Russia Has Turned Eastern Ukraine Into a Giant Minefield
Vast swathes of the country have been vindictively laced with explosives, threatening the civilian population both physically and mentally.
Read MoreVast swathes of the country have been vindictively laced with explosives, threatening the civilian population both physically and mentally.
Read MoreAuthor and labor lawyer Orly Lobel says AI can help mitigate human biases in hiring and compensation.
Read MoreHe Jiankui discusses his plans for finding cures for devastating genetic diseases. Should the scientific community trust him?
Read MoreHigh costs stopped commercial fleets from embracing EVs. But now that the numbers finally add up, it makes sense to switch.
Read MoreHere’s what happens on the longest night of the year—in the solar system and across different cultures here on Earth.
Read MoreHannah Murphy / Financial Times: In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk says he expects Twitter to “be okay” next year after cost cutting, claiming the company was on course to spend ~$5B in 2023 — Social network’s owner offers snapshot of dire finances to explain huge lay-offs since $44bn takeover
Read MoreA close up of the Raspberry Pi logo on a Pi 3 Model B. | Photo by Olly Curtis/Future via Getty Images The twinned impacts of the pandemic and subsequent supply chain problems mean that Raspberry Pi is unlikely to update its flagship miniature computer next year, its CEO Eben Upton has said. Upton made
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Meanwhile, the controversy around Anker’s security cameras rumbles on. Continue reading…
Read MoreGoogle’s YouTube is in advanced talks to secure exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, with a deal possibly being struck this week.
Read MoreApple has confirmed its MLS Season Pass will cost $14.99 a month, or $12.99 for Apple TV Plus subscribers when the season kicks off in February.
Read MoreAx Sharma / BleepingComputer: Okta tells customers its GitHub repositories were hacked this month and its source code was stolen, but says hackers did not access service or customer data — Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, says that its private GitHub …
Read MoreSo you’re tired of rectangular, brick wall-staggered keyboards and want to go split and/or ergo. But how? Which style? What do? Here’s what you do: you build one of these here LHM Morph boards and customize the crap out of it, because that’s what it’s for. So what is this thing, anyway? Is it a
Read MoreDaniel Lanyon / AltFi: Dealroom: the UK’s tech sector hit a combined $1T market valuation in 2022, doubling since 2019, compared to Germany’s $467.2B and France’s $307.5B — According to a report from Dealroom and the UK government, the UK has more high-growth companies than European peers includin 144 ‘unicorns’ and over 85,000 startups and
Read MoreCoinDesk: US-based crypto miner Core Scientific files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas, estimating its liabilities and assets at $1B-$10B and creditors at 1,000-5,000 — The publicly traded miner filed for Chapter 11 at Southern District of Texas bankruptcy court.
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal team is discussing a post-extradition deal with the DOJ to let him be released on bail, subject to approval from a judge — Lawyers for the FTX founder are in talks about a deal that could allow him to be released on bail when he is extradited to
Read MoreApple has reportedly canceled a major iPhone SE overhaul slated for 2024 that would have drawn on the old iPhone XR design.
Read MoreByron Kaye / Reuters: A look at the Australian Securities Exchange’s blockchain project, abandoned in November 2022, to replace its combined trading, clearing, and settlement system — In a Sydney hotel conference room in May, Tim Hogben, the head of securities and payments for ASX Ltd , which runs the Australian stock exchange …
Read MoreVibhuti Sharma / DealStreetAsia: Bengaluru-based BetterPlace, which offers a SaaS for blue-collar workforce management, raised a $40M Series C extension, bringing its total funding to ~$80M — BetterPlace, a SaaS platform for workforce management, said on Tuesday that it has raised $40 million as part of an extended Series C round …
Read MoreNew York Times: Mark Zuckerberg testified in federal court about Meta’s acquisition of Within, as the FTC’s highly unusual challenge seeks an injunction to stop the deal — Meta’s chief executive made a rare court appearance as the Federal Trade Commission tries to block his company’s purchase of the virtual reality start-up Within.
Read More[Joshua Coleman] likes to design his own computers. Sometimes, that means drawing up bus architectures, memory maps and I/O port pinouts. Other times, he can focus his efforts more on the general aesthetics, as well as on building a great set of peripherals, as he shows in his latest ColemanZ80 project. Thanks to the RC2014
Read MoreMacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Source: Publicly-traded US bitcoin miner Core Scientific is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, as its valuation fell from $4.3B in July 2021 to $78M — – Core Scientific, one of the largest publicly traded crypto mining companies in the U.S., is filing for bankruptcy.
Read More[Asianometry] has been learning about gallium nitride semiconductors and shares what he knows in an informative video you can see below. This semiconductor material has a much higher bandgap voltage than the more common silicon. This makes it useful for applications that need higher efficiency and less heating. The original use of the material was
Read MoreMicah Lee / The Intercept: Donie O’Sullivan, Drew Harwell, and other journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts despite suspensions lifted, many until they delete tweets — I’ve been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” hypocrisy and his censorship of left-wing accounts.
Read MoreThe Economic Times: Tata Digital-owned Indian e-grocer BigBasket raised $200M from Tata Digital and others at a $3.2B valuation, up from $2.7B in March in a secondary share sale — CEO Hari Menon outlines quick commerce expansion, bringing 1mg on its app . The funding takes e-grocer’s valuation to $3.2 billion.
Read MoreGeorge Hotz is moving on from his Twitter internship. | Photo by Michael Zelenko / The Verge George Hotz, known for being the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone and jailbreaking the PS3, both under his hacker alias “geohot,” has resigned from his Twitter internship, he announced Tuesday evening on Twitter. “Appreciate the opportunity, but
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