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| Mike Truppa / The Block: |
Ethereum activates its long-awaited The Merge upgrade and transactions are now being processed under proof of stake — - The Merge upgrade is transitioning Ethereum from proof of work to proof of stake. — The Merge is one of the largest technological events in the industry to date.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
In a US Senate committee hearing, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter executives defended their platforms and dodged security, privacy, and moderation questions — Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google redesigns the Memories feature in Photos to spotlight more videos, launches a collage editor, and will let users share Memories with friends and family — As consumer social apps shift their focus to video for social expression and adopt more creative tools, like those for collage-making …
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| New York Times: |
California's AG files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, focusing on the company allegedly penalizing sellers who list products at lower prices on other sites — Rob Bonta, California's attorney general, said the retailer punishes companies that offer lower prices on other websites.
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| Alex Battaglia / Eurogamer.net: |
A review of Intel's pre-release AI upscaling tech XeSS, used in its new Arc A770 GPU, shows competitive results against Nvidia's slightly older DLSS — A strong start for a new, more open AI upscaler. — Face-off by Alex Battaglia Video Producer, Digital Foundry
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| Patrick Kennedy / ServeTheHome: |
Arm unveils Neoverse V2, its next-gen core for pushing cloud, hyperscale, and HPC performance workloads, which is set to power Nvidia's upcoming Grace CPU — Today Arm announced its next-generation cores for higher performance per core applications. Dubbed the Arm Neoverse V2 or “Demeter” …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google cancels seven out of 14 projects in its Area 120 incubator, including Qaya, which offered storefronts for creators, and shifts to only AI-first projects — Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the Code Conference last week, suggested the tech company needed to become 20% more efficient …
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| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
Users say a demo of ERNIE-ViLG, Baidu's new text-to-image AI model, labels words in political contexts as “sensitive” and blocks them from generating a result — The new text-to-image AI developed by Baidu can generate images that show Chinese objects and celebrities more accurately than existing AIs.| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK's CMA and EU are expected to launch in-depth investigations into Microsoft's $75B Activision Blizzard bid due to size and competition concerns — Regulators in Brussels expected to follow CMA with plans for prolonged competition investigation
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon announces a Tailored Audiences tool, coming to all US sellers in early 2023, which will let brands and merchants send marketing emails to shoppers — Amazon.com Inc. will let brands and merchants send marketing emails to shoppers, a risky bid to boost sales that could inundate inboxes with spam.
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| Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
Coinbase updates its app to let US users see a scorecard that evaluates members of Congress on crypto policy issues, register to vote, and find political events — - Coinbase is getting political: The exchange added new app features to help users evaluate lawmakers, register to vote and find political events.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Intel, Arm, and Nvidia propose a new open, license-free specification using 8-bit floating point, or FP8, precision as a common interchange format for AI — In pursuit of faster and more efficient AI system development, Intel, Arm and Nvidia today published a draft specification for what they refer …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Canva unveils new products Docs, Websites, Whiteboards, and Data Visualization, brings background removing to videos, and adds a remote control to Presentations — Canva is further establishing itself as more than just a user-friendly graphic design tool. The Australian company announced …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 587 into law, requiring social networks to share moderation rules, despite concerns it may violate the First Amendment — California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law aimed at making web platforms monitor hate speech, extremism, harassment, and other objectionable behaviors.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Experts say Peiter Zatko's Senate testimony on Twitter is unlikely to have a big impact on Elon Musk's legal battle to terminate his $44B takeover deal — Testimony from Twitter's former security chief to US senators on Tuesday was undoubtedly bruising for the social media company.| Jiaxing Li / South China Morning Post: |
A look at Shanghai's status as China's chip hub: SMIC and SMEE making 14nm and 90nm chips, ~$36.95B market size in 2021 or ~25% of China's total, and more — Shanghai is styling itself as China's semiconductor highland with the city now accounting for one quarter of the country's semiconductor value output …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Netflix told ad buyers the company expects its ad-supported tier to reach 4.4M unique viewers globally in 2022, and ~40M by Q3 2023, with 13.3M in the US — Streaming giant shared projections for ‘unique viewers’ across a dozen launch markets with ad buyers
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Verkada, an IoT security device maker accused of lax data protections and a toxic workplace, raised a $205M Series D at a $3.2B valuation led by Linse Capital — Verkada, a six-year-old, maker of building security tools and tech for companies — it sells them a package of video security cameras …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 14 Pro review: excellent performance and an incredible 48MP camera, but Dynamic Island's potential isn't fully realized and the camera sharpens too much — The dynamic island is a potentially good idea that's waiting for the next step … Apple pulled off some unexpected surprises …
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