April 2023

There were 4 posts published in April 2023 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#530

  • ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War
  • Germany in Talks to Limit Export of Chip Chemicals to China
  • The company said the iOS App Store has 101 million users in Europe, whereas iPadOS has 23 million. The Mac App Store has 6 million, the tvOS App Store has 1 million, and the watchOS App Store has under 1 million
  • Smartphone Market woes continue with 14.6% Drop in first quarter this year, According to IDC Tracker
  • Android 14 Beta 1 Hits the Block
  • As smartphone upgrades plummeted, used iPhones sold like hotcakes…High prices, device lifetime concerns are increasingly pushing people to refurbs.
  • Measuring Performance for iOS Apps at Uber Scale
  • The Pulse of Delivery: Seasonality around the World
  • Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk…Principles and Approaches for Security-byDesign and –Default
  • Lyft employees told to return to office as new CEO lays out vision
  • Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT
  • Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law
  • Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145
  • Sony reports strong PS5 hardware sales as it closes in on 40 million units sold
  • Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust…video
  • A recent adjustment, in which the probe redirects a tiny amount of power meant for an onboard safety system, means all five scientific instruments aboard Voyager 2 can stay active until 2026, according to a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
  • Intel reports largest quarterly loss in company history
  • Tokyo has five million Wi-Fi access points – and that’s 20 times what the city needs
  • Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator
  • Sweden is building the world’s first permanent electrified road for EVs to charge while driving
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers to Pour $1 Billion Into Generative AI
  • Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa
  • “…Google also faces an existential dilemma. Its search business, which accounted for the majority of Alphabet’s annual revenues of $283bn in 2022, appears to be under direct threat…”

Weekly#529

  • Google to deploy generative AI to create sophisticated ad campaigns (FT)
  • OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it….”…OpenAI’s GPT-2 model had a data set consisting of 40 gigabytes of text. GPT-3, which ChatGPT is based on, was trained on 570 GB of data. OpenAI has not shared how big the data set for its latest model, GPT-4, is…”
  • Atari acquires the rights to over 100 PC and console classics
  • “…IBM’s revenue increased 0.4% from a year earlier in the quarter, according to a statement. Net income rose 26% to $927 million, or $1.02 a share, for continuing operations….”
  • Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida
  • Building telescopes on the Moon is becoming an achievable goal
  • Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits Android
  • Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY
  • Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain
  • Google Fi gets third rebrand in 8 years, adds free trial for eSim phones
  • Solar sails could guide interplanetary travel, says new study

Weekly#528

  • Personalisation @Delivery Hero: Ranking restaurants for new users
  • OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
  • Elon Musk plans artificial intelligence start-up to rival Open AI (FT)
  • AWS announces Amazon Bedrock and multiple generative AI services and capabilities
  • The official ebook edition of Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words is free to read on Apple Books
  • juice – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
  • DDoS attacks shifting to VPS infrastructure for increased power
  • Developer creates “regenerative” AI program that fixes bugs on the fly
  • Microsoft set to change the Print Screen button so it opens the Snipping Tool in Windows 11
  • Major retail players are walking back their metaverse strategies
  • National Cybersecurity Strategy

Weekly#527

  • Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023
  • Sony’s next ps handheld
  • Meta Platforms releases Segment Anything Model to accelerate computer vision research
  • Musk’s Month Pushing Twitter Blue Failed To Win Many Subscribers …A new report by Similarweb estimates 116,000 March sign-ups
  • TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings
  • How big is BloombergGPT? Well, the company says it was trained on a corpus of more than 700 billion tokens (or word fragments). For context, GPT-3, released in 2020, was trained on about 500 billion.
  • Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M
  • Stripe says in annual letter that it processed $817B in transactions in 2022, but growth has definitely slowed
  • GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
  • Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence
  • Is CatBoost faster than LightGBM and XGBoost?
  • Groovy Datasets for Test Databases
  • Microsoft Showcases Reliable Web App Patterns for Resilient Cloud Applications