Tech Meme

Rana Foroohar / Financial Times: To achieve its chip moonshot, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US must reform its education system and triple chip-related college graduates by 2032  —  To build a domestic industry, the US must reform how it teaches its workforce  —  In the decade following US President John F … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kelvin Chan / Associated Press: Of the 2,000 exhibitors and sponsors at MWC Barcelona, 150 are Chinese companies; Huawei has the biggest presence and expanded its footprint by 50% over 2022  —  A contingent of Chinese companies led by technology giant Huawei is turning the world’s biggest wireless trade fair into an opportunity … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: London-based Flock, which uses real-time data to insure vehicle fleets for Amazon, Jaguar Land Rover, Onto, and others, raised a $38M Series B led by Octopus  —  It’s only human nature.  If you tell a driver their insurance premium will go down if they drive more safely, then – it turns out – they will probably drive more safely. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Tel Aviv-based cloud security startup Wiz raised a $300M Series D led by Lightspeed at a $10B valuation, up from $6B in October 2021 after its $250M Series C  —  The Israeli startup said that it will not hold any of the funds in Israel due to the impending judicial coup Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gabby Miller / Columbia Journalism Review: An analysis of Meta’s Journalism Project: investments in 564 organizations totaling $29.4M through 17 grant programs since 2018, 43% received just $5K, and more  —  b  —  “People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Snap plans to release a Snapchat chatbot, called “My AI”, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and pinned to the app’s chat tab, available initially to Plus subscribers  —  Snapchat is introducing a chatbot powered by the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: Meta plans to roll out the NCMEC’s Take It Down tool on Facebook and Instagram, letting minors anonymously attach a hash to intimate content, to stop sextortion  —  Meta is taking steps to crack down on the spread of intimate images of teenagers on Facebook and Instagram. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D review: AMD’s fastest gaming processor and overall excellent offering, but $110 more expensive than the impressive last-generation 7950X  —  Last year, AMD released its Ryzen 7 5800X3D to the market with 96 MB of L3 V-Cache.  The consumer implementation of AMD’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Autonomous drone manufacturer Skydio, used by the Ukrainian military, raised $230M at a $2.2B valuation and plans to expand its manufacturing facility 10-fold  —  Skydio Inc. is known for selling drones to tech heads seeking expensive selfies — but the company also has hundreds of customers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Snap plans to release a Snapchat chatbot, called “My AI”, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, pinned to the app’s chat tab, available initially to Plus subscribers  —  Snapchat is introducing a chatbot powered by the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme