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NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, co-founded by a Neuralink co-founder to create a less invasive brain implant to track diseases, raised a $41M Series B (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, co-founded by a Neuralink co-founder to create a less invasive brain implant to track diseases, raised a $41M Series B — A new brain science company co-created by a founding team member of Elon Musk’s Neuralink is raising millions of dollars to implant small electronic devices inside human

Elon Musk’s Twitter has reinstated several Hindu nationalist accounts that were popular in India; upon returning, some have tweeted material denigrating Muslims (Newley Purnell/Wall Street Journal)

Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk’s Twitter has reinstated several Hindu nationalist accounts that were popular in India; upon returning, some have tweeted material denigrating Muslims — Human-rights groups say they have seen a rise in anti-Muslim material on the platform — Elon Musk’s Unconventional Management Style: Former Employees Share Stories

Ad Industry Coalition Accuses Apple of Hypocrisy Over Its App-Tracking Policies

Apple just released the iPhone 13 this month, along with the new iPad Mini and Apple Watch 7. (Photo: Apple) (Credit: Apple)It seems like the knives are officially out for Apple and its app-tracking policies. The company famously began letting iPhone users select whether they wanted 3rd party apps to track them in April of

Seattle-based DevZero, which offers tools to help developers build and test code in the cloud, raised a $5M seed and $21M Series A and launches its platform (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Seattle-based DevZero, which offers tools to help developers build and test code in the cloud, raised a $5M seed and $21M Series A and launches its platform — Developers tend to build and test software on their local laptops, but these machines often lack the necessary resources to run …

AirPods Pro 2 have stiff competition as Bowers & Wilkins launch new Pi7 S2 and Pi5 S2 earbuds

The latest Apple AirPod competitors are here. The Pi7 S2 and Pi5 S2 are available beginning today with new features and fresh new colors.

Airlines and Cattle Farmers Have Beef With Google’s Climate Math

The company offers estimates of the emissions impacts of flights and recipes. Businesses with sales at stake are pushing back.

Celebrities, TikTok, and a Cat Bot Are Crashing Chess.com

Millions of eager players have overrun the legacy website.

The Problematic Arrival of Anti-Obesity Drugs

Fat activists say they’re tools of coercion. Celebrities are taking them to get slim. Is this really the road people want to go down?

How to Build Business Credit with Bad Personal Credit

Having bad personal credit, admittedly, doesn’t make it easy to build business credit. But it can certainly be done with the right approach. Here are some specific strategies on how to build business credit with bad personal credit to make yourself a more attractive borrower. Establish Your EIN A good starting point is to establish

Secure LoRa Mesh Communication Network

The Internet has allowed us to communicate more easily than ever before, and thanks to modern cell-phone networks, we don’t even have to be tied down to a hard line anymore. But what if you want something a little more direct? Maybe you’re in an area with no cell-phone coverage, or you don’t want to

Astronomers Release Largest-Ever Map of Our Galaxy, Featuring 3.32 Billion Stars

We know that the sun is just one of more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, but we don’t know much about most of the stars outside our corner of the cosmos. That’s starting to change, thanks to projects like the DECaPS2 survey. Astronomers working on that initiative have just released a

Major supplier to chip makers expects a recovery sooner rather than later

ASML CEO Peter Wennink. | Image: Getty A key supplier of chip manufacturing tools believes that demand for semiconductors could pick back up in the second half of this year, CNBC and the Financial Times report. “Most of our customers tell us that they expect a recovery in the second half of this year,” ASML

Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue down 3.4% YoY to $4.67B, breaking a run of double-digit growth since 2020, and issues tepid Q1 guidance below estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue down 3.4% YoY to $4.67B, breaking a run of double-digit growth since 2020, and issues tepid Q1 guidance below estimates — Texas Instruments Inc., one of the world’s largest chipmakers, suffered its first sales decline since 2020 and gave a tepid forecast …

Windows 11’s File Explorer is getting a modern UI overhaul

Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is reportedly working on a big update to the File Explorer in Windows 11 that will improve its UI and features. Windows Central reports that the overhaul will include modern designs to match the rest of Windows 11, and features to more deeply integrate Microsoft 365 and OneDrive. Internal

