In the weeks before former president Donald Trump announced his vice-presidential pick, some of tech’s biggest names launched a quiet campaign to push for one of their own: Ohio Sen. JD Vance. The former president fielded repeated calls from tech entrepreneur David Sacks, Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Vance’s former employer and mentor, imploring him …
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Democratic Meme Makers Rejoice During Kamala Harris’s Campaign
After a few sluggish years under President Biden, liberal social media creators are seeing their messages resonate as Kamala Harris campaigns for the White House.
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Paul Jones / Android Authority Although the ROG Ally X was released in 2024, but the company has already confirmed that it sees this as more of a mid-range refresh than a true successor to its original Ally hardware. While it might still be a long way off, here’s our wishlist for the ASUS ROG Ally 2. Battery life needs …
Read More »AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 mobile SoC review: the Zen 5 CPU architecture, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and the XDNA 2 NPU make this AMD's most compelling laptop CPU to date (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 mobile SoC review: the Zen 5 CPU architecture, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and the XDNA 2 NPU make this AMD’s most compelling laptop CPU to date — During the opening keynote delivered by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2024, AMD finally lifted the lid on their highly-anticipated Zen 5 …
Read More »Donald Trump Backs ‘Strategic Bitcoin Stockpile’ in Speech to Crypto Faithful
Former president Donald Trump outlined a plan to turbocharge crypto growth and make the US a crypto mining powerhouse in his keynote address to the 2024 Nashville Bitcoin Conference on Saturday. Trump announced that if elected, he would create a strategic bitcoin reserve in the US. “It will be the policy of my administration to keep 100 percent of all …
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Four regulatory bodies from the EU, U.K. and U.S. have released a statement of combined intent to study whether the AI industry allows for sufficient competition. The four groups are the European Commission, U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The statement doesn’t suggest any overarching regulation or the creation of a new …
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When Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill began using queer dating app Grindr in 2017, there was no indication that people outside of the app could access his data, according to a new lawsuit. If there had been, the lawsuit said, he never would’ve downloaded it. After all, Burrill’s position as the top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) required …
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Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform’s business. But its owner, Elon Musk, is always one whim away from undoing her work.
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Marshall speakers are among the best-looking ones in the market. They aren’t always the most convenient, though, as many of them need to stay plugged in. If you’re looking for something more portable, today we have a few deals you might be interested in. The best portable Bluetooth speakers from Marshall are on sale right now. Let’s go over them …
Read More »Sources: Honeywell is considering a US IPO of its majority-owned quantum computing firm Quantinuum as soon as 2025, and could seek a valuation of about $10B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Honeywell is considering a US IPO of its majority-owned quantum computing firm Quantinuum as soon as 2025, and could seek a valuation of about $10B — – The firm has held early talks with banks on potential IPO — A listing in the US could take place as soon as next year
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