The Internet Is at Risk of Driving Women Away
If harassment isn’t tackled soon, many women will go permanently offline to avoid online abuse.
Read MoreIf harassment isn’t tackled soon, many women will go permanently offline to avoid online abuse.
Read More[Ben Katz] designed the original MIT Mini Cheetah robot, which easily captured attention and imagination with its decidedly un-robotic movements and backflips. Not long after [Ben]’s masters thesis went online, clones of the actuators started to show up at overseas sellers, and a few months after that, clones of the whole robot. [Ben] recently had
Read MoreVCs will need to open their minds, as well as their pocket-books.
Read MoreTanya Basu / MIT Technology Review: Horizon World’s Notorious B.I.G. concert achieved remarkable realism with the help of VFX studio Hyperreal, but raises ethical questions about VR resurrection — An avatar of the singer, who died in 1997, performed with live rappers on Meta’s Horizon Worlds. — For a moment on Friday, Biggie Smalls was
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: YouTube announces Courses in India, letting teachers post videos and reading materials for free or for a fee in several regional languages, rolling out “soon” — For years, teachers have used YouTube to promote their lessons and persuade learners to join their classes off the platform.
Read MoreMeeting organizers can apply a sensitivity label to meeting invites from Outlook or Teams to set meeting protection defaults, such as preventing chat and setting encryption for meeting video and audio. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft Teams Premium is now available for public preview, enabling users to test AI-powered smart features such as live translations, custom
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Nvidia is planning to remove GameStream, a feature for streaming PC games, from its Shield TVs and tablets. GameStream has been a feature of Nvidia Shield devices ever since they were portable, allowing Shield owners to stream games to their TV from a PC at up to 60fps
Read MoreEdge computing refers to geographically locating infrastructure in proximity to where data is generated or consumed. Instead of pushing this data to a public or private cloud for storage and computing, the data is processed “on the edge,” using infrastructure that can be simple commodity servers or sophisticated platforms like AWS for the Edge, Azure
Read MoreIn my October 2022 article, “How to choose a cloud machine learning platform,” my first guideline for choosing a platform was, “Be close to your data.” Keeping the code near the data is necessary to keep the latency low, since the speed of light limits transmission speeds. After all, machine learning — especially deep learning
Read MoreAs I noted recently, AWS seems to be getting religion about “integration as an essential product feature.” There’s plenty of progress to be made, but it feels like the exact right thing for AWS to do. The question is why isn’t everyone doing it? As I said, “The tech industry has spent decades watching Apple,
Read MoreStephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: The European Commission sends Meta a statement of objection for possible antitrust breaches over tying Marketplace to Facebook and imposing unfair trading terms — Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a complaint from European Union antitrust watchdogs over concerns it’s unfairly squeezing …
Read MoreVicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Investor letter: Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein details options if the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust’s EFT plans fail, including a tender for outstanding shares — Michael Sonnenshein attempts to assuage fears of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust investors after collapse of FTX
Read MorePrototype RISC-V chip In a classic Uno reverse-card scenario, China has banned the export of some of its homemade chips to other countries–specifically CPUs made by Loongson Technology. News of the ban was printed in the Russian newspaper Kommersant and picked up by the South China Morning Post. According to PCMag, these chips’ benchmarks show
Read MoreCarly Wanna / Bloomberg: Crypto.com’s 2022 World Cup sponsorship, a symbol of how aggressively crypto companies spent on ads to gain users, was largely overshadowed by FTX’s collapse — At Sunday’s World Cup championship final between France and Argentina, Crypto.com will have a highly coveted seat right on the sideline …
Read MoreJoanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: Binance’s BNB token dropped 9% over the past month, even as bitcoin remains steady, after record outflows; BNB has jumped over 1,600% in the past three years — The native token of crypto exchange Binance Holdings Ltd. snapped a prolonged slide that was sparked in part by concerns about outflows …
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: YouTube removes Pornhub’s official account, which gained nearly 900,000 subscribers over eight years, after Instagram permanently banned Pornhub in September — YouTube removed the official channel of Pornhub, the sex site’s promotional outlet for videos, coming eight years after Pornhub launched its account.
Read MoreStephen Witt / New Yorker: A deep dive into the race to develop a quantum computer, which could help address climate change and food scarcity, break current encryption protocols, and more — Such a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet. Will the U.S. or China get there first?
Read More[Smbakeryt] needs your help. He bought a 1984-vintage Z8000 coprocessor card for the PC, but the software is missing in action. Apparently, the co-processor — called a Trump Card — appeared in Byte magazine courtesy of the famous [Steve Ciarcia]. The schematics were published, and if you sent [Steve] proof that you built it, he’d
Read MoreGené Teare / Crunchbase News: Q&A with Coinbase Ventures’ head Shan Aggarwal on the impact of FTX’s collapse on his VC firm’s 400+ company portfolio, ramifications for the industry, and more — What does the world’s most active crypto and blockchain investor make of the spectacular collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX?
Read MoreElon Musk might be about to step down as head of Twitter, following a poll in which nearly 60% of respondents said he should give up the role.
Read MoreCredit: Google The Pixel Tablet has apparently surfaced on Facebook Marketplace. The listing also gives us a look at the dock and charger. Google’s tablet is only set to launch next year. Google is gearing up to launch the Pixel Tablet in 2023, being the company’s first slate in several years. Now, it looks like
Read MoreBrian Fung / CNN: Twitter deletes @TwitterSafety’s thread and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms — Twitter deleted its controversial new policy on Sunday evening that had banned links to certain other social media platforms, less than 24 hours after the policy’s initial introduction.
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources and analysis: Twitter’s Community Notes doesn’t address lies that are divisive; 30K+ or ~96% of notes contributed by community are not visible to users — After Elon Musk closed his $44 billion deal for Twitter, he tweeted that the network’s mission was to become “the most accurate source of information about the world.”
Read MoreIt emerged last week that Samsung has apparently formed a chip development team inside its mobile division. This would be a departure from the norm, as the mobile division currently relies on a sister division for its custom smartphone processors. This news got us wondering whether readers thought Samsung would be able to develop a
Read MoreJames Hercher / AdExchanger: A look at Performance Max, Google’s black box ad product for all its owned media that can’t break down by price, ad format, media channel, or creative elements — Lost in the Sturm und Drang of Q4 (Q for quarantine) 2020, Google introduced a beta program called Performance Max, its first
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