Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, hoping to help researchers with computer vision and object identification  —  Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms Inc. said today that they’re hoping to democratize a key aspect of computer vision. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple’s gamble to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to address supply chain weaknesses  —  In late March, when Tim Cook made his first public appearance in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Stripe processed $817B of transactions in 2022, up 26% YoY, vs. a 60% growth from 2020 to 2021; new customers grew 19% YoY, of which 55% were outside the US  —  Stripe, the payments and fintech giant currently valued at $50 billion, sometimes feels like it has been forever on the brink of a public listing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired: Nintendo and Sony embracing direct-to-audience streams, plus the pandemic, led to E3’s demise; fan conventions like PAX and networking events like GDC survived  —  These days, video game companies can just promote their hardware and new releases via prepackaged livestreams.  Why would they bother with a trade show? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: SimilarWeb: of the 2.6M people who visited the Twitter Blue sales webpage in March 2023, only 116K signed up; less than 1% of monthly users subscribe to Blue  —  Twitter Inc. is struggling to sell users on its new subscription product, Twitter Blue, according to a new report. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel More / Reuters: Germany’s Bundeskartellamt designates Apple as a “company of paramount significance for competition across markets”, opening the door to antitrust curbs  —  Germany’s antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple (AAPL.O) after deciding that the U.S. tech … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Source: Binance rejected buying Tron founder Justin Sun’s stake in Huobi due to Sun’s alleged China ties; Sun’s Huobi involvement has been shrouded in secrecy  —  Binance has no interest in buying Huobi due to its rumored ties to China, according to a person familiar with the situation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Roberts / New York Times: Bing Newcomb, who co-founded E*Trade in 1982, bringing stock trading to personal computers, and took the company public in 1996, died in January at 79  —  He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Mojo Vision, which pivoted from smart contact lenses to making microLED display tech with up to 28K PPI and 1M+ nits brightness, raised a $22.4M “new Series A”  —  News of Mojo Vision’s pivot rather poetically dropped during CES.  After years of trying out the latest iteration … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D review: highly efficient and impressive gaming performance, sometimes above the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, but middling-to-average compute performance  —  In February, AMD released the first parts in its highly anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D series.  This new line combines AMD’s 3D V-Cache packaging … Lees verder op Tech Meme