Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: French privacy startup Murena unveils the €539 Murena Pixel Tablet, running its open-source, forked /e/OS, after releasing a “deGoogled” smartphone in 2023  —  Murena, the French privacy firm that’s forked Android to deliver so-called deGoogled smartphones, has repeated the trick with a tablet. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti review: a capable GPU for 4K gaming, DLSS 4 multi-frame gen, and runs cool, but prices fluctuate wildly and $750 is expensive for mid-range  —  But good luck finding one at that price.  —  It’s honestly difficult to remember the simpler days of video card shopping … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Crunchbase launches AI tools to predict where startups are heading, including funding, acquisitions, and IPOs, based on its 17 years of startup data  —  The data company is using AI to forecast startup funding, acquisitions and public offerings—but its biggest challenge may be predicting its own future 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 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

Erik Larson / Bloomberg: TMTG and Rumble sue a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice in Florida for allegedly illegally suppressing the US social media activity of conservative Brazilians  —  President Donald Trump’s media company sued a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, accusing him of trying to illegally suppress … Lees verder op Tech Meme

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

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: French privacy startup Murena unveils the €539 Murena Pixel Tablet, running its open-source, forked /e/OS, after releasing a “deGoogled” smartphone in 2023  —  Murena, the French privacy firm that’s forked Android to deliver so-called deGoogled smartphones, has repeated the trick with a tablet. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Muvija M / Reuters: UK CMA submission: Apple says some of the CMA’s mobile browser remedies will slow innovation and it would “not be appropriate” to mandate WebKit and iOS access  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has told Britain’s competition regulator that some of the remedy options proposed by the watchdog … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Google agrees to pay €326M to settle an Italian tax case from 2015 to 2019, covering sanctions, penalties, and interest; Milan prosecutors plan to drop the case  —  Milan prosecutors plan to drop a case brought against the European division of Google (GOOGL.O) after the company agreed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Shift4 agrees a $1.5B deal to buy Swiss tax-free shopping services provider Global Blue Group; Shift4 handles $250B in annual payments from 200K+ companies  —  Global Blue helps retailers including Nike and Prada with tax-free transactions  —  Shift4 Payments has struck a deal for Global Blue Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme