Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Paris-based online corporate event booking marketplace Naboo raised a €20M Series A led by Notion Capital, and says its 2024 booking volumes grew 4x YoY to €60M  —  If you’ve ever tried to book a venue for a company event, you’ll know how onerous a task it can be. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Dring / Video Games Chronicle: Ampere: users spent $465M on Microsoft games in December, making it the biggest publisher, ahead of EA’s $366M; Call of Duty HQ had 38M MAUs in November 2024  —  NEARLY $0.5BN WAS SPENT ON XBOX GAMES ACROSS STEAM, PLAYSTATION AND XBOX IN DECEMBER  —  $465 million was spent on Microsoft games … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Comcast starts rolling out its “pioneering new, ultra-low lag connectivity experience” to select US cities, using the L4S standard to significantly cut latency  —  The new technology is based on a standard called L4S, which can significantly reduce latency to help things like video games feel smoother. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stefano Bernabei / Reuters: DeepSeek’s app is unavailable on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store in Italy, after its data protection regulator says it questioned DeepSeek  —  The Chinese artifical intelligence application DeepSeek appeared to be unavailable on Wednesday in Apple and Google app stores in Italy on Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Meta executives say DeepSeek’s breakthrough shows that upstarts now have a chance to innovate and compete with AI giants, vindicating its open-source strategy  —  The Silicon Valley giant was criticized for giving away its core A.I. technology two years ago for anyone to use.  Now that bet is having an impact. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Paris-based online corporate event booking marketplace Naboo raised a €20M Series A led by Notion Capital, and says its 2024 booking volumes grew 4x YoY to €60M  —  If you’ve ever tried to book a venue for a company event, you’ll know how onerous a task it can be. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model that the company’s cloud unit claims “outperforms” GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B “almost across the board”  —  Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK) on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Wilson / Windows Central: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: slim, lightweight, reasonable power draw, and DLSS 4, but mild generational performance uplift and spotty availability at launch  —  The RTX 5080 Founders Edition at $999 makes far more sense for enthusiasts targeting max-setting gaming and ultra-HD resolutions if you can find it at MSRP. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources detail Elon Musk’s time in government, bringing his friends and employees, as he races to cut staff; Musk’s plane has not left DC since the inauguration  —  The billionaire and his Silicon Valley allies landed in Washington and immediately moved to cut the size of the federal government … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: ASML reports Q4 net profit of €2.69B on €9.26B net sales, net bookings up 169% QoQ to €7.09B, and expects 2025 net sales of €30B to €35B, up from €28.3B in 2024  —  Dutch semiconductor giant ASML on Wednesday reported a big jump in fourth-quarter net bookings … Lees verder op Tech Meme