MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square CTO and on Android at Google, dies after reportedly being stabbed in San Francisco
Bob Lee, the chief product officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco.
Source: Sony is developing a handheld, codenamed Q Lite, which will use Remote Play with the PS5 and feature an 8-inch 1080p touchscreen and adaptive triggers
Following days of speculation, Insider Gaming can report that there's a new PlayStation Handheld in development.
Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto says “mobile apps will not be the primary path of future Mario games” after two moderately successful but dwindling iOS games
As Nintendo takes its shot at the box office with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” the first animated film featuring …
Instead of halting AI research, an unfeasible task, the industry must improve transparency and accountability by being open to external audits and to regulation
Sasha Luccioni / Wired :
Twitter adds a “state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's own policies, which used NPR as an example of an exception
Twitter added a warning to NPR's Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” …
Sources detail Apple's efforts to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to solve supply chain weaknesses
In late March, when Tim Cook made his first public appearance in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic …
The FBI and over a dozen global partners seize Genesis Market, one of the top cyber fraud forums that sold stolen credentials and tools to weaponize that data
Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners …
Ofcom says AWS, Azure, and Google may be limiting competition in the UK cloud computing market after a review since October 2022 and refers the case to the CMA
Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s cloud services could face a full-blown antitrust probe in the UK after the country's digital regulator …
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the company plans to begin commercializing its generative AI in 2023 and remains at the “very forefront” of the LLM field
Facebook parent expects tech to help clients better reach audiences, reduce costs — TOKYO — Facebook owner Meta intends …
Google claims its 4th-gen TPU-based supercomputers, used for AI training, are up to 1.7x faster and 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia's A100 systems
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday released new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models …
Biden says tech companies have a responsibility to ensure AI products are safe before making them public and whether AI is dangerous remains to be seen
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence is dangerous, but underscored …
Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, helping researchers with computer vision and object identification
Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms Inc. said today that they're hoping to democratize a key aspect of computer vision.
Substack announces Notes, letting users share short-form posts, quotes, links, and more, and says the feature “may look like familiar social media feeds”
Substack announced today that it's introducing a new Notes feature that is designed to let users share posts, quotes, comments, images, links and ideas.
SimilarWeb: of the 2.6M people who visited the Twitter Blue web promo page in March, only 116,000 signed up; Blue is used by less than 1% of monthly users
Twitter Inc. is struggling to sell users on its new subscription product, Twitter Blue, according to a new report.
Apple says its Weather app “may be slow or unavailable” due to an ongoing issue lasting nearly 24 hours; some users have had data issues for over a week
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Sources: Chinese regulators have slowed approvals of mergers by US companies, asking some to make products that they sell in other countries available in China
The U.S. encouraged China to set up a robust antitrust regime. Now, Beijing is holding back its required green light for mergers …
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D review: highly efficient and impressive gaming performance, sometimes above the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, but middling-to-average compute performance
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech :
Germany's Bundeskartellamt regulator designates Apple as “of paramount significance for competition across markets”, opening the door to antitrust curbs
Germany's antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple (AAPL.O) after deciding that the U.S. tech …
Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat compared to fall 2022, and 4% used it daily
Kif Leswing / CNBC :
Nintendo and Sony embracing direct-to-audience streams, plus the pandemic, led to E3's demise; fan conventions like PAX and networking events like GDC survived
These days, video game companies can just promote their hardware and new releases via prepackaged livestreams. Why would they bother with a trade show?
The UK ICO fines TikTok £12.7M, down from a £27M fine proposed in September 2022, for having ~1.4M UK users under the age of 13 and misusing their personal data
Dogecoin's price spikes 25%+ after Twitter replaces its bird logo with a doge image; Elon Musk is fighting to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit dismissed
US authorities arrest student loan service Frank founder Charlie Javice; the SEC charges her with falsifying Frank user numbers for JPMorgan's $175M acquisition
and do compare that sentence to every person in jail for a non-violent, cannabis “crime” — and let's remember to free those innocent souls. #justice https://twitter.com/... Alex Roy / @alexroy144 : Ma...
