Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M MAUs in January 2022, and the rebuilt Teams rolling out to Windows’ Public Preview program is twice as fast  —  Teams, Microsoft’s Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Polygon launches the mainnet beta of its zkEVM layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, just days after rival Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era  —  The release of Polygon’s zkEVM comes just days after competitor Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Larry DiTore / The Block: Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company held ~$4.14B worth of BTC on March 23  —  – MicroStrategy now has a little more than $4 billion worth of bitcoin in its corporate coffers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Jack Ma has returned to China after over a year; sources: since late 2022, China Premier Li Qiang had urged Ma to return to allay private sector fears  —  Alibaba (9988.HK) founder Jack Ma has returned to China, ending a stay overseas of more than a year that industry viewed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Milne / Financial Times: Ammo maker Nammo says its growth is limited by a TikTok data center using all the spare electricity, as energy demand across industries grows in the Nordics  —  Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat videos’ for threatening its growth as data centre corners spare electricity Lees verder op Tech Meme

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications for sites added to the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, and more  —  Apple today released iOS 16.4, the fourth major update to the iOS 16 operating system that initially came out last September. iOS 16.4 comes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lyllah Ledesma / CoinDesk: Kaiko data: March 26 was Binance’s lowest BTC volume day since July 4, 2022, a few days before it began zero-fee trading, which it mostly phased out last week  —  Zero-fee trade volume accounted for 66% of Binance’s trading volume in mid March prior to the decision to eliminate the zero-fee promotion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Biden signs an EO limiting US agencies’ use of hacking tools from companies that are linked to human rights abuses or are deemed to pose national security risks  —  Officials say at least 50 U.S. personnel overseas had been compromised by commercial spyware Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Sonos Era 300 review: the best spatial audio from any speaker, flexible connectivity options, but a poor Sonos app UX and spatial audio quality varies by track  —  When you find a good spatial audio song, Sonos’ new speaker can blow your mind and sounds like nothing else. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Huawei announces tools for designing chips as advanced as 14nm, about four generations behind the latest available, to help Chinese companies replace US tech  —  Huawei Technologies Co. has developed software tools capable of designing chips as advanced as 14 nanometers … Lees verder op Tech Meme