MVNO Noble Mobile launches with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang as CEO, offering cash back rewards to clients who use less than 20GB of data per month
- The schtick here is customers get rewarded by using less data - in the form of cash back rewards
Over 700 people, including AI experts and executives, sign an open letter calling for more regulation of deepfakes, such as by criminalizing deepfake child porn
especially as we head into a major election. ‘AI godfather’, others urge more deepfake regulation in open letter https://www.reuters.com/... Ari H. Mendelson / @kingmakerseries : Regulating this kind ...
California regulators close SVB and name the FDIC as the receiver to protect insured deposits; SVB ended 2022 with ~$209B in assets and $175.4B in deposits
banks, lawyers, etc — and it's a minor but not insignificant screening mechanism. https://twitter.com/... Jason Zweig / @jasonzweigwsj : If you want to create a perverse incentive for banks to become ...
NYC mayor-elect Eric Adams says he plans to take his first three paychecks in bitcoin and the city is going to be the “center of the cryptocurrency industry”
Report Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol : Where is the capital of crypto? — Fintech! This Friday: New York versus Miami in a crypto showdown … The Daily Hodl : NYC Mayor-Elect Pledges To Take First Thr...
Interviews with tech leaders on Tony Hsieh's legacy, his student life at Harvard, his unconventional business approach, and the culture he built at Zappos
I heard the news about Tony Hsieh last night by text message. Tweets: Governor Sisolak / @govsisolak : Tony Hsieh played a pivotal role in helping transform Downtown Las Vegas. Kathy and I send our lo...
Starship Technologies' fleet of delivery robots helped residents of Milton Keynes, a small city of 270K in UK, with grocery deliveries during the lockdown
Like many other places, a community 50 miles outside London went into quarantine. A fleet of delivery robots has been helping with the groceries. Tweets: @mit_csail , @dintersmith , @eringriffith , a...
Simply carrying a smartphone to a political rally could tie its owner to the event in commercial datasets, thanks to the realtime tracking tech in mundane apps
New York Times : Tweets: @carnage4life , @suchitrav , @snowden , @paulkidd , @campuscodi , @nytopinion , @dirktherabbit , @michellerobbins , @cwarzel , @cwarzel , @chadloder , @bora_dimpy , and @mand...
Simply carrying a smartphone to a political rally could tie its owner to the event in commercial datasets, thanks to the realtime tracking tech in mundane apps
New York Times : Tweets: @carnage4life , @snowden , @suchitrav , @paulkidd , @campuscodi , @nytopinion , @dirktherabbit , @michellerobbins , @cwarzel , @cwarzel , @chadloder , @bora_dimpy , and @mand...
Apple releases more pricing details for Mac Pro, now available to order: maxed-out 4TB model costs $50K+ and wheels are $400, delivering between December 19-27
and you still have to buy the display separately. https://www.theverge.com/... The bulk of the expenses there appears to be RAM: 1.5TB of RAM will cost $25k. Jodi Beggs / @jodiecongirl : I don't know ...
Inside Intuit's 20-year fight to make it harder to file taxes for free, including a pact with the IRS that kept a US-run service from competing with TurboTax
“integrity without compromise” chief among them. Some joke it should be “compromise without integrity.” pic.twitter.com/geh00ke8Wf Justin Elliott / @justinelliott : So, ProPublica's TurboTax coverage ...