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Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg:
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates  —  Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence processors, failed to impress investors with its latest sales forecast …

World of Warcraft: Midnight early access release time in your time zone

WoW: Midnight is out soon. Here's when World of Warcraft's latest expansion releases in your time zone, plus what to expect

Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program  —  Salesforce (CRM.N) forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, betting on strong demand …

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display

Ben Schoon, writing for 9to5 Google:

When activated, Privacy Display changes how the pixels in your display emit light, making it harder or near-impossible to view the display at an off-angle. At its default setting, it definitely works, but the contents of the display are visible at less-sharp angles. Samsung has a “maximum” setting that takes this up a notch, and that setting makes it even harder to see the contents and narrows the field-of-view even further. [...]

A bigger deal, though, is that Samsung has built Privacy Display with the ability to only apply to small portions of the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s display. Specifically, it can hide your notification pop-ups. This part really impressed me, as Privacy Display is able to specifically hide only that singular portion of the display, and it does so nearly perfectly. The masking around the notification ensures the content behind isn’t affected, and the effect works incredibly well.

Neat feature, especially the way you can toggle it when needed, set it to auto-enable for specific apps, and/or work only for notifications.

See also: Allison Johnson at The Verge.

The Peace Corps is recruiting volunteers to sell AI to developing nations

For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the globe. But a new initiative, called the "Tech Corps," threatens to unravel the agency's original mission by recruiting de facto Silicon Valley salespeople to promote the biggest names in AI - many of which […]