Saturday, March 16, 2024

Review of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16: sets the bar for foldables with a large 4:3 display and seamless centerfold, but the trackpad is prone to missed inputs (Joanna Nelius/The Verge)

Joanna Nelius / The Verge:
Review of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16: sets the bar for foldables with a large 4:3 display and seamless centerfold, but the trackpad is prone to missed inputs  —  Its beautiful 16-inch OLED display morphs into a 12-inch laptop, but do splurge for the ‘optional’ keyboard and folio.



Bain: Indian startups raised $9.6B in 2023, down from $25.7B in 2022; over 35K Indian startups shut down in 2023 and leading startups laid off 20,000+ employees (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times:
Bain: Indian startups raised $9.6B in 2023, down from $25.7B in 2022; over 35K Indian startups shut down in 2023 and leading startups laid off 20,000+ employees  —  During 2023, growth and late-stage startups chose to defer fundraising, and investors took their foot off the gas pedal owing …



How evangelicals proselytize using Bless Every Home, an app that lets users create neighborhood maps and data tables based on people's religion and ethnicity (Elle Hardy/New Republic)

Elle Hardy / New Republic:
How evangelicals proselytize using Bless Every Home, an app that lets users create neighborhood maps and data tables based on people's religion and ethnicity  —  The future of proselytizing—and surveillance—has arrived.  An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed …



Friday, March 15, 2024

Vivo T3 5G smartphone to launch on March 21: Check expected features and prices

Vivo T3 is launching on March 21 with impressive specs like 120Hz FHD+ AMOLED, Dimensity 7200, 8GB RAM, 128GB/256GB storage, and 50MP main camera. It will be exclusively available on Flipkart at a starting price of Rs 18,999. https://ift.tt/ITUtvnk

In one of the most notable developments under its new CEO Richard Teng, Binance spun out Binance Labs, its $10B venture capital arm, earlier this year (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg:
In one of the most notable developments under its new CEO Richard Teng, Binance spun out Binance Labs, its $10B venture capital arm, earlier this year  —  - Investment arm is now independent from the trading platform  — Industry is monitoring for changes at Binance under CEO Teng



Sources: China quietly asks EV makers like BYD and Geely to sharply increase their purchases from local chipmakers, to reduce reliance on Western imports (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: China quietly asks EV makers like BYD and Geely to sharply increase their purchases from local chipmakers, to reduce reliance on Western imports  —  - Directive could hurt Nvidia, NXP and other EV chip suppliers  — Order is a response to US efforts to curb Chinese chip tech



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...