Saturday, November 4, 2023

How chip companies are experimenting with new materials, including synthetic diamonds and ultrapure glass, to improve performance and combat heat in microchips (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
How chip companies are experimenting with new materials, including synthetic diamonds and ultrapure glass, to improve performance and combat heat in microchips  —  To beat the heat that our devices throw off, engineers are experimenting with synthetic diamonds, ultrapure glass and other obscure materials



Byju's files much-delayed financial results: $270.9M operating loss and revenue of $429.18M for FY ending March 2022, missing revenue projections of $1.25B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Byju's files much-delayed financial results: $270.9M operating loss and revenue of $429.18M for FY ending March 2022, missing revenue projections of $1.25B  —  Indian edtech giant Byju's said on Saturday that revenue of its core business, its largest, in the financial year ending March 2022 stood …



NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform, which will be "contractually obligated" to pay royalties on NFT sales (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)

Andrew Hayward / Decrypt:
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform, which will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties on NFT sales  —  Magic Eden's new Ethereum NFT marketplace will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties.  What does that mean for traders?



The CEO of Pebble, formerly T2, on why the social network failed: not prioritizing building an app, Threads' launch, not enough interesting content, and more (Gabor Cselle/Medium)

Gabor Cselle / Medium:
The CEO of Pebble, formerly T2, on why the social network failed: not prioritizing building an app, Threads' launch, not enough interesting content, and more  —  Tl;dr We tried to build a Twitter alternative from scratch, starting a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the company.



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...