Tech
WordPress is a favorite blogging tool of mine and I share tips and tricks for using WordPress here.
-
Crypto casinos rival traditional betting groups in scale despite being illegal in most countries, with $81.4B in gross gaming revenue in 2024, up 5x since 2022 (Marianna Giusti/Financial Times)
Marianna Giusti / Financial Times: Crypto casinos rival traditional betting groups in scale despite being illegal in most countries, with $81.4B in gross gaming revenue in 2024, up 5x since 2022 — Platforms now rival traditional betting groups in scale despite their services being illegal in most countries Source link
Read More » -
Science Corp., which was started by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak to develop a retina and brain implant system, raised over $100M led by Khosla Ventures (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)
Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: Science Corp., which was started by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak to develop a retina and brain implant system, raised over $100M led by Khosla Ventures — “We have a philosophy of investing in companies that are early and make bold bets and can be impactful for the future,” said Shernaz Daver … Source link
Read More » -
How LLMs, unlike previous transformative tech like the internet, disproportionately benefit regular people, with slower impact in corporations and governments (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
Featured Podcasts Techmeme Ride Home: Will Tech Raise Prices Cause Of Tariffs? The day’s tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you’re up to date. Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home. Sponsor this podcast Decoder with Nilay Patel: UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on AI agents replacing our jobs A show from the Verge about big ideas – and…
Read More » -
Coinbase's stock fell 31% in Q1 2025, its worst quarterly performance since FTX collapsed in 2022; nearly every major crypto-linked stock plunged alongside it (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)
Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: Coinbase’s stock fell 31% in Q1 2025, its worst quarterly performance since FTX collapsed in 2022; nearly every major crypto-linked stock plunged alongside it — Coinbase fell 31% in the worst quarterly performance since FTX collapsed near the end of 2022. Source link
Read More » -
Samsung says its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at 63 from cardiac arrest (Reuters)
Reuters: Samsung says its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at 63 from cardiac arrest — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died from cardiac arrest. Han was 63. Source link
Read More » -
Some owners of devices running Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can access the home screen; Roku says it is just a test (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Some owners of devices running Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can access the home screen; Roku says it is just a test — Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further and forced people to watch a video ad play before getting to…
Read More » -
Leaked video: Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of a PlayStation game character that can interact with players through voice prompts (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge: Leaked video: Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of a PlayStation game character that can interact with players through voice prompts — Sony’s advanced technology group has created an AI-powered version of Aloy from PlayStation’s Horizon games. Source link
Read More » -
Creator monetization platform Passes and its CEO, Lucy Guo, are sued for allegedly distributing CSAM; the suit claims Guo intervened to override safety measures (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Creator monetization platform Passes and its CEO, Lucy Guo, are sued for allegedly distributing CSAM; the suit claims Guo intervened to override safety measures — Passes, a direct-to-fan monetization platform for creators backed by $40 million in Series A funding, has been sued … Source link
Read More » -
DoorDash agrees to pay $16.75M to settle a lawsuit by NY's AG accusing it of pocketing customers' tips for delivery drivers between May 2017 and September 2019 (Brendan Pierson/Reuters)
Brendan Pierson / Reuters: DoorDash agrees to pay $16.75M to settle a lawsuit by NY’s AG accusing it of pocketing customers’ tips for delivery drivers between May 2017 and September 2019 — DoorDash (DASH.O) has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general accusing it of pocketing customers’ tips … Source link
Read More » -
How militaries and startups like North.io use AI to analyze data and deploy autonomous underwater vehicles to safeguard deep-sea pipelines and cables (William Boston/Wall Street Journal)
William Boston / Wall Street Journal: How militaries and startups like North.io use AI to analyze data and deploy autonomous underwater vehicles to safeguard deep-sea pipelines and cables — Militaries and startups use artificial intelligence to sift through vast amounts of data and power autonomous underwater vehicles … Source link
Read More »