Microsoft unveils a data center design that uses zero water for cooling, down from the 125M+ liters per year a typical center uses, rolling out from August 2024
New design will use no water to cool the facilities' servers and chips. — Microsoft Corp., trying to mitigate the climate impact …
A deep dive into “debanking”, which crypto advocates, including a16z, claim has been used against them by US political actors and agencies without due process
Recently, noted VC Marc Andreessen kicked off a discussion about debanking, in a podcast with his co-founder Ben Horowitz …
Amazon launches Amazon Autos, letting US shoppers buy Hyundai cars, and plans to add dealerships and manufacturers in 2025, after announcing it in November 2023
Amazon's partnership with Hyundai means you can use the e-retailer to purchase a brand-new car online.
OpenAI launches Sora in select countries; ChatGPT Pro offers up to 500 videos per month at up to 1080p, and ChatGPT Plus offers up to 50 videos at up to 720p
OpenAI has officially launched Sora, its text-to-video AI model, as part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” event. Megan Morrone / Axios : OpenAI launches Sora video generator Dwayne Oxford / Al Jazeera : Wha...
The US Commerce Department finalizes $6.1B+ for memory chipmaker Micron to fund its New York and Idaho factory projects, one of the largest CHIPS Act subsidies
The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized a subsidy of more than $6.1 billion for memory chip maker Micron Technology (MU.O) …
TSMC reports $8.5B in consolidated November revenue, up 34% YoY but down 12% from October's record, when it projected Q4 revenue up 11%-14% QoQ to $26.1B-$26.9B
The company's stock has surged nearly 80% year-to-date, reflecting its robust business growth.
The US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity government contractor Sichuan Silence and one of its staff over Ragnarok ransomware ties and creating and using zero-days
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Sichuan Silence, a Chinese cybersecurity company, and one of its employees …
Sources: in October 2024, EU regulators asked Google for more information about its secret ads deal with Meta that skirted Google's rules for targeting minors
Regulators request information after FT investigation into partnership that skirted search giant's rules on minors
Instagram officially rolls out “trial reels”, which give creators a way to test out videos by publishing them only to people who don't follow them
Instagram is officially rolling out “trial reels” to give creators a way to test out new content by publishing videos that don't appear to their followers.
Solos debuts the AirGo Vision, a camera-equipped pair of smart glasses featuring visual recognition powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o, available now starting from $299
Solos' camera-equipped smart glasses have arrived to provide some much-needed competition against Meta's Ray-Bans.
Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
Is Bitcoin's security at risk? Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider : Willow Wows Elon Musk in X Exchange With Sundar Pichai Mudit Dube / NewsBytes : Google makes quantum computing breakthrough with new ...
Norwegian payment service Vipps launches the world's first Apple Pay alternative on iOS, following Apple's move to open NFC access to developers from iOS 18.1
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors :
Parents and school staff say student activity monitoring software that aims to intercept self-harm before it happens, while helpful, has unintended consequences
Ellen Barry / New York Times :
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
Such thoughtful design! 👏 — (also note the new Raspberry Pi 500) — https://www.raspberrypi.com/ ... [image] X: Jeff Geerling / @geerlingguy : This picture, unfortunately, was taken *after* I had...
TeamViewer says it plans to acquire 1E, which makes automated remediation software, from Carlyle for $720M, closing in early 2025, its biggest acquisition yet
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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
www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24... Forums: r/RedditIPO : Introducing Reddit Answers
AI language learning startup Speak, which focuses on speaking, not gamification, raised $78M led by Accel at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $162M
Speak's app uses an artificial intelligence “conversational partner” to help people become fluent in English.
Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $14.06B, vs. $14.1B est., and signs a deal with Meta to train Llama models on Oracle's cloud; ORCL drops 7%+
Larry Ellison's Fortune Loses $15 Billion Itai Levitan / Forexlive : Mixed signals in the market: Google soars while Oracle dives Andrew Kessel / Yahoo Finance : What Analysts Are Saying After Oracle'...
How WhatsApp evolved from a messaging app into a business messaging growth platform, aggressively luring big businesses to its suite of paid messaging products
Just a point for this article. India's installed base is given at 400 million. Last i saw it had crossed 600 and growing rapldly. It's the social glue here like iMessage in the us or line in Korea ...
In mockups on GitHub, Bluesky teases Bluesky+, a $72-per-year or $8-per-month subscription offering profile customizations, higher video upload limits, and more
Here's What May Be Included Adam Marshall / Tech.co : Bluesky Paid Subscription Tier May Be Just Around the Corner Anshuman Jain / Beebom : Free Lunch Is Over: Bluesky Premium Features Leak with $8 Mo...
Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery using quantum algorithms and AI, raised $38M led by Cathay Innovation, after raising €30M in January 2024
Aqemia, a French startup that's meshing “quantum-inspired physics” with machine learning to find new drugs …
A profile of Vinted, a secondhand clothes app in the EU working to expand in the US that went from near collapse to a €5B valuation after a secondary share sale
“Today Vinted is changing the way millions of people shop and dress. …
TikTok launches TikTok Shop in Spain, letting creators sell products from beauty to home appliances, from €3 to €60, the first step of its European rollout
Bloomberg :
Software testing service LambdaTest, which supports 5K+ browser and OS combinations, raised a $38M Series D led by Avataar, taking its total funding to $108M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
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
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg :
A growing cohort of AI startups are recruiting experts to train models on highly specialized tasks for sensitive sectors like finance, defense, and health care
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : X: @saritharai X: Saritha Rai / @saritharai : PhDs, radiologists, accountants in places like Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines & Vietnam are teaching AI to perform comp...
Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju says the startup, now focused on its API and licensing, has seen “triple digit growth” and has “a clean balance sheet, no debt”
Kali Hays / Fortune : X: @lwinthorpe X: Louis Winthorpe III / @lwinthorpe : what's the growth in? revenue?
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