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In the 1920s, more than 700 U.S. manufacturers vied in a brutal competition to sell a new product—electric washing machines. Cheap electricity had reached urban homes, and American households snapped up the labor-saving washers, which quickly became ubiquitous. But just five U.S. washing machine manufacturers survive. It’s the same with refrigerators and waffle irons. In the 1920s, around 60 U.S. companies made the former and 85 the latter; the two devices are now made by just three U.S. manufacturers each.
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Новый фреймворк тестирования Testo готов к испытаниям.В статье: причины появления Testo; его фичи в краткой форме и в примерах; быстрый старт; что дальше. Читать далее Read more ›
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Google has acknowledged a major connectivity issue affecting some Google Fi subscribers. Read more ›
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Источники называют 1 апреля датой возможной полной блокировки Telegram. Но абсолютная блокировка технически почти невозможна — и вот почему. Разбираю 7 причин: от MTProxy, который перегружает ТСПУ мусорным трафиком, до collateral damage при блокировке CDN и парадокса, при котором более агрессивная фильтрация ломает систему блокировок изнутри. Читать далее Read more ›
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Chinese AI company SenseTime said its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization turned positive during the second half of last year, the first time since its listing in 2021. SenseTime, founded in 2014, is one of the pioneers among the last generation of AI companies in ... Read more ›
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Chinese authorities barred Manus’ cofounders from leaving the country while regulators review Meta Platforms’ $2 billion acquisition of the AI agent startup, the Financial Times reported. Cofounders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao were called to a meeting with the National Development and Reform ... Read more ›
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Vultr, one of the oldest independent cloud providers, is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in new capital so it can compete with a growing list of startups scrambling for cash to meet the surging demand for AI computing power. The company, which is backed by chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, was founded in 2014 and didn’t raise any outside equity funding until 2024, a marked contrast to the latest... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is launching Meta Small Business, a company-wide initiative to drive AI adoption and support entrepreneurship, Axios reported. In a memo sent to employees on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staffers that “it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses” in the ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred people across the company on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter, part of a broader effort to overhaul the company for work in the AI age. The cuts will affect staffers in Reality Labs — the division behind its hardware platforms and wearables — as well as across its social media teams, recruiting operations, and a smaller number in... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s major reorg, the company’s new "Spud” model and its decision to shut down the Sora video app and application programming interface, which we scooped on Tuesday. (For what the company’s organizational structure looks like now after the changes, check out our updated OpenAI Org Chart.)The latter decision seems in line with product chief Fidji Simo’s mandate... Read more ›
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Please join The Information at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 27, for The Information’s “Financing the AI Revolution” forum. Hear from top executives and investors on how the rapid build-out of AI is reshaping tech, finance and capital markets. Learn more here.There’s supply and demand for AI computing power and there’s supply and demand for AI itself. The two should be linked, but that hasn’t always appeared... Read more ›
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Shares of US space companies rose Wednesday after The Information reported Tuesday night that SpaceX is aiming to file its initial public offering prospectus with regulators as soon as this week. The report said that advisers involved in the preparation predict the company could try to raise ... Read more ›
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Amazon said customers can return items they bought on the commerce giant’s site at over 1,500 FedEx Office locations nationwide. Shoppers will be able to drop off unboxed items and won’t pay fees on the return. Encouraging customers to bring returns to drop-off points instead of having them ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube harmed a user’s mental health through negligence, defective product design and a failure to warn of the dangers of their products, a jury found on Wednesday. The decision was a landmark that is likely to affect the outcome in thousands of other cases alleging ... Read more ›
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