Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Analysis: despite scaling back in Russia in 2022, Binance still handles substantial ruble trading volumes, helping clients evade US sanctions via intermediaries  —  Binance is helping Russians move money abroad, potentially adding to its sprawling legal problems in the U.S. The cryptocurrency giant … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Twilio announces AI-powered tools to let clients generate suggestions about marketing strategy and use internal data to build automated contact support services  —  Twilio Inc. is launching new AI-powered features in its suite of data management services, responding to customer demand … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware: Qualcomm updates its lineup of processors designed for gaming handhelds, adding the G1 and G2 chips for cheaper devices and the flagship Snapdragon G3x Gen 2  —  Three tiers of chips, anchored by the new G3x Gen 2  —  Qualcomm is updating its lineup of processors designed for dedicated gaming handhelds … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: A decade after data analytics promised to revolutionize US agriculture, many farmers are still waiting for the tech to pay off and are swamped in a data deluge  —  Uptake of agtech tools has been tepid, and even many farmers who do use them struggle with the software and a flood of data from their farms Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Antenna: Netflix added ~2.6M new US users in July, more than any other paid streaming service but down 26% from June 2023; ~23% signed up for Netflix’s ad tier  —  – The streaming service had more sign-ups than any other in July  — Netflix user growth in the US had stopped in recent years Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sony unveils the PlayStation Portal, an 8-inch handheld console that can stream games from a PS5 over Wi-Fi in 1080p at 60fps, available later in 2023 for $200  —  Sony is officially launching its portable PlayStation later this year, the PlayStation Portal remote player. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia plans to at least triple its production of the H100 in 2024, predicting shipments of between 1.5M to 2M units, up from 500K expected in 2023  —  Server production hampered by tight stocks of Nvidia processors and other components  —  Investors are set to assess whether enormous demand … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elad Gil / Elad Blog: LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models represent an entirely new AI era and discontinuity from the past machine learning capabilities of the CNN/RNN/GAN world  —  Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past “AI”, it is worth thinking … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katherine Ross / Blockworks: The US DOJ charges Tornado Cash founders Roman Storm, of Auburn, WA, and Roman Semenov, a Russian national, with money laundering and sanctions violations  —  The inclusion of the Tornado Cash co-founder on the list marks an escalation of the US government’s previous investigations into the crypto mixer Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify introduces new podcaster tools, including customized pages, impression analytics, controls for previews, and a new dashboard for Megaphone publishers  —  Following Apple’s announcement of podcast creator tools for subscriptions on Monday, Spotify today also introduced its own latest developments … Lees verder op Tech Meme