Japanese carrier Docomo is discontinuing its emoji set, which was last updated in 2013 and became one of the most influential in history after its debut in 1999 — This week, it was announced that Docomo's emoji designs will no longer appear on any of the Japanese mobile network's devices.
Apple raises trade-in prices for iPhones in China to spur demand in key market … Apple on Friday raised the amount of money people can get off their next iPhone in China by trading in their old device, rolling out further incentives to spur demand in a crucial market.
Vietnam orders ISPs to block Telegram over its failure to prevent illegal content and activities, including fraud, drug sales and suspected terrorism on the app — Vietnam authorities have instructed local telecoms and internet service providers to block the Telegram messaging app in the country …
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more — Google co-founder Brin says “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now. They should be working on AI."
Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, the new Mario Kart, the Pikmin franchise, Switch 2, and more — “What's important is to be able to create something new.” — In May of 2015, Nintendo officially announced plans to partner …
Running app Strava raised new funding at a $2.2B valuation including debt, up from $1.5B after raising $110M in November 2020, and nears $500M in ARR — Strava, whose valuation includes debt, says it acquired cycling app The Breakaway — Strava, the popular running and exercise app …
Analysis: AI energy consumption is exploding, with data centers doubling electricity use between 2017 and 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption — The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn't tracking and consider where it's heading next.
UK retailer M&S says it expects a £300M profit hit from an April cyberattack and disruption to continue until July 2025; M&S' market cap has falled by ~£750M — UK retailer's operations face ongoing disruption from April hack — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT …
Q&A with Feng Ji, founder of top Chinese quant fund Baiont, on using AI to develop trading strategies, China's quant landscape, having a small team, and more — The founder of one of China's top-performing quant funds explains how his team of young computer scientists are using machine learning to disrupt the sector
Spotify says Apple approved an update to let users in the US buy individual audiobooks from its iOS app and see audiobook prices, after the Epic v. Apple ruling — You'll see a ‘Buy’ button alongside an audiobook's price. … It's finally possible to purchase an audiobook from Spotify's iPhone app with just a few taps.
A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who transformed himself from an academic into a CEO; as of mid-April, Anthropic was on track for $2B in annual revenue — Dario Amodei has transformed himself from an academic into the CEO of a $61 billion startup. — Anthropic Chief Executive …
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says on Weibo that the company invested ~$1.9B to build its Xring O1 chip and plans to invest $6.9B+ in chip design over the next decade — China's Xiaomi will launch its highly-anticipated YU7 electric sports utility vehicle on Thursday, as well as other products …
An interview with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and CPO Mario Rodriguez on the year of SWE agents, Copilot phase two, Project Padawan, programming's future, and more — GitHub first introduced its now ubiquitous Copilot back in 2021. At the time, the Microsoft-owned company described it as …
How a hacker breached the Signal knockoff app TeleMessage in about 20 minutes thanks to a basic misconfiguration, leading to sensitive data spilling out — The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month.
Chime's S-1: MyPay revenue totaled $64.3M in Q1 vs. estimated credit losses from the product of $57.3M, highlighting the risks with the paycheck advance product — Last summer, banking app Chime introduced a lending product that let customers borrow small amounts to get them through to their next paycheck.
New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...
