GoKawiil - Tech News

1681.

Mark Zuckerberg announces new 'Meta Compute' initiative for its data center and AI projects (engadget.com)

2026-01-12 | get Compute → | tags: infrastructure, loeb, meta

1682.

Meta plans to lay off hundreds of metaverse employees this week (theverge.com)

2026-01-12 | by Stevie Bonifield | get Virtual Reality Headset → | tags: division, layoffs, meta

1683.

Meta appoints ex-Trump and Bush official as its new president and vice chairman (engadget.com)

2026-01-12 | get Facebook → | tags: administration, global, mccormick

1684.

Meta hires former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chair (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-12 | by Aisha Malik | get Facebook → | tags: dina, mccormick, meta

1685.

Meta names former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president, vice chair (cnbc.com)

2026-01-12 | by Ashley Capoot | get Facebook → | tags: chairman, dina, mccormick

1686.

Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | by Taylor Kolasinski | get DeepSeek → | tags: connections, depth, layer

1687.

Meta closes 550,000 accounts to comply with Australia's kids social media ban (engadget.com)

2026-01-12 | get Facebook → | tags: accounts, media, meta

1688.

Meta urges Australia to rethink under-16 social media ban after blocking over 500,000 accounts (cnbc.com)

2026-01-12 | by Sawdah Bhaimiya | get Facebook → | tags: apps, australian, government

1689.

Developing super-tortillas to address malnutrition in Latin America (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-12 | by Pells | get Tortilla → | tags: fermented, foods, health

1690.

Asus revised the liquid metal application on its $4,000 ROG Matrix RTX 5090 cards — der8auer says retail versions come with 'much more professional' spread (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-11 | by Hassam Nasir | get Liquid Metal → | tags: application, asus, card

1691.

MetalPrinting Gauss MT90 3D printer offers office‑safe metal printing without powders — uses paste based metal extrusion (PME) tech (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-11 | by Mark Tyson | get MetalPrinting → | tags: gauss, metal, metal printing

1692.

Mystery AI lab that poached iPhone Air designer revealed (9to5mac.com)

2026-01-10 | by Marcus Mendes | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: hark, human, human centric

1693.

WhatsApp might soon be subject to stricter scrutiny under the EU's Digital Services Act (engadget.com)

2026-01-09 | get Facebook Messenger → | tags: commission, meta, million

1694.

Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-09 | by Tim De Chant | get Nuclear Reactors → | tags: early, meta, nuclear

1695.

Meta announces a slew of nuclear energy agreements (engadget.com)

2026-01-09 | get Nuclear Reactors → | tags: agreement, early, gigawatts

1696.

Meta inks deals to supply a staggering 6 gigawatts in nuclear power for data center ambitions — enough wattage to supply 5 million homes (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-09 | by Jowi Morales | get Nuclear Reactors → | tags: energy, grid, meta

1697.

Meta Is Going Nuclear to Power Its AI Data Centers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-09 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: electricity, megawatts, meta

1698.

Meta strikes nuclear power deals in support of its AI data centers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-09 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: energy, meta, nuclear

1699.

Meta expands nuclear power ambitions to include Bill Gates’ startup (theverge.com)

2026-01-09 | by Jess Weatherbed | get Nuclear Reactor → | tags: agreements, data centers, energy

1700.

Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster (cnbc.com)

2026-01-09 | by Jonathan Vanian | get Nuclear Reactor → | tags: energy, meta, nuclear

1701.

Handwriting is my new favorite way to text with the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses (engadget.com)

2026-01-08 | get Display Glasses → | tags: advertisement, display, display glasses

1702.

Why this VC thinks 2026 will be ‘the year of the consumer’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-08 | by Rebecca Bellan | get Blockchain → | tags: consumer, just, larco

1703.

Meta faces China probe over acquisition of AI agent startup Manus (cnbc.com)

2026-01-08 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz April Roach | get AI Agent → | tags: acquisition, china, manus

1704.

Databricks' Instructed Retriever beats traditional RAG data retrieval by 70% — enterprise metadata was the missing link (venturebeat.com)

2026-01-08 | get Instructed Retriever → | tags: bendersky, metadata, retrieval

1705.

MiroMind’s MiroThinker 1.5 delivers trillion-parameter performance from a 30B model — at 1/20th the cost (venturebeat.com)

2026-01-08 | get MiroThinker → | tags: mirothinker, model, models

1706.

Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-08 | get Smartwatch → | tags: biometric, biometric surveillance, fighting

1707.

This haptic wristband pairs with Meta smart glasses to decode facial expressions (engadget.com)

2026-01-07 | get Haptic Wristband → | tags: aleye, expressions, glasses

1708.

Computer scientist Yann LeCun: “Intelligence really is about learning” (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-07 | get Neural Network → | tags: chief, executive, lecun

1709.

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter? (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-07 | by Will Douglas Heaven | get Neural Network → | tags: model, model parameters, parameters

1710.

CIA Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny Records on 3I/ATLAS (futurism.com)

2026-01-07 | by Victor Tangermann | get Satellite → | tags: atlas, comet, government