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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 … | 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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| 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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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, @_omalicha__, and @rsgnl
| 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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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
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| 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: @mackcollier, @ericnewcomer, and @spotifynews
| 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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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @nasdaq, @mayazi, @fintechfrank, and @defisurfer808
| 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, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup, Apple Must, Trusted Reviews, Tom's Guide, and iThinkDifferent. Tweets: @legomite
| 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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Tweets: @caseynewton, @google, and @pierce
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to increase the price of App Store apps and IAPs in all territories that use the euro and some Asian and European countries, starting on October 5 — Apple announced on Monday that it will soon raise App Store prices in multiple countries, including Japan, South Korea, and many others in Europe.
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Tweets: @timsweeneyepic, @carnage4life, @tomwarren, @rsgnl, and @bytebot
| 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 … | 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” …
Tweets: @ebakerwhite, @ebakerwhite, @jeffhorwitz, @jeffhorwitz, @karissabe, and @johnpaczkowski
| 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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Tweets: @robpegoraro, @paul__armstrong, @nancyscola, @johngramlich, @johngramlich, @pewjournalism, @ali_lev, @evanmcmurry, and @elanazak
| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the FTC opens an investigation into Amazon's $1.7B iRobot acquisition, requesting documents from both companies; probes typically take up to a year — Federal antitrust agency sought records about deal from Amazon and iRobot this week — WASHINGTON—Federal antitrust enforcers …
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Tweets: @danamattioli, @wsjpolitics, and @quinnypig
| 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, Fast Company, Protocol, and Computerworld
Tweets: @ron_miller and @clancynewyork
| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Court filing: Alameda Research plans to repay ~$128M in bitcoin and ~$70M in ether to bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital and reclaim ~$160M in collateral — - Crypto trading firm Alameda Research will repay two large loans demoninated in bitcoin and ether.
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CoinDesk, Fortune, Crypto Daily, Protos, Coinspeaker, Blockworks, and crypto.news
Tweets: @fatmanterra, @otteroooo, @adamscochran, @alistairmilne, and @bitfinexed
| 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, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Tom Merritt Tech Newsletter, Engadget, TechCrunch, AnandTech, Nvidia Newsroom, and EnterpriseAI
Tweets: @stshank, @anshelsag, @lanceulanoff, @anshelsag, @nvidiagtc, and @stshank
| 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.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds Pages features to let creators endorse each other, make content exclusive to top fans and subscribers, earn “rising creator” labels, and more — Facebook is introducing new Pages features that are designed to help creators get discovered and connect with their followers, the company announced on Tuesday.
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