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Results deluge– Meta, Apple & Amazon.

Meta pushes the open-source button. Excellent results, more fat trimming, a dividend, and a share buyback hid higher losses from the Metaverse and more capex allowing a fire to be...

Alphabet Q4 2023 – Corporate waffle

Google fails to blow its own trumpet. Alphabet reported good results but one tiny miss combined with vague and non-specific answers to easy questions on the conference call gave the...

Digital Automotive – Radio wars

A very American dispute. The issue of AM radio in vehicles sold in the USA has been debated for many years, but electrical vehicles (EVs)bring this issue to a head...

Apple AI – Back of the pack

There is a little activity behind the curtain. It would be foolish to think that Apple is not trying to do something about AI but I suspect that it has...

Samsung Unpacked – Where’s Bixby?

Lots of Google. Little of Samsung, Samsung‘s new s24 line-up looks exactly like the s23 but the hope is that the new AI features (almost all of which come from...

CES 2024 – Day 3 – Healthy and Cooking

Digital health – Even fewer sensors. Digital Health has been quieter than usual this year and with very little progress on sensors to reliably measure critical health data, it is...

CES 2024 – Day 1: Peaceful progress

Footfall and chaos. CES 2024 is one of the most peaceful that I have seen in recent years (I didn’t come in 2021). There is space on the Monorail, almost...

Tech Newsround – Day of nonsense

Google vs Epic – Roll of the dice Google’s loss to Epic when Apple won for pretty much the same issue makes very little sense and is a demonstration of...

Artificial Intelligence– Regulatory debate pt. IV

Europe fares better than I expected. Unless I missed something, the preliminary deal on how to regulate AI in the EU looks far more realistic and business-friendly than I had...

AI Ecosystem– Google Gemini

Google gets its act together. Google has stopped panicking (see here) and launched a new large language model (LLM) which it claims takes multimodality to a new level (true) and...