Reports: Twitter laid off “well above 50” staff over the weekend, including Director of Product Management Esther Crawford and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper
Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter's forthcoming payments platform.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D review: AMD's fastest gaming processor and overall excellent offering, but $110 more expensive than the impressive last-generation 7950X
Last year, AMD released its Ryzen 7 5800X3D to the market with 96 MB of L3 V-Cache. The consumer implementation of AMD's …
Inside Apple's Exploratory Design Group, which is working on advanced tech like a glucose monitor and built some of the iPhone's and Mac's chip and battery tech
Apple has a secret team working to bring noninvasive glucose monitoring to its smartwatch, but that's not all it's pursuing.
Hands-on with the Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Explorer Edition, featuring two micro-OLED screens, three front-facing cameras, and weighing 126g, in prototype
Xiaomi's AR Smart Glasses are a prototype not meant for commercial release right now, but the hardware feels more than ready
Google announces new features for Android, ChromeOS, and Wear OS, including Fast Pair support for Chromebooks, Keep shortcuts, and Wear OS accessibility modes
Google has announced a slew of new features for Android, Chromebook and Wear OS that are designed to improve connectivity, productivity and accessibility.
Snap plans to release a Snapchat chatbot, called “My AI”, powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT and pinned to the app's chat tab, available initially to Plus subscribers
Snapchat is introducing a chatbot powered by the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Some AI companies are hiring “prompt engineers”, who create and refine text prompts for chatbots to understand the AI systems' flaws and coax optimal results
When Riley Goodside starts talking with the artificial-intelligence system GPT-3, he likes to first establish his dominance.
Editors at some literary magazines say they are getting overwhelmed by AI-generated submissions, potentially crowding out genuine submissions from newer writers
A short story titled “The Last Hope” first hit Sheila Williams' desk in early January.
Filing: China Renaissance says founder Bao Fan is “co-operating in an investigation”, more than a week after disclosing his unexplained disappearance
Investment bank reports Bao Fan is assisting Chinese authorities with investigation — China Renaissance said its missing founder Bao Fan …
Some experts, particularly those advocating for “ethical AI” or “responsible AI”, say Microsoft and OpenAI's new Bing experiment is dangerous to the public
Even the people behind new artificial intelligence systems say their buzzy products are ‘somewhat broken.’ They're relying on us to fix them.
Meta plans to roll out the NCMEC's Take It Down tool on Facebook and Instagram, letting minors anonymously attach a hash to intimate content, to stop sextortion
Meta is taking steps to crack down on the spread of intimate images of teenagers on Facebook and Instagram.
GSMA unveils Open Gateway, an initiative with 21 carriers offering open-source APIs using AWS and Azure to provide carrier billing, location, and other services
APIs are the building blocks of how the world of technology works: used to integrate applications with each other …
After a string of high-profile setbacks, the White House and FTC are finding breaking up Big Tech is hard, as Google lawyers up ahead of its court battle
Google is hiring teams of former DOJ lawyers to fight antitrust lawsuits as the battle over tech firms' power shifts to the courts
Cloud security and visibility startup Wiz raised a $300M Series D led by Lightspeed at a $10B valuation, up from $6B in October 2021 after raising $250M
The Israeli startup said that it will not hold any of the funds in Israel due to the impending judicial coup
Sources: the cyberattack on Dish Network was “by an outside bad actor, a known threat agent” and the company is working with an external vendor to fix the issue
Of the 2,000 exhibitors and sponsors at MWC Barcelona, 150 are Chinese companies and Huawei has the biggest presence, expanding its footprint by 50% over 2022
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UK-based Flock, which uses real-time data to insure commercial vehicle fleets for Amazon, Jaguar Land Rover, and others, raised a $38M Series A led by Octopus
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Some crypto projects are abandoning terms like NFTs, which became associated with unsavory get-rich-quick scams, in favor of terms like “digital collectibles”
We just finished another week, where we saw Bitcoin briefly hitting the 24k mark … Tweets: Ed Zitron / @edzitron : This is like when Charles Ponzi changed his name to Charles Ponci https://twitter.com...
An analysis of Meta's Journalism Project: investments in 564 organizations totaling $29.4M through 17 grant programs since 2018, 43% received just $5K, and more
b — “People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta … Tweets: @mathewi , @__gabbymiller , @__gabbymiller , @michaelbolden , @_...
Sources: Tencent established a team to work on “HunyuanAide”, a ChatGPT-style chatbot using Tencent's Hunyuan training model, following Alibaba and Baidu
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To achieve its chip moonshot, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US must reform its education system and triple graduates in chip-related fields by 2032
Rana Foroohar / Financial Times : Tweets: @olivermarks and @chassnews Tweets: Oliver Marks / @olivermarks : Corporations that want a cut of $39bn in Chips and Science Act program manufacturing incent...
Autonomous drone manufacturer Skydio, used by the Ukrainian military, raised $230M at a $2.2B valuation and plans to expand its manufacturing facility 10-fold
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Jump and Oasis recovering ~120K stolen ether demonstrates how multisig-controlled upgradeable smart contracts undermine trustlessness and censorship-resistance
A look at Dude Perfect on YouTube, as its five founders look to build a theme park; a source says Dude Perfect's 2022 revenue was ~$25M, up from ~$20M in 2021
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As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators online are sometimes being asked to prove that they're human
How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious proclamations, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital
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