Juliana Liu / CNN: Chinese state media: a five-day COVID-19 lockdown in Zhengzhou, home to Foxconn’s iPhone plant, has been lifted; an analyst says disruptions cost Apple $1B/week — Hong Kong CNN Business — The central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, home to the world’s largest iPhone factory …
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: The European Central Bank says that bitcoin is “rarely used for legal transactions” and is on the “road to irrelevance”, without citing any strong data points — European Central Bank officials alleged on Wednesday that bitcoin is “rarely used for legal transactions …
Read MoreAWS has unveiled AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java, a performance optimization intended to make it easier to build responsive, scalable Java applications using AWS Lambda, the serverless, event-driven compute service in the Amazon cloud. Introduced November 28, AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java improves startup times by initializing a function’s code ahead of time, taking a
Read MoreThe low-code or no-code platform market has hundreds of vendors, which produce products of varying utility, price, convenience, and effectiveness. The low-code development market is at least partially built on the idea of citizen developers doing most of the work, although a 2021 poll by vendor Creatio determined that two-thirds of citizen developers are IT-related
Read MoreIn 2001, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” This comment was only one part of Microsoft’s anti open source campaign that began with Bill Gates’ 1976 letter, Open Letter to Hobbyists, which took aim at piracy in the hobbyist community. Over
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp is rolling out a new update to its tablet app that lets you link your main account with the WhatsApp app on your Android tablet. Account linking for tablets is only available to WhatsApp’s beta testers right now. However, we got it working through an APK download. WhatsApp
Read MoreFinancial Times: SpaceX’s Starlink increases the price for new Ukrainian customers to $700, far above the $385 cost from earlier in 2022; monthly subscriptions rise to $75 — Cost of communications devices made by Elon Musk-owned SpaceX set to rise due to Russian assault on electricity grid
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Sources detail Huawei’s plans to stealthily build a domestic chip supply chain with partners in Beijing, Wuhan, Qingdao, and Shenzhen, investing over $55.8B — Battered by sanctions, Huawei leads the way in stealthily building a domestic semiconductor supply chain
Read MoreAmazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday added new artificial intelligence (AI) features to some of its services including Textract, Transcribe, Kendra, CodeWhisperer, and HealthLake. The new updates, according to the company, are expected to enhance AWS’ portfolio of AI services and lay at the top of its three-layer machine learning stack, which includes machine learning hardware and
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Hell hath frozen over. You can finally have the same WhatsApp account on two phones. It’s a little tricky at first, but it works and that’s all that matters. WhatsApp just started rolling out (in beta) the option to link your existing account to an Android tablet. If
Read MoreCredit: Disney It’s hard to believe that almost everything filmed related to Star Wars is now available to stream on Disney Plus for a relatively low monthly fee. In addition to all the films, you can also check out tons of Star Wars TV shows as well. We decided to offer a list of the
Read MoreMario Mario and Luigi Mario in the new Mario movie trailer. | Screenshot: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Plus production troubles for Apple’s flagship iPhones. Continue reading…
Read MoreAlex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is offering Windows 11 users a preview of an update that fixes some gaming performance problems. The software maker originally warned of issues with lower than expected performance in some games earlier this month, after some Windows 11 users that had upgraded to the latest 2022 Update (22H2) noticed
Read MoreA man who had just purchased 300 iPhones at Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue store was violently robbed outside of it.
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: Binance acquires Japan-based licensed exchange Sakura Exchange BitCoin for an undisclosed sum, the exchange’s re-entry to Japan and first license in East Asia — – Binance has entered Japan by acquiring the locally licensed exchange Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC). — The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Read MoreCNBC: In a bankruptcy hearing, BlockFi’s lawyers say the lender plans to reopen withdrawals, BlockFi lent $671M to Alameda and has $355M frozen on FTX, and more — – BlockFi’s first bankruptcy hearing in New Jersey kicked off on Tuesday, with lawyers emphasizing the crypto lender’s strong corporate controls and customer prioritization.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Interviews detail FTX and SBF’s lavish spending, aided by minimal internal controls, including $300M+ on Bahamas real estate and chartering Amazon deliveries — When crypto exchange FTX moved its headquarters to the Bahamas from Hong Kong last year, employees discovered that Amazon did not deliver to the island.
Read MoreJosh Horwitz / Reuters: Analysis of Apple’s supply chain data shows 44% to 47% of suppliers were China-based between 2014 and 2019, dropping to 41% in 2020 and 36% in 2021 — Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) wide exposure to Chinese manufacturing, notable both for its low costs and rising risks, has receded since the COVID-19 pandemic
Read MoreEmily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Emboldened by FTX’s collapse, the disgraced founders of Terra, Celsius, and Three Arrows Capital have reemerged, offering their thoughts on SBF, FTX, and more — Welcome to Bloomberg Crypto, our twice-weekly look at Bitcoin, blockchain and more. If someone forwarded this to you, sign up here.
Read MoreMocopi, a riff on motion capture and “copy”, uses small sensors to control an avatar in virtual reality in real time. | Image: Sony Sony has announced Mocopi, a portable and lightweight motion capture system that can be used to control a digital avatar in real time within metaverse applications like VR Chat. The kit
Read More[JBV Creative] recently became a proud owner of a laser cutter and, like most of us, started to think about what they could make with it. The answer was simple, a clever little piece of art or puzzle made of stacked acrylic. He created some text and extruded it from a single point, but not
Read MoreOnePlus says it is committing to a four-year plan for OS updates and a five-year plan for security updates. The company plans on launching Oxygen OS 13.1 globally staring in the first half of 2023. Oxygen OS 13.1 will bring a number of features like an AI system booster, dynamic always on display, spatial audio,
Read MoreUnofficial renders point towards a new design for next year’s Galaxy S23. | Image: OnLeaks / Digit.in Samsung will announce its next flagship phone lineup, the Galaxy S23 series, in the first week of February 2023, according to a report from Korean news outlet Korea JoongAng Daily. The paper cites an unnamed Samsung Electronics executive,
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: LedgerX, known as FTX US Derivatives, plans to make $175M available for FTX’s bankruptcy, part of a $250M fund reserved for a CFTC application — LedgerX — one of the few corners of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crumbled crypto empire that remain solvent — is preparing to make available $175 million …
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Valve’s Steam Deck handheld will start shipping to Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan on December 17th. Reservations for the handheld PC-meets-console opened up through Komodo in August, and customers who preordered will start receiving requests to finalize orders starting December 1st. The first Steam Deck units
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