AMD announces its first 2nm silicon fabricated on TSMC's N2 process, set to debut on its sixth-gen EPYC “Venice” chip, which is expected to launch in 2026
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Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs
Introduction QwQ is the reasoning model of the Qwen series. Paul Barker / InfoWorld : Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks's R-1, OpenAI's o1 Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : Alibaba's Latest A...
Researchers have devised a digital method to virtually unfold and read letters sealed with “letterlocking”, an old practice of securing letters before envelopes
William J. Broad / New York Times : Tweets: @laura_estill , @charlescmann , @ykomska , @nytscience , @nytscience , and @eagresta Tweets: Dr. Laura Estill / @laura_estill : Thrilled to see this news/b...
Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, CEO of Signal, as he defends centralization as a necessary condition for Signal's widespread adoption, and for its ease of use
we love seeing it take the spotlight. Signal will be the right tool for some people, but for those of you who want the highest level of security without having to put your phone number in a database, ...
A software engineer's account of his year and a half at Snap, from dealing with a micromanaging director to the move from the Venice to the Santa Monica offices
Marko Tupper : Tweets: @karissabe , @richardmatthias , @tompjacobs , @tomwhitwell , and @holman Tweets: Karissa Bell / @karissabe : So uh, are we supposed to feel bad for this former Snap engineer wh...
A deep look at how Airbnb has influenced the housing market and transformed neighborhoods in Barcelona, where 1.5M visitors stay in Airbnbs annually
filled with restaurants selling paella, tapas, and sangria, none of which have local origins, but which conform to a generic image of Spain.” http://www.newyorker.com/... Ben Detrick / @bdetrick : if ...
As banks compete to become top underwriter for Uber's 2019 IPO, sources say Morgan Stanley, whose top tech banker moonlights as an Uber driver, is the favorite
hardly necessary, given his multimillion-dollar salary—may help Morgan Stanley win a role on the most hotly anticipated IPO in years http://www.wsj.com/... Tripp Mickle / @trippmickle : Morgan Stanley...
Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, unveils Spectacles, sunglasses that record 10 seconds of video at a time with a tap of a button, to be sold this fall for $130
IN AN UNMARKED BUILDING on a quiet side street just off the beach in Venice, California, 26-year-old Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel stands in a small conference room.
Snapchat launches Story Explorer to let users view multiple perspectives of moments in Live Stories, starting in New York and Los Angeles
Inside Snapchat's newest feature: Story Explorer — Snapchat Inc. Chief Executive Evan Spiegel grabs his iPhone, opens his Venice company's app and taps an icon for “Los Angeles.”
BlackBerry Venice hands-on video: Android slider has touch keyboard, universal search, and Google services
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