Sources: Sony is in the early stages of developing a portable console for PS5 games, building on the PlayStation Portal, although its debut is likely years away
- Nintendo's Switch has dominated mobile console space for years — Rival Microsoft is also developing portable gaming prototypes
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W review: the new $7 microcontroller is low cost, faster, and adds more RAM and Wi-Fi connectivity, but still uses micro USB
The RP2350 finally gets Wi-Fi! … It is fair to say that the Raspberry Pi Pico disrupted the maker community in 2021.
MicroStrategy bought 55,500 bitcoin for ~$5.4B cash at an average price of $97,862 between November 18 and November 24, taking its holdings to ~386,700 bitcoin
- MicroStrategy has purchased another 55,580 BTC for approximately $5.4 billion at an average price of $97,862 per bitcoin.
Sources: Intel, the biggest recipient of CHIPS Act money, could get less than $8B, after its Ohio plant delays; the US announced $8.5B for Intel earlier in 2024
The Biden administration is reducing its award to the pioneering chip maker to less than $8 billion, from $8.5 billion.
US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019
Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do?
The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky”
Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk's X is accused of not declaring user numbers
Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open-source data, and weighs whether to release it
Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Monday showed a new artificial intelligence model for generating music and audio that can modify voices …
Sources: the prototypes of the thin iPhone are between 5 and 6 millimeters thick, and may be too thin for a physical SIM, which could dampen China sales
Apple's desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can't overcome a design hurdle …
The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses
- EU feared deals for smartphone glass were anti-competitive — US firm could avoid hefty fines if remedies are accepted
A bitcoin reserve is a resilience strategy for the “hodlers”, not the US state, as a long-term bet on bitcoin is bullish on a permanent institutional collapse
money must not be held, it must be spent, and now. The dollar has lost some 98% of its purchasing power since '71, by design. Bitcoin gains in PP instead, weighing on the asset side of the Treasury'...
PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 or $99 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures
Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it'd be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for Medium articles.
Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps game developers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised $26M at a $100M valuation
As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic …
Sources: Bill Ackman, Travis Kalanick, and others are involved in the Department of Government Efficiency; Marc Andreessen is a networker for talent recruitment
Markets Cheer Trump's Treasury Pick Bluesky: Michael J. Stern / @michaeljstern.bsky.social : I've got a suggestion for how Elon Musk can reduce the government deficit: Start paying his fair share of t...
Airbnb plans to let tenants in nearly 1,500 flats owned by Greystar in London to sublet homes on a part-time basis, expanding on a 2022 Greystar partnership
Eri Sugiura / Financial Times :
A skeptical look at the new AI scaling “laws”, including post-train duration and “inference time compute”, and why they may fail to predict AI model performance
Scaling laws ain't what they used to be — “If anything we are seeing the emergence of a new scaling law …
Italian private equity firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video management and monetization platform Brightcove private in a deal valued at $233M
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Insurance broker Howden: cyberattacks have lost UK businesses ~£44B in revenue in the past five years and 52% of companies have reported at least one attack
Carolyn Cohn / Reuters :
Klarna reports ~$1.85B in Q1 to Q3 2024 revenue, up 23% YoY, pretax loss down 99% YoY to ~$180K, and Q3 net income up 57% YoY to ~$19.7M, as its US IPO nears
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg :
Investigation: how hack-for-hire Appin tried silencing 15+ outlets since 2022 over articles, newsletters, and podcasts covering Appin's “ethical hacking”
rsf.org/en/rsf-inves... See also Mediagazer
Shares of Japan's Fujikura, which specializes in fiber optic cables for data centers, are up 400%+ in 2024 due to the AI boom, leading the Nikkei 225 index
Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg :
A look at the shortcomings of Google's Tensor SoC for Pixel devices, with four generations failing to impress in key performance and power efficiency metrics
Robert Triggs / Android Authority :
A look at the rise of super clusters, which use ~100K Nvidia GPUs for training giant AI models, and the new engineering challenges arising from large clusters
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal :
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