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, […]
OpenAI will soon no longer be controlled by its nonprofit board as the firm shakes up its organizational structure to attract new investors, according to Reuters. The report comes just as the firm's chief technology officer, Mira Murati, who has spent years at the firm, announced her decision to leave the company on X (formerly Twitter). Reports of such a shakeup have been surfacing throughout this year, and as per the details, while the nonprofit board will relinquish control over the firm, it will continue to hold a stake in the for profit arm. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Will Receive […]
Tesla is slated to spend the entire market capitalization of Rivian and Lucid Group, that too on a combined basis, on AI by the end of this year, as per a tabulation by Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas. What's more, when one includes the roughly $10 billion in AI-related expenditure by xAI, it become patently evident that Elon Musk is banking on a prolific spending spree to capture a near-apex position in this emerging, century-shaping paradigm shift. Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas on Elon Musk's AI spending: "The Muskonomy is spending the market caps of RIVN and LCID combined, on Al, this […]
Now that the global liquidity proxy - a measure of cross-border financial flows that have a particularly strong influence on risky assets - is again approaching the elevated levels last seen at the apex of the pandemic-induced mayhem, bullish bets on Bitcoin are also increasing in tandem. As an illustration of this evolving phenomenon, look no further than the spot Bitcoin ETFs, whose year-to-date inflows have just hit another record level. As we noted in a recent post, Bitcoin is directionally sensitive to measures of global liquidity. And, in what bodes well for the prospects of the world's premier cryptocurrency, […]
Investment bank Morgan Stanley believes that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will be able to expand its CoWoS chip packaging capacity a year ahead of schedule. TSMC was initially slated to grow its packaging capacity by 2026, but as per the bank, this has moved ahead by a year to 2025. Packaging demand has grown in the wake of the AI wave and has been one of the key constraints in the industry, which has ordered hundreds of thousands of GPUs primarily from NVIDIA Corporation. Morgan Stanley's optimism is also reflected in its share price target for TSMC, which […]
Wall Street is rapidly pivoting away from gnashing its proverbial teeth over NVIDIA's peaking margins just a few weeks back to now rushing to incorporate the Blackwell production ramp-up in its collective bullish thesis, replete with expectations of a phenomenal surge in revenue from the GPU manufacturer's latest flagship product. For the benefit of those who might not be aware, the rumors of a Blackwell architecture design flaw had dominated the narrative around NVIDIA throughout the summer, with analysts contending that the flaw's rectification would relegate the Blackwell production ramp-up to a predominantly calendar year 2025 phenomenon. Then, while announcing […]
After its recovery ships were spotted near the splashdown zone of the Super Heavy booster for the fourth Starship test flight last week, SpaceX has recovered pieces of the rocket from the ocean, according to a fresh image shared by Elon Musk. Musk and SpaceX are waiting for the FAA's approval for the fifth Starship test flight, which can take place in November at the earliest. Starship Flight 5 will be the first test in SpaceX's campaign to catch the booster with the launch tower's catch arms. The Flight 4 booster's recovery is also the first time that SpaceX has […]
With Intel's market capitalization recently falling below that of Starbucks, the beleaguered chipmaker is now attracting phenomenal interest from bargain hunters, premised on the belief that the US government will not allow such a strategically important entity to go bust. As an illustration of this evolving phenomenon, consider that Intel has reportedly tapped $8.5 billion in new funding just over the past couple of days. As we noted on the 16th of September, Intel has now officially received the authorization for $3.5 billion in direct funding under the Secure Enclave program of the Department of Defense, which aims to incentivize […]
Google parent Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai shared his thoughts on whether AI will replace entry level programmers and about the role clean energy can play when it comes to powering the massive data centers required to power artificial intelligence software. Pichai made his comments at the Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus earlier this week, as he shared that Google has powered up its data centers with geothermal energy to reduce their carbon footprint. The Alphabet and Google head acknowledged the growing interest in small modular reactors (SMRs) for nuclear energy, sharing that capital investment was flowing into developing alternate energy […]
