Tech Meme

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Mojo Vision, which pivoted from smart contact lenses to making microLED display tech with up to 28K PPI and 1M+ nits brightness, raised a $22.4M “new Series A”  —  News of Mojo Vision’s pivot rather poetically dropped during CES.  After years of trying out the latest iteration … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Substack announces Notes, letting users share short-form posts, quotes, links, and more, and says the feature “may look like familiar social media feeds”  —  Substack announced today that it’s introducing a new Notes feature that is designed to let users share posts, quotes, comments, images, links and ideas. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Brex founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras on Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, debuting Brex travel to rival SAP Concur, Navan, and TripActions, and more  —  Everybody hates Concur.  Brex wants to replace it. … Brex is what you might call a neobank — not a traditional bank but … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Roberts / New York Times: Bing Newcomb, who co-founded E*Trade in the 1980s, bringing stock trading to personal computers, and took the company public in 1996, died at 79  —  He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, helping researchers with computer vision and object identification  —  Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms Inc. said today that they’re hoping to democratize a key aspect of computer vision. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Mojo Vision, which pivoted from smart contact lenses to making microLED displays with up to 28K PPI and 1M+ nits brightness, raised a $22.4M “new Series A”  —  News of Mojo Vision’s pivot rather poetically dropped during CES.  After years of trying out the latest iteration … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D review: highly efficient and impressive gaming performance, sometimes surpassing the 9 7950X3D, but slightly weaker computing performance  —  In February, AMD released the first parts in its highly anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D series.  This new line combines AMD’s 3D V-Cache packaging … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square CTO and on Android at Google, dies after reportedly being stabbed in San Francisco  —  Bob Lee, the chief product officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: AWS’ Center for Quantum Networking partners with De Beers’ Element Six division to grow artificial diamonds, hoping to revolutionize computer networks  —  Amazon.com Inc. is teaming up with a unit of De Beers Group to grow artificial diamonds, betting that custom-made gems could could help revolutionize computer networks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, an ex-Square CTO who worked on CashApp and before that Android, dies after reportedly being stabbed in San Francisco  —  Bob Lee, the chief product officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco. Lees verder op Tech Meme