Twitter begins testing Twitter Circle, Meta releases the Open Pretrained Transformer language model for researchers to dig into, and Instagram tests a full-screen home feed.
Chip shortages aren’t anything new but the lack of ICs is hampering the ability to make chips as the manufacture of the machinery used in chip fabrication is delayed due to the lack of chips. Spotify is making its official appearance in Roblox with Spotify Island. Nica Montford highlights Kunle Olukotun and his key role in advancing multithreaded and parallel processing chip architecture. And Amazon will now be supporting EPUB. But what is EPUB and what makes it important?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe
The European Commission has sent a formal “Statement of Objections” to Apple with the preliminary view that Apple is abusing its dominant position in the market when it restricts access to NFC chips for contactless payments. What’s the story behind this action and will Apple face similar actions in other regions? The pandemic saw a boom in mental health care apps. But how effective are these apps and what concerns do experts have around them?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos
Nintendo reportedly expects Switch sales to decline 10% in 2022, the European Commission filed antitrust charges against Apple for Apple Pay, and Intel now says the chip shortage won’t ease until 2024.
All the big photography news for the month of April 2022 in under ten minutes. In this episode Nikon releases a huge firmware update for their flagship cameras, two creators build new ways to utilize old film, and supply constraints hit the film market.
Twitter’s board accepts Elon Musk’s offer to take the company private, the EU agrees on the terms of the Digital Services Act, and Weibo now displays user IP address location information.
Is the chip shortage impeding Sony’s ability to produce PS5s and inadvertently helping Xbox? Is software meant to help improve your posture allowing employers to snoop on employees? And tech earnings; who gained, who lost and the broader trends they reveal.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Terrance Gaines, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos