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Apple sold 80 million iPhones in Q4 to become top smartphone vendor for the first time since 2016

TechSpot

For comparison, Samsung managed to sell 62.1 Market research firm Gartner in its latest report said Apple sold 79.9 million iPhones during the final three months of 2020, an increase of 14.9 percent compared to the same period a year ago. million smartphones to end users during the quarter, down 11.8 percent versus Q4 2019.

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UK police surprised to learn energy-intensive weed farm is actually a Bitcoin mine

The Verge

In 2016, weed was found to account for 1 percent of the electricity consumption in the US, an equivalent of 15 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, at the time. For comparison, Bitcoin was estimated to be responsible for almost 25 percent of the entire world’s electricity consumption in 2019.

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Why schools around the country are locking up kids’ cellphones

Vox

Confusingly, however, a 2016 survey of US principals found that schools with bans actually had higher rates of cyberbullying. A 2016 UK study , for example, found improved test scores at high schools that instituted bans. Social comparison is real, and media is a place where it happens,” Moreno said.

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‘Let’s go!’ Jeff Bezos gets revved up when Blue Origin raises up its New Glenn rocket

GeekWire

When Blue Origin revealed the rocket’s design in 2016 , Bezos said he expected the first flight to take place “before the end of this decade” — that is, before 2020 — but it’s taken longer than planned to get the BE-4 engines and Blue Origin’s facilities in Florida ready for prime time.

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Sony makes clear it will still sell PSP games on the PS3 and Vita stores

The Verge

When the PlayStation®Store for PlayStation®Portable (PSP) was previously closed in 2016, you were still able to perform searches and make in-game purchases. All of this naturally only applies to games that were sold digitally, but it helps preserve some of the PSP’s history and back catalog, since the native PSP storefront shutdown in 2016.

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Seattle tech leaders lament departure of Techstars but remain bullish on new opportunities

GeekWire

” Techstars provided an “on-ramp to entrepreneurship,” said Bilal Aijazi , founder of Polly.ai, a Techstars Seattle 2016 grad that went on to raise multiple rounds of funding. Seattle-area companies raised $751 million in venture capital last year, according to PitchBook — which pales in comparison to Silicon Valley ($30.3

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Groq AI, not Grok, roasts Elon Musk with its “fastest LLM”

Dataconomy

This weekend, lightning-fast demonstrations from Groq AI captured the public’s attention, showcasing capabilities that make current iterations of ChatGPT , Gemini , and even Grok appear slow by comparison.