Wharton School Professor Christian Terwiesch found OpenAI’s ChatGPT was able to pass a final exam for the school’s MBA program, scoring between B- and B (Kalhan Rosenblatt/NBC News)

Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: Wharton School Professor Christian Terwiesch found OpenAI’s ChatGPT was able to pass a final exam for the school’s MBA program, scoring between B- and B — ChatGPT uses AI to pass final exam at UPenn’s Wharton — New research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found

Scientists Propose Turning Abandoned Mines Into Super-Efficient Gravity Batteries

(Image: Fmartin/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)As the world comes to terms with the realities of climate change, the pressure to adopt more renewable energy is unavoidable. However, the sun isn’t always shining, and the wind isn’t always blowing. Worst of all, our ability to store that energy for the cold, still nights is still woefully inadequate.

The Rebellion Amazon Can No Longer Ignore

Warehouse workers in the UK are walking out for the first time, and they want the world to follow.

After unofficial walkouts in 2022, hundreds of Amazon workers in a UK warehouse are striking, an unprecedented step in the country, after 98% voted in favor (Nate Lanxon/Bloomberg)

Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: After unofficial walkouts in 2022, hundreds of Amazon workers in a UK warehouse are striking, an unprecedented step in the country, after 98% voted in favor — Hundreds of Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center workers in the UK plan to strike on Wednesday as part of unprecedented industrial action by the company’s

Instance-qualified Mastodon URLs

In Lists and people on Mastodon I showed how I added a list column to the following tab of the Mastodon browser I’m building. That was a step in the direction of easier and more powerful list management. It enables me to see whether the people I follow are assigned to lists, and to consider

What developers should do during a downturn

Many young developers today do not remember the time of the shedding and cold rocks, let alone the dotcom bomb (or its associated fansite). Before each of these collapses, the fat times felt like they would never end. But fat times always give way to lean times and layoffs. Even if you are in a

The tech for smaller video files is here, but your new phone won’t have it

Credit: Qualcomm A Qualcomm representative suggested that the company will skip AV1 encoding. The representative hinted that Qualcomm could skip to VVC encoding instead. This will allow for much smaller file sizes when recording video on mobile. Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset in November 2022, and it’s powering the top-end smartphones from

Dutch chip equipment maker ASML reports Q4 sales up 29% YoY to €6.4B, 2022 net sales up 13% YoY to €21.1B, and forecasts 25% revenue growth in 2023 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Dutch chip equipment maker ASML reports Q4 sales up 29% YoY to €6.4B, 2022 net sales up 13% YoY to €21.1B, and forecasts 25% revenue growth in 2023 — – Dutch chip equipment maker ASML forecast a 25% jump in 2023 revenue. — ASML CEO Wennink said China accounted for around

UK-based enterprise VR training startup Gemba, used by Coca-Cola, Pfizer, and more, raised an $18M Series A led by Parkway; courses can cost ~$7,250 per person (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: UK-based enterprise VR training startup Gemba, used by Coca-Cola, Pfizer, and more, raised an $18M Series A led by Parkway; courses can cost ~$7,250 per person — Gemba, an enterprise-focused virtual reality (VR) training startup used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has raised $18 million in a Series A

Sources: Marc Benioff’s controversial acquisitions, focus on growth over profits, celebrity relationships, and philanthropic pursuits have vexed shareholders (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Marc Benioff’s controversial acquisitions, focus on growth over profits, celebrity relationships, and philanthropic pursuits have vexed shareholders — Marc Benioff helped build the software group into a Silicon Valley giant, but shareholders are agitating for change

Microsoft is resolving a “networking issue” impacting Teams, Azure, Outlook, and other services, taking them offline in India, Japan, the UK, and elsewhere (Akriti Sharma/Reuters)

Akriti Sharma / Reuters: Microsoft is resolving a “networking issue” impacting Teams, Azure, Outlook, and other services, taking them offline in India, Japan, the UK, and elsewhere — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Wednesday it was investigating a networking issue that impacted multiple services including Teams …

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