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VideoCardz.com: Intel announces Thunderbolt 5, offering up to 120 Gbps bandwidth and support for DisplayPort 2.1, USB v4, USB 3 20G, and PCIe Gen4, and up to 240W charging  —  Thunderbolt 5 offers up to 3x the speed over Thunderbolt 4  —  Intel has revealed its newest iteration of the Thunderbolt technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Morgan Meaker / Wired: How Finland-based AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, pays prisoners €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support  —  In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple unveils the Apple Watch Series 9, featuring the S9 chip with a four-core neural engine, 30% faster CPU, Double Tap gesture, and on-device Siri requests  —  Apple today unveiled the Apple Watch Series 9, featuring significantly improved performance thanks to the S9 Apple silicon chip … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Morgan Meaker / Wired: How Finnish AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, uses prison labor paid €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support  —  In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that prioritizes matching female and nonbinary drivers and riders, falling back to men when no other people are nearby  —  The company said it hoped to improve safety and encourage more female drivers.  —  Lyft said on Tuesday that it was introducing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: MLCommons’ MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles: Nvidia’s H100s perform best, followed by Intel’s Gaudi2 at ~10% slower  —  An artificial intelligence benchmark group called MLCommons unveiled the results on Monday of new tests that determine how quickly top-of-the-line hardware can run AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Primack / Axios: Bio: before buying Twitter, Elon Musk promised Jack Dorsey that, if Dorsey ever needed money, Musk would buy Dorsey’s stock at the $54.20/share takeover price  —  Jack Dorsey had second thoughts about supporting Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, so Musk made Dorsey a secret offer he couldn’t refuse … Lees verder op Tech Meme

SemiAnalysis: A look at the Huawei Kirin 9000S, the impact on Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek, SMIC’s 7nm and future 5nm chips, and potential Western responses to curtail China  —  Huawei, SMIC, 7nm, H800, Domestic AI Capabilities, ASML, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Apple, RF Capabilities, Potential Sanctions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Primack / Axios: Bio: before the Twitter takeover, Musk promised Jack Dorsey that, if Dorsey ever needed cash, he would buy Dorsey’s Twitter stock at the $54.20 takeover price  —  Jack Dorsey had second thoughts about supporting Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, so Musk made Dorsey a secret offer he couldn’t refuse … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Morgan Meaker / Wired: How Finnish AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, uses prison labor paid €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support  —  In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. Lees verder op Tech Meme