Tech Meme

Roman Feeser / CBS News: A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Merlin Bird ID app launched in 2014 that can identify 6,000+ bird species on six continents by a picture or by song  —  Scientific evidence suggests dinosaurs met their extinction through asteroid impact.  Today, if a species goes extinct, chances we as humans had something to do with it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week  —  Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend’s birthday.  Lunch was interrupted by huge news … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: the Biden administration asked South Korea to urge Samsung and SK Hynix not to fill any market gap in China if Beijing bans Micron from selling chips  —  White House has tried to enlist Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in its semiconductor battle with Beijing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Analysis: people spend more time watching Netflix than Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max combined, and Netflix makes up ~75% of the top 10 shows in the US each week  —  Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend’s birthday.  Lunch was interrupted by huge news … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: the Biden administration has asked South Korea to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting sales to China if Beijing bans Micron chips  —  White House has tried to enlist Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in its semiconductor battle with Beijing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay  —  Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nabiha Syed / The Markup: Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office’s guidance on AI-generated work, and more  —  A conversation with Katherine Forrest  —  Subscribe to Hello World … Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA’s digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue  —  Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA’s digital markets unit on a statutory footing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA’s digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue  —  Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA’s digital markets unit on a statutory footing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple XR headset’s external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple’s app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users  —  Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset’s features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try the product. Lees verder op Tech Meme