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Sam Rutherford / Engadget: Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: excellent screen, performance, and battery life, slimmer bezels, and new 50MP UW sensor, but no S Pen Air actions and pricey  —  Samsung’s latest flagship lacks new hardware, aside from a refreshed chip and ultra-wide sensor. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: French startup Formance, which offers an open source, programmable financial ledger and other services, raised a $21M Series A co-led by PayPal and Portage  —  If you talk to a fintech entrepreneur about their business, chances are they’ll end up talking about ledger issues at some point. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: The Argonne National Laboratory says its Aurora supercomputer is now fully operational and available to researchers, offering over 1 FP64 exaFLOPS performance  —  Another ExaFLOPS supercomputer available for researchers.  —  Argonne National Laboratory this week said that its Aurora supercomputer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Vodafone makes “the world’s first” satellite video call using a standard smartphone via SpaceMobile satellites; the service is set to launch in Europe in 2025  —  It’s partnered with Starlink rival AST SpaceMobile on a direct-to-smartphone satellite service it plans to launch in Europe later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Court filing: Elon Musk, seeking to dismiss Don Lemon’s lawsuit, blames an “invasive and charged interview” for canceling Lemon’s $1.5M partnership with X  —  – Former CNN star is suing Musk over failed $1.5 million deal  — X owner says journalist’s interview led to ‘sour’ relationship Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: An interview with Bill Gates on his memoir, “Source Code: My Beginnings”, social media, crypto, AI, billionaires, tax, Trump, his parents, Microsoft, and more  —  The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up.  —  Take billionaires. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: STMicro reports Q4 revenue down 22.4% YoY to $3.32B, net income down 68.3% YoY to $341M, and projects Q1 revenue down 27.6% YoY to $2.51B, below $2.72B est.  —  STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA), one of Europe’s largest chipmakers, said on Thursday it expected sales to fall further in the first quarter of 2025 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest $15B to $25B in OpenAI on top of its $15B+ commitment to Stargate; the deal would make SoftBank OpenAI’s biggest backer  —  Deal would make Japanese group biggest financial backer in ChatGPT maker  —  SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julia Alexander / Posting Nexus: How Epic is transforming Fortnite into a content platform, paying $350M to creators in 2024; 36.5% of the total playtime was spent in games made by creators  —  What are creator made islands competing for players’ attention if nothing but decentralized channels in a centralized ecosystem? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Woody / Bloomberg: A look at FathomVerse, a mobile game that helps scientists identify deep sea creatures by using players’ contributions to train AI for underwater robots  —  Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck … Lees verder op Tech Meme