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Intel Suffers Worst Year Since 1971 IPO

Intel’s market value plunged 61% in 2024, marking its worst performance since going public in 1971, while rival chipmaker Broadcom saw shares surge 111% on AI advances. Broadcom, now valued at $1.1 trillion, leverages its custom XPU chips and networking gear for major cloud providers including Google, helping companies build AI infrastructure at lower costs

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Intel Suffers Worst Year Since 1971 IPO

Intel’s market value plunged 61% in 2024, marking its worst performance since going public in 1971, while rival chipmaker Broadcom saw shares surge 111% on AI advances. Broadcom, now valued at $1.1 trillion, leverages its custom XPU chips and networking gear for major cloud providers including Google, helping companies build AI infrastructure at lower costs

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The Collapse of Mid-Range Smartphones

An anonymous reader shares a report: The global smartphone market is splitting into two distinct segments, with the mid-range segment seeing its market share plummet from 35% in 2021 to a projected 23% by 2027, according to an analysis of data compiled by Goldman Sachs. The collapse of the mid-range segment — $200-600 — marks

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Evolution Journal Editors Resign En Masse

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Jennifer Ouellette: Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned “with heartfelt sadness and great regret,” according to Retraction Watch, which helpfully provided an online PDF of the editors’ full statement. It’s

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Researchers Develop VR Goggles For Mice

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a set of low-cost VR goggles for lab mice. Called MouseGoggles, the VR headsets will allows scientists to provide immersive virtual environments for the mice while capturing fluorescent images of the rodents’ brain activity. Phys.Org reports: The goggles — which dwarf the tiny mice in size — were built

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Researchers Develop VR Goggles For Mice

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a set of low-cost VR goggles for lab mice. Called MouseGoggles, the VR headsets will allows scientists to provide immersive virtual environments for the mice while capturing fluorescent images of the rodents’ brain activity. Phys.Org reports: The goggles — which dwarf the tiny mice in size — were built

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Researchers Develop VR Goggles For Mice

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a set of low-cost VR goggles for lab mice. Called MouseGoggles, the VR headsets will allows scientists to provide immersive virtual environments for the mice while capturing fluorescent images of the rodents’ brain activity. Phys.Org reports: The goggles — which dwarf the tiny mice in size — were built

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Trump Urges Supreme Court To Delay TikTok Ban

President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to delay the upcoming TikTok ban while he works on a “political resolution.” In a legal brief (PDF) on Friday, his lawyer said Trump “opposes banning TikTok” and “seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office.” The BBC reports:

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Apple TV Plus Is Free This Weekend

In a press release today, Apple said their TV Plus subscription service will be free this weekend (January 3 through January 5). From the press release: Apple TV+ is ringing in the New Year by offering an all-access pass to customers all around the world. Enjoy Apple TV+ for free the first weekend of 2025

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