Financial Times: Sources: the EU plans to investigate Amazon’s proposed $1.7B deal for Roomba-maker iRobot over privacy concerns, sending the company a set of detailed questions — Regulators have privacy concerns over acquisition of iRobot in sign of growing scrutiny of Big Tech dealmaking
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X75 modem. The modem offers numerous upgrades, with a 20% better power efficiency being the most notable. We expect this modem to debut with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. Qualcomm is announcing its latest product in its mobile connectivity portfolio: the Qualcomm
Read MorePraveen Seshadri: An ex-Google engineer and founder of AppSheet, acquired by Google, reflects on his time at Google, issues with its culture, a lack of urgency and mission, more — What ails Google. And how it can turn things around. … I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded …
Read MoreToday’s video cards are super-powered processing behemoths that guzzle electrons and render dozens of 4K frames per second. The video rendering hardware of yesteryear is comparatively simple, but classic hardware is always the best way to play classic games. For those still holding onto a 90s-era 3Dfx Voodoo graphics card (or “3D accelerator,” as they
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Read MoreEufy’s recent scandal shows it’s not so much about the data breach but about how a company responds. Here are a few ways to shop smart.
Read MoreThe student winners of a NASA competition designed a serpentine bot that could sidewind across lunar regolith or roll down hills.
Read MoreSamsung has released new firmware for its latest and greatest SSD, and owners should probably install it ASAP. The Samsung 990 Pro SSD has a reliability problem, and this firmware update appears to result from Samsung’s promised investigation. Your drive won’t be as good as new after the update, but we can only hope the
Read MoreAs much as enterprise IT evolves, we’re left running old hardware and software for many reasons. Perhaps there’s a regulatory requirement to keep data for as long as possible; perhaps there’s a dependency on code that remains reliable and supported even after decades. Whatever the reason, we may need to work with that system and
Read MoreMihir Dalal / Rest of World: A profile of Flipkart and CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy, as losses mount, competition from Amazon and others intensifies, and Modi’s government tightens regulations — Flipkart was Walmart’s biggest acquisition. Will it be able to stay India’s e-commerce leader? — • BENGALURU, INDIA
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Read MoreKana Inagaki / Financial Times: After a series of disastrous bets and a market downturn, SoftBank’s future rests on a successful Arm IPO and turnaround at the mostly dormant Vision Funds — Chip designer now accounts for a bigger percentage of the technology group’s net asset value than Alibaba
Read MoreStephen Wolfram Writings: An in-depth look at how OpenAI’s ChatGPT decodes input queries to produce a “reasonable continuation” of the text, the underlying dataset, neural nets, and more — It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time — That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially …
Read MoreThe fediverse is wired together by protocols like ActivityPub and WebFinger which, as yet, I know very little about. That’s because the Steampipe plugin, which supports the dashboards I’ve been building and describing in this series, doesn’t require me to understand or use those protocols. It does, however, require me to understand and use the
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apptopia: consumer interest in Lensa AI and other top AI-powered photo apps fell quickly after hitting peak downloads and in-app purchases in mid-December 2022 — Is the AI photo app trend already over? Over the past several months, AI-powered photo apps have been going viral on the App Store …
Read MoreThe Richmond Fire Station in North Yorkshire finds Apple Watch helps them save two people from a car crash.
Read MoreA new inside report has revealed Elon Musk flew straight to Twitter HQ from the Super Bowl, demanding engineers fix his engagement after a tweet by Joe Biden got more likes than his.
Read MoreSam Kessler / CoinDesk: Uniswap token holders vote to deploy to Binance’s BNB blockchain using the Wormhole bridge, with 66% in favor, a move a16z voted to oppose with its 15M UNI — Uniswap’s community wants to bring the exchange to BNB Chain before copycats can launch identical competitors.
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Huawei has announced the launch of the Watch Buds in the UK. The smartwatch comes with earbuds that can be stored in the watch itself. Huawei announced the Watch Buds in China late last year, offering a smartwatch display that popped up to reveal storage slots for wireless earbuds.
Read More[Action Retro] came into an antique Sol-20 computer and argues that it was the first totally integrated computer aimed at consumers that didn’t require you to buy or build some kind of terminal. These are fairly rare, so we appreciated the peek inside that you can see in the video below. Sure, the Sol-20 wasn’t
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung Display has confirmed that the S23 series screens use much less power. The company says it’s cut power consumption by 13% to 16%. Together with the more efficient processor, this should make for better battery life. The Samsung Galaxy S23 series is exclusively powered by the Snapdragon 8
Read MoreThe Guardian: An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections — – Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
Read MoreJagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Xiaomi’s earlier mover advantages are eroding in India, where it is facing declining shipments, a tax investigation, and key top-level management departures — The Chinese giant is challenged in the world’s second-largest smartphone market, with key local departures and declining shipments
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: Paris-based Brigad, which connects self-employed hospitality professionals with short-term assignments, raised a €33 Series B led by Balderton Capital — With many a hospitality worker not only suffering but leaving the hospitality sector altogether, Brigad is helping bridge the gap between supply and demand.
Read MoreBloomberg: ASML says it reported a breach to authorities after an ex-employee in China misappropriated proprietary data resulting in possible export controls violations — ASML Holding NV, the Dutch company behind the leading chip-making technology, said that a former employee in China misappropriated data …
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