With Wall Street seemingly unimpressed with Intel's latest flourishes to its turnaround strategy, including a jumbo deal with Amazon, the chipmaker might eventually conclude that an outright sale is its only viable exit from the current quagmire. And now, we reportedly have a serious offer that just might tempt Intel. To wit, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Qualcomm has approached Intel with a takeover offer. While the talks remain exploratory for now, any deal would have monumental ramifications for the industry at large. Intel has 15 fabs; the fabs alone are worth $10bn/each in liquidation value. The […]
SpaceX is continuing to prepare for Starship Flight 5 in Texas as it waits for the FAA's approval, which should come by late November at the earliest. After testing the tower catch arms yesterday, the firm shared moments back that it had lifted the 232-foot-tall Super Heavy booster at the launch tower to simulate a catch attempt. A tower catch is key for Starship's rapid reusability, and the booster lift is the first time that SpaceX has lifted the massive rocket to the full height required for a catch during a test. SpaceX Moving Full Speed Ahead To Test Starship's […]
Elon Musk just can't seem to catch a break these days. As if receiving near-constant flak at home for his pointedly partisan views was not enough, the CEO of Tesla now has to contend with condemnation from foreign players as well, be it the Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes or the Russian warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, who is quite irate at Tesla's sudden decision to remotely deactivate his Cybertruck. Kadyrov said he received a Tesla Cybertrack from Elon Musk. He promised to send it to the "special military operation" zone and attached a machine gun to it. "Elon, thank […]
The media has devoted a lot of airtime in recent days to the supposedly anemic demand for the newly revealed iPhone 16 lineup. Even if such preliminary anecdotes do ultimately end up vindicated, Apple's annual launch cadence remains an intricate logistics exercise that would give an entire orchestra a run for its money. To wit, FlightAware has now made available a dedicated page to track UPS flights carrying millions of iPhone handsets to the US ahead of the official launch of Apple's latest flagship series this Friday. FlightAware has a page up tracking the UPS planes loaded with iPhones heading […]
OpenAI will soon no longer be controlled by its nonprofit board as the firm shakes up its organizational structure to attract new investors, according to Reuters. The report comes just as the firm's chief technology officer, Mira Murati, who has spent years at the firm, announced her decision to leave the company on X (formerly Twitter). Reports of such a shakeup have been surfacing throughout this year, and as per the details, while the nonprofit board will relinquish control over the firm, it will continue to hold a stake in the for profit arm. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Will Receive […]
Tesla is slated to spend the entire market capitalization of Rivian and Lucid Group, that too on a combined basis, on AI by the end of this year, as per a tabulation by Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas. What's more, when one includes the roughly $10 billion in AI-related expenditure by xAI, it become patently evident that Elon Musk is banking on a prolific spending spree to capture a near-apex position in this emerging, century-shaping paradigm shift. Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas on Elon Musk's AI spending: "The Muskonomy is spending the market caps of RIVN and LCID combined, on Al, this […]
Now that the global liquidity proxy - a measure of cross-border financial flows that have a particularly strong influence on risky assets - is again approaching the elevated levels last seen at the apex of the pandemic-induced mayhem, bullish bets on Bitcoin are also increasing in tandem. As an illustration of this evolving phenomenon, look no further than the spot Bitcoin ETFs, whose year-to-date inflows have just hit another record level. As we noted in a recent post, Bitcoin is directionally sensitive to measures of global liquidity. And, in what bodes well for the prospects of the world's premier cryptocurrency, […]
Investment bank Morgan Stanley believes that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will be able to expand its CoWoS chip packaging capacity a year ahead of schedule. TSMC was initially slated to grow its packaging capacity by 2026, but as per the bank, this has moved ahead by a year to 2025. Packaging demand has grown in the wake of the AI wave and has been one of the key constraints in the industry, which has ordered hundreds of thousands of GPUs primarily from NVIDIA Corporation. Morgan Stanley's optimism is also reflected in its share price target for TSMC, which […]
