Why OnePlus waited three years to release a new smartwatch

February 26, 2024

OnePlus’ second smartwatch captured media interest this week, courtesy of its stated 100 hours of battery life. The device utilizes a clever dual-chip system, seamlessly switching from the Snapdragon W5 to the far more power efficient BES 2700 MCU. If the device does its job correctly, users won’t notice the shift, beyond the extra battery […]

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This is Xiaomi’s first electric car, the SU7

February 26, 2024

Xiaomi is having a good MWC. The Chinese tech firm’s booth has been packed since show doors opened this morning. It’s a stark contrast to neighboring Samsung, whose sparsely populated booth reflects what has largely been a quiet event for the Galaxy maker. After popping in to check out Xiaomi’s newish robot dog earlier today, […]

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma steps down from Paytm Payments Bank board

February 26, 2024

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and majority owner of Paytm Payments Bank, has stepped down from the board of the troubled unit days after the Indian regulator signalled continuity at the financial firm Paytm. Paytm Payments Bank said Monday it was reconstituting the board of directors at the Paytm Payments Bank, an associate of Paytm, […]

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KKR to acquire Broadcom’s end user computing biz for $4B

February 26, 2024

We’ve already started to see big M&A, as in multi-billion deals, finally pick up this year after a slow period last year. Today, KKR added to that growing total when it announced it was going to acquire Broadcom’s end user computing business for $4 billion. These pieces include VMware Workspace One and VMware Horizon, two […]

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Darwin AI gives small LatAm companies AI-powered sales assistant

February 26, 2024

Darwin AI’s system that connects with a company’s customer relationship management tool and evaluates possible sales leads and escalates the ones, most likely to buy, to a human salesperson.

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FlowGPT is the wild west of GenAI apps

February 26, 2024

A few months ago, OpenAI launched the GPT Store, a marketplace where people can create and list AI-powered chatbots customized to perform a number of tasks (e.g. coding, answering trivia questions and so on). The GPT Store is powerful, to be sure. But using it requires using OpenAI’s models and no others, which some chatbot […]

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Meet BeScene, a Tinder-style networking app for the film industry

February 26, 2024

Networking app BeScene launches today to bring filmmakers and other creatives (actors/actresses, animators, cinematographers, costume designers, directors, editors, producers, production assistants, script coordinators, writers and so forth) a Tinder-like experience to help build connections within the entertainment industry. Breaking into the film and media sector has always been challenging, and many companies (Staff Me Up, […]

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The Download: Trump’s potential climate impact, and the end of cheap helium

February 26, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Trump wants to unravel Biden’s landmark climate law. Here is what’s most at risk. President Joe Biden’s crowning legislative achievement was enacting the Inflation Reduction Act, easily the nation’s largest investment into addressing…