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Sources: Sony is in the early stages of developing a portable console for PS5 games, building on the PlayStation Portal, although its debut is likely years away — - Nintendo's Switch has dominated mobile console space for years — Rival Microsoft is also developing portable gaming prototypes
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Forums: r/PS5, r/nintendo, r/technology, r/kindafunny, r/hardware, r/playstation, r/gaming, and Slashdot
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MicroStrategy bought 55,500 bitcoin for ~$5.4B cash at an average price of $97,862 between November 18 and November 24, taking its holdings to ~386,700 bitcoin — - MicroStrategy has purchased another 55,580 BTC for approximately $5.4 billion at an average price of $97,862 per bitcoin.| Financial Times: |
The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky” — Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk's X is accused of not declaring user numbers| Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019 — Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do?
More: Forbes and Freddie deBoer
| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W review: the new $7 microcontroller is low cost, faster, and adds more RAM and Wi-Fi connectivity, but still uses micro USB — The RP2350 finally gets Wi-Fi! … It is fair to say that the Raspberry Pi Pico disrupted the maker community in 2021.
More: Raspberry Pi, The Verge, Engadget, BetaNews, Internet of Things News, MakeUseOf, TechCrunch, CNX Software, and Phoronix
X: @linuxformat, @alexellisuk, @cgallaty, and @raspberry_pi
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Sources: Intel, the biggest recipient of CHIPS Act money, could get less than $8B, after its Ohio plant delays; the US announced $8.5B for Intel earlier in 2024 — The Biden administration is reducing its award to the pioneering chip maker to less than $8 billion, from $8.5 billion.
More: Thurrott, CNBC, Computerworld, Benzinga, Motley Fool, Proactive, Wall Street Pit, Reuters, The Straits Times, Oregonian, Politico, and Political Wire. Forums: r/hardware
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The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses — - EU feared deals for smartphone glass were anti-competitive — US firm could avoid hefty fines if remedies are accepted
More: European Commission, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Reuters
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Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open-source data, and weighs whether to release it — Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Monday showed a new artificial intelligence model for generating music and audio that can modify voices …
More: Moneycontrol, Engadget, NVIDIA, TechEBlog, Digital Trends, and NewsBytes
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps publishers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised a $26M Series A at a $100M valuation — As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic …
More: GamesIndustry.biz and PocketGamer.biz
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 or $99 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures — Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it'd be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for Medium articles.
More: SiliconANGLE, Tech Funding News, and PlayAI Blog
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A skeptical look at the new AI scaling “laws”, including post-train duration and “inference time compute”, and why they may fail to predict AI model performance — Scaling laws ain't what they used to be — “If anything we are seeing the emergence of a new scaling law … | Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Klarna reports ~$1.85B in Q1 to Q3 2024 revenue, up 23% YoY, pretax loss down 99% YoY to ~$180K, and Q3 net income up 57% YoY to ~$19.7M, as its US IPO nears — - Buy now, pay later firm's revenue up 23% in nine-month period — Klarna has filed for an initial public offering in the US
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