Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
It began with a cascade of sell orders that quickly morphed into a puke fest for long positions. Bitcoin tumbled to the $42,000 price level on Sunday amid razor-thin weekend liquidity as the sell orders took their toll. Then came the second significant punch on Monday when the Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, a known crypto skeptic, unveiled her anti-Bitcoin bill. As is evident from the above snippet, $126 million worth of long Bitcoin futures positions were liquidated on Monday, precipitating the cryptocurrency's collapse to the $40,000 price handle. Elizabeth Warren's Bill Would Virtually Ban Bitcoin in the US Senator Warren's […]
Tech giant Google's legal troubles are starting to mount, with 2023 coming to a close as it lost a lawsuit filed against it by Epic Games for monopolizing the Android application ecosystem. Google's Google Play is the dominant application for downloading software on Android gadgets. Epic's lawsuit claimed that the firm illegally monopolized not only the Android app ecosystem but also payment methods on the software platform. In response, Google claimed that it is competing with Apple for users and has been forced to reduce its prices to prevent customer churn - behavior that goes against a monopoly, according to […]
GLP-1 drugs have been billed as the long-awaited panacea for the obesity pandemic that continues to ravage an ever-increasing segment of the global population. However, a new study published today has shed fresh limelight on the limitations associated with relying solely on pharmaceutical interventions to achieve an ideal BMI. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) hormone plays an important role in regulating hunger. Novo Nordisk sells its Semaglutide GLP-1 drugs under the Ozempic and Wegovy labels. Eli Lilly and Company, on the other hand, sells its Tirzepatide GLP-1 cocktail under the Mounjaro and Zepbound labels. These drugs stimulate the release of insulin in […]
AI Dystopia: an increasingly totalitarian society dominated by artificial intelligence and characterized by oppression, suffering, and injustice. AI and dystopia are thematic plays that often go hand in hand. The Butlerian Jihad chronicled in the Duna saga and the pre-crime department as shown in the film Minority Report are some of the more superior fictional works on how advances in AI can lead to catastrophic consequences for society. Of course, not everyone agrees with the thesis that advances in AI are guaranteed to lead to adverse outcomes, pointing to the meteoric increase in economic productivity that can then lead to […]
As the dust settles around the saga surrounding board and executive conflicts at the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, more details about behind-the-scenes events are surfacing. OpenAI - the firm behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT - took the media by surprise in November after a short blog post announced the ouster of its chief, Sam Altman. While this alone was sufficient to generate a plethora of stories, Altman, who initially agreed to step down, waged a comeback that saw him negotiate his return to the firm amidst widespread support by employees, according to fresh details shared in a report by the […]
Elon Musk's xAI has billed its Grok Large Language Model (LLM) as the first significant step toward a "maximum truth-seeking AI," one that comprehends the true nature of the universe. For now, however, the AI model appears content to regurgitate verbatim the responses of OpenAI's GPT LLM, constituting a stark departure from the overarching lofty goals that supposedly form the very ethos of Grok AI. For now, Grok can interpret a prompt of up to 25,000 characters. The LLM has been trained not only on The Pile - a ubiquitous AI model training data set - but also on the mountains […]
Microsoft Corporation's partnership with OpenAI is facing some interesting times as we exit 2023. OpenAI, led by its founder Sam Altman, was under intense media scrutiny in November after a sudden board coup ousted its CEO Sam Altman and head of research, only to see them return within days and replace the board with new members. The entire affair raised questions about the stability of OpenAI, widely thought to be the world's premier artificial intelligence company. However, it now appears that troubles at the firm might be far from over, as a report from Bloomberg shares that the Federal Trade […]
At its AI product launch earlier today, chip designer AMD upgraded its AI market estimates for 2023 by 50%, revealing that the total addressable market (TAM) for data center AI accelerators is now $45 billion. AMD launched new AI products today in a broader semiconductor market that is recovering from the demand-supply shocks that shrank revenues of all big-ticket semiconductor companies before the demand for AI GPUs and CPUs picked up in 2023. The Santa Clara, California-based CPU and GPU designer's previous TAM estimate for the AI processor market was $30 billion. Its much larger GPU rival, NVIDIA, has managed […]
