Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Roku expands its smart home lineup with a $99 home monitoring system, a solar panel to power its outdoor camera, and a multicolored LED strip light  —  Roku is expanding its smart home lineup and adding a smart security system, a solar panel to power its outdoor camera, and a multicolored LED strip light to its offerings. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Deborah Acosta / Wall Street Journal: As Miami prepares to host Bitcoin 2023 on May 18, the city and mayor Francis Suarez, who still receives his salary in bitcoin, have mostly moved on from crypto  —  On the eve of the annual bitcoin conference, the city and its mayor have mostly moved on from crypto Lees verder op Tech Meme

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance postpones opening TikTok Shop in the US, planned for the spring, to June 2023 at the earliest, after struggling to attract merchants in 2022  —  Doubts over app’s future and tepid adoption of live-streaming e-commerce in the U.S. slow plans for full launch Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google says PaLM 2 will power its updated Bard chat tool and is now available to developers through Google’s PaLM API, Firebase, and on Colab  —  At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of PaLM 2, its newest large language model (LLM). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products  —  Google today announced PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities.  This “next generation language model” is faster … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google Photos gets a Magic Editor feature for more complex edits than Magic Eraser can achieve, like repositioning the subject, first coming to select Pixels  —  Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos.  While the company has already leveraged AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A Binance executive says the past six months in the US have been “very confusing” and the company will do “everything we possibly can” to be regulated in the UK  —  World’s largest cryptocurrency exchange says it is ‘very difficult’ to do business in US after moves by Washington regulators Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Roblox reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $655.3M, bookings up 23% YoY to $773.8M, DAUs up 22% YoY to 66.1M, and a net loss up 67% YoY to $268.3M; RBLX jumps 5%  —  – Roblox beat analyst expectations on the top line but reported a wider-than-expected loss per share of 44 cents. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Binance launches Capital Connect to connect VIP clients and investment fund managers; Binance has 128M+ users, of which VIPs are a “very small percentage”  —  – Binance has launched a new platform called Capital Connect to facilitate connections between its VIP clients and investment fund managers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: How Tokyo-based Rapidus is trying to become a globally competitive chipmaker by 2027, aiming to mass produce 2nm chips two years after leaders TSMC and Samsung  —  Tetsuro Higashi is taking on what seems like an impossible task: Create a globally competitive semiconductor manufacturer in Japan from scratch – and do it in four years. Lees verder op Tech Meme