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US investigates TikTok owner ByteDance’s surveillance of journalists

US investigates TikTok owner ByteDance’s surveillance of journalists

ByteDance surveillance probe — ByteDance said it condemned actions of its former employees. Jon Brodkin – Mar 17, 2023 7:48 pm UTC Getty Images | Chesnot New reports say the US Justice Department is investigating TikTok-owner ByteDance over recent revelations that employees tracked journalists in an attempt to find out who leaked company data to

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Twitter was broken due to an API issue (updated)

Twitter was broken due to an API issue (updated)

Links and images were completely busted on Twitter for a spell on Monday across the company’s website and mobile apps. Clicking on a link brought up an error message that read “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information.” As it happens, that link was broken

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Nerfed Ryzen 7040 Phoenix-HS APUs hit by significantly reduced GPU clocks as AMD also cuts PCIe 5 support from the chips – NotebookCheck.net News

Nerfed Ryzen 7040 Phoenix-HS APUs hit by significantly reduced GPU clocks as AMD also cuts PCIe 5 support from the chips – NotebookCheck.net News

Some Ryzen 7040 Phoenix-HS processors will include an AMD XDNA AI engine. (Source: AMD)The Ryzen 7040 Phoenix-HS APUs combine a Zen 4 CPU with an RDNA 3 Radeon 780M/760M iGPU. The Radeon 780M on the Ryzen 9 7940HS and the Ryzen 7 7840HS features 12 Compute Units (CU) while the Radeon 760M on the Ryzen

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How agencies are testing live shopping and seeing potential in accelerating conversions

How agencies are testing live shopping and seeing potential in accelerating conversions

The popularity of content creators and social commerce is increasingly driving momentum for livestream shopping — sort of an update on the QVC days of shopping channels.But instead of a television network, the shopping is happening across social media and retail platforms, from Walmart to Amazon. Experts point to live shopping’s potential to accelerate conversions

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Entering the software economy

Entering the software economy

Many companies looking to enter the software economy, the ecosystem of companies that create or are enabled by software, do so through acquisitions, often by targeting startups. Evaluating the potential value of these smaller companies, however, is a specialized skill, says Jeff Vogel, head of the Software Strategy Group for EY-Parthenon. For companies, discovering and

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If it ever comes, Apple’s first foldable iPhone may ditch physical buttons entirely

If it ever comes, Apple’s first foldable iPhone may ditch physical buttons entirely

Home News Mobile Phones An unofficial concept image for a foldable iPhone (Image credit: Shutterstock / Wit Olszewski) Apple’s adoption of the touchscreen in its first iPhone proved a watershed moment for the technology’s mainstream appeal, and the company may be preparing to take things one step further with future iPhone models and, potentially, its

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Squid skin inspires novel “liquid windows” for greater energy savings

Squid skin inspires novel “liquid windows” for greater energy savings

Dynamic, “tunable” building facades — Bio-inspired system optimizes wavelength, intensity, dispersion of light reaching interiors. Jennifer Ouellette – Feb 2, 2023 9:01 pm UTC Enlarge / Artist’s impression of a “liquid window’ prototype inspired by the structure of squid skin.Raphael Kay, Adrian So Squid and several other cephalopods can rapidly shift the colors in their

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