Space startup SpinLaunch is fundraising again, though a source tells TechCrunch that it was exploring raising a significantly more ambitious sum earlier this year. The company has closed an $11.5 million round out of a planned $25 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SpinLaunch confirmed funding to TechCrunch, but … Read more
At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the general availably of its Trainium2 (T2) chips for training and deploying large language models (LLMs). These chips, which AWS first announced a year ago, will be four times as fast as their predecessors, with a single Trainium2-powered EC2 instance with 16 T2 chips providing up to 20.8 … Read more
“Sora PR Puppets”: Artists Leak OpenAI’s Sora Video Model, Exposing Controversial Testing Practices In a bold move highlighting growing tensions between artists and AI developers, a protest group known as “Sora PR Puppets” has leaked access to OpenAI’s unreleased text-to-video model, Sora, on the Hugging Face platform. This act of defiance sheds light on alleged … Read more
Last year, we published a series about what Google had done to the web, capped off by a feature about search engine optimization titled “The People Who Ruined the Internet.” It made more than a few SEO experts upset (which was tremendously fun for me because I love watching people yell at Nilay on various … Read more
Okay, we’re doing this. Today we’re launching a Verge subscription that lets you get rid of a bunch of ads, gets you unlimited access to our top-notch reporting and analysis across the site and our killer premium newsletters, and generally lets you support independent tech journalism in a world of sponsored influencer content. It’ll cost … Read more
Marketplaces for software and services based on reviews are starting to reach their sell-by date. The user-generated reviews on sites like G2 and Capterra (one of Gartner’s three software directories) have often been accused of being paid for by software vendors. In fact, 8 out 9 of the reviews on the first page of G2’s … Read more
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music’s yearly recap is back — and this time, it’s available to see and share from directly within the app. If your iPhone runs iOS 18.1 or later, you can now access Apple Music Replay 2024 from the Home, New, and Search tabs. Otherwise, you’ll have to … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 3, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Times of India founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce in 1838, The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opened in Montreal. in 1817, … Read more
:::info The Startups of The Year 2024 showcases exceptional companies across 100 industries. Nominations are based on regional and industrial excellence, not just location. This series will detail our key industries and demonstrate how HackerNoon can help you explore them further. ::: Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world — … Read more
The creators of the Flexbar think Apple’s Touchbar deserves a second chance as a standalone solution. | Screenshot: YouTube Apple may have said goodbye to the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar last year, but a team of four engineers believes the concept deserves a second chance. They’ve created the Flexbar, which is essentially a standalone version … Read more
Yield Guild Games founder Gabby Dizon says “conviction” in gaming is more important to him than “chasing narratives”: Hall of Flame
Amid political upheaval in South Korea, the price of Bitcoin fell by 33% on Upbit before rebounding, with XRP charting an even sharper dip.
MSI has officially announced its next crack at handheld gaming is here with the Lunar Lake-powered MSI Claw 7 AI Plus and MSI Claw 8 AI Plus. The two Windows-based handhelds come with 32GB of RAM and larger batteries than their predecessors. They release on December 25th, but you can preorder them now, starting at … Read more
In response to the martial law declaration, opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung expressed concern that the military would arrest members of South Korea’s parliament.
When Valve released the Steam Deck, PC manufacturers realized there could be a new market for small, handheld computers that are capable of running games. Lenovo released the Legion Go and Asus released the ROG Ally. Windows Central managed to get hold of the first official renders of Lenovo’s upcoming gaming handheld, the Legion Go … Read more
“AI is already impacting mortgage lending and credit scoring, among other things,” Waters noted in the bill.
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The figures are now in for consumer spending on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday — in the first critical week of the holiday shopping season. On Monday, as many U.S. consumers returned to work after the long weekend, online shopping continued to power ahead spurred by … Read more
At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation. Fast forward to the end of the year, Meta claims those fears did not play out, at least on its platforms, as it shared that the technology had … Read more
Photo: Stormy Pyeatte for The Verge Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen, pastel and polygonal, bobbing slightly as she stood in a bare apartment. To her right was a chat window through which they could communicate. Naro, his first name, … Read more
A Journey of Innovation and Resilience The vast blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean has always been a realm of navigation, of finding paths where others see only endless waters. Today, we’re navigating a different kind of terrain – the complex landscape of technological innovation for Pacific Island communities. The Challenge: Bridging Technological Gaps For … Read more
NEW YORK, United States, December 3rd, 2024/Chainwire/–Smile Shop, the premier Asian e-commerce platform, has partnered with Conflux Network, China’s only regulatory-compliant public blockchain, to launch the BitUnion prepaid card. This partnership signifies a major expansion into global digital asset payment with cards welcome in 183 countries and regions. The BitUnion prepaid card operates on the … Read more
Amazon Music announced on Tuesday the launch of 2024 Delivered, a new personalized yearly recap feature inspired by Spotify’s popular Wrapped experience. The feature delivers a summary of your listening habits, including your top artists, songs, genres, and more. To see your 2024 Delivered, open the Amazon Music app on your iOS or Android device … Read more