Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Replit, which offers AI-powered collaborative coding tools, raised $97.4M at a $1.2B valuation and says it has 22.5M users, up from 10M+ in Dec. 2021  —  Replit, the fast-growing service that combines artificial intelligence with software development, closed a $97.4 million fundraising round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €3B, ad revenue up 17% YoY to €329M, MAUs up 22% YoY to 515M, Premium Subscribers up 15% YoY to 210M, and a €225M loss  —  Audio streaming giant posted lower-than-expected revenue gains as ad spending cooled Spotify Technology SA reported … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: WhatsApp expands its multi-device feature to let the same account be used across multiple smartphones, a long-requested feature  —  WhatsApp users are no longer restricted to using their account on just a single phone.  Today, the Meta-owned messaging service is announcing that its multi-device feature … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Data.ai: Jack Dorsey-backed social network Bluesky has been downloaded 245K times on iOS, more than half of those in April 2023, after opening its waiting list  —  Twitter users, weary from another tumultuous weekend, are exploring Jack Dorsey-backed app Bluesky as a possible alternative to the social media network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Opera releases early access to Opera One, its redesigned browser with a cleaner, modular look for future generative AI features, “tab islands”, and more  —  Opera has released the early access version of its completely redesigned browser that it plans to launch for all platforms later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €3B, ad revenue up 17% YoY to €329M, MAUs up 22% YoY to 515M, Premium Subscribers up 15% YoY to 210M, and a €225M loss  —  Audiostreaming giant posted lower-than-expected revenue gains as ad spending cooled Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €3B, ad revenue up 17% YoY to €329M, MAUs up 22% YoY to 515M, Premium Subscribers up 15% YoY to 210M, and a €225M loss  —  Audiostreaming giant posted lower-than-expected revenue gains as ad spending cooled Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: AMD announces the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, a pair of 4nm CPUs aimed at handheld gaming PCs; Z1 Extreme offers eight Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores  —  But the company’s now saying the quiet part out loud: today, it’s officially announcing the AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nvidia open-sources NeMo Guardrails, offering a developer framework to help make generative AI more “accurate, appropriate, on topic, and secure”  —  For all the fanfare, text-generating AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 make a lot of mistakes — some of them harmful. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Seifert / The Verge: OnePlus plans to launch the OnePlus Pad, its first tablet, on May 8 for $479, offering a 7:5 144Hz LCD display, MediaTek Dimensity 9000 CPU, 128GB SSD, and more  —  Starting this Friday, April 28th, the OnePlus Pad will be available for preorder for $479 (€499 / £499) from OnePlus directly. Lees verder op Tech Meme