Tech Meme

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Data.ai: Jack Dorsey-backed social network Bluesky has been downloaded 245K times on iOS, more than half of those in April 2023, after opening its waiting list  —  Twitter users, weary from another tumultuous weekend, are exploring Jack Dorsey-backed app Bluesky as a possible alternative to the social media network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Opera releases early access to Opera One, its redesigned browser with a cleaner, modular look for future generative AI features, “tab islands”, and more  —  Opera has released the early access version of its completely redesigned browser that it plans to launch for all platforms later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €3B, ad revenue up 17% YoY to €329M, MAUs up 22% YoY to 515M, Premium Subscribers up 15% YoY to 210M, and a €225M loss  —  Audiostreaming giant posted lower-than-expected revenue gains as ad spending cooled Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: AMD announces the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, a pair of 4nm CPUs aimed at handheld gaming PCs; Z1 Extreme offers eight Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores  —  But the company’s now saying the quiet part out loud: today, it’s officially announcing the AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nvidia open-sources NeMo Guardrails, offering a developer framework to help make generative AI more “accurate, appropriate, on topic, and secure”  —  For all the fanfare, text-generating AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 make a lot of mistakes — some of them harmful. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Seifert / The Verge: OnePlus plans to launch the OnePlus Pad, its first tablet, on May 8 for $479, offering a 7:5 144Hz LCD display, MediaTek Dimensity 9000 CPU, 128GB SSD, and more  —  Starting this Friday, April 28th, the OnePlus Pad will be available for preorder for $479 (€499 / £499) from OnePlus directly. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Thierry Breton says EU Digital Services Act content rules will apply to Apple, Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and others from August 2023  —  Alibaba’s (9988.HK) AliExpress, Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Marketplace, Apple’s App Store and 16 other tech companies will be subject … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €3B, ad revenue up 17% YoY to €329M, MAUs up 22% YoY to 515M, Premium Subscribers up 15% YoY to 210M, and a €225M loss  —  Audiostreaming giant posted lower-than-expected revenue gains as ad spending cooled Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Slack rolls out Canvas, a collaboration tool for each channel with document creation, editing, and more, announced in September 2022  —  The best thing about Slack’s new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you.  It’s like Google Docs but inside of Slack. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Filing: SMIC-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing Electronics Shaoxing plans to raise $1.4B in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market as Beijing battles US curbs  —  A chip foundry backed by China’s top semiconductor firm is set to raise $1.4 billion in Asia’s biggest initial public offering so far this year … Lees verder op Tech Meme