Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2020

December 23, 2020

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As Gen Z reconsiders dating apps, Tinder’s IRL events expand to dozens more cities

Tinder is expanding its in-person events feature from an initial Los Angeles test to 26 cities worldwide by the end of September. [...]

Trump EPA wrongly canceled $20B in climate funds, appeals court rules

Climate nonprofits can again access their federal funding more than a year after the Trump EPA ordered Citibank to freeze their accounts. [...]

Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude-maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently. [...]

Disney+ looks to TikTok creators to bring fan content to its short-form video feed

As streamers compete with social media giants for viewer attention, Disney+ is partnering with TikTok to bring creator content to its app. [...]

MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store

MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models. [...]

Don’t screw this up, Marvel

In less than a week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day raked in $1 billion worldwide and had the biggest box office opening weekend in Hollywood history. The feature has been a [...]

Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account

You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, but not additional phones. When [...]

AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and [...]

SpaceX made more revenue as an AI company than a space company

SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, [...]

EA is now a private company

Electronic Arts has officially become a private company. Last September, EA announced that an investor group led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners would [...]

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