Android 14 features Google showcased at I/O 2023

Google started its in-person annual developer conference Google I/O 2023 yesterday (May 10). At the event, the company elaborated about the inclusion of Artificial Intelligence in various Google products. Along with this, the tech giant also unveiled its first foldable Android smartphone, Pixel Fold and its latest mid-range handset Pixel 7a at the event. Apart from the hardware announcements Google also revealed some of the features coming to its Android 14, the upcoming version of Android operating system. https://ift.tt/ed76fAE

A look at Microsoft's Trust Code training video series, heading into its seventh season, which has hooked employees with popular characters and cliffhangers (Dylan Tokar/Wall Street Journal)

Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Microsoft's Trust Code training video series, heading into its seventh season, which has hooked employees with popular characters and cliffhangers  —  Instead of a finger-wagging snoozer about corporate misbehavior, ‘Trust Code’ has flawed characters, dramatic cliffhangers and fans worldwide

Sources: ByteDance postpones opening TikTok Shop to US sellers, planned for spring, to June at the earliest after the service struggled to attract merchants (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance postpones opening TikTok Shop to US sellers, planned for spring, to June at the earliest after the service struggled to attract merchants  —  Doubts over app's future and tepid adoption of live-streaming e-commerce in the U.S. slow plans for full launch

Microsoft invests in Gurgaon-based software company, Builder.ai

Microsoft has made an equity investment in Builder.ai, a software development platform based in Gurgaon, India. Builder.ai lets users build software using an artificial intelligence-powered platform in a more efficient and affordable manner, without technical skills, and will now become part of Microsoft's ISV programme, with the companies working together to make software development more accessible for non-tech users. "We are ecstatic that the world's largest software company chose Builder.ai...to help the next 100m businesses and beyond become digitally native," said Sachin Dev Duggal, the builder's founder. https://ift.tt/8hykivO

Binance launches Capital Connect to connect VIP clients and investment fund managers; the exchange has 128M users, of which VIPs are a "very small percentage" (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Binance launches Capital Connect to connect VIP clients and investment fund managers; the exchange has 128M users, of which VIPs are a “very small percentage”  —  - Binance has launched a new platform called Capital Connect to facilitate connections between its VIP clients and investment fund managers.

How Japan-based Rapidus is trying to become a globally competitive chipmaker by 2027, aiming to mass produce 2nm chips just two years after TSMC and Samsung (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
How Japan-based Rapidus is trying to become a globally competitive chipmaker by 2027, aiming to mass produce 2nm chips just two years after TSMC and Samsung  —  Tetsuro Higashi is taking on what seems like an impossible task: Create a globally competitive semiconductor manufacturer in Japan from scratch - and do it in four years.