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South China Morning PostHuawei's new Mate 70 smartphone chip is 'not a major redesign', teardown report finds
Huawei Technologies' new Mate 70 smartphones feature an in-house designed processor that does not show major improvements, indicating the Chinese tech champion's ongoing struggles over US sanctions that restrict its access to advanced semiconductors, according to a new report. The Mate 70 Pro+, one of four models in the latest Mate 70 series released last month, features the Kirin 9020 system-on-chip, according to a report published on Wednesday by Canadian semiconductor research firm TechInsigh
- Evening Standard
Apple announces its iPhone app and game of the year for 2024
Apple has announced its 11 app and game of the year winners across iPhone, iPad and more
- TechCrunch
Anthropic's 3.5 Haiku model comes to Claude users
Anthropic has released one of its newest AI models, Claude 3.5 Haiku, for users of its AI chatbot platform, Claude. Reports of 3.5 Haiku's launch in Claude began rolling in Thursday morning on social media, and TechCrunch was able to independently confirm that the model is available in Claude on the web and mobile. 3.5 Haiku, which Anthropic unveiled in November, matches or bests the performance of Anthropic’s outgoing flagship model, 3 Opus, on specific benchmarks.
- TechCrunch
OpenAI blames its massive ChatGPT outage on a 'new telemetry service'
OpenAI is blaming one of the longest outages in its history on a "new telemetry service" gone awry. On Wednesday, OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT; its video generator, Sora; and its developer-facing API experienced major disruptions starting at around 3 p.m. Pacific. In a postmortem published late Thursday, OpenAI wrote that the outage wasn't caused by a security incident or recent product launch, but by a telemetry service it deployed Wednesday to collect Kubernetes metrics.
- Zacks
MSI & NOK Team Up to Develop Advanced Drone Solution: Stock to Gain?
Motorola is collaborating with Nokia to develop a leading edge drone solution that will address the evolving requirements of first responder agencies and industries.
- Fortune
Marc Benioff warns excessive AI spending is a ‘race to the bottom,’ and he plans to take advantage of it
Benioff has previously warned that AI is overhyped.
- Yahoo Canada Style
Are cheap TVs any good? I bought a $350 budget TCL TV from Amazon — here's why I wish I bought it sooner
I'm terrible with technology, but I found it easy to set up and was able to stream Netflix ten minutes after unboxing it.
- Yahoo Life Shopping
Big solutions, small prices: these $20-and-under gifts are editor-approved winners
From a compact box cutter to rechargeable sconces, these giftable editors' picks alleviate some of life's biggest headaches, starting at $5.
- Zacks
3 Stocks to Consider From Flourishing Networking Industry
Higher demand for cybersecurity solutions and the Wi-Fi 7 upgrade cycle are expected to benefit the Zacks Computer - Networking industry players like EXTR, NTCT and INTZ.
- Engadget
PlayStation 5 review (2024): A smaller console with a bigger game library
Sony’s PS5 redesign is a smaller console with slightly more storage and the same incredible selection of hit games. It's easy to see how it's dominated this console cycle.
- Insider Monkey
How SAP’s (SAP) AI Integration is Changing the Mobile Business Experience
We recently compiled a list of the Top 10 AI Stocks on Latest News and Analyst Ratings. In this article, we are going to take a look at where SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) stands against the other AI stocks. Hugh Gimber, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, joined CNBC’s Squawk Box Europe to discuss the […]
- Barrons.com
AI Stocks Face a New Test. Here Are the 3 Big Questions Hanging Over Tech in 2025.
2025 is supposed to be the year that billions in AI spending turn into new sales and productivity gains. The stock market is counting on it.
- Reuters
Samsung accuses India antitrust body of detaining employees, seizing data unlawfully
Samsung has accused India's competition watchdog of unlawfully detaining its employees and seizing data in a raid carried out in connection with an antitrust investigation on Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart, a legal filing shows. Samsung is embroiled in the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) investigation that in August concluded that the South Korean giant and other smartphone companies broke anti-trust laws by colluding with Amazon and Flipkart to exclusively launch products online.
- The Telegraph
Uyghur fighters in Syria vow to come for China next
A Uyghur militant group that helped to topple Bashar-al Assad has vowed to take the fight to China.
- Cosmo
Blake Lively goes braless in a plunging butter yellow sequin shirt
Blake Lively wore a Sergio Hudson yellow sequin shirt, unbuttoned to reveal she was wearing no bra, with matching yellow trousers to the 2024 Beauty Inc Awards.
- Associated Press
China's Xi is likely to decline Trump's inauguration invitation, seeing it as too risky to attend
Chinese leader Xi Jinping would likely see President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to attend his inauguration as too risky to accept, and the gesture from Trump may have little bearing on the increasingly competitive ties between the two nations as the White House changes hands, experts say. Trump’s incoming press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed on Thursday that Trump extended an invitation to the Jan. 20 ceremony.
- BuzzFeed
People Can't Believe Donald Trump's Response To Being Asked About His Plans To Lower Grocery Prices
"Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard." —Donald Trump
- The Observers
Fears mount for Syria’s minorities as video emerges showing rebel fighters executing suspects
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of the Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has become Syria’s new strongman, replacing the Alawite regime of Bashar al-Assad. Once a partner of al Qaeda, Jolani now speaks the language of tolerance and openness towards Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities. He has told his fighters to refrain from extrajudicial violence, but videos emerging on social media suggest that not all of his fighters are following his directive, raising concerns among members
- CNN
US serviceman sentenced to 5 years for kidnapping and raping Japanese schoolgirl, officials say
A US serviceman was sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping and raping an underage girl last year, an official from Naha District Court on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa told CNN Friday.
- BBC
Bloody siege ends Myanmar army control of western border
Insurgents seized Myanmar's border with Bangladesh in one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war.