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Baidu EVP Dou Shen downplays the impact of US semiconductor restrictions, after the company stockpiled parts, and says its AI business would benefit long term (Shen Lu/Wall Street Journal)

Shen Lu / Wall Street Journal: Baidu EVP Dou Shen downplays the impact of US semiconductor restrictions, after the company stockpiled parts, and says its AI business would benefit long term — Executive says the search-engine giant’s AI and cloud businesses don’t rely heavily on chips restricted by the U.S.

Amazon’s Twitch makes changes to address child predation concerns, including mandatory phone verification and improving account termination for users under 13 (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Amazon’s Twitch makes changes to address child predation concerns, including mandatory phone verification and improving account termination for users under 13 — Twitch, the video game livestreaming site popular with teens and kids, announced changes it’s making on the platform to increase safety …

The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West

An interesting aspect of time-varying waveforms is that by using a trick called a Fourier Transform (FT), they can be represented as the sum of their underlying frequencies. This mathematical insight is extremely helpful when processing signals digitally, and allows a simpler way to implement frequency-dependent filtration in a digital system. [klafyvel] needed this capability

An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AMD’s success at catching up to Intel, huge bets on custom chips, the PC slump, export restrictions to China, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AMD’s success at catching up to Intel, huge bets on custom chips, the PC slump, export restrictions to China, and more — WATCH NOW — How AMD became a chip giant and finally caught Intel — Advanced Micro Devices made history this year

Honor’s new Magic VS foldable will be released outside China

The Honor Magic VS in black, orange, white, and blue. | Image: Honor The Honor Magic VS is a new foldable smartphone from the former Huawei subbrand that’s actually planned for release outside China. It uses a similar design to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold devices, pairing a large 7.9-inch internal folding display with a smaller

Report: discrete and integrated GPU shipments fell 25.1% YoY to 75.5M in Q3, desktop GPUs fell 15.43% YoY, and notebook 30% YoY, the biggest drop since 2009 (Anton Shilov/Tom’s Hardware)

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Report: discrete and integrated GPU shipments fell 25.1% YoY to 75.5M in Q3, desktop GPUs fell 15.43% YoY, and notebook 30% YoY, the biggest drop since 2009 — Intel solidifies GPU positions amid graphics market slump. — Shipments of integrated and discrete graphics processing units dropped …

A look at the 5G network challenges faced by telecom operators, including intense competition, tapering consumer demand, and sufficiency of 4G speeds (Anna Gross/Financial Times)

Anna Gross / Financial Times: A look at the 5G network challenges faced by telecom operators, including intense competition, tapering consumer demand, and sufficiency of 4G speeds — Consumers may be wowed by the next generation of mobile telephony — but they are taking their time — Some people cannot resist getting their hands on

Diego Luna Is as Excited for ‘Andor’ Season 2 as You Are

In a conversation with WIRED, the actor talks about the first season’s gut-punch ending, taking on fascism, and what’s really going on in that prison.

Honor Magic Vs foldable launched: A cheap Galaxy Z Fold 4 rival with stylus

Credit: Honor Honor launched the Magic V earlier this year, being the company’s first foldable phone and a rival to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold series. Now, the company has peeled the curtain back on a successor, dubbed the Honor Magic Vs. Much like the original Magic V, you’re looking at an inward-folding design that

Daily Authority: 🤑 Before spending, here’s how to save big

Good day all, and welcome to Wednesday’s edition of the Daily Authority. It’s mid-week and we’re hurtling fast towards the festive season. But first, there’s the small matter of Thanksgiving and the Black Friday weekend to get through. The price is right, but it can be even better

Local IOT Cat Treat Dispenser

[MostElectronics], like many of us, loves cats, and so wanted to make an internet connected treat dispenser for their most beloved. The result is an ingenious 3D printed mechanism connected to a Raspberry Pi that’s able to serve treats through a locally run web application. From the software side, the Raspberry Pi uses a RESTful

Honor reveals Magic OS 7.0 update: Here’s when it will come to your phone

Credit: Honor Honor has announced the Magic OS 7.0 skin, based on Android 13. The update brings improved cross-device connectivity for Honor ecosystem devices. Honor will push the update to over a dozen smartphone models. Honor’s phones are powered by the Magic OS skin, with Magic OS 6.2 being the latest version. Now, the company

