4 reasons to buy an LG TV over a Samsung TV - Pocket Lint
A $3 app shoots better spatial videos than the iPhone's native camera - Engadget
A researcher finds that X is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on "adult content" or other "not safe for work" material (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Activision investigating password-stealing malware targeting game players - Techcrunch
AI Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise - Slashdot
AI21 Labs launches Jamba, an AI model that integrates two architectures: transformer and Mamba, which is based on the Structured State Space model (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
An OLED iPad Pro and the first big-screen iPad Air will reportedly arrive in May - Engadget
Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons - Techcrunch
Apples Worldwide Developers Conference returns June 10, 2024 - TechMoran
Biden Orders Every US Agency To Appoint a Chief AI Officer - Slashdot
Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit (The Information) - Techmeme
Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon - Wired
Bumble's new CEO talks about her critical mission: to spice things up at the company - Techcrunch
Buy now, pay later on a Porsche' Zaver now has $30M to make it a reality - Techcrunch
Byju's founder floats share offer to make peace with estranged investors - Techcrunch
Central Bank of Nigeria withdraws Cellulant's mobile money licence as company focuses on payment solutions - Techcabal
Cloud Server Host Vultr Rips User Data Ownership Clause From ToS After Web Outage - Slashdot
Could artificial intelligence benefit democracy - BBC
Cybersecurity startup Zafran, which develops risk mitigation services, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts (Meir Orbach/CTech) - Techmeme
Dyson Zone review: Better headphones than portable purifier - Pocket Lint
Elon Musk's Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know - Techcrunch
Facebook Allegedly Killed Its Own Streaming Service To Help Sell Netflix Ads - Slashdot
Florida needs digital literacy for kids, not a social media ban - Pocket Lint
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years - BBC
How Apple Plans To Update New iPhones Without Opening Them - Slashdot
How CAF president Patrice Motsepe could impact Canal+'s bid for MultiChoice - Techcabal
How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
In a lawsuit, four Canadian school boards seek damages of CA$4B+ from Meta, Snap, and TikTok for allegedly causing learning and mental health crises in students (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters) - Techmeme
Key players rate FAAN MD on 100 days in office - Tribune
Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork - Slashdot
Maserati Grecale Folgore review - Pocket Lint
Meta Is Adding AI To Its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses - Slashdot
Methane From Landfills Is a Big Driver of Climate Change, Study Says - Slashdot
Michigan Nuclear Plant Aims To Be First Ever To Reopen In US - Slashdot
NAAPE to protest failure of Aero Contractors to pay off docked workers, seven years after - Tribune
New York-based The Brandtech Group, which provides generative AI-based tools for advertising and marketing campaigns, raised a $115M Series C at a $4B valuation (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Nigeria probes 400+ privacy breaches linked to loan apps - Technology Times
Nothing Phone (2a) review: better value than Pixel 7a - Pocket Lint
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge) - Techmeme
Oregon's Breakthrough Right-to-Repair Bill Is Now Law - Wired
Questions raised over Temu cash 'giveaway' offer - BBC
Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, after soaring 30% on Monday, and finish the week at $49.30, below the first trading day close of $50.44 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) - Techmeme
SA telcos are selling off their towers. Here is why - Techcabal
SBF's prison sentence marks the end of the crypto grift era ' so what's next - Techcrunch
Scammers are using sample videos of influencers with modest social media presence to create AI deepfake ads that often push offensive products and ideas (Washington Post) - Techmeme
Snapchat's latest paid perk is an AI Bitmoji of your pet - Engadget
Sources detail Grindr's push to monetize, including plans for an AI chatbot that can engage users in sexual conversations and may be trained on opt-in user data (Zo Schiffer/Platformer) - Techmeme
Sources: the Biden administration is making a list of advanced Chinese chip factories barred from receiving key tools, which could be released in a few months (Reuters) - Techmeme
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth (Sam Kim/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Surging inflation is forcing auto finance startups to rethink their financing strategies to maintain demand - Techcabal
The 30 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now - Wired
Uber Eats courier's fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won - Techcrunch
US, UK Investigate $20 Billion of Crypto Transfers To Garantex Russian Exchange - Slashdot
What Is Fitbit Labs - Pocket Lint
Why adding cameras to AirPods could be a bad idea - Pocket Lint
X is testing NSFW adult communities, according to screenshots - Techcrunch
X's Grok chatbot will soon get an upgraded model, Grok-1.5 - Techcrunch
YouTube now lets creators share exclusive Shorts with paying viewers, says Shorts average 70B+ daily views and 25%+ of creator partners monetize via Shorts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
12 Best Umbrellas (2023): Windproof, Cheap, Tiny, and Clear Bubble - Wired