Microsoft debuts the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock for $300, offering a USB-C port instead of a proprietary Surface Connect port and supporting non-Surface devices
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Bing Newcomb, who co-founded E*Trade in 1982, bringing stock trading to personal computers, and took the company public in 1996, died in January at 79
He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits.
As AI chatbots take off, Helsinki-based Silo AI and other European startups race to improve responses in non-English languages, like German, Hebrew, and Arabic
Companies aim to improve response quality after criticism of reliance on small group of mostly US participants
How surveillance industry blog IPVM ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war by investigating Hikvision's and Dahua's mass face recognition systems
Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war. Tweets: @gharleydude Tweets: Gary L. Hatch / @gharleydude :...
Researcher: bugs in Nexx's Wi-Fi-enabled garage door openers let hackers open garages; Nexx hasn't responded to patch appeals for months, including from the DHS
AWS' Center for Quantum Networking partners with De Beers' Element Six division to grow artificial diamonds, hoping they can revolutionize computer networks
Amazon.com Inc. is teaming up with a unit of De Beers Group to grow artificial diamonds, betting that custom-made gems could could help revolutionize computer networks. Tweets: @quinnypig Tweets: @qui...
A look at Amazon failing to clear US drone delivery technical and regulatory hurdles, like not getting FAA certification to fly over active roadways and people
Virginia-based Strivacity, which helps companies build privacy-centric customer login flows and identity management, raised a $20M Series A2 led by SignalFire
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
How sound boxes, or tiny, cheap speakers that read out payment confirmations, have become a lucrative revenue stream for Paytm and other fintechs in India
Adnan Bhat / Rest of World : LinkedIn: Shaji Sethu . Tweets: @adnanmbhat , @jasuja , @sammcallister , @anupkaphle , @hkanji , and @moo9000 LinkedIn: Shaji Sethu : How tiny, cheap smart speakers unloc...
A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg's archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more
> What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? That's what @Bloomberg has done with BloombergGPT — the sort of domain-specific AI I can imagine lots of publishers building. https...
Canada's privacy commissioner launches an investigation into OpenAI in response to a complaint alleging the non-consensual collection and use of personal data
Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit :
Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 3.9% YoY to ~$47.8B, March revenue down 21% YoY to ~$13.1B on lower consumer electronics demand, and expects Q2 revenue down YoY
Twitter's new API tiers are useless for researchers; the $100/month plan is much worse than the old free plan, and the $42K-$210K/month plans are too expensive
and @jbenton wonders whether ‘enough phyla, kingdoms or classes’ exist to encompass them all — here's one to find room for: His decision to kill off free API access for researchers. https://www.nieman...
Q&A with Brex founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras on Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, debuting Brex travel to rival SAP Concur, Navan, and TripActions, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge :
Researchers: IRS-authorized e-file service provider eFile.com served JavaScript malware on its website, weeks after some users suspected the site was hijacked
Mojo Vision, which pivoted from smart contact lenses to making microLED displays with up to 28K PPI and 1M+ nits brightness, raised a $22.4M “new Series A”
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Everstream Analytics, which provides predictive insights for physical supply chains, raised a $50M Series B led by Morgan Stanley's 1GT Fund and StepStone
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Stanford's AI Index: in 2022, industry produced 32 notable ML models compared to academia's three, global private investment fell 26.7% YoY to $91.9B, and more
Germany says Twitter has repeatedly failed to remove user-reported illegal content and starts a Network Enforcement Act proceeding that may lead to fines
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Google backtracks on its decision to cap all Google Drive users to 5M files and will “explore alternate approaches to ensure a great experience for all”
Covariant, which builds AI-powered industrial robots, raised $75M led by Radical Ventures and Index Ventures as an extension to an $80M Series C in July 2021
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