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Camillus Eboh / Reuters: Court documents: Nigeria sues Binance to reclaim $79.5B in alleged economic losses it says were caused by its operations in the country and $2B in back taxes  —  Nigeria has filed a lawsuit seeking to compel cryptocurrency exchange Binance to pay $79.5 billion for economic losses it says were caused … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: Google launches a Gemini 2.0-based AI co-scientist tool to help biomedical scientists create novel hypotheses and speed up research, available to select testers  —  Lab assistant powered by artificial intelligence can help generate scientific hypotheses  —  Google has built … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Hunt / The Block: Binance.US resumes USD deposits and withdrawals for the first time since June 2023, when the US SEC sued Binance, Binance.US, and co-founder Changpeng Zhao  —  – Binance.US customers can deposit and withdraw U.S. dollars on the platform for the first time in nearly two years. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces Muse AI, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals, players’ controller actions, or both  —  Microsoft Research and Xbox game studio Ninja Theory have partnered to create a new AI model for gaming. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils its first-ever in-house cellular modem, the C1, to replace Qualcomm modem chips, saying it is “the most power-efficient modem ever on an iPhone”  —  After years of development, Apple has unveiled what it calls C1, its first-ever in-house cellular modem. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils the $599+ iPhone 16e, with an A18 chip, a 48MP camera, Apple Intelligence, and an Apple-designed 5G cellular modem, the C1, shipping February 28  —  Apple has officially taken the wraps off of the all-new iPhone 16e.  The device features an all-new design paired with the A18 chip inside … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple discontinues the iPhone SE, iPhone 14, and iPhone 14 Plus; the iPhone 16e starts at $599, significantly higher than the SE’s $429 starting price  —  Today Apple launched its first product of the year, the brand new iPhone 16e.  As part of introducing a new iPhone, however … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Microsoft says it has harnessed a new state of matter using particles called Majorana fermions, a significant breakthrough to create workable topological qubits  —  US tech giant says it has harnessed a new state of matter to create the basic building blocks of a quantum machine Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils the Majorana 1, its first quantum processor that can potentially fit a million qubits onto a single chip the size of a desktop CPU  —  Microsoft has spent 17 years researching a new material and architecture for quantum computing. … Microsoft believes it has made a key breakthrough … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Instagram updates direct messages with translation in 99 languages, scheduling and pinning tools, music-sharing features, and more, on iOS and Android first  —  Instagram is upgrading its direct messages, also known as DMs, with a handful of new features that make its messaging system … Lees verder op Tech Meme