Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company had "serious issues" in leadership, people, and methodology, discusses the rough turnaround, competitors, and more (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company had “serious issues” in leadership, people, and methodology, discusses the rough turnaround, competitors, and more  —  Rivals such as Nvidia have left the chip company far behind.  CEO Pat Gelsinger aims to reverse firm's fortunes by vastly expanding its factories.



Why Amazon is joining hands with UP Police for these Nukkad Nataks

The Uttar Pradesh Police and Amazon India are coming together to tackle the menace of online shopping scams with a consumer education and awareness campaign, Mission GraHAQ. The two partners are collaborating to explore several joint initiatives aimed at empowering consumers to shop online with greater confidence. https://ift.tt/YAPFOxd

A viral clip from Nintendo's Tears of the Kingdom shows Link unfurling a bridge, wowing game developers; Nintendo reportedly spent a year polishing the game (Nicole Carpenter/Polygon)

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon:
A viral clip from Nintendo's Tears of the Kingdom shows Link unfurling a bridge, wowing game developers; Nintendo reportedly spent a year polishing the game  —  What looks simple is actually very hard to make  —  There's a bridge to cross the lava pit in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Marakuguc Shrine, but it's broken.



Binance names Richard Teng to run all regional markets outside the US, a swift ascension for the executive that joined in August 2021, as CZ comes under fire (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Binance names Richard Teng to run all regional markets outside the US, a swift ascension for the executive that joined in August 2021, as CZ comes under fire  —  Binance tapped Richard Teng to head all its regional markets outside of the US, a swift and steady ascension for the executive …



Chegg, Duolingo, and other edtech companies insist generative AI has the potential to enhance their products, despite the threat of being undercut by cheap AI (Bethan Staton/Financial Times)

Bethan Staton / Financial Times:
Chegg, Duolingo, and other edtech companies insist generative AI has the potential to enhance their products, despite the threat of being undercut by cheap AI  —  Groups including Chegg and Duolingo say new tech presents opportunities as they fight to compete



Monday, May 29, 2023

Arm transitions to a comprehensive 64-bit platform with new mobile CPU core designs Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520, built on its Armv9.2 architecture (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
Arm transitions to a comprehensive 64-bit platform with new mobile CPU core designs Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520, built on its Armv9.2 architecture  —  Throughout the world, if there's one universal constant in the smartphone and mobile device market, it's Arm.



AMD Radeon Pro W7000 series graphics cards now available

AMD has launched the world's first professional graphics cards built on the advanced AMD chiplet design, the Radeon Pro W7000 series graphics cards. The two available GPUs promise to deliver advanced image fidelity and colour accuracy while running graphics and heavy apps concurrently without disrupting workflows. The Radeon Pro W7900 and Radeon Pro W7800 graphics cards will be sold for $3,999 and $2,499 respectively, with support for higher refresh rate displays and more than 68 billion colors. https://ift.tt/rRgqF3J

MediaTek partners with Nvidia to add Nvidia's GPU chiplets and software to MediaTek SoCs used in automotive infotainment systems (Joseph White/Reuters)

Joseph White / Reuters:
MediaTek partners with Nvidia to add Nvidia's GPU chiplets and software to MediaTek SoCs used in automotive infotainment systems  —  Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) and MediaTek Inc (2454.TW) on Monday said they will collaborate on technology to power advanced vehicle infotainment systems that can stream video …



Source: HSBC intends to rebrand Silicon Valley Bank UK as HSBC Innovation Banking, and plans to announce the change during London Tech Week in June (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: HSBC intends to rebrand Silicon Valley Bank UK as HSBC Innovation Banking, and plans to announce the change during London Tech Week in June  —  Europe's biggest lender will next month announce that SVBUK is being renamed HSBC Innovation Banking, Sky News learns.  —  City editor @MarkKleinmanSky



Google removes 'Slavery Simulator' game from Play Store, here's why

Google has removed a controversial game called Slavery Simulator from Play Store. The game allowed players to buy and sell black characters and inflict various forms of torture on them, which caused outrage in Brazil due to the country’s legacy of slavery. Magnus Games launched the game on 20th April, and although it had been downloaded 1,000 times, it received a rating of four out of five stars. https://ift.tt/Gk9rRcF

Sunday, May 28, 2023

A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others that is using AI-generated images to train ML systems and generative adversarial networks (Matthew Gault/VICE)

Matthew Gault / VICE:
A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others that is using AI-generated images to train ML systems and generative adversarial networks  —  Discord's captcha is asking users to identify a ‘Yoko,’ a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI.  —  Matthew Gault



Analysts and others say Wind Information, described as a Chinese alternative to Bloomberg terminal, is limiting international users' access to some information (Rebecca Feng/Wall Street Journal)

Rebecca Feng / Wall Street Journal:
Analysts and others say Wind Information, described as a Chinese alternative to Bloomberg terminal, is limiting international users' access to some information  —  E-commerce shopping trends, satellite images are no longer available to foreign users of Wind



Starting July, NYC will enforce a law requiring firms using AI in hiring to notify candidates of its use and have independent auditors check for bias annually (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Starting July, NYC will enforce a law requiring firms using AI in hiring to notify candidates of its use and have independent auditors check for bias annually  —  New York City's pioneering, focused approach sets rules on how companies use the technology in work force decisions.



Hands-on with Meta's Quest 3 prototype: lighter, thinner, faster, and with better video pass-through than the Quest 2, but similar clarity of VR displays (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Hands-on with Meta's Quest 3 prototype: lighter, thinner, faster, and with better video pass-through than the Quest 2, but similar clarity of VR displays  —  This week, I go hands-on with Meta's yet-to-be-announced Quest 3 and explain how it may be the biggest challenger to Apple's new headset.



Apple's MR headset could succeed where others failed by adding more 3D content and interfaces but faces a challenge in balancing computer power with wearability (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's MR headset could succeed where others failed by adding more 3D content and interfaces but faces a challenge in balancing computer power with wearability  —  Augmented and virtual reality have mostly been dead ends so far.  How Apple's vision could succeed where others have failed.



Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg : Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice cau...