Google TV and Android TV now on over 150 million active devices, up 40 million since last year
“There wasn’t a single bank robbery in Denmark last year…Bank robberies are on the decline in other countries too, as the move away from cash to digital banking gives rise to cyber crime, such as hacks and phishing scams, which target bank details and other personal information.”
The American Farm Bureau Federation and John Deere signed a memorandum of understanding today that ensures farmers’ and ranchers’ right to repair their own farm equipment
Warren Buffett-backed BYD soars past Tesla in China sales as the company bucks wider EV stock sell-off
Google launches HD maps for vehicles, Volvo and Polestar first to integrate…Google’s HD map is not a consuming-facing application but an additional layer of data that’s served to the vehicle’s L2+ or L3 assisted-driving systems through Google Automotive Services.
Qualcomm’s going toe-to-toe with Apple’s satellite messaging feature
Slack’s private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays
South Korean Moon Mission Delivers Devastatingly Gorgeous Earth Views
Apple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks
Waze tests new alerts warning drivers about roads with a ‘history of crashes’
EarSpy: Spying on Phone Calls via Ear Speaker Vibrations Captured by Accelerometer
Code-generating AI can introduce security vulnerabilities, study finds
“Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Creation Will Soon Be Public Property…The version of the iconic character from “Steamboat Willie” will enter the public domain in 2024“
Pinduoduo and Other U.S.-Listed Chinese Tech Stocks Cancel Plans to List in Hong Kong
BioNtech is set to ship its first modular mRNA vaccine factory to Rwanda
Blue sky thinking: exoskeletons build framework for productivity
Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data
Apple preps for ‘third-party iOS app stores’ in Europe
GitLab Releases Single-Tenant SaaS Offering for Strict Security and Compliance
Kodama has raised more than $6 million from Bill Gates’ climate fund and other investors, as it pursues new ways to reduce wildfire risks and lock away carbon in harvested trees.
Accenture shares 9 cybersecurity predictions for 2023
Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training
Jamming and spoofing attacks can cripple GPS connections entirely or make something appear in the wrong location, causing disruption and safety issues
Apple has Won a Patent relating to possible future Satellite Services beyond the iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS Satellite Service
Twitter to introduce new controls for ad placements
Google may be only a year or two away from total disruption. AI will eliminate the Search Engine Result Page, which is where they make most of their money.
Even if they catch up on AI, they can’t fully deploy it without destroying the most valuable part of their business! https://t.co/jtq25LXdkj
Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps
Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events from multiple services
Amazon CodeCatalyst provides blueprints for collaborative app development
“….WSJ points out that “Don’t Look Up” was apparently too serious for the Netflix Preview Club, and creators took this feedback and added more humor before it was released…”
X1 gets 50% valuation boost, aims to give consumers a way to buy stocks via credit card reward points
Shield, a communication compliance platform for financial institutions, raises $20M
Bret Taylor steps down as co-chair and CEO of Salesforce
Disney’s new neural network can change an actor’s age with ease
Intel Officially Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Chip Licensing…Intel’s Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs to activate additional features on demand
“…Google is working on a secretive project that uses machine learning to train code to write, fix, and update itself..The project, which began life inside Alphabet’s X research unit and was codenamed Pitchfork, moved into Google’s Labs group this summer, according to people familiar with the matter….”
Cottingham: Europe’s biggest battery storage system switched on…The facility has the capacity to store up to 196 MWh of energy in a single cycle.
Microsoft says attackers are hacking energy grids by exploiting decades-old software
E-commerce advertising is driving much of Criteo’s growth, with the firm hoping to hit $1 billion in revenue from retail media by 2025.
Meituan’s Revenue Climbs 28% After Covid Drives Meal Delivery
OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of video of people playing the popular computer game.
“…Since 1959, more than 350 people have become NASA astronauts…It takes two years of training…For NASA’s 2021 class of astronauts, the space agency said it chose just 10 candidates from more than 12,000 applicants…a NASA astronaut, summed up what the agency was looking for in future spacefarers: “Be adaptable, trustworthy, tenacious, and detail-oriented…Astronauts endure grueling desert survival training in case of an emergency landing…In 1964, Apollo 11 astronauts traveled to Nevada to spend three days in the hot, dry desert and practice survival skills“
IBM has filed a lawsuit against Micro Focus, alleging the enterprise software company copied and reverse-engineered its CICS mainframe service to develop a rival product, the Micro Focus Enterprise Server
Windows Subsystem for Linux is now packaged as a Microsoft Store app
Turning Water Into $700 Million: A Day in the Desert With Liquid Death Founder Mike Cessario
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The average American driver spends 55 minutes a day behind the wheel (same as an ancient Mesopotamian spent traveling) He or she also drives 29 miles a day. Hence the need for 300 mi. range on *all* vehicles available for sale.
Spot AI raises $40M to build smarter CCTV security camera tech
Qualcomm debuts latest flagship Snapdragon chip and a new AI platform
“…An estimated $3.37 trillion worth, or 21% of all global trade, transited through the South China Sea in 2016, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…”
“…Prediction is only useful if it’s going to change something that you do. You wouldn’t check your weather forecast app every day if it didn’t help inform your clothing or routine. Prediction has to inform a decision…”
Fast-Fashion Juggernaut Shein’s Sales Close In on Zara, H&M…The company’s gross merchandise value is projected to grow 50% to $30 billion in 2022…Earlier this year, Shein completed a fundraising round that valued it at $100 billion (WSJ)
Twitter reactivated the ‘Official’ gray check for accounts that are actually verified
Amazon introduces ‘Sparrow’ robotic arm that can do repetitive warehouse tasks
Amazon’s ad revenue surpassed the money it makes from Prime, Prime Video, and its other audio and e-book subscriptions combined…Successful sellers have to spend anywhere between 10 percent and 20 percent of their sales on Amazon ads.
Two Weeks of Chaos: Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter
SoftBank Vision Fund Loses $7.2 Billion on Tech Writedowns
Debezium Releases Version 2.0 of Its Change Data Capture Tool…details
Starlink announces 1TB monthly cap, users who go over will get slower speeds
Spotify is the first to launch non-Google Android billing in the US
“…The latest Drewry composite World Container Index — a key benchmark for container prices — has fallen again to $2,773 per 40-foot container. That’s 73% lower than the peak rate in September last year…“
“…Today, Spotify has more than 80 million tracks available to users to stream. In its most recent earnings report, the company touted its 456 million active users with 195 million paid subscribers across 183 markets…“
Apple’s Web Search Technology Chief Returns to Google
How reliant are banks and insurers on cloud outsourcing? (2020)
Chris Rock is set to be the first to perform live on Netflix
Meet Pineapple, the platform aiming to reshape professional networking for Gen Z
SoftBank, NEC, Sony, Toyota + more team up for Rapidus, Japan’s bid for next-gen chip domination
GitHub teases new Copilot feature that lets developers code with their voice
Apple limits AirDrop ‘Everyone’ option to 10 minutes in China
Elon Musk details his vision for a Twitter payments system
Listening promotes intuitive thinking. Reading activates more analytical processing.
5 experiments: in English & Chinese, people showed better logical reasoning when trivia questions, riddles, and puzzles were written rather than spoken.
InfiniteNature-Zero, new @GoogleAI research with @berkeley_ai produces high-resolution 3D flythroughs from a single 2D image. The model is trained only on still photos and fills in missing pieces (like other sides of mountains), rendering with high realism https://t.co/BMDZud0hnBpic.twitter.com/k7p0kOwbjl