The iPhone 15 Pro is the next AAA game console
Apple spent some time focusing on games during Tuesday’s iPhone 15 launch event, and while we got the usual mobile devs talking about the improved hardware and software capabilities, we also found out that some very recent top-tier console games are coming to the iPhone, including the Resident Evil 4
Read moreAsk Sophie: Can I get an O-1A visa to bypass the H-1B process?
Here's another edition of “Ask Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.
Read moreSpaceX’s Starlink made $1.4 billion last year
Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Starlink, the SpaceX satellite internet service, generated $1.4 billion in revenue last year, documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal reveal. That’s up from $222 million in 2021 but $11 billion short of its original projections, according to the Journal. Interestingly, The Wall
Read moreApple announces iPhone 15, watches in fall event
During its annual September launch event yesterday, Apple announced its new iPhone 15 lineup, featuring titanium bodies on some models and USB-C connectors rather than the usual Lightning ports (a long-overdue change required by new EU regulations), as well as a pair of new watches. iPhone 15 The new iPhone
Read moreMila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Stoner Cats’ NFTs get smoked by the SEC
It’s been a disastrous week for Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, and it’s only Wednesday. The SEC has charged the Hollywood power couple’s NFT-based web series, “Stoner Cats,” calling the NFTs unregistered securities. Per the SEC, “Stoner Cats is an adult animated television show about house cats that become sentient
Read moreTikTok’s revamped creator fund expands beyond the US to Brazil, Germany, Korea and more
TikTok is expanding its revamped creator fund, called the “Creativity Program Beta,” beyond the United States. The program is now available to eligible creators in Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom. The company began testing the new program with select creators in February. The new program essentially replaces
Read more‘A lot of the value of AI is related to the fact that they hallucinate’, says OpenAI’s CEO at Dreamforce
OpenAI’s chief executive officer (CEO) Sam Altman delved into the promises, challenges, and trust in AI, yesterday, in a conversation with Salesforce’s CEO and chair Marc Benioff at Dreamforce 2023. Altman stressed OpenAI’s endeavour to making the GPT series “more reliable, more robust, more multimodal, better at reasoning”, while also
Read moreDigital forensics firm Binalyze raises $19M to investigate cyber threats
Binalyze, a London-based startup building a toolset for digital forensics and incident response, this week announced that it raised $19 million in a Series A round led by Molten Ventures with participation from Cisco Investments, Citibank Ventures and Deutsche Bank Ventures. Founder and CEO Emre Tinaztepe says that the tranche,
Read moreMila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s Stoner Cats NFTs must sober up, SEC orders
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis promoted the Stoner Cats NFTs. | Photo by Axelle / Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic The Stoner Cats NFTs, associated with a cartoon including the voice talent of Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, were actually unregistered securities, the Securities and Exchange Commission said today. The company behind
Read moreThe European Company signs agreements with Axiom, Indian Space Research Organization
Europe-based The Exploration Company is gearing up to compete with in-space delivery providers SpaceX and Northrop Grumman, with the startup announcing this week that it had signed a preliminary cargo delivery agreement with private space station aspirant Axiom Space. Axiom agreed to purchase a full mission from The Exploration Company
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