Eli Tan / CoinDesk: Solana-based NFT projects DeGods and Y00ts plan to leave the SOL ecosystem for Ethereum and Polygon, respectively; DeGods had asked for $5M to stay on SOL — DeGods will bridge over to Ethereum while its sister project Y00ts will move to Polygon with a grant from the layer 2’s partnership fund.
Read MoreSujeet Indap / Financial Times: Lawyers working on crypto bankruptcies, including FTX and Celsius, are charging more than $1,800 per hour, leading some creditors to criticize the process — Advisers in Celsius case bill $52mn for four months’ work — The investment bank B Riley is so determined to persuade …
Read MoreTSMC, which makes chips for a lot of companies including Apple, is starting its 3nm chip process this week, likely to be used to make M2 Pro and Max chips.
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Read MoreStabilizing an inverted pendulum is a classic problem in control theory, and if you’ve ever taken a control systems class you might remember seeing pages full of differential equations and bode diagrams just to describe its basic operation. Although this might make such a system seem terribly complicated, actually implementing all of that theory doesn’t
Read MoreDavid Marchese / New York Times: An interview with AI researcher and MacArthur Fellow Yejin Choi on misconceptions about AI, GPT-3, training models to make moral decisions, and more — Artificial intelligence stirs our highest ambitions and deepest fears like few other technologies. It’s as if every gleaming …
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Many TVs these days are of the smart variety, and Android TV is one of the most popular smart TV platforms around. However, AA colleague Adamya Sharma lamented her experience with her Sony Bravia W950D Android TV set. In any event, that got us wondering just how many people
Read MoreBloomberg: A profile of Senegal-based Wave, Francophone West Africa’s only unicorn and the first non-telco, non-bank offering mobile money services in eight countries — Mobile money agents in Ivory Coast halted service for Wave Mobile Money Inc. few weeks ago, in an attempt to stymie the growth …
Read More[Ted Fried] wrote in with not one but two (2!) new drop-in replacements for widespread old-school CPUs: the Zilog Z80 and the Intel 8088. Both of the “chips” run in cycle-accurate mode as well as in a super turbo mode, which can run so fast that you’ll need to use the Teensy’s internal RAM just
Read MoreCatherine Shu / TechCrunch: Jakarta-based Akulaku, a digital banking startup which offers a virtual credit card, neobank, and more, raised $200M from Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group — Jakarta-based fintech Akulaku has raised $200 million from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the largest bank in Japan.
Read MoreCredit: LG LG is bringing its newly launched 240Hz UltraGear gaming monitors to CES 2023. The two models come in 27-inch and 45-inch variants. The 45-inch version is a curved OLED with an 800R radius. LG is bringing two new UltraGear OLED gaming monitors to CES 2023. Both the 27-inch and 45-inch models offer a
Read MoreShelby Brown / CNET: Q&A with Apple App Store Vice President Matt Fischer on Apple Arcade’s inception, its lack of a flagship exclusive game, approaching game developers, and more — Exclusive: Apple’s answer to the competition has been to offer casual games for a flat fee, and it’s working.
Read MoreThere’s a mystique in audiophile circles about tube amplifiers. They can have a very nice sound which is attributed to their even-harmonic distortion, but they are often portrayed as requiring rare and expensive components. You don’t need matched gold-plated tubes and special transformers would by Japanese monks with oxygen-free silver wire when the tube you’d
Read MoreWhen [Elixir of Progress] was looking at setting up environmental sensors around their home to keep track of temperature, humidity and such, the obvious ideas of using WiFi-connected sensors didn’t work due to lack of WiFi range. Although Zigbee (Z-wave) sensors have longer range than WiFi, they are decidedly more expensive, proprietary and require a
Read MoreQianer Liu / Financial Times: Experts say Hua Hong, China’s second-largest chip foundry, is barely affected by US sanctions and its focus on older chips could make it Beijing’s new favorite — US restrictions on advanced tech help foundry benefit from Beijing’s shifting view of the semiconductor supply chain
Read MorePhoto by Alexi Rosenfeld/WireImage Oh no, it’s almost January 1st and you forgot to make a resolution! This doesn’t have to be hard. Like, I mean, if you want to do your first marathon, knock yourself out. But I’ve found simpler is better for resolutions. You might consider tending to yourself as though you are
Read MoreIris Deng / South China Morning Post: Chinese government data for January to October 2022 shows domestic smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY from 275.3M to 214.5M units — Smartphone shipments in China slumped 22 per cent in the first 10 months of the year, according to latest government data, as the industry’s largest market …
Read MoreThe Unified Program and Debug Interface (UPDI) is Microchip’s proprietary interface for programming and on-chip debugging, and has become the standard on AVR MCUs after Microchip’s purchase of Atmel. Being a proprietary interface means that even entry-level programmers like the Atmel-ICE are rather expensive at over $100. That’s when for [Scott W Harden] the question
Read MoreTimmy Shen / Forkast: IntoTheBlock: the Bitcoin network hashrate dropped by 38.8%+ on December 24 from its December 21 peak as many US-based miners paused operations due to blizzards — The Bitcoin network hashrate has dropped by more than 38.8% from its peak on Wednesday, as many U.S.-based miners have been forced …
Read MoreMicha Huigen / The Verge 2022 may have been a slow year for big AAA video game releases, but it was a great year for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo itself released a bunch of excellent games (including two great Pokémon titles), third-party developers ported some phenomenal RPGs, and indies launched some of my sleeper hits
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In my favorite TikTok video of 2022, an amateur interviewer with a tiny microphone approaches a stranger in an AC/DC T-shirt minding their own business. Pushing the mic in front of the person’s face, the interviewer comes in with the favorite question of gatekeepers from time immemorial:
Read MoreThe best stand for your MacBook can optimize space, reduce desk clutter, improve your posture, help with storage, and more.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Whenever I see news about deep brain stimulation, I perk up. The procedure — which involves implanting electrodes deep into the brain to deliver regular pulses of electricity — is used to treat people like my mom with movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease or epilepsy. Researchers are also
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Read MoreWe’ve become so accustomed to Apple’s iterative smartphone launches each year that the iPhone 14 event represented one of the most exciting in recent memory. Sure, the base model was practically identical to its predecessor, but Apple gave us a Plus instead of a Mini and the Pro devices introduced a brand-new punch hole display.
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