Thursday, March 9, 2023

Milton Keynes-based Envisics, which is building hologram tech for in-car monitors, raised a $50M+ Series C at a $500M valuation, up from ~$250M in October 2020 (Peter Campbell/Financial Times)

Peter Campbell / Financial Times:
Milton Keynes-based Envisics, which is building hologram tech for in-car monitors, raised a $50M+ Series C at a $500M valuation, up from ~$250M in October 2020  —  Milton Keynes-based group says technology will improve safety on busy urban roads  —  A UK start-up developing hologram technology …



How to enable the Dvorak keyboard on iPhone

The iOS 16 update introduced support for the Dvorak keyboard layout, which is an alternative to the popularly used QWERTY layout. With this keyboard, the vowels are arranged adjacent to one another on the left and the consonants are distributed evenly across the left and right in the order of how frequently they occur in the English language. https://ift.tt/op1Cdsu

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Research: Binance increased its market share from 59.4% in January to 61.8% in February, the fourth straight month of growth, likely due to available liquidity (Lyllah Ledesma/CoinDesk)

Lyllah Ledesma / CoinDesk:
Research: Binance increased its market share from 59.4% in January to 61.8% in February, the fourth straight month of growth, likely due to available liquidity  —  The exchange continues to dominate, despite facing increased regulatory scrutiny, a report by CryptoCompare shows.



A look at Google's scramble to add generative AI to its products, reminding some employees of the rush to infuse Google+ into every key service starting in 2011 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A look at Google's scramble to add generative AI to its products, reminding some employees of the rush to infuse Google+ into every key service starting in 2011  —  Artificial intelligence was supposed to be Google's thing.  The company has cultivated a reputation for making long-term bets …



YouTube plans to ease its restrictions on swearing in videos after finding its rules from November 2022 "resulted in a stricter approach than we intended" (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
YouTube plans to ease its restrictions on swearing in videos after finding its rules from November 2022 “resulted in a stricter approach than we intended”  —  YouTube will ease its restrictions on swearing in videos after an update it rolled out in November sparked backlash from several creators …



TikTok announces Project Clover, outlining its plan to charm European regulators, including keeping user data on servers in Europe and allowing an audit (Politico)

Politico:
TikTok announces Project Clover, outlining its plan to charm European regulators, including keeping user data on servers in Europe and allowing an audit  —  BRUSSELS — TikTok has launched its European counteroffensive to assuage politicians' fears over Chinese surveillance.



Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a "frugal AI" approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)

Rina Chandran / Rest of World : Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a “frugal AI” app...