Month: June 2021
This one email explains Apple
An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple’s App Store based suit brought by Epic Games. I love this email for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that you can extrapolate from it the very…
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Flink, the German grocery delivery startup, raises $240M after launching just 6 months ago
On-demand grocery delivery, which really came into its own with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, continues to command huge attention from investors. The jury is still out on how people will use those services in the longer term, but in the meantime, the most ambitious of the startups in…
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Taito announces mini arcade cabinet with rotating screen and trackball controller
Taito is the latest Japanese video game publisher to resurrect old hardware in mini form. The company behind Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble, and many more arcade classics has just announced the Egret II Mini, which like Sega’s excellent Astro City Mini is a shrunken-down version of a popular arcade cabinet.…
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Netflix to have live-action post-production facility in Mumbai – Its first ever globally One of Netflix's facilities
In a global first for Netflix, Mumbai will be home to its first fully owned, live-action, full-service post-production facility. The facility will be operational by June 2022. The facility, Netflix said, “will have 40 offline editing rooms designed as a flexible, collaborative and inspiring environment for showrunners, directors, editors and…
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Apple’s next iPad Pro has wireless charging and a glass back: report
Apple is working on a new version of the iPad Pro with wireless charging, according to a new report in Bloomberg. To accommodate the technology, Apple will reportedly switch to a glass back for the new models, instead of the aluminum found on the rear of every iPad released so…
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China outstrips GPT-3 with even more ambitious AI language model AI Head
A Chinese AI institute has unveiled a new natural language processing (NLP) model that is even more sophisticated than those created by both Google and OpenAI. The WuDao 2.0 model was created by the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) and developed with the help of over 100 scientists from…
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