CNBC: First Republic Bank’s stock drops 60%+, after declining 33% last week, despite the Fed’s new lending facility and saying Sunday it had $70B+ in unused liquidity — – First Republic said Sunday it had received additional liquidity from the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase.
Read MoreFloating photovoltaic systems, or “floatovoltaics,” provide electricity and reduce evaporation. Plus, you don’t need to clear land for a solar farm.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority From the palm-sized Galaxy S23 to the king-of-the-hill Galaxy S23 Ultra, 2023 is the year of refinement for Samsung. Be it subtle improvements to the hardware design, a cohesive design language, or just an overall smoothening of software touchpoints, the three phones are taking a three-pronged stab at immediate
Read MoreThe Verge: A Reddit user shows how Samsung’s “Space Zoom” feature produces fake, generated images of the moon, highlighting how photography and “real photos” are changing — For years, Samsung “Space Zoom”-capable phones have been known for their ability to take incredibly detailed photos of the Moon.
Read MoreIllustration: Daniel Jurman for The Verge AI chat systems put a new, sometimes solipsistic twist on the fannish roleplaying tradition. Continue reading…
Read MoreIn a new patent, Apple looks to change the way that we interact with our AirPods, from looking up and down to changing volume and beyond.
Read MoreMichael Moritz / Financial Times: A eulogy for Silicon Valley Bank, a business partner to tech for 40 years, which offered services when established banks would not and was undone by its loyalty — Regardless of the reasons behind the bank’s collapse, it leaves a huge hole for the start-up scene — The writer is
Read MoreVishal Chawla / The Block: Lending protocol Euler Finance lost $197M in a flash-loan attack, including $136M in stETH and $34M in USDC; Euler raised $32M in June 2022; EUL drops 45%+ — – Euler Finance was hit by a flash-loan attack that resulted in a loss of $197 million, according to security analysts.
Read MoreApple VR launch was pushed by Tim Cook despite designers warning that the product category wasn’t ready for launch, according to a new report.
Read MoreEzra Klein / New York Times: As AI explodes, humanity must accelerate its adaptation or reach a collective, enforceable decision to slow the development of these technologies — In 2018, Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google — and not one of the tech executives known for overstatement — said …
Read MoreMacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Sources: long before its collapse, SVB remained technologically stagnant, including failing to integrate Stripe’s tech and biometric authentication on mobile — – SVB’s problems extended beyond its risk profile and a challenging economy. — An ex-manager and several clients …
Read MoreApple TV Plus short film, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse won Best Animated Short film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Read MoreSinead O’Sullivan / Financial Times: Having perfected the art of using hype to move markets, VCs managed to hype their own rumors to collapse SVB, accidentally slaying a much loved accomplice — Sinéad O’Sullivan is a senior researcher at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness.
Read MoreFortesa Latifi / Teen Vogue: A YouTuber who went viral as a toddler says she resents her family for monetizing her childhood, as some influencer parents take their children off social media — “Nothing they do now is going to take back the years of work I had to put in.” — Search Claire’s name
Read MoreAntoine Gara / Financial Times: US private equity firm Silver Lake and Canada’s largest pension fund plan to acquire Qualtrics for $12.5B, or $18.15 per share, as SAP divests its 71% stake — Buyout with Canada’s largest pension fund is expected to be one of biggest this year — US private equity group Silver Lake
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority Some Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus owners are reporting a camera blur problem. Affected users report a ring- or banana-shaped area of blur in photos. This issue could be due to a lens problem on some handsets. The Samsung Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus bring a few software-driven camera
Read MoreIain Withers / Reuters: HSBC plans to acquire Silicon Valley Bank UK for £1, citing “strategic sense for our business”; as of March 10, SVB UK had ~£5.5B loans and ~£6.7B deposits — HSBC (HSBA.L) said on Monday it is acquiring the UK subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank for 1 pound.
Read MoreA Redditor has called out Samsung for misleading advertising and “fake” moon photos clicked using its 100x Space Zoom feature. The user alleges that Samsung’s phones add additional textures and details to moon images clicked using flagship Galaxy phones. Over the weekend, a Reddit thread made waves for pushing Samsung into a tough spot. It
Read MoreTate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review: Q&A with Meredith Broussard, a leading researcher of algorithmic bias, on her book More than a Glitch, which looks at the harms of applying AI to social issues — Meredith Broussard argues that the application of AI to deep-rooted social problems is already producing disastrous results.
Read MoreCredit: Smartprix Hands-on images and specs of the Pixel 7a have leaked. The most significant upgrades are headed to the camera system and the processing hardware. The Pixel 7a may be headed for a launch at Google I/O 2023, the dates for which have been announced. As is the case with most of the hardware
Read MoreFor a device advertised as the “Multi-tool Device for Hackers”, the Flipper Zero already offers a considerable list of onboard capabilities. But some hard decisions had to be made to get the retail price down, so features like WiFi and Bluetooth had to be left off. Luckily, there’s an expansion interface along the top of
Read MoreMacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Signature’s closure means real-time payment platform Signet is no longer serving crypto clients, following Silvergate’s SEN; BTC is up ~7% and USDC regains peg — – Silvergate and Signature were the two main banks for crypto companies, while Silicon Valley Bank had a lot of crypto startups and VCs as customers.
Read MoreBella Ramsey as Ellie in The Last of Us. | HBO The Last of Us’ Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin say that the show’s most emotional cameo started as an idea for an animated short and an entirely new video game. Continue reading…
Read MoreRunning applications on a different architecture than the one for which they were compiled is a common occurrence, not in the least with Apple’s architectural migration every decade or so. It’s also commonly used with for example ARM, OpenRISC, and RISC-V systems to run applications that are only available for x86 or x86_64. While QEMU
Read MoreStephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All At Once. | Image: A24 A big year in film means a big night celebrating it. Continue reading…
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