After struggling to maintain its rapid sales growth in the U.S. and globally his year, Tesla might be making big moves in China that can prove key to its goal of selling millions of electric vehicles worldwide. A new report in the Chinese press shares that the firm is interested in expanding its Shanghai Gigafactory by adding a third extension to the plant that produces close to a million electric vehicles a year. The Shanghai Gigafactory is Tesla's biggest manufacturing plant in terms of output, as it benefits from China's suitability for manufacturing and factory operations and churns out hundreds […]
For a fleeting moment last month, it appeared quite feasible that the embattled SPAC Digital World would imminently take Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) public via a reverse merger. Hopes for a swift wrap-up of this ongoing saga, however, have been dashed yet again. Back in the fall, the proposed merger between Digital World and Trump Media and Technology Group appeared increasingly shaky as the two entities entered into a third amendment to their merger agreement, which among other things stipulated a fresh due diligence exercise to determine the viability of pursuing a business combination that has been held […]
One of the biggest hurdles to the mass appeal of a new class of GLP-1 weight loss drugs remains their sky-high prices. Insurance coverage, however, is playing a fundamental role in addressing these affordability concerns, with Eli Lilly and Company coming out today with important price updates for those with insurance coverage in the US. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1, or GLP-1 for short, plays an important role in regulating hunger. These drugs stimulate the release of insulin in the pancreas, block the unhelpful release of glucagon after meals to prevent excess glucose from entering the bloodstream, and slow gastric emptying to reduce […]
Chipmaker Intel Corporation scored a big victory in court earlier today when an appeals court dismissed a $2.18 billion fine that had been imposed on it in 2021. The fine related to key chip power management and performance attributes came after a lawsuit was filed by VLSI Technology, an intellectual property license firm based in Chicago, Illinois. While IP licensing firms do not directly engage in business operations of the industries they own patents of, they still command some control by acquiring the rights to key technologies, without which technological advancement would be difficult. VLSI had sued Intel in 2019, […]
It began with a cascade of sell orders that quickly morphed into a puke fest for long positions. Bitcoin tumbled to the $42,000 price level on Sunday amid razor-thin weekend liquidity as the sell orders took their toll. Then came the second significant punch on Monday when the Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, a known crypto skeptic, unveiled her anti-Bitcoin bill. As is evident from the above snippet, $126 million worth of long Bitcoin futures positions were liquidated on Monday, precipitating the cryptocurrency's collapse to the $40,000 price handle. Elizabeth Warren's Bill Would Virtually Ban Bitcoin in the US Senator Warren's […]
Tech giant Google's legal troubles are starting to mount, with 2023 coming to a close as it lost a lawsuit filed against it by Epic Games for monopolizing the Android application ecosystem. Google's Google Play is the dominant application for downloading software on Android gadgets. Epic's lawsuit claimed that the firm illegally monopolized not only the Android app ecosystem but also payment methods on the software platform. In response, Google claimed that it is competing with Apple for users and has been forced to reduce its prices to prevent customer churn - behavior that goes against a monopoly, according to […]
GLP-1 drugs have been billed as the long-awaited panacea for the obesity pandemic that continues to ravage an ever-increasing segment of the global population. However, a new study published today has shed fresh limelight on the limitations associated with relying solely on pharmaceutical interventions to achieve an ideal BMI. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) hormone plays an important role in regulating hunger. Novo Nordisk sells its Semaglutide GLP-1 drugs under the Ozempic and Wegovy labels. Eli Lilly and Company, on the other hand, sells its Tirzepatide GLP-1 cocktail under the Mounjaro and Zepbound labels. These drugs stimulate the release of insulin in […]
AI Dystopia: an increasingly totalitarian society dominated by artificial intelligence and characterized by oppression, suffering, and injustice. AI and dystopia are thematic plays that often go hand in hand. The Butlerian Jihad chronicled in the Duna saga and the pre-crime department as shown in the film Minority Report are some of the more superior fictional works on how advances in AI can lead to catastrophic consequences for society. Of course, not everyone agrees with the thesis that advances in AI are guaranteed to lead to adverse outcomes, pointing to the meteoric increase in economic productivity that can then lead to […]
