US under protections in line with UK GDPR — The UK government has officially confirmed it will piggyback on a transatlantic data transfer deal between the European Union and the
Read MoreNew York Times: A look at Sullivan & Cromwell’s tangled FTX relationship, as SBF argues that the law firm set him up; the firm has made $100M+ in fees from FTX’s bankruptcy — Mr. Bankman-Fried and his allies have blasted Sullivan & Cromwell, the New York law firm managing FTX’s bankruptcy, for its tangled relationship
Read MoreAlmost 500 smartphone brands have exited the market since 2017, according to a new report. Local brands accounted for the overwhelming majority of shuttered companies. We all know about the major Android phone manufacturers leaving the market in recent years, such as BlackBerry and LG. But a tracking firm has now revealed that almost 500
Read MoreMosquitoes suck. Quite literally. [Allen Pan] lives in an area where they’re so thick in the air, regular methods of killing them fail to put a dent in their numbers. Thus, he set about building a solution so dangerous we wouldn’t want to be within a mile when it’s turned on. [Allen] was inspired by
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TECNO has launched the Phantom V Flip foldable phone. This is the manufacturer’s first clamshell foldable phone. Expect an early bird price of Rs 49,999 (~$604) in India. TECNO launched the Phantom V Fold foldable phone at MWC 2023, offering a book-style foldable for under ~$1,100. Now, the company
Read MoreIn line with Oracle co-founder CTO Larry Ellison’s notion that generative AI is one of the most important technological innovations ever, the company at its annual CloudWorld conference released a range of products and updates centered around the next generation of artificial intelligence. The last few months have witnessed rival technology vendors, such as AWS,
Read MoreTECNO Phantom V Flip review: At a glance What is it? The TECNO Phantom V Flip is the first clamshell foldable phone from Chinese brand TECNO. It has a Dimensity 8050 chipset, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a 6.9-inch FHD+ OLED screen, and a 4,000mAh battery. What is the price? The TECNO Phantom V Flip
Read MoreXiaomi has launched the Redmi Note 13 series, bringing features like a curved AMOLED display and a 200MP camera to the lineup. Most headlining features are reserved for the Pro Plus variant, like IP68 water and dust resistance. Xiaomi has not confirmed an international launch, but we presume the phones will be released internationally, too.
Read MoreMicrosoft takes its next step towards a passwordless future. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s incoming Windows 11 update will introduce public support for passkeys — a passwordless login technology that instead uses your face, fingerprint, or device PIN to sign into accounts. Announced at Microsoft’s AI and Surface launch event on
Read MoreIf you Google someone who recently died, you might see a flood of near-identical videos of men reading obits. Here’s why.
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The UK says it’s moving forward with the US data bridge deal, allowing UK citizens’ data to be exported to the US under protections in line with UK GDPR — The UK government has officially confirmed it will piggyback on a transatlantic data transfer deal between the European Union and the
Read MoreImage: 20th Century Studios No One Will Save You wastes no time getting started. After a brief setup, it gets right to the action: a home invasion that’s actually an alien invasion. What follows is an incredibly tense, surprisingly quiet mix of sci-fi and horror, just the thing for a fall evening at home. The
Read MoreParesh Dave / Wired: Google veteran Luiz André Barroso, who overturned many data center design conventions and conceived “the data center as a computer”, died on September 16 at 59 — Brazilian engineer Luiz André Barroso, who ripped up the rulebook at Google, has died.
Read MoreJosh Ye / Reuters: CLSA: China has at least 130 LLMs, accounting for 40% of the global total and behind the US’ 50% share; experts say most are yet to find viable business models — China’s craze over generative artificial intelligence has triggered a flurry of product announcements from startups and tech giants …
Read MoreFinancial Times: GGV, which invested in Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, splits its Asia and US units; in July, the US sought details about its holdings in China — Move follows similar decision by rival Sequoia Capital and Biden order to limit American investment in Chinese tech
Read MoreIain Martin / Forbes: Tether spent ~$420M on 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs in a deal that will see it get a stake in bitcoin miner Northern Data, who plans to rent the chips to AI startups — A $40,000 computer chip has become one of the hottest commodities in the tech industry. Startups are scrambling
Read MoreGoogle has been pushing Apple to adopt Rich Communication Services or RCS, a messaging standard that would end the green bubble nonsense and allow Android users to chat with Apple users using modern messaging features. Last year, Google launched a whole website so that Apple “Gets the message” and adopts RCS, but the iMessage maker
Read MoreBloomberg: Source: Vietnamese internet company VNG postpones its US IPO, planned for September 2023, after mixed performances by Arm, Instacart, and Klaviyo — Vietnam-based internet startup VNG Ltd. has decided to postpone its plans for a US initial public offering, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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