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Varloom

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    Comment #45027462

    If I wanted only apps signed by developers I'd use Playstore.

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    Comment #41606423

    Qualcomm main business is mobile phone chips and 5g modems. Majority of it's revenue goes to Taiwan for TSMC as margins. Having Intel fab, will cut the middle man, and revenue will…

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    Comment #41566134

    Big move for Amazon

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    Comment #40994302

    They know CUDA monopoly won't last forever.

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    Comment #40474395

    I reduced my google search engine usage by 90% Just Option+Space and get the answer with ChatGPT for MacOS. No ads, no nonsense, just the answer.

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    Comment #38313586

    There goes their almost $13B investment down the drain. Both masterminds of ChatGPT have left the company. Feels like Nokia 2.0

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    Comment #38234357

    No, there will be 3rd party App stores (approved by EU) where developers can release their Apps.

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    Comment #38234344

    I'm pretty sure one of the first app stores we'll see is Meta App Store. The deliberate delay in releasing the Threads app in the EU, without any clear reason, makes me believe tha…

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    Comment #38048821

    It's absolutely good, have you tried their Claude 2 AI?

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    Comment #38048814

    That means all the work they did on their own AI has failed. So they are buying someone else's AI.

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    Comment #38048796

    Agreed, generic ARM cores are weak. The solution is to go custom like Apple did and soon Qualcomm with Oryon Cores.

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    Comment #38038042

    Just use Yandex, it wild wild west over there.

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    Comment #38037842

    With Encrypted Client Hello being rolled out (default on Firefox, optional on chrome/edge with Cloudflare DNS). ISPs can't technically block any website anymore. They used to block…

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    Comment #37889329

    Why I have never heard of perplexity.ai Just tried it, so good and fast.

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    Comment #37865383

    Almost everyone is moving to N3 from N4 (not N5), the performance jump is not as impressive as the numbers which are based on N5->N3.

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    Comment #37494888

    Do you honestly expect that they would admit it and face millions of lawsuits ?

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    Comment #37494585

    Damn that's dangerous level of radiation, why this was only discovered recently?

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    Comment #37451666

    Meta is switching to RISC-V https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/meta-details-its-first-custo...

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    Comment #37450814

    Softbank are dumping their shares in ARM while at peak valuation, before RISC-V eats its market share (they saw it coming, that's why they are rushing to IPO before rise of RISC-V)…

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    Comment #36481267

    By May 2024 every iPhone in EU will be allowed to install alternative app stores legally. It's only a problem for the rest of the world.

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    Comment #36315927

    This man knows exactly what he is talking about. He was responsible for designing the original AMD Athlon 64. He worked at apple to transition from Generic Samsung ARM SoC to their…

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    Comment #35850433

    That’s super interesting.

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    Comment #35274428

    +1 Glasswire is my Windows alternative as well.

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    Comment #34985075

    They won't manufacture something secondary such as a modem on cutting edge super expensive silicon. Pretty sure I've read on Macrumors that they are developing their modem on TSMC …