Category: Automotive

Chinese chip packaging firm Keyang Semiconductor bags over $72m

Keyang Semiconductor has notched 500 million yuan (over $72 million) in a funding round led by two integrated circuit (IC)-focused investors — China Fortune-tech Capital and Sunic Capital, according to a company release on April 30.  The round, which saw the participation of a slew of investors such as CDH Investments, Clivia Capital Management, and… Continue reading Chinese chip packaging firm Keyang Semiconductor bags over $72m

Telkom Indonesia to merge broadband arm with Telkomsel in $3.9b deal

PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel), the Indonesian associate of Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel), has agreed to merge with its parent’s IndiHome broadband arm to create an entity worth 58.3 trillion rupiah ($3.9 billion), the companies said on Thursday. The move comes as Telkomsel looks to expand in Indonesia‘s fixed broadband market, one of the fastest growing globally with a penetration… Continue reading Telkom Indonesia to merge broadband arm with Telkomsel in $3.9b deal

Vietnam pledges to cut red tape for tech startups and VCs

Easier regulations are on the horizon, Vietnam has told technology startups and investors, in contrast to the red tape that has grown amid the country’s widening crackdown on corruption. Nguyen Duc Long, acting director of the country’s National Innovation Center (NIC), said in an interview that Vietnam will revise Decree 38, which legally defines startups… Continue reading Vietnam pledges to cut red tape for tech startups and VCs

Cleantechnica: Tesla Plans To Manufacture 4 Million Less Expensive Electric Cars Each Year 002686

Last weekend, CleanTechnica published a deliciously subversive article that claimed Tesla was preparing to bring a less expensive city car to market and build it at its new Supercalifragilistic Megafactory in Nuevo León, Mexico. That article was an April Fools spoof, which should have been abundantly obvious to anyone who noticed it was published on… Continue reading Cleantechnica: Tesla Plans To Manufacture 4 Million Less Expensive Electric Cars Each Year 002686

Elon Musk Puzzled to Learn That He’s Hardcoded Into the Twitter Source

“This is the first time I’m learning of this by the way.” Source? Elon Musk is, as we all recently learned, hardwired into Twitter’s source code — but according to him, that’s news to him. As Insider points out, the revelation of Musk’s name in Twitter’s recommendations algorithm — along with “Democrat,” “Republican,” and “power… Continue reading Elon Musk Puzzled to Learn That He’s Hardcoded Into the Twitter Source

Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens

They’re just not interested. Meh-taverse Virtual reality technology has failed to capture the imagination or interest of American teens, according to a new survey by investment bank Piper Sandler. The survey found that only 29 percent of the 5,600 US teens polled owned a device capable of VR, and only four percent of them said… Continue reading Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens

Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI

“The last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.” Robot Rock It’s been more than two years since be-helmeted French house outfit Daft Punk bid “adieu” to their decades-long collaboration — and in a new interview, one of the erstwhile duo revealed that artificial intelligence… Continue reading Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI

AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone

“Clearview is a total affront to peoples’ rights, full stop, and police should not be able to use this tool.” Face Disgrace Clearview AI, the company behind a widely-used facial recognition technology that has already led American police to charge innocent people with crimes they didn’t commit — claims to have scraped 30 billion Facebook photos… Continue reading AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Furious His Regulators Banned ChatGPT

“There has clearly been too much zeal.” Permabanned After Italy banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a surprising detractor came out of the woodwork — the country’s own deputy prime minister. As Reuters reports, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has sounded off on the decision by the country’s privacy regulator, known as Garante, arguing that the ban stifles innovation… Continue reading Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Furious His Regulators Banned ChatGPT