Amazon’s many Fire TV Sticks: Which one’s right for you?
Let’s see how these streaming sticks stack up. Amazon’s Fire TV lineup has gone from a perfectly simple concept—a stick that streams video—to a corporate naming convention nightmare.
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Kevin Rose’s simple test for AI hardware — would you want to punch someone in the face who’s wearing it?
Kevin Rose has a visceral rule for evaluating AI hardware investments: “If you feel like you should punch someone in the face for wearing it, you probably shouldn’t invest in it.” It’s a typically candid assessment from the veteran investor, and one born from watching the current wave of AI hardware startups repeat mistakes he’s…
France reports Shein for selling ‘childlike sex dolls’ online
The company said it is investigating how these listings circumvented screening measures and is taking corrective action.
The best new movies to stream this week
Spooky season is over, which means it’s officially Mariah Carey season. It also means streaming services are already loading up on Christmas movies. On pure principle, they’ll be omitted here — Santa doesn’t need a full two months of our attention. Also, while not a movie, worth noting that season two of The Vince Staples…
The discovery that linked signature size to narcissism
Researchers have used signature size to explore narcissism in CEOs and other senior corporate positions. For years, Donald Trump’s distinctive, large, and bold signature has captured the public’s attention. Not only did it recently come to light that his signature appeared in a book that Jeffrey Epstein received for his 50th birthday, but it fits…
Alphabet is increasingly launching “moonshot” projects as independent companies — here’s why
Alphabet’s X moonshot factory is shifting how it brings ambitious technology projects to market, increasingly spinning them out as independent companies rather than keeping them within the Alphabet corporate structure, X’s head honcho, Astro Teller, revealed at TechCrunch Disrupt this past week. The strategy hinges on a dedicated venture fund that exists solely to invest…
50 rising startups in Malaysia
Check out this constantly updated list of startups in Malaysia who’ve recently raised funding.
You need to watch the found footage classic, Lake Mungo
Found footage movies are tough to pull off. For every classic like The Blair Witch Project or Rec, there are 100 movies like Slender and Megan Is Missing that are, at best, forgettable, and at worst, an affront to the very concept of cinema. My personal favorite, though, is Lake Mungo, a slow burn mockumentary…
Moving past speculation: How deterministic CPUs deliver predictable AI performance
For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and superscalar execution had been in earlier decades. Each marked a generational leap in microarchitecture. By predicting the outcomes of branches and memory…
Tech giants promised “ambient computing.” We got digital billboards instead.
The screens we’ve installed everywhere have started to turn against us. For decades now, tech companies have been promising us a future straight out of Star Trek.