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Month: September 2024
Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion
Meta Connect 2024 was this week, showcasing new hardware and software to support two of the company’s big ambitions: AI and the metaverse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new Quest headsets, updates to Meta’s Llama AI model, and real-time video capabilities of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The biggest reveal, though, was Orion, a true AR glasses … Read more
Brian Williams might host a live election night special for Amazon
Amazon Prime Video could be getting into the live news business, if only for one night. Variety reports that the company is in talks with longtime NBC and MSNBC news anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, competing with more traditional TV news broadcasts to offer non-partisan coverage of the U.S. presidential … Read more
Amazon may tap Brian Williams to host an election night special
Brian Williams during a Meet the Press taping in 2008. | Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images for Meet the Press Former news anchor Brian Williams is in talks to host an Amazon Prime election night special, reports Variety. The show would apparently be a “non-partisan discussion” as election night news comes in and could … Read more
FTX creditors only getting '10-25% of their crypto back' — creditor
Following the collapse of the FTX exchange, the FTT token collapsed by more than 80% and wiped away over $2 billion in customer value.
Meta blocks links to the hacked JD Vance dossier on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently removed posts containing the link and is seemingly blocking links to … Read more
Ethereum Game ‘Space Nation Online’ Is First Step for a Star Wars-Like Epic IP
Space Nation Online experiments with its MMORPG virtual economy in its quest to become a billion-dollar sci-fi space opera.
Judge is unimpressed by Apple’s deadline extension request in Epic Games dispute
Apple faces a looming deadline to produce what it says are more than 1 million documents related to recent App Store changes. On Friday, Judge Thomas S. Hixson denied the company’s attempt to extend that deadline, describing the request as “bad behavior.” So Apple’s deadline is still Monday, September 30: “It’s up to Apple to … Read more
CZ walks free, Caroline Ellison receives prison sentence, and more: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 22 – 28
Binance founder CZ walks free, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years, and more: Hodlers Digest
Meta offers a glimpse through its supposed iPhone killer: Orion
For years, Silicon Valley and Wall Street have questioned Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to invest tens of billions of dollars into Reality Labs. This week, Meta’s wearables division unveiled a prototype of its Orion smart glasses, a form factor the company believes one day could replace the iPhone. That idea sounds crazy… but maybe a little … Read more
REPL for Dart
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Trailers of the week: Thunderbolts, Rumors, and Disclaimer
“So full. So filled.” | Image: Disney This week, I’ve been slowly catching up on Dark Matter; I’m about 20 hours into Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch; and I’m still trying to work a trip to the movie theater into my schedule to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I’m behind, in other words! And … Read more
The Noonification: Will Data Centers Ruin Your Neighborhood? (9/28/2024)
How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. ## The One When a Killers Last Words Became a Cultural Phenomenon By @vishaalgrizzly [ … Read more
Part 1: A Comparison Between the Pricing Models of Modern Data Warehouses
I had a chance to learn more about the up-to-date comparison of data warehouses lately working on my side projects. It’s hard to do benchmarks for databases, but it’s harder to do comparisons on their pricing. There are 3 major things you need to consider: Considerations Storage Cost Often providers such as Redshift and Snowflake … Read more
Will Data Centers Ruin Your Neighborhood?
Data centers have become an integral part of the digital age. Unfortunately, many communities realize they are loud, resource-intensive, and visually unappealing only after they’ve been built. Are these buildings neighborhood-ruiners, or are peoples’ concerns overblown? Are Data Centers Already Ruining Neighborhoods? The residents of the sleepy, tree-lined subdivision of Great Oak didn’t realize what … Read more
The One When a Killer’s Last Words Became a Cultural Phenomenon
Picture This A convicted murderer, sentenced to death, stands on the brink of his final moments. The air is thick with tension, the clock ticks ominously, and the atmosphere in the room feels like something out of a Hitchcock movie. His last words? “Let’s do it.” Sounds like the opening scene of a true-crime Netflix … Read more
VCs expect a surge in startups offering lower rate mortgages, other loans now that the Feds cut rates
When the U.S. Feds cut interest rates by half a percentage point last week, it was a dash of good news for venture capitalists backing one particularly beleaguered class of startups: fintechs, especially those that rely on loans for cash flow to operate their businesses. These companies include corporate credit card providers like Ramp or … Read more
The Little Typer (2018)
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Telegram Tap-to-Earn Gaming Is Huge. Can It Avoid Play-to-Earn’s Fate?
Tap-to-earn games have taken over the crypto gaming landscape, but cracks are already showing. Can they find sustainable models?
Samsung’s gorgeous Galaxy Book4 Edge has fallen to its lowest price to date
Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge offer a vibrant OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. | Photo: Joanna Nelius / The Verge The portability of a laptop is nice and all, but oftentimes, the tradeoff is a smaller screen that can feel cramped if you’ve got a lot of tabs open. Thankfully, there are laptops like … Read more