Imagine you’re a young engineer whose boss drops by one morning with a sheaf of complicated fluid dynamics equations. “We need you to design a system to solve these equations for the latest fighter jet,” bossman intones, and although you groan as you recall the hell of your fluid dynamics courses, you realize that it
Read MoreMedha Singh / Reuters: CryptoSlam: Ethereum NFT sales jumped from $546.9M in December 2022 to $780.2M in January 2023, well down from ~$5B in January 2022; average prices were ~$372 — It’s alive! The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, defying reports of its demise. — Total NFT sales on the ethereum blockchain
Read More[Sebastian Holzapfel] has designed an audio frontend (eurorack-pmod) for FPGA-based audio applications, which is designed to fit into a standard Eurorack enclosure. The project, released under CERN Open-Hardware License V2, is designed in KiCAD using the AK4619VN four-channel audio codec by Asahi Kasei microdevices. (and guess what folks, there’s plenty of those in stock!) A
Read MoreOlivia Poh / Bloomberg: Aspire, which provides Southeast Asian SMBs with international payments and other financial services, raised a $100M Series C led by Lightspeed and Sequoia — Aspire Pte, a fintech startup serving businesses, raised $100 million in a round that more than doubled its valuation, defying a market downturn for young tech firms.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android 14 will offer several features for third-party app stores. These features will allow for more streamlined app updates via alternative stores. The Play Store and Google’s associated practices have come under fire in recent years, leading Google to announce several changes to accommodate third-party app stores. Now, XDA-Developers
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Apple’s India expansion has been slow due to logistics, tariffs, infrastructure, suppliers and officials lacking a “sense of urgency”, and other issues — Apple is hitting stumbling blocks in its effort to increase production in India, as the US tech giant faces pressure to cut its manufacturing reliance on China.
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Bing has gained a negative reputation over the years, as many people (deservedly or not) view it as a poor alternative to Google. However, Android Authority colleague Calvin Wankhede recently revealed that he was using Bing as he was getting paid to do so via Microsoft Rewards. That got
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Thousands of T-Mobile customers in the United States reported significant network problems on Monday night, with many unable to place calls or carry out other basic functions. Issues were reported across the country, with users from California to New York saying that service was up and down or
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google Photos appears to be broken for many users following Apple’s latest iOS 16.3.1 update. Several Verge staff members, as well as people on Twitter, report that the app crashes on launch, making it impossible to access or manage your Google photo library. While the problem isn’t universal — a few people,
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android 14 will offer several features for third-party app stores. These features will allow for more streamlined app updates via alternative stores. The Play Store and Google’s associated practices have come under fire in recent years, leading Google to announce several changes to accommodate third-party app stores. Now, XDA-Developers
Read MoreEdward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Amazon’s Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time — Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
Read MoreErnesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: E-book pirate site Z-Library relaunches with unique domain names for each user, after the US DOJ seized 200+ domain names connected to the site in November 2022 — The U.S. Government’s crackdown against Z-Library late last year aimed to wipe out the pirate library for good.
Read MoreDavid Klepper / Associated Press: Google’s Jigsaw plans to test video ads in Germany to “prebunk” misinformation, after promising results with a pilot project in Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia — After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people …
Read MoreRaffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent each run more Southeast Asia availability zones than AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and are investing hundreds of millions of dollars — China’s Alibaba, Huawei and Tencent are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in developing markets including Thailand, Indonesia
Read MoreEdward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Amazon’s Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time — Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: India-based insurance marketplace InsuranceDekho raised a $150M Series A led by Goldman and TVS, including ~$40M debt, a source says at a $475M-$500M valuation — The Indian insurance platform InsuranceDekho has raised $150 million in a Series A funding round as the more than a decade old firm eyes merger …
Read MoreThe Securities and Exchange Commission launched enforcement actions against some of the industry’s major players, raising questions over crypto’s future.
Read MoreAaron Mok / Insider: Report: TikTok is planning to let creators charge for content and is working on the Creator Fund 2.0, which could pay creators with more than 100K followers — – TikTok creators could soon start charging fans to watch their videos, per The Information. — The company hopes a paywall …
Read MoreOutlook is a valuable service to keep all your email addresses in one place. Still, the Microsoft subscription can get expensive, and maybe you are just using one email address nowadays. Whatever the reason you no longer want to use Outlook, you’ll need to delete your account. Don’t worry; it isn’t hard. It’s almost as
Read MoreAshley Capoot / CNBC: Palantir reports Q4 revenue rose 18% YoY to $509M vs. $502M estimated, and its first ever quarter of positive net income on a GAAP basis at $31M; stock up 16%+ — – Shares of Palantir popped in extended trading Monday after the company released fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates on
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Some Twitter users say their For You feed is full of Elon Musk tweets and replies; Musk said over the weekend that Twitter fixed a “visibility” issue — For many of us, Twitter’s “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk.
Read MoreIan Hamilton / UploadVR: Bigscreen unveils Bigscreen Beyond, a $999 PC-powered wired VR headset with two OLED 2560×2560 displays, a 127g visor, and SteamVR tracking, shipping in Q3 2023 — Darshan Shankar, the founder of VR’s leading Internet-powered platform for watching movies together …
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: Neeva debuts AI search tool NeevaAI, which provides real-time info with citations and works “pretty impressively”, in Europe and Canada, following a US launch — Challenger search engine Neeva wants to replace the familiar “10 blue links” in search results with something more fitting for the modern AI age.
Read MoreOlga Kharif / Bloomberg: Noah Perlman, the former chief operating officer at Gemini Trust, joined Binance in January 2023 as its chief compliance officer — Gemini Trust’s former Chief Operating Officer Noah Perlman has started as the chief compliance officer for Binance just as the world’s biggest crypto exchange faces heightened regulatory challenges.
Read MoreThe Lexus RZ 450e SUV is the last electric vehicle announced by parent company Toyota. | Image: Lexus Toyota’s incoming CEO said the automaker would release “next-generation” electric cars under the Lexus brand by 2026. This is just one part of a new strategy in development to overcome problems linked to a slow and expensive
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