Jay Peters
Waymo now does 150,000 paid trips per week.
That new figure, shared today during Google’s Q3 earnings, comes soon after the robotaxi hit the 100,000 paid trips per week marker in August.
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Sean Hollister
Today I learned AMD is sending chips to space, powering new SpaceX Starlink internet satellites.
Did you know SpaceX’s “latest generation broadband satellites” use AMD chips? The chipmaker just bragged about that in Q3 2024 earnings, and it’s news to me.
AMD’s product page says: “AMD Versal Adaptive SoCs combine application processors, real-time processors, and vector processors with traditional FPGA resources such as programmable logic fabric, DSP resources, and embedded memory.”
Sean Hollister
AMD’s AI earnings continue to rise, while game console fortunes continue to decline.
New PlayStations and Xboxes can’t come soon enough — Q3 gaming revenue is $462M, down from $648M last quarter and $922M before that, “primarily due to a decrease in semi-custom revenue.”
But Q3 earnings are up on the AI boom, once again pulling in double the data center dollars they did last year. No wonder AMD’s now prioritizing AI over gaming.
Image: AMD
David Pierce
One of my favorite read-later apps is shutting down.
I’ve recommended Omnivore a lot to people looking for a place to save articles, PDFs, and other stuff to read later. Now the app’s going away, since Omnivore has been acquired by ElevenLabs. And PSA: you only have about two weeks to export your data before Omnivore goes away.
If you’re looking for alternatives, we have a great roundup of the options. Personally I’m a Readwise Reader user, though it is too expensive.
Omnivore is joining ElevenLabs
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Quentyn Kennemer
Turtle Beach may have a better way to swap your controller’s analog sticks for more buttons.
The Stealth Pivot has a different approach from other modular controllers — you depress and swivel the front plates to get a mini arcade stick or extra buttons on the fly.
It’s wired only on Xbox and works wirelessly with PCs, mobile devices, and smart TVs. Turtle Beach is accepting preorders today for $129.99 ahead of its November 24th release.
Emma Roth
ChatGPT will let you search your chat history on the web.
ChatGPT’s web app will have a new magnifying glass icon that you can use to search through all your old chats. OpenAI is rolling out this feature to Plus and Team members starting today, while free users will gain access “throughout the next month.”
Andrew Liszewski
You can buy a replica of Christopher Nolan’s Tumbler Batmobile for $3 million.
Warner Bros. has officially sanctioned Action Vehicle Engineering to build 10 replicas of the Batmobile from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, according to Hypebeast. The Tumblers are only available by invite and while fully-functional (minus the jet engine) they won’t be street legal. So you’ll also want to factor in the cost of a massive display case.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Wes Davis
Apple’s now selling a braided Thunderbolt 5 cable.
With the debut of the new Mac Mini, Apple started selling a 1-meter Thunderbolt 5 Pro cable, as AppleInsider points out. It’s $69, which is about $30 more than a comparable OWC one and about $37 more than the Cable Matters option.
So it’s pricey, but if it’s anything like Apple’s longer, $130 Thunderbolt 4 cable, it may be worth it.
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Apple has released its own Thunderbolt 5 cable
[AppleInsider]
