Tech Meme

Ari Levy / CNBC: Instacart’s shares jump 40% in their Nasdaq debut, opening at $42 and valuing the grocery delivery company at ~$14B; Instacart was valued at $39B in March 2021  —  – Instacart is the first notable venture-backed tech company to hit the U.S. public market since December 2021. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon plans to hire 250,000 US staff to help manage the holidays, up from 150,000 in 2022, and bumps the average hourly pay for warehouse and delivery workers  —  – Amazon said Tuesday it’s hiring 250,000 employees in the U.S. to help manage the holiday rush. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel announces Meteor Lake, its first chips to use its new chiplet architecture, offering CPUs using its 7nm Intel 4 process node, will “launch” on December 14  —  For many months, Intel has spared no opportunity to remind us that its Meteor Lake chips would be the ones to watch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Seifert / The Verge: iPhone 15 and 15 Plus review: nice to hold, Dynamic Island, great performance, and smart camera features, but no always-on display or ProMotion and slow USB-C  —  Apple’s standard iPhone gets a lot of nice upgrades this year, but it’s not anything we haven’t seen before. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allison Johnson / The Verge: iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max review: USB-C, lighter, nicer to hold, a useful Action Button, and camera improvements, but no 5x telephoto on the smaller Pro  —  Apple didn’t choose the USB-C life, but boy are we glad it got here anyway. … There are very few surprises from new smartphones these days. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ari Levy / CNBC: Instacart shares open up 40% on Nasdaq at $42, valuing the grocery delivery company at about $14B  —  – Instacart is the first notable venture-backed tech company to hit the U.S. public market since December 2021.  — The grocery delivery company, once valued at $39 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: UK’s parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days  —  Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services — establishing the comms watchdog Ofcom … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel announces Meteor Lake, its first chips to use its new chiplet architecture, offering CPUs using the Intel 4 process node, ahead of a December 14 “launch”  —  For many months, Intel has spared no opportunity to remind us that its Meteor Lake chips would be the ones to watch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Justine Calma / The Verge: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative plans to build an AI GPU cluster of 1,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs to run “openly available” models of human cells for medical research  —  Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation is funding the construction of a massive computing system for medical research. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: What to expect from Microsoft’s special NYC event: Surface Laptop Studio 2, Surface Go 4, and Laptop Go 3, and AI updates for Windows, Surface, Office, and Bing  —  Microsoft is holding a “special event” in New York City later this week where it’s expected to debut three new Surface devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme