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Dell updates the XPS 15 and 17 laptops with Intel’s 13th-Gen H-series CPUs and Nvidia’s RTX 40-series GPUs, starting at $2,949 and $3,399, available on March 2 (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Dell updates the XPS 15 and 17 laptops with Intel’s 13th-Gen H-series CPUs and Nvidia’s RTX 40-series GPUs, starting at $2,949 and $3,399, available on March 2  —  Dell sticks to chip upgrades for the latest models.  —  Dell has begun refreshing its popular XPS lineup of desktops and laptops

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Sources: Salesforce is still paying Matthew McConaughey $10M a year to act as a “creative adviser” despite thousands of layoffs and multiple activist investors (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Salesforce is still paying Matthew McConaughey $10M a year to act as a “creative adviser” despite thousands of layoffs and multiple activist investors  —  The $160 billion business-software company has joined the tech industry’s retrenchment, laying off thousands

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CodaMetrix, which uses AI to automate the process of translating patient records into codes for health care providers, raised a $55M Series A led by SignalFire (Katie Adams/MedCity News)

Katie Adams / MedCity News: CodaMetrix, which uses AI to automate the process of translating patient records into codes for health care providers, raised a $55M Series A led by SignalFire  —  CodaMetrix, an AI platform for hospital revenue cycle management, recently closed a $55 million Series A funding round.

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Arc Overhangs in PrusaSlicer are a Simple Script Away

Interested in the new hotness of printing previously-impossible overhangs? You can now integrate Arc Overhangs into PrusaSlicer and give it a shot for yourself. Arc overhangs is a method of laying filament into a pattern of blossoming concentric rings instead of stringing filament bridges over empty space (or over supports). These arcs are remarkably stable,

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Q&A with iHeartMedia’s Conal Byrne on overseeing podcasting at the company, the industry maturing, RSS, radio and podcast ads, subscriptions, and exclusivity (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with iHeartMedia’s Conal Byrne on overseeing podcasting at the company, the industry maturing, RSS, radio and podcast ads, subscriptions, and exclusivity  —  Amid layoffs and a looming recession, folks are concerned about the audio industry. iHeart’s podcast head Conal Byrne is not worried.

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Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning in late 2023 to 2024, as companies run out of cash from “free rounds” fueled by low interest rates (Elad Gil/Elad Blog)

Elad Gil / Elad Blog: Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning in late 2023 to 2024, as companies run out of cash from “free rounds” fueled by low interest rates  —  The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation.

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Twitter changes its violent speech policy to ban users from voicing “wishes of harm” on people, a policy reversal, as well as homes and essential infrastructure (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter changes its violent speech policy to ban users from voicing “wishes of harm” on people, a policy reversal, as well as homes and essential infrastructure  —  Twitter is once again tightening its rules around what users are permitted to say on the platform.

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HP reports Q1 revenue down 19% YoY to $13.8B, vs. $14.1B est., Personal Systems net revenue down 24% YoY to $9.2B, and Printing net revenue down 5% YoY to $4.6B (Reuters)

Reuters: HP reports Q1 revenue down 19% YoY to $13.8B, vs. $14.1B est., Personal Systems net revenue down 24% YoY to $9.2B, and Printing net revenue down 5% YoY to $4.6B  —  HP Inc (HPQ.N) on Tuesday reported the steepest fall in quarterly revenue since 2016 and missed analysts’ estimates …

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Memo and sources: Instacart told employees that its Q4 revenue increased 50%+ YoY, Q4 gross profit rose 80%+ YoY, and 2022 revenue grew 39% YoY to ~$2.5B (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Memo and sources: Instacart told employees that its Q4 revenue increased 50%+ YoY, Q4 gross profit rose 80%+ YoY, and 2022 revenue grew 39% YoY to ~$2.5B  —  The company increased revenue 39% in 2022 despite slowing sales on its grocery delivery app  —  Instacart Inc. generated sharply higher sales …

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