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Apple Mac Studio review: M3 Ultra offers amazing performance, silent operation, and a variety of ports, but no user memory or SSD upgrades, which are expensive — Apple's new Mac Studio doesn't look different on the outside, but there are plenty of performance upgrades under the hood| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple MacBook Air M4 review: fast, thin and light, great keyboard and touchpad, and excellent battery life, but could use more ports and only a 60Hz screen — No surprises, but a lower $999 entry-level price is welcome. — At the risk of repeating myself from Engadget's MacBook Air M1 … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple preps a major interface revamp for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, loosely based on visionOS, with a consistent design and simpler navigation — Apple Inc. is preparing one of the most dramatic software overhauls in the company's history, aiming to transform the interface of the iPhone …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Meta is testing its first in-house AI training chip, a key milestone as it moves to design more of its own silicon and reduce its reliance on Nvidia — Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems …
More: Capital Brief, Silicon UK, Sherwood News, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, and TipRanks Financial. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net: |
Q&A with PlayStation Lead System Architect Mark Cerny on FSR 4's PS5 Pro “reimplementation”, working with AMD on a better hardware architecture for ML, and more — The RDNA 4 upscaler is the first result of AMD/Sony's Project Amethyst collaboration.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked video: Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of a PlayStation game character that can interact with players through voice prompts — Sony's advanced technology group has created an AI-powered version of Aloy from PlayStation's Horizon games.
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| Columbia Journalism Review: |
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly — We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They're All Bad at Citing News. — AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity …
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
ServiceNow says it plans to acquire agentic AI company Moveworks for $2.85B, its largest-ever acquisition, in a cash and stock deal set to close in H2 2025 — ServiceNow (NOW.N) said on Monday it would buy AI firm Moveworks for $2.85 billion in cash and stock, marking the software maker's … | Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Lego CEO Niels Christiansen says the toymaker plans to make video games in-house, after 2024 revenue rose 13% YoY to ~$10B; its Fortnite tie-up has 87M players — Danish toymaker beefs up digital capabilities after success with externally developed games — Lego is building up its capability …
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments fell 7% YoY in 2024, the market's first ever decline; Apple fell 19% while Huawei grew 35%, Xiaomi grew 135%, and Samsung grew 3% — - The global smartwatch market fell 7% in 2024, the first ever decline in the overall market. — Apple retained its top position … | Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
A look at Amazon's growing array of warehouse robots, from robotic arms to heavy lift units and sorting machines; Amazon Robotics has rolled out 750K+ devices — Machines are used to pick, sort and pack online orders — In a vast Amazon warehouse on the outskirts of Tracy, central California …
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kirkland-based enterprise cybersecurity startup Chainguard is in talks to raise $350M led by Kleiner at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.1B in July 2024 — - Kleiner Perkins is said to be leading the funding round — The deal would triple Chainguard's valuation to $3.5 billion| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
CoreWeave signs a five-year $11.9B contract with OpenAI and will issue shares worth $350M to OpenAI through a private placement at the time of CoreWeave's IPO — CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia (NVDA.O), has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion …
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| New York Times: |
Trump's call to scrap the “horrible” CHIPS Act causes concern among Republican lawmakers, who sought and received White House reassurances over the program — The president's attack on the key tenet of the Biden administration's industrial policy has set off concerns that he may claw back its funding.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: great gaming and general performance and AMD removed overclocking limitations, but a niche CPU, some software issues, and pricey — Not a lot of people actually need this thing, but if you do, it's very good. — Even three years later, AMD's high-end X3D-series processors still …
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| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
As automation and robotics undergo a revolution, a call to action for the US and the West, which are missing the new labor economy that China is set to capture — SemiAnalysis is hosting an Nvidia Blackwell GPU Hackathon on Sunday March 16th. It is the ultimate playground … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Bluesky adds support for three-minute videos, up from the previous one-minute limit, and a new “Chat Requests” feature to screen messages from unknown users — Bluesky will let you accept or reject messages from people you might not know.
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| Assaf Gilead / Globes Online: |
Israeli-US cybersecurity startup Cybereason raised $120M led by SoftBank, Vision Fund 2, and Liberty; its now ex-CEO said in a lawsuit it was close to bankrupt — Only last week, after a dispute with investors, outgoing CEO Eric Gan said the Israeli-US cybersecurity company was on the verge of bankruptcy.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Sola, which offers a low-code platform to build cybersecurity apps, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed co-led by S Capital and Mike Moritz — Enterprises these days can choose from hundreds of apps and services available to secure their networks, data and assets …
More: FinSMEs and Tech Funding News
| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack” with “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” for a series of outages on X on March 10 — Elon Musk blamed widespread disruptions on his social media platform X on a “massive cyberattack,” which he claimed was orchestrated by a …
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| Reuters: |
India's Bharti Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, offering it to business customers and providing rural internet access — India's Bharti Airtel (BRTI.NS) said on Tuesday it had signed a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX for the highly anticipated launch … Sponsor Posts
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