Raspberry Pi 500 review: the Pi 5's power in a convenient keyboard form factor with awesome thermal performance, but lacks NVMe and no camera or display ports
Cramming a Raspberry Pi 5 into a keyboard — Tom's Hardware Verdict … When the Raspberry Pi 400 was released …
A look at Intel's problems, starting with 2016's 10nm node: 7/11 board members have no chip experience, most CEO options are worse than Pat Gelsinger, and more
Intel's board is incompetent and its horrible decisions over the decades are going to push it towards death.
Chinese state media: the State Administration for Market Regulation opened an anti-monopoly investigation into Nvidia tied to its Mellanox acquisition in 2020
- Probe from the market regulator is looking into Mellanox deal — Nvidia shares dropped in early trading after the announcement
Google says it had a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
Google today introduced its latest quantum chip — Willow (~100 qubits) — coinciding with two key achievements run on the new chip …
Researchers: Meta let 25 Facebook Pages run 4,100+ ads attacking Romania's pro-EU candidate and promoting far-right figures, with 199M+ views since August 2024
- Political ads promoted far-right figures including Georgescu — Network of Facebook pages shared similar, polarizing messaging
Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers, which lets select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads in English
As more AI companies gobble up Reddit's data to fuel their own chatbots, the popular online forum site has begun testing a new conversational AI feature of its own.
Review of OpenAI's Sora video generator: excels at depicting landscapes, people, stylistic content, but it often fails with basic physics like object permanence
SORA generates videos. This is the first review.Get up to 40% off on last minute gifts at https://ridge.com/MKBHDThe (real) birding video: https://youtu.be/F...
A look at generative AI's impact, its structural issue of concentrated power among just a few companies, and utopian questions over an alternative vision for AI
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where's the utopian vision for what it could be?
Filing: TikTok asks a US court to put on hold a law forcing a sale or ban of the app until SCOTUS can review it and the Trump admin can decide its position
TikTok asked that a US law forcing a sale or ban of the app by China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. be put on hold to give the US Supreme Court a chance to review.
A look at Grand Theft Auto VI, set for release in 2025 after Rockstar started development in 2018, as Rockstar tries to improve its culture after the 2022 hack
Expectations are dangerously high for the first GTA in more than a decade. — Grand Theft Auto VI isn't just going to be the biggest video game of 2025.
Cloudflare 2024 report: global internet traffic grew 17.2% in 2024, Google remained the top service, global traffic from Starlink grew 3.3x in 2024, and more
The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year …
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on AGI, Copilot, AI agents, the OpenAI deal, joining Microsoft in March 2024, managing ~10K staff, DeepMind, and more
The company's new AI chief on working for Microsoft, the OpenAI relationship, and when superintelligence might actually arrive.
How FRED, a data tool the St. Louis Federal Reserve created in 1991, recently gained a major following, from <400K website users in 2009 to nearly 15M in 2023
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b... Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper.com : FRED is the exceptionally rare government institution where America beats most of the rest of the world hands down www.nytimes.com/2024...
WaveForms, which aims to create AI assistants that pick up on emotional cues from verbal interactions, raised a $40M seed from a16z at a $200M valuation
WaveForms wants to help people have better spoken conversations with machines. — A lead researcher behind OpenAI's voice assistant …
A study involving 747,604 women finds those who paid extra for AI-enhanced mammograms were 21% more likely to have breast cancer detected than those who didn't
Having an unbiased second pair of eyes for various medical tests will be one of the more positive impacts of AI in medicine. …
Russian docs and sources: how Putin's forces kept buying US chips, including $5.9M from Texas Instruments from January to August 2024, via a Russian distributor
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Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia set its IPO price at ~$9.70, in the middle of its range, raising ~$800M and valuing it at ~$5.2B, for its December 18 listing
A look at Donald Trump's collision course with the EU over its Big Tech crackdown: targeting Elon Musk's X under the DSA, Apple's and Meta's fines, and more
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Researchers say cashless policies, which are picking up pace in the US, disadvantage many groups, including low-income peoples, the homeless, and older adults
Paula Span / New York Times : X: @paula_span and @jeanette_leardi X: Paula Span / @paula_span : I wrote about the move to a cash-free America and the disadvantages to several groups, including elders...
Ukrainian officials worry about Telegram, which has soared in popularity during the war with Russia, questioning if its upsides outweigh its security risks
New York Times :
GroupM expects global ad industry revenue to grow 9.5% in 2024, passing $1T for the first time, with Google, Meta, ByteDance, Amazon, and Alibaba earning 50%+
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US FEC post-election filings: Elon Musk gave $239M to America PAC, $20.5M to the RBG PAC, $10M to the Senate Leadership Fund, $3M to the MAHA Alliance, and more
A randomized study at a corporate lab employing more than 1,000 researchers: teams using AI discovered 44% more new materials than teams with standard workflows
But a lot of qns remain about this preprint. — (By Davide Castelvecchi, Nature). Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : AI Boosts Materials Discovery By 44% at Major US Lab
How Russia-linked Akira group's ransomware attack on Knights of Old in June 2023 led to the 158-year-old UK delivery firm's bankruptcy after it refused to pay
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : X: @business X: @business : Major corporations get the attention in ransomware attacks. But hackers more often target small businesses, such as UK trucking company Knight...
A look at chipmaker Marvell, whose market cap has passed Intel's, driven by its data center business; CEO Matt Murphy has reportedly been floated as Intel's CEO
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal :
Bloomberg Intelligence: the Magnificent Seven's combined profit growth is projected to slow from 34% in 2024 to 18% in 2025, or just 3% if Nvidia is excluded
www.wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/ [embedded post] Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : Magnificent 7 (FAANG + Nvidia + Microsoft + Tesla - Netflix) profit growth is expected to slow from 3...
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.