Apple became the first company to reach a $3T market cap when its stock hit $182.86, tripling its valuation in under four years, before closing at $182.01
- Apple hit a market cap of $3 trillion, tripling in valuation in under four years. — The milestone is mostly symbolic …
A look at Wordle, a viral once-a-day word guessing game created by a Brooklyn-based engineer as a side project that has amassed 300,000 players in two months
The word game has gone from dozens of players to hundreds of thousands in a few months. It was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner.
Investigation shows Facebook's role in spreading false narratives ahead of the January 6 riot; 650K+ posts questioned Biden's victory from Nov. 3 to Jan. 6
Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden's victory between Election Day and the Jan. 6 siege …
Samsung unveils Samsung Gaming Hub, coming to select 2022 Samsung TVs, offering support for Google Stadia, Nvidia's GeForce Now, and Utomik cloud gaming
Plus a mysterious way to pass through your game console's controller signals — Samsung is revealing a new lineup of smart TVs at CES 2022 today …
AT&T and Verizon agree to delay the launch of their upgraded 5G networks for two weeks over aviation safety concerns from the FAA and the airline industry
The companies were poised to roll out the so-called C-band airwaves this week, which promise to bring improved speed and coverage to their 5G networks.
Samsung says its 2022 TVs will support browsing, displaying, and purchasing NFTs, as well as viewing their history and blockchain metadata
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AMD debuts Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips, coming this spring, that use 3D V-Cache chiplet stacking tech for a 15% gaming performance boost; Zen 4 5nm chips coming in H2
One of the things I look forward to every year is whether the major companies I write about are prepared to showcase …
AMD unveils Ryzen 6000 laptop CPUs using TSMC's 6nm process, with a Microsoft Pluton security processor and up to double the graphics performance of Ryzen 5000
Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its new AMD Ryzen 6000 Series mobile processors that blend its Zen 3+ core with AMD RDNA 2 graphics.
Garmin announces the $450 Venu 2 Plus, with a 43mm case and support for voice assistants and voice calling, and the $180 Vivomove Sport
The Venu 2 Plus and Vivomove Sport are meant for people who want more than a fitness-first smartwatch — When you think of Garmin wearables …
Nvidia debuts 3070 Ti, up to 70% faster than RTX 2070, coming in $1.5K+ laptops starting on Feb. 1, and 3080 Ti, debuting in $2.5K+ laptops, and teases 3090 Ti
Nvidia is spreading out its RTX technology wider with the unveiling of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, 3080 Ti, 3070 Ti, and 3090 Ti graphics cards.
Tweets by 8VC's Joe Lonsdale about “woke” tech diversity prompt swift criticism from tech investors as he attempts to recontextualize his earlier statements
Last week, in response to someone who tweeted that VCs were racist, venture capitalist and entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale … Tweets: @thevaluesvc , @ceonyc , @triketora , @brianbrackeen , @jtlonsdale , @jtl...
South Korea's ruling party announces an NFT presidential election fundraiser; Lee Jae-myung, the DPK's presidential nominee, supports NFTs in gaming
The ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is set to become the world's first political party to issue non-fungible tokens (NFTs) …
Google acquires Israeli startup Siemplify, which provides a cybersecurity orchestration service, source says for an estimated $500M; Siemplify has raised $58M
The Israeli company will form the basis for Google's cyber operations in the country and will be part of the tech giant's cloud activity
Samsung unveils Galaxy S21 FE, with a 6.4-inch display, Snapdragon 888, 120Hz refresh rate, triple-lens rear camera, and a 32MP selfie camera, starting at $699
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TCL unveils second-gen NxtWear Air wearable secondary display with two 1080p OLED screens, no AR/VR features, and lighter design, coming in Q1 with pricing TBC
They're 30 percent lighter and come with swappable magnetic front plates — TCL is preparing to launch a second iteration …
After a reported theft, OpenSea freezes 16 Bored Ape and Mutant Ape NFTs, worth ~$2.3M, leading some to point out the NFT space's lack of decentralization
Once upon a time, there was a monkey. Catherine Forrest / Shelf Life : Flimflam Fantasy Crypto Chronicles Casey Newton / Platformer : The Bored Ape art heist and crypto's trust and safety problem Edit...
In 2022, Apple will likely finish ditching Intel by WWDC, debut the biggest MacBook Air redesign in history, and launch iPhone 14 with a hole-punch-sized notch
Greater Than The GDP Of The UK Nat Rubio-Licht / Protocol : Apple's market cap hit $3 trillion for the first time Josh Hawkins / SlashGear : Apple might have a cheaper external display for you in 2022...
Broward Health, a Florida-based health care system with 30+ locations, says it was breached and info on 1.36M people, including medical histories, was leaked
Beware of Fake Telegram Messenger App Hacking PCs with Purple Fox Malware Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Broward Health suffered a data breach that impacted +1.3 million people Associated Pre...
Nvidia launches Omniverse, its foundation to connect virtual worlds, out of beta and will offer a free version, and says nearly 100K creators have downloaded it
Omniverse, billed by Nvidia as a metaverse for engineers, will now have a free version available for a much larger community of creators and artists.
Real estate investment trust Digital Realty agrees to acquire a majority stake in Africa's largest data center operator Teraco at a ~$3.5B valuation
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Nightingale Open Science, a free-to-use 40TB medical imagery data set, could help train AI to predict medical conditions earlier, triage better, and save lives
especially as it relates to data — come with a catch-22 because there needs to be some model for sustaining the investment. I don't know if there is one here (@oziadias ?) but otherwise this is a much...
Bengaluru-based Exotel, which offers customer engagement tools like contact center, APIs, and chat bots, raises a $40M Series D led by Steadview Capital
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Tencent will cut its stake in Singapore-based gaming and e-commerce company Sea from 21.3% to 18.7%, selling shares worth $3.1B
Anshuman Daga / Reuters :
Twitter completes its $1.05B sale of MoPub to AppLovin, which expects its unified platform with MoPub to process $15B+ of annualized advertiser spend by 2023
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Atmosphere TV, which streams ad-supported video channels often without audio, raises a $80M Series C and $20M in debt, bringing its total funding to $140M
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Big US banks are slowly embracing cloud services like AWS, Azure, and GCP, after hesitating for years due to regulation, cyberattacks, and old infrastructure
Blackbaud, a cloud software provider to nonprofits, acquires Everfi, which offers organizations cloud-based learning services, for $750M
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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