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May 27, 2019, 10:45 AM

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Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Nvidia brings pro-level Quadro RTX 5000 series to laptops, announces 17 “RTX Studio” laptops from seven partners including ASUS, Dell, HP, Razer, and Gigabyte  —  NVIDIA has succeeded in shrinking its beefy Quadro RTX 5000 graphics hardware in order to bring it to laptops.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia announces Nvidia EGX, its first AI platform for edge devices that can perceive, understand, and act on data in real-time without sending it to the cloud  —  Nvidia Corp. is bringing artificial intelligence to the edge of the network with the launch early Monday of its new Nvidia EGX platform …
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Ian Cutress / AnandTech:
AMD announces five Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs, including the Ryzen 9 3900X, a new mainstream desktop 4.6 GHz chip with 12 cores, coming July 7 for $499  —  Today at Computex, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is announcing the raft of processors it will be launching on its new Zen 2 chiplet-based microarchitecture.
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Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk:
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is taking Sequoia Capital China back to court for allegedly harming his reputation after its case against him was dismissed  —  Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao is taking a unit of Sequoia Capital back to court after the VC investor's case against him was dismissed.
IDC:
Asia Pacific spending on AI will reach $5.5B in 2019, up 80% YoY, and will reach $15B in 2022, led by the retail industry  —  According to the latest Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Systems Spending Guide, Asia/Pacific* spending on artificial intelligence (AI) …
Christopher Dring / World Health Organization:
World Health Organisation makes “gaming disorder” a recognized illness; classification to come into effect January 1, 2022  —  Classification to come into effect January 1, 2022  —  The 194 members of the World Health Organisation have recognised ‘gaming disorder’ as an illness at the 72nd World Health Assembly today.

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