Barcelona-based Ukio, which runs a short-term apartment rental service, raised a €27M Series A led by Felix Capital, with €17M in equity and €10M in debt (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Barcelona-based Ukio, which runs a short-term apartment rental service, raised a €27M Series A led by Felix Capital, with €17M in equity and €10M in debt — Ukio, a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of

Sources: hundreds of Foxconn workers at Apple’s iPhone plant in Zhengzhou clashed with security guards as protests erupted over unpaid wages and COVID-19 fear (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: hundreds of Foxconn workers at Apple’s iPhone plant in Zhengzhou clashed with security guards as protests erupted over unpaid wages and COVID-19 fear — Hundreds of workers at Apple Inc.’s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled …

NY Governor Kathy Hochul signs a bill imposing a two-year moratorium on new crypto-mining permits at fossil fuel plants, becoming the first US state to do so (New York Times)

New York Times: NY Governor Kathy Hochul signs a bill imposing a two-year moratorium on new crypto-mining permits at fossil fuel plants, becoming the first US state to do so — National cryptocurrency industry groups had lobbied Gov. Kathy Hochul to veto the environmental ban, fearful that other states could follow New York’s lead.

Taktile, which allows fintech companies to test and deploy decision-making models, has raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Tiger Global (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Taktile, which allows fintech companies to test and deploy decision-making models, has raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Tiger Global — The logic behind many fintech companies’ automated decisions — decisions that determine whether a customer is approved for a credit line …

Apple nearing deal for film about Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of FTX

Apple is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire the film rights for Michael Lewis’ account of his time with the crypto billionaire.

Fuel Cell Catalyst: Less is More

A fuel cell is almost like a battery that has replenishable fuel. Instead of charging a battery with an electric current, you recharge a fuel cell with something like hydrogen or you simply consume it from a tank much as an internal combustion engine consumes gasoline. However, fuel cells usually use a catalyst — it

Shares of Paytm closed at an all-time low on Tuesday, a week after the post-IPO lockup period for early investors expired, amid competition risk from Reliance (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Shares of Paytm closed at an all-time low on Tuesday, a week after the post-IPO lockup period for early investors expired, amid competition risk from Reliance — Shares of Paytm ended Tuesday at an all-time low of 477 Indian rupees ($5.8), a week after the lock-up period for early backers …

Florida-based care.ai, which uses AI-powered sensors to monitor and collect behavioral data on care facility patients, raised $27M from Crescent Cove Advisors (Jessica Hagen/MobiHealthNews)

Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: Florida-based care.ai, which uses AI-powered sensors to monitor and collect behavioral data on care facility patients, raised $27M from Crescent Cove Advisors — The company will use the investment to deploy its technology in more healthcare facilities. — AI-enabled care facility …

Windows Subsystem for Linux is now generally available for Windows 10 and 11 via the Microsoft Store, as Microsoft makes the Store version of WSL the default (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Windows Subsystem for Linux is now generally available for Windows 10 and 11 via the Microsoft Store, as Microsoft makes the Store version of WSL the default — Microsoft announced today that the Store version of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is generally available for Windows 10 and 11 customers.

UK launches investigation into Apple over cloud gaming woes

The United Kingdom has launched an investigation into Apple over its browser and its iron grip over cloud gaming.

SBF says FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, but a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B ahead of the bankruptcy (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: SBF says FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, but a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B ahead of the bankruptcy — The former FTX CEO did not address concerns about customer funds being misappropriated or other recent revelations about the company.

Don’t expect to find an iPhone 14 Pro in store this holiday, says Best Buy CEO

Best Buy CEO Corie Barry has said that the company is struggling to keep Apple’s high-end iPhones in stock.

MyFitnessPal: Everything you need to know

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Calorie tracking is a popular way to get a handle on weight management, and MyFitnessPal is one of the most popular apps to use. The platform offers a holistic approach to diet and exercise, streamlining users’ experience with tons of third-party integration. Read on to find out everything you

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