January 7, 2025news Asus unveils the 2025 Asus XG Mobile, a $1,200+ portable docking station with the world’s first Thunderbolt 5 eGPU, with an option to add a GeForce RTX 5090 (Sean Hollister/The Verge) Could the translucent box deliver single-cable bliss? Read More »
January 7, 2025news Source: OpenAI may launch agents this month and has been cautious, as rivals like Anthropic moved ahead, partly due to concerns of prompt injection attacks (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) Source: OpenAI may launch agents this month and has been cautious, as rivals like Anthropic moved ahead, partly due to concerns of […]
January 7, 2025news CFTC chair Rostin Behnam will resign on January 20; on his watch the CFTC deepened scrutiny of crypto and event contracts, like those allowing bets on elections (Stefania Palma/Financial Times) CFTC chair Rostin Behnam will step down on day of president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Read More »
January 7, 2025news Lenovo announces the Yoga Slim 9i, the first Windows laptop with a camera hidden under the display panel, coming in February and starting at $1,849 (Andrew Romero/9to5Google) Lenovo is trying to streamline what a Windows laptop can look like in terms of screen real estate. One way… Read More […]
January 7, 2025news TikTok’s sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Lemon8 as a TikTok ban looms; Lemon8 has TikTok account integrations (Axios) Read More »
January 7, 2025news Razer unveils Project Ava, an “AI gaming copilot” that helps gamers by taking thousands of pictures of their screen and telling them how to play in real time (Sean Hollister/The Verge) Real-time tips, esports coaching, and more. Read More »
January 7, 2025news Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business (Michael Flaherty/Axios) Read More »
January 6, 2025news Similarweb: DAUs of the Bluesky’s mobile app in the US grew 12% in December vs. 284% in November; Bluesky has 26.44M total users, after hitting 20M in November (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Social network and X competitor Bluesky’s massive growth slowed in December in the U.S., after having surged from 9+ million in September […]
January 6, 2025news Tencent’s stock drops 6%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China’s military; it may face delisting or index removals (Bloomberg) Tencent’s stock drops 6%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China’s military; it […]
