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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 GPUs; the $1,599 RTX 4090 is 2-4x faster than the 3090 Ti, comes with 24GB of GDDR6X memory, and ships on October 12 — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 40-series GPUs today. After months of rumors and some recent teasing from Nvidia, the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are now both official.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Nvidia details the RTX 4080: 2-4x faster than the 3080 Ti, built on TSMC's “4N” 5nm process, starting at $899 for 12GB and $1,199 for 16GB, arriving in November — 4090 launches on October 12, with 4080 to follow in “November.” — After weeks of teases, Nvidia's next generation …
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| Giorgio Sardo / Windows Experience Blog: |
Microsoft plans to expand Windows 11's support for 20K+ Android apps and games via the Amazon Appstore to 31 countries “within the next few weeks” — Content is at the heart of the Windows PC experience - from the apps that fuel productivity, to movies that transport and games that connect.
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Windows Blog, Xbox Wire, BigTechWire, Neowin, Thurrott, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @akumar, @mishaalrahman, @xenopanther, and @satyanadella
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, and @panos_panay
| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Crypto market maker Wintermute says hackers stole $160M from its DeFi operations but the firm remains solvent; 90 assets were stolen, most worth less than $1M — - Crypto market making firm Wintermute has been hacked. — The firm maintains that it is solvent.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
YouTube plans to expand its Partner Program to give 45% of Shorts ad revenue to creators with 1,000+ subscribers and 10M views on Shorts within a 90-day period — YouTube just announced a major change to its Partner Program that will allow its short-form video creators to make a lot more money from its platform.
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| Kyle Wiens / iFixit News: |
A teardown of the iPhone 14 Pro Max shows the new X65 satellite modem and a similar internal design to the 13 Pro Max, making the device difficult to repair — The iPhone Pro Max 14 is out, and the general consensus among tech reviewers seems to be that it's better than the last one …
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Tweets: @lukemiani and @_omalicha__
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia launches new services to help developers adapt large language models for a range of use cases, avoid having to create the models from scratch, and more — As interest around large AI models — particularly large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-3 — grows …
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Tweets: @kentbye, @michaelybecker, and @pixelfondue
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
SpeedSmart: the iPhone 14 Pro has faster 5G upload and download speeds than the iPhone 13 Pro, peaking at 255.91Mbps down on T-Mobile vs the 13 Pro's 173.81Mbps — The iPhone 14 Pro features faster 5G speeds on the T-Mobile and Verizon networks in the United States compared to the iPhone 13 Pro …
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Speedsmart.net, Ming-Chi Kuo, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, 9to5Mac, Apple Must, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @legomite
| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Binance offered ~$50M for bankrupt crypto-lender Voyager Digital's assets, the leading bid and slightly above FTX's bid, but neither has been accepted — The exchanges both made bids near $50 million. Voyager's market cap was $3.9 billion in 2021 — 1x| J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify launches a US audiobook service with 300K titles from major and independent publishers; users purchase and download individual books to play in its app — The audio giant, which is offering 300,000 audiobooks for purchase at launch, is positioning its books service as separate …
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Tweets: @jersey_dck, @mackcollier, @ericnewcomer, and @spotifynews
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Nova Labs and T-Mobile sign a five-year deal to launch Helium Mobile, a 5G MVNO service for smartphones that combines coverage from the two companies' networks — Helium Mobile will tap both the decentralized 5G network and T-Mobile's service while also offering crypto rewards to users. — In brief
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CoinDesk, The Block, Ethereum World News, Light Reading, Fierce Wireless, and ZDNet
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
A Mozilla study using YouTube recommendation data from 20,000+ users and 500M+ videos finds the “dislike” and “not interested” buttons are largely ineffective — Even when users tell YouTube they aren't interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found.
