Bloomberg: TechInsights teardown: Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro uses a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by SMIC using a 7nm process, a blow to US sanctions — The company’s Mate 60 Pro is powered by SMIC’s 7nm chips, according to analysis that TechInsights conducted for Bloomberg News Lees verder op Tech Meme
Josh Ye / Reuters: Documents: Tencent, Xiaomi, and others begin enforcing China’s new app store rules, which require regulatory disclosures; Apple has not yet begun checking apps — Mobile app stores in China run by Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), Xiaomi (1810.HK) and others have started to bar app publishers … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matt Binder / Mashable: After the ADL’s CEO talked to X CEO Linda Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic posts surged, #BanTheADL trended, and Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts — Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours. — Over the past 24 hours … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Alex Blake / Digital Trends: An interview with Apple executives Susan Prescott and Steve Sinclair on building apps for the Vision Pro and how Apple is trying to lure developers to make apps — Apple’s Vision Pro headset hasn’t launched yet, but already it’s become one of the most hotly debated devices on the planet. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: CCData: the stablecoin market contracted 0.4% to ~$125B in August, the 17th straight month of decline, reflecting low trading volumes and reduced DeFi activity — – Total stablecoin market cap declined in August again: CCData — Tether showed its first market-cap loss in nine months Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: The London Stock Exchange plans to add a blockchain-based digital assets business after a year of testing, but is “not building anything around cryptoassets” — Exchange operator in talks with UK government and regulators over new trading venue Lees verder op Tech Meme
Zack Abrams / The Block: Gala Games CEO Eric Schiermeyer sues co-founder Wright Thurston, alleging he stole 8.6B GALA tokens, worth $130M, from the Web3 gaming startup; GALA drops 13% — – The value of Gala Games’ token has dropped 13% following a lawsuit filed by its CEO accusing the company’s co-founder of theft of $130 million in GALA tokens. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Emma Green / New Yorker: A look at Optima Academy Online, an all-virtual school launched in 2022 that lets US parents opt out of public school by putting their kid in a Meta Quest 2 — It’s 6 a.m. A little girl, who looks to be about ten years old, hits the button on her alarm clock. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as the app is no longer under development — Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires — We can already detect fires from space, soon after they start. Here’s why we don’t yet have a nationwide system for alerting us when they do—but could someday. Lees verder op Tech Meme