Credit: WinFuture Official press renders of the ASUS ROG Phone 7 and ROG Phone 7 Ultimate have leaked. The launch is scheduled for April 13. The leak reveals some of the specs for the Ultimate and base models. Last month ASUS said that it would reveal and launch the ROG Phone 7 family on April
Read MoreLinkedIn now has a verification system. | Image: LinkedIn Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is rolling out a free verification system that will allow users to prove their identity and where they work. The verification options include the ability to use CLEAR to prove your identity, verification of your workplace through an email address, and Microsoft’s Entra verified
Read MoreMario music composer Koji Kondo (right) joins Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto (center) and Nintendo camera programmer Takumi Kawagoe at a Super Mario Bros. Movie screening in April. | Image: Kayla Oaddams/WireImage We’re living in a Nintendo renaissance right now, which includes the release of one of the most successful animated movie launches ever, brand-new theme
Read MoreCredit: Palash Volvoikar / Android Authority A new Windows 11 update is available in the Beta channel. If you install this update or a newer one, it will change the function of your Print Screen key. The new default function will now open the new Snipping Tool. A new update has arrived for Windows 11
Read MoreReports claim that Apple’s ditched the iPhone 15 Pro’s planned solid-state buttons and that sucks.
Read MoreYueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Filings: FTX lawyers are exploring tax issues around rebooting FTX, billing $13.5M in February for recovering assets, exploring “long-term options”, and more — Whether FTX’s new chief executive officer actually pushes forward with an effort to restart the bankrupt crypto exchange, its lawyers are billing it for the job.
Read MoreDanielle Abril / Washington Post: PitchBook: Silicon Valley startups raised $74.9B in 2022, the lowest US share since 2012, followed by NYC’s $29.5B; Miami grew 278% from 2020-2022 to $5.39B — Layoffs, remote work and pandemic-era changes are reshaping where workers live and tech gets made.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Thoma Bravo missed out on acquiring Qualtrics, which sold to Silver Lake and CPP for $12.5B in March, due to fears over a US antitrust investigation — Qualtrics eventually sold for $12.5bn to Silver Lake and CPP in largest leveraged buyout of year
Read MoreImage: The Verge What’s the best streaming service? It feels like a big and important question to answer. It’s also a completely impossible, completely subjective question that depends on everything from your budget to your favorite Mission: Impossible movie. The streaming market is a teeming mass of stuff, with various platforms rising and falling, and
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Intel Foundry Services partners with Arm to build low-power SoCs, giving customers using Arm’s designs access to Intel’s A18 process to make their chips — Intel Corp. said today its Intel Foundry Services business unit is partnering with the British chip design firm Arm Ltd …
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia RTX 4070 review: the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet at $599 with solid 1440p performance, but only 12GB of VRAM and struggles with 4K gaming — The RTX 4070 is the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet, with solid 1440p performance. … I could end this Nvidia RTX
Read MoreWhat if instead of defining a mesh as a series of vertices and edges in a 3D space, you could describe it as a single function? The easiest function would return the signed distance to the closest point (negative meaning you were inside the object). That’s precisely what a signed distance function (SDF) is. A
Read MoreTo beat back fake accounts, the professional social network is rolling out new tools to prove you work where you say you do and are who you say you are.
Read MoreSharon Goldman / VentureBeat: Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its LLM released two weeks ago, and a dataset trained on 15K records generated by its employees — Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity …
Read MoreOpera is rolling out its free VPN service to everyone who uses its web browser on iPhone and iPad.
Read MoreAirPods owners without access to an Apple device can now update the firmware at the Apple Store.
Read MoreApple’s new store in Mumbai looks like it’s going to have no competitors around it, as Apple writes an exclusivity clause into the store’s rental agreement.
Read MoreSafari 16.4 treats cookies differently in an attempt to improve privacy, but it could also mean logging back into websites more often.
Read MoreJim Cramer’s approach has always been practical and positive about financial freedom after retirement. He runs the CNBC investing club, which helps people make worthy investment decisions to amplify their money. In addition, Cramer is the co-founder and chairperson of TheStreet. Born to creative parents, Cramer has always been appreciated for his unique ability to provide logical
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Xiaomi is reportedly offering the Opera Browser as a new pre-installed app in some markets. That means some Xiaomi phones will have three pre-installed web browsers. Xiaomi is no stranger to offering pre-installed apps on its phones, such as first-party or third-party apps. However, it looks like the company
Read MoreHannah Miller / Bloomberg: PitchBook: global VC funding for crypto startups fell to $2.4B in Q1 2023, down 80% from an all-time high of $12.3B in Q1 2022 and the lowest level since 2020 — Venture capitalists are continuing to pull back from crypto, an industry that’s been plagued by scandals, a market downturn and
Read MoreMegan Graham / Wall Street Journal: IAC and PwC: 2022 US digital ad revenue rose 10.8% YoY to $209.7B, down from 35% growth in 2021; social media ad revenue rose 3.6% YoY, down from ~39% in 2021 — Headwinds from the economy and privacy protections were offset by growth in areas such as retail ad
Read MoreKonrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal: Labor consultants say US companies, responding to labor shortages and rising wages, are outsourcing jobs overseas, expanding on pandemic remote work policies — Companies respond to labor shortages and rising wages by moving some positions abroad, labor consultants say
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg’s efficiency drive, layoffs, Meta’s absentee leadership, and focus on the metaverse have devastated employee morale — Workers at Facebook’s parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company’s direction.
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