A look at MetaBirkins, 100 NFTs created by a self-described entrepreneur and artist in 2021, as Hermès goes to court in NYC seeking to stop the use of its brand (Erin Mulvaney/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:45 Rating: 5

Sources: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony won't be part of E3 to be held in-person from June 13 to June 16, 2023; conference didn't happen in 2022 due to COVID-19 (Kat Bailey/IGN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:44 Rating: 5

Sources: Twitter made its first interest payment under Elon Musk to a group of seven banks; the payment was due around January 27 and estimated to be ~$300M (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:43 Rating: 5

After layoffs, Meta, which used remote work during the pandemic to advance its diversity goals, now faces an uphill battle to continue making progress with DEI (Naomi Nix/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 03:43 Rating: 5

Kuo: Apple plans to release a foldable iPad in 2024, featuring a carbon fiber kickstand, as well as an updated iPad mini, after a quiet 2023 for the iPad (Jon Porter/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:42 Rating: 5

The memory-chip sector, known for boom-and-bust cycles, is facing one if its worst-ever routs, as inventory glut and a fight for marketshare has cratered prices (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 00:42 Rating: 5

Documents: China's top nuclear weapons research lab, on the US export entity list since 1997, bought 7nm to 14nm Intel and Nvidia chips several times since 2020 (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:42 Rating: 5

Source: Baidu is planning to launch an AI chatbot similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT in March 2023, initially embedding it into its main search services (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Researchers detail how ProGen, an LLM trained on 280M proteins, designed proteins with anti-microbial properties that were tested in real life and shown to work (Karmela Padavic-Callaghan/New Scientist) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 04:41 Rating: 5

How the "enshittification" cycle, in which platforms first are good to users and business customers before abusing them, has infected TikTok, Amazon, and others (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5