Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says there is no evidence that SMIC can make the 7nm Kirin 9000s chips found in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro “at scale” — – Raimondo says she was ‘upset’ at phone release during visit — US probing new chip, which raised questions on export limits
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority The HUAWEI Mate 60 Pro has a 5G chipset inside. This shouldn’t be possible with the current sanctions on the company. Now, a government official has said there’s no evidence HUAWEI can scale production of this chip. Some Republicans in the US think the country should end all technology
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A huge amount of unredacted Microsoft emails and documents have leaked online. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max reviews are here, and they are looking positive.
Read MorePhoto by Christopher Dilts / Bloomberg via Getty Images The latest fashion trend in the UK seems to be brands charging customers to return items. While that sucks for consumer pocketbooks, it probably has a positive environmental impact. Free returns come with an environmental cost, namely more pollution and waste. H&M is the latest brand
Read MoreAnnie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon plans to hire 250,000 US staff to help manage the holidays, up from 150,000 in 2022, and bumps the average hourly pay for warehouse and delivery workers — – Amazon said Tuesday it’s hiring 250,000 employees in the U.S. to help manage the holiday rush.
Read MoreThe iPhone 15 Pro Max is hard to come by and one analyst blames its new tetraprism zoom lens.
Read MoreCredit: Fitbit Google is rolling out a new Fitbit app redesign to all users today. The redesign is easier to use and simpler. There are now just three tabs — Today, Coach, and You — each containing numerous subsections. The Fitbit app has remained pretty much the same over the past few years. Although Fitbit
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The UK’s parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days — Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services …
Read MoreApple’s iCloud Plus now offers new 6TB and 12TB storage options.
Read MoreHalloween is possibly the hackiest of holidays. Think about it: when else do you get to add animatronic eyes to everyday objects, or break out the CNC machine to cut into squashes? Labor day? Nope. Proximity-sensing jump-scare devices for Christmas? We think not. But for Halloween, you can let your imagination run wild! Jump Scare
Read MoreAri Levy / CNBC: Instacart’s shares jump 40% in their Nasdaq debut, opening at $42 and valuing the grocery delivery company at ~$14B; Instacart was valued at $39B in March 2021 — – Instacart is the first notable venture-backed tech company to hit the U.S. public market since December 2021.
Read MorePhoto by Tom Warren / The Verge Last night, the biggest Xbox leak in history revealed multiple new Xboxes, including plans for an ambitious hybrid Xbox that could arrive in 2028. It also revealed communications from Microsoft’s top execs — including one conversation from a joyous Phil Spencer to CEO Satya Nadella about the just-announced
Read MoreImage: TikTok TikTok is introducing a new way for creators to label content that was made using artificial intelligence tools. The feature was first spotted by users last month and was announced by TikTok today in a blog post. TikTok’s user guidelines already require creators to disclose when content is made using AI tools. The
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority iFixit has announced they are dropping the iPhone 14’s repairability score. Apple has reportedly made it difficult for independent repair shops to repair the device. The way Apple has approached repairability is causing some repair professionals to leave the business entirely. In 2022, the iPhone 14 received praise for
Read MoreJustine Calma / The Verge: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative plans to build an AI GPU cluster of 1,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs to run “openly available” models of human cells for medical research — Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation is funding the construction of a massive computing system for medical research.
Read MoreThe rise of 3D printing has given us incredible things, from awesome tchotchkes to intricate chocolates to useful things like spare body parts. But none has been so vital to comedy as say, printing hats for sea urchins. That’s right, sea urchins like to cover up with various things and will happily don, say, a
Read MoreAn artistic rendition of Intel’s next chip. | Image: Intel For many months, Intel has spared no opportunity to remind us that its Meteor Lake chips would be the ones to watch — its first CPU with different chiplets for each component; its first on its Intel 4 process node; its first with a dedicated
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung is opening up the One UI 6 beta program to the Galaxy S22. The Galaxy S22 series is the fourth Galaxy device to get the beta. The update brings a few new features and improvements. When Samsung’s One UI 6 beta program — based on Android 14 —
Read MoreSean Hollister / The Verge: Intel announces Meteor Lake, its first chips to use its new chiplet architecture, offering CPUs using its 7nm Intel 4 process node, will “launch” on December 14 — For many months, Intel has spared no opportunity to remind us that its Meteor Lake chips would be the ones to watch
Read MorePhoto illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge It’s been a rocky and chaotic decade — and now digital media is on the brink of yet another existential crisis thanks to generative AI. Continue reading…
Read MoreClive Cookson / Financial Times: Google DeepMind details its new AlphaMissense AI, which predicts if mutations in human genes are likely to be harmful, an example of AI accelerating diagnosis — First example of artificial intelligence helping to accelerate diagnosis of diseases caused by genetic variants
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based HiddenLayer, which focuses on hardening the security of AI models used by companies, raised a $50M Series A led by M12 and Moore Strategic Ventures — HiddenLayer, a security startup focused on protecting AI systems from adversarial attacks, today announced that it raised $50 million …
Read MoreYour gaming rig deserves the best upgrades, and that could soon include Samsung’s largest PC monitor ever. The Samsung 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 Curved Gaming Monitor is now available for pre-order, with some mega deals from various retailers to secure your custom. Samsung itself is offering $500 in credit when you fork out the $2,499.99
Read MoreOnce considered a disease of the affluent, hypertension now affects a third of all adults. The WHO wants nations to get organized to combat it.
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