As the dust settles around the saga surrounding board and executive conflicts at the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, more details about behind-the-scenes events are surfacing. OpenAI - the firm behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT - took the media by surprise in November after a short blog post announced the ouster of its chief, Sam Altman. While this alone was sufficient to generate a plethora of stories, Altman, who initially agreed to step down, waged a comeback that saw him negotiate his return to the firm amidst widespread support by employees, according to fresh details shared in a report by the […]
Elon Musk's xAI has billed its Grok Large Language Model (LLM) as the first significant step toward a "maximum truth-seeking AI," one that comprehends the true nature of the universe. For now, however, the AI model appears content to regurgitate verbatim the responses of OpenAI's GPT LLM, constituting a stark departure from the overarching lofty goals that supposedly form the very ethos of Grok AI. For now, Grok can interpret a prompt of up to 25,000 characters. The LLM has been trained not only on The Pile - a ubiquitous AI model training data set - but also on the mountains […]
Microsoft Corporation's partnership with OpenAI is facing some interesting times as we exit 2023. OpenAI, led by its founder Sam Altman, was under intense media scrutiny in November after a sudden board coup ousted its CEO Sam Altman and head of research, only to see them return within days and replace the board with new members. The entire affair raised questions about the stability of OpenAI, widely thought to be the world's premier artificial intelligence company. However, it now appears that troubles at the firm might be far from over, as a report from Bloomberg shares that the Federal Trade […]
At its AI product launch earlier today, chip designer AMD upgraded its AI market estimates for 2023 by 50%, revealing that the total addressable market (TAM) for data center AI accelerators is now $45 billion. AMD launched new AI products today in a broader semiconductor market that is recovering from the demand-supply shocks that shrank revenues of all big-ticket semiconductor companies before the demand for AI GPUs and CPUs picked up in 2023. The Santa Clara, California-based CPU and GPU designer's previous TAM estimate for the AI processor market was $30 billion. Its much larger GPU rival, NVIDIA, has managed […]
After struggling to maintain its rapid sales growth in the U.S. and globally his year, Tesla might be making big moves in China that can prove key to its goal of selling millions of electric vehicles worldwide. A new report in the Chinese press shares that the firm is interested in expanding its Shanghai Gigafactory by adding a third extension to the plant that produces close to a million electric vehicles a year. The Shanghai Gigafactory is Tesla's biggest manufacturing plant in terms of output, as it benefits from China's suitability for manufacturing and factory operations and churns out hundreds […]
For a fleeting moment last month, it appeared quite feasible that the embattled SPAC Digital World would imminently take Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) public via a reverse merger. Hopes for a swift wrap-up of this ongoing saga, however, have been dashed yet again. Back in the fall, the proposed merger between Digital World and Trump Media and Technology Group appeared increasingly shaky as the two entities entered into a third amendment to their merger agreement, which among other things stipulated a fresh due diligence exercise to determine the viability of pursuing a business combination that has been held […]
One of the biggest hurdles to the mass appeal of a new class of GLP-1 weight loss drugs remains their sky-high prices. Insurance coverage, however, is playing a fundamental role in addressing these affordability concerns, with Eli Lilly and Company coming out today with important price updates for those with insurance coverage in the US. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1, or GLP-1 for short, plays an important role in regulating hunger. These drugs stimulate the release of insulin in the pancreas, block the unhelpful release of glucagon after meals to prevent excess glucose from entering the bloodstream, and slow gastric emptying to reduce […]
Chipmaker Intel Corporation scored a big victory in court earlier today when an appeals court dismissed a $2.18 billion fine that had been imposed on it in 2021. The fine related to key chip power management and performance attributes came after a lawsuit was filed by VLSI Technology, an intellectual property license firm based in Chicago, Illinois. While IP licensing firms do not directly engage in business operations of the industries they own patents of, they still command some control by acquiring the rights to key technologies, without which technological advancement would be difficult. VLSI had sued Intel in 2019, […]