Crypto casinos rival traditional betting groups in scale despite being illegal in most countries, with $81.4B in gross gaming revenue in 2024, up 5x since 2022
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President Trump pauses tariffs on most countries for 90 days, setting a 10% “lowered Reciprocal Tariff”, and sets 125% tariffs on China “effective immediately”
- President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on the full effect of his new tariffs for at least some countries.
The Biden admin unveils a new chip export rule that gives 18 key allies full AI chips access while requiring licenses from most other countries, including China
now the EU has shown concerns about the U.S. limits on how much AI chips certain EU states can buy. — ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Sung Kim / @sungkim : Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated “Hold...
Analysis: the AI frenzy is expected to drive the global data center energy consumption to 1,580 TWh by 2034, about as much as is used by all of India currently
Which makes me wonder why they don't build huge data centres in northern Quebec. — Close to hydro generation. — Free cooling, both ambient air and the cold river water. — Do these take lot of pe...
Twitter turned off the ability to receive tweet alerts via SMS messages in most countries last week
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Google Assistant now works in eight Indic languages, gets multilingual support for more languages, is coming to feature phones and Google Maps in more languages
Vice President of Product, Google Assistant … In most countries around the world, phones are the primary way people interact with the Google Assistant.
Apple becomes the world's only company with a $1T market cap
combined! CNBC : After Apple rallies to $1 trillion, even the uber bullish crowd on Wall Street believes it may need to cool off Edward C. Baig / USA Today : How Tim Cook and the iPhone made Apple Ame...
Apple becomes the world's only company with a $1T market cap
combined! Edward C. Baig / USA Today : How Tim Cook and the iPhone made Apple America's first $1 trillion company Surur / MSPoweruser : Apple beats Microsoft, Google and Amazon to $1 trillion valuatio...
Egypt's new law allows state to block social media accounts and blogs with 5K+ followers on sites like Facebook and Twitter, requires licenses for new websites
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists held to be publishing fake news. Tweets: @sub8u and @monaeltahawy ...
BlackBerry gives China's TCL exclusive rights to sell BlackBerry-branded phones in most countries
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