Bloomberg: Huawei reports $560M in revenue from patent licensing deals in 2023, its first disclosure of such income, and spent 25% of its 2022 sales on R&D, or ~$22.5B — Huawei Technologies Co. made $560 million in revenue from its patent licensing deals last year, disclosing for the first time its annual income …
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If you love the deals that come with Amazon Prime Day but don’t love Amazon, or don’t pay for a Prime membership, you can enjoy similar discounts at Target. The retailer’s competing sale, this year called Target Circle Week, runs from July 9 to 15. Amazon’s Prime Day falls on July 11 and 12. Nothing beats a free afternoon roaming …
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Comment on this storyComment A hundred million people have signed up for it, brands are flocking to it, and Elon Musk doesn’t seem happy about it. Threads, the Twitter clone rolled out by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta last week, is an incredibly simple and sometimes overwhelming app at the same time. Whether you’re an intrigued Instagram user who dreams of posting …
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority If you’re not an Amazon Prime member, you can’t get this deal. However, it’s super easy to try the service for free for 30 days, get this deal, and then cancel before the charges begin. The Galaxy Book 3 Pro has the latest 13th-gen Intel processor (the Core i7 version comes with this deal), 16GB of …
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Maxwell Strachan / VICE: Some VCs reflect on the industry slowdown; QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman estimates that up to 80% of VC firms are in strategically challenged positions — The venture industry needs to shrink to adjust to the new normal, and even the VCs themselves know it.
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When Small entered the cemetery for the first time in the summer of 2012, she burned sweetgrass—a plant with spiritual significance across Native cultures. “The sweetgrass brings the spirits in, wakes them up,” she said. She spent her first days walking through the rows, cross-referencing a list of burial plots with the names carved into each grave marker. One day …
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Comment on this storyComment The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker of the popular ChatGPT bot has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk. The agency this week sent the San Francisco company a 20-page demand for records about how it addresses risks related to …
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Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR The first public beta of iOS 17 has been released, and it includes new features that weren’t disclosed in the main iOS 17 keynote announcement. It finally adds in features like full-page screenshots and bilingual Siri, which have been available on competitor platforms for a while. Other new features include better dual-SIM support, expanded …
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Clive Cookson / Financial Times: UNESCO calls for regulation of AI-based neurotechnology; research shows private investments in Neuralink and others reached $7.3B in 2020, up ~20x since 2010 — Manipulation of brain signals advancing so fast it threatens human rights, warns UN body — Neurotechnology is advancing so fast …
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Technology is a double-edged sword. Sometimes it makes our lives easier and gives us world-changing innovations like the steam engine, the microprocessor, and the internet. Other times it gives us things like spam, Black Friday, and Amazon Prime Day. But at least with those last two, we get some killer deals even if we do get chased by ads everywhere …
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