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Mozilla, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, Engadget, Mozilla Foundation, New York Times, TechRadar, Android Headlines, Mashable, PCMag, TechCrunch, The Hill, and Android Police
Tweets: @mikeolson, @ldrogen, @tomgara, @amnestytech, @mozilla, @neilevansrocks, @risj_oxford, @hanamkiros, @farrahbostic, and @stokel
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google plans to integrate Google Tasks reminders across G Suite apps including Assistant, Calendar, Docs, and Sheets in the coming months, as opt-in at first — Google is working on a big update to Google Tasks, the company said today. It's bringing a couple of new features to the app …
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The Keyword, ZDNet, Android Central, Android Authority, and Droid Life
Tweets: @caseynewton, @google, and @pierce
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources: the Nasdaq is exploring an institutional crypto custody service, pending regulatory approval, and a crypto-focused division, Nasdaq Digital Assets — - Nasdaq has been plotting a move into crypto custody, according to several sources. — The move is in line with its broader mission …
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Bloomberg, CoinDesk, The Daily Hodl, Bitcoinist.com, CoinGape, Finbold, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, Crypto Daily, and Watcher Guru
Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @nasdaq, @mayazi, and @fintechfrank
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Nvidia announces the Drive Thor processor with 77B transistors for self-driving vehicles, arriving in 2024 for cars coming in 2025, starting with Zeekr's 001 EV — The AI chip is due to arrive in cars in 2025, Nvidia says at its GTC event to showcase its GPU technology. — Stephen Shankland
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NVIDIA on YouTube, NVIDIA, SiliconANGLE, AnandTech, Engadget, Nvidia Newsroom, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @stshank, @anshelsag, @lanceulanoff, @anshelsag, and @nvidiagtc
| Tina Davis / Bloomberg: |
Court filing: Twitter's lawyers will depose Elon Musk behind closed doors on September 26, 27, and a potential third day; Musk's attorney will also be deposed — Elon Musk is scheduled to answer questions on Sept. 26 and 27 from Twitter Inc.'s lawyers on his failed $44 billion purchase of the company, according to a court filing.| Chris Matthews / MarketWatch: |
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch plans to prohibit streaming unlicensed gambling sites with slots, roulette, or dice games on October 18, amid the fallout from a streamer's gambling scam — As the conversation concerning Twitch and the platform's allowance of gambling streams continues to swirl, the platform has struck its first blow.
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Bloomberg, Variety, Dexerto, DualShockers, Polygon, and TheGamer
Tweets: @twitch, @jakesucky, @j4ckmull, @infernoomni, @adashtra, @asmongold, @keemstar, and @mrtlexify
| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Internal meetings: TikTok employed a two-tiered moderation system with “more lenient” treatment for influencers, celebrities, and other VIPs with 5M+ followers — Content from accounts with more than 5 million followers has been routed through a designated, “more lenient” …
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Engadget. Tweets: @ebakerwhite, @ebakerwhite, @jeffhorwitz, @jeffhorwitz, @karissabe, and @johnpaczkowski
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack announces Canvas, a collaboration tool that offers contextual information in each channel, helps users edit documents in Slack, and more, coming in 2023 — Slack is becoming a document editor. The Salesforce-owned company announced today at its developer conference that it is building a new feature …
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Slack, TechCrunch, Salesforce News, CNBC, diginomica, PCWorld, Protocol, Engadget, and Fast Company
Tweets: @andrewschmidtfc, @tomcritchlow, @slackhq, @anildash, @ron_miller, and @clancynewyork
| Divya Balji / Bloomberg: |
Chamath Palihapitiya plans to close two SPACs, the $1.15B Social Capital Hedosophia VI and $460M Social Capital IV, after failing to find targets to take public — Chamath Palihapitiya said he is winding down two special purpose acquisition companies, including his largest ever …
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Wall Street Journal, What I read this week, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @alisonfrankel, @chamath, @amrithramkumar, @firstadopter, @litcapital, @pekwat, @jsadinolfi, @arashmassoudi, @tculpan, @levynews, and @kelmej
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey of US adults: 31% get news on Facebook, 25% on YouTube, 14% on Twitter, 13% on Instagram, and 10% on TikTok; a third of TikTok users get news on the app — Digital news has become an important part of Americans' news media diets, with social media playing a crucial role in news consumption.
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TechCrunch, Pew Research Center, and Adweek
Tweets: @robpegoraro, @paul__armstrong, @nancyscola, @johngramlich, @johngramlich, @pewjournalism, and @ali_lev
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