A look at challenges facing Apple's semiconductor group; sources: Apple cut a next-gen GPU with ray tracing from iPhone 14 Pro due to battery and thermal issues — For more than a decade, Apple's silicon engineering group has helped give Apple a competitive edge in smartphones and laptops.
A look at Microsoft's “nice guy” strategy to close its Activision deal; sources: Microsoft hopes to win over EU regulators, which could force the US to settle — Federal regulators have sued to block the $69 billion acquisition, but the company has settled on a path forward and is preparing to force the issue.
San Jose-based Tredence, which offers data analytics services for retail, healthcare, and other industries, raised a $175M Series B led by Advent International — Data science and artificial intelligence solutions startup Tredence Inc. said late today that it has closed …
Twitter will now let Blue subscribers upload 60-minute, 1080p videos up to 2GB on the web; iOS and Android users are still limited to 10-minute, 512MB videos — After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk had long promised that the company is working toward making the platform more appealing to video creators.
European Court of Justice says Amazon could be held responsible for breaching Louboutin's trademark rights by selling counterfeit third-party red-soled shoes — Online retail giant Amazon could be held responsible for breaching luxury shoemaker Christian Louboutin's trademark rights …
Mastodon, nostr, and other decentralized social networks are having a moment, despite some complexity, propelled by the apparent decline of Twitter and Meta — So, it's been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it …
How Twitter played a major role in research and science communication, especially during the pandemic, as researchers and scientists leave the service — In November, Vince Knight decided he'd had enough of Twitter. After more than a decade on the social-media platform, Knight …
Sources: at a town hall, Tencent CEO Pony Ma ranted for 10 minutes about staff laziness, graft, “superficial” reforms, Tencent's aging social network, and more — Many multinational CEOs like to close out the year with a message of congratulations.
TuSimple confirms plans to lay off 25% of its workforce, or an estimated 350 workers, following a rough year for the self-driving trucking company — Update: CEO Cheng Lu said laid off workers will remain on the payroll for two months and will receive severance. — Well, we knew it was coming.
Palantir signs a three-year, £75M deal with the UK's defense ministry, providing software to prompt real-time military actions and predict potential results — Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR.N) has signed a three-year, 75 million pound ($91.39 million) deal with the United Kingdom's Ministry …
Anker admits its eufy security cameras' live view feature on its web portal “has a security flaw”, but fails to address why anyone can view unencrypted streams — On the last episode of “Will Anker ever tell us what's actually going on with its security cameras rather than lying …
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk says he expects Twitter to “be okay” next year after cost cutting, claiming the company was on course to spend ~$5B in 2023 — Social network's owner offers snapshot of dire finances to explain huge lay-offs since $44bn takeover
George Hotz, aka geohot, who joined Twitter on November 18 after Elon Musk's “extremely hardcore” pledge, resigned, saying he could not make “any real impact” — George Hotz, known for being the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone and jailbreaking the PS3 …
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters : SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting w...