Wall Street is rapidly pivoting away from gnashing its proverbial teeth over NVIDIA's peaking margins just a few weeks back to now rushing to incorporate the Blackwell production ramp-up in its collective bullish thesis, replete with expectations of a phenomenal surge in revenue from the GPU manufacturer's latest flagship product. For the benefit of those who might not be aware, the rumors of a Blackwell architecture design flaw had dominated the narrative around NVIDIA throughout the summer, with analysts contending that the flaw's rectification would relegate the Blackwell production ramp-up to a predominantly calendar year 2025 phenomenon. Then, while announcing […]
After its recovery ships were spotted near the splashdown zone of the Super Heavy booster for the fourth Starship test flight last week, SpaceX has recovered pieces of the rocket from the ocean, according to a fresh image shared by Elon Musk. Musk and SpaceX are waiting for the FAA's approval for the fifth Starship test flight, which can take place in November at the earliest. Starship Flight 5 will be the first test in SpaceX's campaign to catch the booster with the launch tower's catch arms. The Flight 4 booster's recovery is also the first time that SpaceX has […]
With Intel's market capitalization recently falling below that of Starbucks, the beleaguered chipmaker is now attracting phenomenal interest from bargain hunters, premised on the belief that the US government will not allow such a strategically important entity to go bust. As an illustration of this evolving phenomenon, consider that Intel has reportedly tapped $8.5 billion in new funding just over the past couple of days. As we noted on the 16th of September, Intel has now officially received the authorization for $3.5 billion in direct funding under the Secure Enclave program of the Department of Defense, which aims to incentivize […]
Google parent Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai shared his thoughts on whether AI will replace entry level programmers and about the role clean energy can play when it comes to powering the massive data centers required to power artificial intelligence software. Pichai made his comments at the Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus earlier this week, as he shared that Google has powered up its data centers with geothermal energy to reduce their carbon footprint. The Alphabet and Google head acknowledged the growing interest in small modular reactors (SMRs) for nuclear energy, sharing that capital investment was flowing into developing alternate energy […]
With Wall Street seemingly unimpressed with Intel's latest flourishes to its turnaround strategy, including a jumbo deal with Amazon, the chipmaker might eventually conclude that an outright sale is its only viable exit from the current quagmire. And now, we reportedly have a serious offer that just might tempt Intel. To wit, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Qualcomm has approached Intel with a takeover offer. While the talks remain exploratory for now, any deal would have monumental ramifications for the industry at large. Intel has 15 fabs; the fabs alone are worth $10bn/each in liquidation value. The […]
SpaceX is continuing to prepare for Starship Flight 5 in Texas as it waits for the FAA's approval, which should come by late November at the earliest. After testing the tower catch arms yesterday, the firm shared moments back that it had lifted the 232-foot-tall Super Heavy booster at the launch tower to simulate a catch attempt. A tower catch is key for Starship's rapid reusability, and the booster lift is the first time that SpaceX has lifted the massive rocket to the full height required for a catch during a test. SpaceX Moving Full Speed Ahead To Test Starship's […]
Elon Musk just can't seem to catch a break these days. As if receiving near-constant flak at home for his pointedly partisan views was not enough, the CEO of Tesla now has to contend with condemnation from foreign players as well, be it the Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes or the Russian warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, who is quite irate at Tesla's sudden decision to remotely deactivate his Cybertruck. Kadyrov said he received a Tesla Cybertrack from Elon Musk. He promised to send it to the "special military operation" zone and attached a machine gun to it. "Elon, thank […]
The media has devoted a lot of airtime in recent days to the supposedly anemic demand for the newly revealed iPhone 16 lineup. Even if such preliminary anecdotes do ultimately end up vindicated, Apple's annual launch cadence remains an intricate logistics exercise that would give an entire orchestra a run for its money. To wit, FlightAware has now made available a dedicated page to track UPS flights carrying millions of iPhone handsets to the US ahead of the official launch of Apple's latest flagship series this Friday. FlightAware has a page up tracking the UPS planes loaded with iPhones heading […]