19 Best PS5 Games (2024): 'Alan Wake II,' 'Spider-Man 2,' 'Baldur's Gate 3,' and 'Stray - Wired
2024 NYSC updates and answers to major questions - Techcabal
5G adoption rose to 1.11% in January NCC - Punch
A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers To Subtract a Second From World Clocks - Slashdot
A First Look at Samsung's 2024 TV Lineup - Wired
A four-pack of Apple AirTags is down to its lowest price yet of $75 - Engadget
A look at an Indian court case over Byju Raveendran's control of Byju's, as investors, who voted to remove Raveendran last month, brace for a protracted battle (Financial Times) - Techmeme
A look at the rise and fall of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI, including how Mostaque's relationship with Coatue and Lightspeed blossomed and fell apart (Fortune) - Techmeme
A profile of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, as the AI surveillance and defense tech startup, which sells drones to the US, expects $1B in annual revenue by 2026 (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times) - Techmeme
A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison over his role in the multi-billion dollar FTX fraud and orders him to forfeit $11B (Reuters) - Techmeme
Absa Bank, Visa to digitize online & card payments for travel agents in Kenya - TechMoran
Accel rethinks early-stage startup investing in India - Techcrunch
Access Holdings' Hydrogen posts first profit in two years - Techcabal
Ads Safety Report: Google blocked 5.5 billion ads for policy violation in 2023 - Technext
Affordable Chinese phones' drive smartphone market growth - Technology Times
After spat with TikTok, UMG expands Spotify partnership to include music videos and more - Techcrunch
AI chatbot Grok will be accessible to all premium subscribers on X this week, announces Elon Musk - Innovation Village
AI21 Labs' new AI model can handle more context than most - Techcrunch
Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom - Slashdot
Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment - Techcrunch
Amazon Fined In Poland For Dark Pattern Design Tricks - Slashdot
Amazon launches iOS and Android apps for Amazon One, which let users sign up for the palm-scanning service by using generative AI to analyze palm vein structure (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme
Amazon One launches new app to scan your palm for checkout - Techcrunch
Analysis: in the past two years, Amazon committed to spending $148B over 15 years on data centers, including in Mississippi, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia (Matt Day/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica) - Techmeme
Anti-trans hate is 'widespread' on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, report warns - Engadget
Apple sues an ex-employee for allegedly leaking details about the Journal app and more to journalists, to "kill" products and features with which he took issue (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) - Techmeme
Apple TV+ beats Netflix by having the highest rated shows on IMDb - TechMoran
Apple's M3 and M2 MacBook Airs have never been cheaper - Engadget
Apps you need to boost your productivity - Punch
At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China (Cecilia Kang/New York Times) - Techmeme
AWOL LTV-3500 Pro Review: So Bright, So Expensive - Wired
Behind the Scenes: The Art of Safeguarding Non-Human Identities - Hackers News
Best compact cameras in 2024 - Pocket Lint
Best waterproof wired headphones in 2024 - Pocket Lint
Boutique startup studio super{set} gets another $90 million to co-found data and AI companies - Techcrunch
Breaking: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for $8bn theft - Technext
ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, closes down its African messaging app, LetsChat - Innovation Village
CAC extends tax filing deadline after portal glitches - Technology Times
CAF president Patrice Motsepe to join Canal+'s bid for MultiChoice - Techcabal
Canva acquires UK's Affinity to enhance competition with Adobe in the design industry - Innovation Village
Celestial AI, which develops optical tech for linking together processors and memory modules, raised a $175M Series C led by US Innovative Technology Fund (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) - Techmeme
ChowNow snaps up YC-backed POS platform Cuboh and is laying off staff - Techcrunch
Circle to Search coming to other Pixel devices, adding in-line translations too - TechMoran
Claude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena For the First Time - Slashdot
Climate tech VC Satgana closes first fund that targets early-stage startups in Africa, Europe - Techcrunch
Core PostgreSQL Developer Dies In Airplane Crash - Slashdot
Coro, building cybersecurity for SMBs, locks down $100M at a $750M valuation - Techcrunch
Darcula Phishing Network Leveraging RCS and iMessage to Evade Detection - Hackers News
Dashlane To Discontinue Its Authenticator App - Slashdot
Data observability service Observe raised a $115M Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, sources say at a $400M-$500M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Don't miss out on savings! Only 48 hours left to claim your early bird ticket - Techcrunch
Dragon's Dogma 2 review: Merciless but rewarding - Pocket Lint
Egypts Sprints.ai, an AI-powered edtech startup raises $3 million to expand into 10 new markets - TechMoran
Elon Musk Opens Up Grok AI to All X Premium Subscribers This Week - TechMoran
Ethiopia's largest bank recovers $10 million lost through system glitch - Innovation Village
Experts seek tougher data privacy measures in payment ecosystem - Punch
Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack - Hackers News