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Google, Microsoft, and Amazon pursuing investments and deals with generative AI startups, incentivizing use of their cloud services, raises regulatory concerns (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon pursuing investments and deals with generative AI startups, incentivizing use of their cloud services, raises regulatory concerns  —  Deals between Google, Microsoft and Amazon and ‘generative AI’ start-ups raise competition concerns

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Ikea Clock Gets Wanderlust

We always enjoy unique clocks, and a recent 3D print from [David Kingsman] caught our eye. It converts an Ikea clock into a very unusual-looking “wandering hour” clock that uses a Geneva drive to show a very dynamic view of the current time. The concept is based on an earlier wandering clock, but [David] utilized

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Rivian is working on an e-bike 

Would you buy a Rivian e-bike? | Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Electric automaker Rivian is developing an electric bike, according to sources speaking to Bloomberg. CEO RJ Scaringe apparently told staff about the e-bike effort during a company meeting on Friday, noting that a small team is currently working on it. Bloomberg

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Q&A with Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud on their book Pegasus, how state actors misuse surveillance tech, spyware demand, what’s next for NSO, and more (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Q&A with Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud on their book Pegasus, how state actors misuse surveillance tech, spyware demand, what’s next for NSO, and more  —  This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.  —  Parmy Olson: You’re the co-authors of a new book, “Pegasus …

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Binance launches a free tool to help users calculate their tax obligations, supporting up to 100,000 transactions, available initially in Canada and France (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Binance launches a free tool to help users calculate their tax obligations, supporting up to 100,000 transactions, available initially in Canada and France  —  The tool, initially available to users in Canada and France, supports reporting of up to 100,000 transactions.

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A profile of blockchain gaming pioneer Yat Siu, who founded Animoca Brands, valued at $5.9B in September 2022, as he copes with the crypto winter and regulators (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A profile of blockchain gaming pioneer Yat Siu, who founded Animoca Brands, valued at $5.9B in September 2022, as he copes with the crypto winter and regulators  —  Yat Siu is no stranger to controversy.  Over the years, the serial technology entrepreneur has been kicked off the App Store …

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Since buying Twitter, Elon Musk says his workload has reached 120+ hours per week, leading to little sleep and growing back pain, as he runs multiple companies (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Since buying Twitter, Elon Musk says his workload has reached 120+ hours per week, leading to little sleep and growing back pain, as he runs multiple companies  —  At Tesla trial and in tweets, executive gives a glimpse into personal challenges  —  Elon Musk’s Tesla Tweets Trial: What to

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Why observability in dataops?

It’s 8 a.m., and a business leader is looking at a financial performance dashboard, questioning if the results are accurate. A few hours later, a customer logs in to your company’s portal and wonders why their orders aren’t showing the latest pricing information. In the afternoon, the head of digital marketing is frustrated because data

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Where the tech jobs are

Recently, tech has felt like career Chernobyl, with well over 200,000 people laid off over the past year. Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, etc. Every big tech company, and many smaller ones, seems determined to shed 5% to 10% of their employees because “growth rates [are] slow[ing] as enterprises of all sizes evaluate … ways to

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Oracle per-employee Java licensing could benefit rivals

Oracle’s controversial new Java pricing plan, based on the customer’s total number of employees, rather than the number of employees using the software, presents opportunities for Java rivals Eclipse Foundation and Azul, the companies said. Eclipse immediately seized on the opportunity to pitch its alternative. “Stumbled across Oracle’s latest Java price list,” tweeted Eclipse Executive

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India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology starts “the process to ban” 138 betting and 94 loan lending apps that “reportedly have Chinese links” (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology starts “the process to ban” 138 betting and 94 loan lending apps that “reportedly have Chinese links”  —  India is moving to block 232 apps, some with links to China, that offer betting and loan services …

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Experts say AI could help improve relatively simple and targeted tech in mental health care, including telemedicine, telephone hotlines, and clinician training (Shira Ovide/Washington Post)

Shira Ovide / Washington Post: Experts say AI could help improve relatively simple and targeted tech in mental health care, including telemedicine, telephone hotlines, and clinician training  —  Artificial intelligence can play a role in mental health — … For at least 60 years, technologists have hunted …

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Poll: Are you happy with your phone’s speakers?

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Smartphones aren’t built equally, as handsets can vary greatly when it comes to things like the display, horsepower, cameras, and battery capacity. Audio is another area of differentiation, and we’re particularly interested in smartphone speakers for today’s poll. We want to know whether you’re happy with the speakers on

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Experts say AI could help improve relatively simple and targeted tech in mental health care, including telemedicine, telephone hotlines, and clinician training (Shira Ovide/Washington Post)

Shira Ovide / Washington Post: Experts say AI could help improve relatively simple and targeted tech in mental health care, including telemedicine, telephone hotlines, and clinician training  —  Artificial intelligence can play a role in mental health — … For at least 60 years, technologists have hunted …

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A look at the Guillemot family’s attempts to retain control of Ubisoft, which has hit setbacks that led to a stock plunge and made the company a takeover target (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: A look at the Guillemot family’s attempts to retain control of Ubisoft, which has hit setbacks that led to a stock plunge and made the company a takeover target  —  Every second Monday of the month for over three decades, the five Guillemot brothers — whose company gave the world …

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After Twitter said free API access would end on February 9, Elon Musk promises “a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free” (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: After Twitter said free API access would end on February 9, Elon Musk promises “a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free”  —  Last week, Twitter said it is shutting down free access to its APIs starting February 9.  Now, days before the deadline …

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