(Credit: PCMag)Now that Nvidia has launched the RTX 4090 and 4080, it is desperately trying to clear the channel of older GPUs. The end of crypto mining and economic unease has resulted in a deluge of GPUs, often at bargain prices. At least, that’s been true for AMD, as Nvidia GPUs are still priced higher
Read MoreDonie O’Sullivan / CNN: Twitter stopped enforcing its longstanding COVID-19 “harmful misinformation” policy on November 23; more than 11,000 accounts were suspended under the rules — New York (CNN Business)Twitter said it will no longer enforce its longstanding Covid misinformation policy …
Read MoreSwati Bhat / Reuters: The Reserve Bank of India plans to launch a retail pilot for its CBDC on December 1, after testing with nine banks since November 1 — The Reserve Bank of India’s first pilot for a retail e-rupee, its version of the central bank digital currency (CBDC), will be launched on Dec.
Read MoreLancia’s new wordmark featuring its new brand font. | Image: Lancia Lancia, the Italian car company owned by Stellantis alongside Fiat, Chrysler, Citroën, Vauxhall, and Peugeot, is being revived as an electric car brand. The company announced plans to produce three electric vehicles between 2024 and 2028: a new Ypsilon, new Delta, and an unnamed
Read MoreTwitter CEO Elon Musk has initiated a “Big Bang” which will see around 62,000 previously banned accounts allowed back onto the platform.
Read MoreTwitter’s encrypted DMs could use the open-source Signal protocol and it’s been working on its for four years.
Read MoreKate Beioley / Financial Times: The UK’s CMA finds intervention in the music streaming services market will not increase artist earnings as their problems are “unrelated to competition issues” — CMA says record labels and services such as Spotify unlikely to be making excess profits
Read MoreThe galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 steals the spotlight in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Arp-Madore catalogue is a collection of particularly peculiar galaxies spread throughout the southern sky, and includes a collection of subtly interacting galaxies as well as more spectacular colliding galaxies. Arp-Madore 417-391, which lies around 670 million light-years
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $47M Series B extension led by Madrona Venture Group, bringing its total funding to $86M — Deepgram, a company developing voice-recognition tech for the enterprise, today raised $47 million in new funding led …
Read MoreI’m trained to look for patterns in technology. I developed this survival technique in my many roles as a CTO where you’re tasked with placing bets on what technology will be important, especially the timing of when to make investments and what those investments should be. It does not matter if you’re a true technology
Read MoreWith AlphaBay shuttered, Operation Bayonet enters its final phase: driving the site’s refugees into a giant trap. But one refugee hatched his own plan.
Read MoreWith the increasing reliance on e-commerce as part of an overall shift to digital business, it’s not surprising that web developers are in high demand. Job growth for web developers is expected to increase by 23% by 2031—much faster than the average for all occupations, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor
Read MoreApple has revealed the winners of its 2022 App Store Awards.
Read MoreRyan Weeks / The Block: Binance’s $1B recovery fund is a lifeline, but questions remain, including on decision making and why funds came from a cold wallet that holds customer funds — – The billion-dollar fund could be a crucial lifeline for the industry, as companies tussle with the aftershocks of FTX’s collapse.
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Read MoreStephen Foley / Financial Times: Some US auditors say FTX’s collapse has led them to designate crypto clients as “high risk”, resulting in longer audits, higher fees, or dropping clients — Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s company highlights risks in industry where accounting rules are only half-formed
Read MoreApple Music Replay has been overhauled with a new highlight real in time for your ’22 mix.
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Massachussets-based warehouse robotics startup Locus raised a $117M Series F at a “close to” $2B valuation, following a $150M Series E in February 2021 — The last few years have been a major accelerator for the robotics industry at large, but warehouse robotics may be the biggest winner of all.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority There are loads of smartphone brands out there, but you might not be able to buy some brands in your neck of the woods. You therefore might be forced to import a device if it’s not available in your market. I recently wrote about my experience using a Pixel
Read MoreMalathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Donald Trump’s lawyer says a lawsuit against Twitter over banning his account is ongoing and Trump does not plan to withdraw the appeal, complicating his return — Elon Musk has tweeted that Donald Trump will be reinstated on Twitter, but the former president isn’t backing down in his legal fight …
Read MoreTiffany Hsu / New York Times: Companies are rushing to hire former Twitter misinformation experts, who were laid off or quit, seeking to avoid liability for false and toxic information — Seeing false and toxic information as a potentially expensive liability, companies in and outside the tech industry are angling to hire people who can
Read MoreSome of us who’ve been online since the early days fondly remember the web of yore — with its flashing banners, wildly distracting backgrounds, and automatic side-scrolling text. But there was a time before the worldwide web and the Internet as we recognize it today, and the way of communicating in this before-time was through
Read MoreGood morning, and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority! I treated myself to a Nintendo Switch in the Black Friday sales, and have been enjoying playing Strange Horticulture. It seems like the perfect game for these dark, chilly November days. Self-repair your Samsung smartwatch?
Read MorePaul Sandle / Reuters: The UK government says the updated Online Safety Bill won’t force tech giants to remove content that is “legal but harmful”, following free speech complaints — Britain will not force tech giants to remove content that is “legal but harmful” from their platforms after campaigners …
Read MoreBloomberg: AWS announces a new Graviton3E chip for high-performance computing tasks like weather forecasting and gene sequencing, competing with Intel, Nvidia, and others — Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing unit is rolling out new chips designed to power the highest-end of computing …
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