CryptoSlam: Ethereum NFT sales jumped from $546.9M in December 2022 to $780.2M in January 2023, well down from ~$5B in January 2022; average prices were ~$372 — It's alive! The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, defying reports of its demise. — Total NFT sales on the ethereum blockchain …
A look at Andy Jassy's challenges running Amazon, down by $1T in market cap since he took over: cutting costs, layoffs, boosting Prime subscribers, and more — Investors joining Amazon's earning call earlier this month were greeted with a surprise guest: the group's chief executive, Andy Jassy.
Sex educators, adult stars, and sex workers complain about Instagram, saying Meta's moderation has gotten more punitive and less predictable since SESTA-FOSTA — Cherie DeVille lives in perpetual fear of losing her 3.7 million Instagram followers. — DeVille is a well-known porn star who also has an OnlyFans account.
A Stanford student using a prompt injection attack revealed the initial prompts of Bing Chat that control the service's behavior and its interactions with users — By asking “Sydney” to ignore previous instructions, it reveals its original directives. — On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed a …
IDC: Pico, owned by ByteDance, gained ~15% of the global VR market share by Q3 2022, a 3x gain YoY; Meta's market share fell from 90% to ~75% in the same period — Pico, owned by ByteDance, has increased shipments of VR headsets as it attempts to compete with Meta's Quest 2
How a slowing digital ad market, Apple's ATT changes, tech companies' internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic — Scrolling past ads has rarely been enjoyable. But in recent months, people say the experience seems so much worse.
Inside Apple's efforts to develop new financial services, which have suffered from slow progress and missed deadlines due to engineering and technical setbacks — Apple's slate of new financial services — including “buy now, pay later” offerings, savings accounts and an iPhone subscription program — have hit delays.
A look at “liquid” neural nets, which change their underlying algorithms based on observed inputs, making them more flexible than standard ML neural networks — “Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm's nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.
How Rumble, which claims to have 71M MAUs, became the only success story in right-wing social media, by letting creators who are banned elsewhere monetize video — For a moment, the right's longtime dream of an alternative social media seemed within reach.
Sources: Meta has delayed finalizing multiple teams' budgets while it prepares a fresh round of job cuts, slowing down projects even in priority areas — Mark Zuckerberg's aim of wrestling costs in his ‘year of efficiency’ causes disruption at the social media company
Lagos-based Jumia, once hailed as the “Amazon of Africa”, has seen its stock drop ~70% since its 2019 IPO amid stalling customer growth and mounting losses — Its stock has fallen 70% since its IPO as growth stalls and operating losses mount. — • ABUJA, NIGERIA
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters : Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city ...
