News Japan to Generate Electricity from Snow Macro Strategist: James Sterling Snow energy is expected to be generated at a low cost. The proposed solution with snow has virtually no waste, whereas solar panels sometimes have to be recycled. And the use of snow to generate electricity is much more environmentally friendly, too.
News Apple Completely Redesigned iCloud Web Interface Macro Strategist: James Sterling With the new widget-inspired redesign, you can customize your iCloud.com homepage, adding tiles that can show your most recent emails, notes, photos, documents, calendar events, and more.
News Intel Introduced a Real-Time Deepfake Detector With 96% Accuracy Macro Strategist: James Sterling As part of its Responsible AI Initiative, semiconductor chip manufacturer Intel has introduced a new technology dubbed FakeCatcher that identifies deepfakes with high levels of accuracy in real-time.
News NVIDIA Teams Up With Microsoft to Build a New AI Supercomputer Macro Strategist: James Sterling The computer will be based on Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure combined with tens of thousands of high-end NVIDIA H100 and A100 GPUs, Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform for data processing, and NVIDIA's AI Enterprise platform.
News LG Introduces a New Display That Can Be Stretched, Folded and Twisted Macro Strategist: James Sterling According to the company, it is the industry's first full-color RGB display with a pixel density of 100ppi that can be stretched by almost 20 percent – up to 14 inches – without losing its properties.
News Signal Secure Messenger Is Rolling Out an Instagram-Like Stories Feature Macro Strategist: James Sterling You can share your stories with everyone on your phone's contact list who uses the app, anybody you've had a one-on-one conversation with, or anyone whose message request you've accepted.
News Apple to Drop 'Hey' From the 'Hey Siri' Trigger Phrase Macro Strategist: James Sterling The tech giant has been working on this for months, and is expected to release the change next year or the year after, if all goes according to plan. As Mark Gurman noted, the change requires a significant amount of AI training and underlying engineering work.
News Netflix Finally Launches Its Ad-Supported Plan for $6.99 per Month Macro Strategist: James Sterling Users of the "basic" subscription will see an average of 4 to 5 minutes of ads per hour – before and during shows or films. Each ad insert will be 15-30 seconds long with no ability to skip or fast-forward through them.
News WhatsApp Is Rolling Out Its New Communities Feature Globally Macro Strategist: James Sterling To start using this feature, you need to open the new Communities tab, which can be found at the top of your chats on Android or at the bottom on iOS. Here you can both create a new Community and add existing groups to a new Community.
BigTech Google Acquires AI Avatar Startup Alter for $100 Million Macro Strategist: James Sterling TechCrunch reported that Google paid about $100 million to acquire Alter. The acquisition took place about two months ago without a public announcement, but the tech giant has already confirmed the purchase.
News Elon Musk Released a Perfume That Smells Like Burnt Hair Macro Strategist: James Sterling The release of the perfume is related to a post the billionaire jokingly posted on Twitter back in late September. Musk announced plans to release a fragrance for men called Burnt Hair, which would help men "stand out in a crowd."
News Kanye West to Buy Controversial Social Media App Parler Macro Strategist: James Sterling Parler was created in 2018 as an alternative to Twitter, but with a "softer" post moderation policy that appealed to the American right and Trump supporters often blocked on other major social media platforms.
