Sources: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony do not plan to attend E3 2023, to be held in-person from June 13 to June 16; E3 2022 was canceled due to the pandemic
All three of gaming's first-party console manufacturers appear poised to skip E3's big return. — E3's first physical event …
Sources: Sony halves its Q1 PlayStation VR2 shipment forecast to around 1M units after disappointing early preorders; the headset launches on February 22
Sony Group Corp. reduced projections for the initial launch of its PlayStation VR2 headset dramatically after early pre-orders disappointed …
Apple HomePod (second-gen) review: great sound quality, useful sensors, speedy Siri, and deep Apple integration, but pricey and best experience needs two units
Apple's second take on the HomePod doesn't stray far from the original, but it's better all around.
Independent examiner: Celsius misled investors and sometimes used new customer funds to pay for withdrawals, CEO Alex Mashinsky made false claims, and more
Shoba Pillay was appointed by a New York bankruptcy court to look at whether the crypto lender operated as a Ponzi scheme
Paramount Global plans to merge its Showtime streaming service with Paramount+'s ad-free tier later in 2023 and call the new offering Paramount+ with SHOWTIME
It's been a long time coming, but later this year, Paramount Global will finally fully integrate the streaming arm …
Samsung reports Q4 operating profit down 69% YoY to ~$3.5B, its lowest since Q3 2014, and revenue down 8% YoY to ~$57.3B, citing weak chip and smartphone demand
South Korean tech giant's slump expected to continue in first half of this year — SEOUL — Samsung Electronics said Tuesday …
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to €3.2B and a €270M loss, up from €39M YoY, as operating costs rose 44% YoY; paying subscribers were up 10M to 205M
Music streaming group adds subscribers but is hit by rise in operating expenses — Spotify's losses ballooned …
A US judge allows the names of the two people who posted SBF's $250M bail to be made public, but stays the ruling until at least February 7, expecting an appeal
A U.S. judge on Monday said the names of two people who helped guarantee bail for indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried …
Samsung reports a ~$1.38B mobile profit in Q4, down from ~$2.15B in Q4 2021, and says its 2023 chip investment will be similar to 2022, in contrast to rivals
A look at the history of generative AI and developments that paved the way for breakthroughs, including CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and transformers
A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible. — Progress in AI systems often feels cyclical. Tweets: @arstechnica Tweets: @arstechnica : We're in the early sta...
Sources: Stripe is aiming to raise ~$2.5B at a $55B to $60B valuation, led by Thrive Capital, which has committed $1B; Stripe was valued at ~$95B in March 2021
Thrive has committed $1 billion, which would value the payments provider Stripe at about $55 billion to $60 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Manu Jain, who led Xiaomi's India business for seven years, leaves, the latest of many key departures; sources say Jain pitched investors about an EV startup
Manu Jain, the executive who helped Xiaomi set up and scale business in India, has left the company, he said Monday …
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announce a venture to explore social apps, the first being Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles
EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back.
A draft EU proposal details plans to ask Netflix, Alphabet, and other “large traffic generators” to help pay for next-generation internet infrastructure
The European Union is weighing a proposal to make technology companies that use the most bandwidth, like Netflix Inc. and Alphabet Inc. …
EU Commission changes, triggered by human rights group ICCL, mean regulators in Ireland and elsewhere will report six times a year on GDPR, violations, and more
It's well established that the European Union has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world, threatening fines of up to 4% of a company's annual turnover.
A roundup of potential rivals to OpenAI's ChatGPT service: DeepMind's Sparrow, Google's LaMDA, Anthropic's Claude, and Character AI
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Kaspersky: from January 2020 to June 2022, hacker groups offered salaries from six figures to $1.2M, bonuses, and paid leave to attract talent on the dark web
Despite the obvious risks, tech jobs with hacking groups can be alluring for those who need the money or want to do the work.
Alameda Research sues Voyager Digital for $445.8M, seeking to recover loan repayments that Alameda made after Voyager filed for bankruptcy in July 2022
Stephanie Murray / The Block :
An in-depth analysis of Yandex's leaked source code shows 17,854 ranking factors, scraping Google, Bing, YouTube, and TikTok, “Vital Hosts” boosts, and more
Michael King / Search Engine Land :
The US NLRB says Apple executive comments and policies for staff violate workers' rights, after ex-employees Ashley Gjøvik and Cher Scarlett filed cases in 2021
including from Tim Cook and Dierdre O'Brien—and rules around employee surveys and speaking out. Today I was notified that the NLRB's division of advice found merit in those charges and recommended iss...
Instagram launches Notes, its AIM-like text status feature, in Europe and Japan, delayed to comply with local laws, expanding on Asia, North America, and LatAm
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Kuo: Apple plans to release a foldable iPad in 2024, featuring a carbon fiber kickstand, as well as a refreshed iPad mini, after possibly no new tablets in 2023
Jon Porter / The Verge :
Sources: the Department of Commerce told some companies the Biden administration stopped giving licenses for exporting US tech to Huawei ahead of a total ban
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times :
Mercedes-Benz becomes the first approved for Level 3 self-driving in the US as Nevada allows Drive Pilot, which still requires the driver's face to stay visible
https://www.theverge.com/... @jmchatton : “You can play Tetris while cruising down the highway, but make sure your face stays visible to the camera, or the system disengages.” Uh wtf? Where is @NHTSAg...
Amazon's third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company's revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon's one-click magic trick to hide.” https://nymag.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : retail in 2023 inv...
Meta, Google, and Amazon leadership are conjuring their companies' “scrappy” startup roots in internal messaging, asking staff to work harder or face layoffs
ElevenLabs found an uptick in “voice cloning misuse cases” during its recent beta; 4chan users made deepfake voices of Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and Emma Watson
how did they not see this coming? https://www.vice.com/... @emwatsonupdates : Great! Can't trust anything we see or hear now thanks to deepfakes. Be careful. https://twitter.com/... Joseph Cox / @jose...
Sources detail Twitter's nascent moves to facilitate payments, a key to becoming a “super app”, as the company files for regulatory licenses across the US
Payment card services company Marqeta plans to acquire NYC-based fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223M in cash plus $52M subject to a milestone
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Dutch social enterprise Fairphone, which makes sustainable, modular consumer electronics, raised €49M in “growth capital”, bringing its total funding to ~€86.6M
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
A look at MetaBirkins, 100 NFTs created by a self-described entrepreneur and artist in 2021, as Hermès goes to court in NYC seeking to stop the use of its brand
Erin Mulvaney / Wall Street Journal :
After the market crashed, Madonna, Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady, and other celebrities have been embroiled in legal difficulties over promoting crypto projects
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @saraheneedleman and @melissajpeltier Tweets: Sarah E. Needleman / @saraheneedleman : Celebrities who endorsed crypto, NFTs have landed in legal crosshairs after losses ...
Sources: Twitter made its first interest payment under Elon Musk to a group of seven banks; the payment was due around January 27 and estimated to be ~$300M
Bloomberg :
Nothing CEO Carl Pei says the company had $200M+ in 2022 revenue, up from ~$24M in 2021, and plans to launch a “more premium” Phone (2) in 2023 aimed at the US
JD.com's joint ventures in Thailand and Indonesia plan to shut down in March 2023 amid regional competition, as JD.com focuses on logistics and growth in China
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post :
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