Staffers and allies of India's BJP detail how they crafted posts for a vast network of WhatsApp groups aimed at exploiting the fears of the Hindu majority
MUDBIDRI, India — At first, the WhatsApp messages touted roads paved, schools built, free food distributed to the poor … X: @malavtweets , @digitaldutta , @mparekh , @gerryshih , @...
Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales
Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales
Chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival.
ChatGPT and other LLM tools have already replaced some marketing and social media writers as many companies decide cutting costs is worth the drop in quality
Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones.
Sources: ESPN is laying the groundwork to offer its TV channel as a subscription streaming service by securing flexibility in league and cable provider deals
essentially a private sector income tax on almost every household, divided generously among media cos. Bye! https://www.wsj.com/... Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers : Massive and long-ant...
How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious proclamations, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital
How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious claims, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital
Sometimes innovation just ain't enough … I have four Echo devices in my household. For years, we used them to control the lights in our apartment … Tweets: @lutherlowe , @ranjanxr...
A look at Bitcoin's five maintainers scattered globally, who steward the open-source Bitcoin Core, after four turnovers in 18 months cited burnout or legal risk
Developers with power to change the cryptocurrency's software hold an unorthodox role, are elusive—and have been known to head off disaster for the coin
The most efficient bitcoin mining machines are selling for ~$24 per 100 terahashes, down from $106 in 2021, as unprofitable miners are forced to sell equipment
Unprofitable miners have become forced sellers of their own crypto equipment — There's a fire sale on bitcoin-mining hardware.
Hundreds of documents detail the software bought by China to sift through its vast troves of surveillance data to “predict” who will become troublemakers
The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere …
A look at Amazon's fight with China-based sellers of generic items trying to game its algorithm to develop Marketplace brands and get the “Amazon's Choice” tag
Jeff Bezos wanted to build the ‘everything store’—and now the company is drowning in China-based sellers hawking the same items under a dizzying array of brands
A look at Amazon's fight with China-based sellers of generic items trying to game its algorithm to develop Marketplace brands and get the “Amazon's Choice” tag
Jeff Bezos wanted to build the ‘everything store’—and now the company is drowning in China-based sellers hawking the same items under a dizzying array of brands
Q&A: Brian Chesky on how he restructured Airbnb during the pandemic, running a public company, crypto, the metaverse, working with Jony Ive's LoveFrom, and more
“empowering them to do their jobs.” I don't think that is good leadership at all.” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Talked to Airbnb C...
How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage
How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage
The world is hungry for semiconductors, and not all of them need to be made with cutting-edge technology. The race is on to find older machines that can still crank out chips. Twe...
Game developers across the industry describe the complexity of making what seem like simple things in games, from doors to object interaction and more
Rebekah Valentine / IGN : Tweets: @javierabegazo , @krides , @liambme , @jennyyokobori , @mparekh , @jeff_tanton , @adambankhurst , @ysbrydgames , @therealandymc , and @bc_trevor ...
Apple's ATT privacy policy is a commercial land grab dressed up as a moral crusade and it will ultimately subvert the open web and the freemium business model
Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page. — Rumors of this new unit had circulated previously
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang closes its first day of trading at $49.25 a share, down from $63.50, after raising $4.2B in an IPO at a valuation of ~$60B
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CES 2020 show notes: a look at 12 technologies/categories, the raw materials of the primordial soup of innovation that the show has become over the years
CES continues to be an event where you can see the raw materials of the next big thing far more often than you can see the next big thing. Tweets: @backlon , @amritsf , @gassee , @...