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Nvidia unveils its A100 AI chip with 54B transistors and 5 petaflops of performance, about 20 times more than the previous-generation Volta — Nvidia unwrapped its Nvidia A100 artificial intelligence chip today, and CEO Jensen Huang called it the ultimate instrument for advancing AI.| Celia Wan / The Block: |
Reddit is beta testing two Ethereum-based tokens for users to earn rewards for contributing content to subreddits /r/Cryptocurrency and /r/FortniteBR — Reddit, the popular online forum, is beta testing two Ethereum-based tokens for users to earn rewards for contributing content, The Block has learned.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
A coalition of 20 children and consumer groups says TikTok has flouted an agreement it made with the FTC to protect the privacy of children — Twenty consumer groups said the video app had failed to make some changes it agreed to carry out last year to settle federal charges.
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Google announces a new tab-grouping tool for Chrome, rolling out “slowly”, letting users cluster tabs together and organize them by name and color — Google is introducing a new feature to Chrome that will have you asking how you lived without it before.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
In an open letter, Brian Huseman, Amazon's VP of public policy, calls for the establishment of a federal price gouging law amid coronavirus scams — - In a blog post Wednesday, Brian Huseman, Amazon's vice president of public policy, called for the establishment of a federal price gouging law.
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| Claire Downs / ELLE: |
OnlyFans had a 75% increase in signups in April, with 150,000 signups a day, as digital sex work becomes a more mainstream source of revenue during the pandemic — Ansel Elgort, Blac Chyna, and Caroline Calloway have all popped up on the adults-only platform. But what about the actual professionals?
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| Bloomberg: |
Sony says it has developed the world's first image sensors with built-in AI, which would give “intelligent vision” to cameras for retail and industrial uses — - Turning the chip into a tiny computer, company touts privacy — Benefits for factory automation and retail footfall analysis
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon is suing two companies for “widespread tech support fraud”, alleging they tricked new users of Alexa devices into paying for purported tech support — Amazon is suing two companies for “widespread tech support fraud,” alleging that they tricked new users of Echo speakers … | Joe Maring / Android Central: |
Report: Google's Pixel division has lost Marc Levoy, the engineer leading the camera division, and GM Mario Queiroz over the past year, as sales disappoint — The general manager for the Pixel division is also gone. — What you need to know — According to The Information, Marc Levoy and Mario Queiroz have both left Google.
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| Reuters: |
France plans to go ahead with its digital services tax this year regardless of an international deal, after offering in January to suspend it until end of 2020 — PARIS (Reuters) - France will go ahead with its tax on big digital businesses this year whether there is progress or not towards … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Trump extends an executive order banning US companies from using telecom equipment from companies like Huawei for another year — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday extended for another year an executive order signed in May 2019 declaring a national emergency … | Bloomberg: |
Facebook has partnered with China Mobile and others to build a undersea cable to help bring more reliable and faster internet to Africa, sources say for ~$1B — - U.S. giant starts new effort to boost internet on continent — Move comes after West Africa had outages from broken cables| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Apple says its VP for Public Policy and Government Affairs Cynthia Hogan has resigned, following her appointment to Joe Biden's VP selection committee — Cynthia Hogan, Apple's vice president for public policy and government affairs, has resigned from the company, Apple said.| Martin Matishak / Politico: |
A bipartisan amendment to FISA to prohibit warrantless surveillance of Americans' online browsing and search histories failed in the Senate by one vote, 59-37 — Congressional privacy hawks scored a critical victory on Wednesday that deepens the uncertainty about the fate of expired federal surveillance powers.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Ireland-based Workvivo, an employee communication platform, raises $16M Series A led by Tiger Global — Workvivo, an employee communications platform founded only three years ago, has raised $16 million in a Series A funding, in a round led by Tiger Global which is best know for large growth-oriented rounds.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Houseparty is debuting its first co-watching live event video series called In The House, featuring more than 40 celebrities, from May 15 through May 17 — Houseparty, the video chat app that's seen a surge of growth during quarantine, is preparing to expand its service in a new direction: co-watching live video with friends.
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Report: 175M people under the age of 18, or 93.1% of Chinese minors, were online in 2019; urban-rural internet penetration gap among minors is down to 3.6% — Children and teenagers in China are hyper-connected and using the internet in ways that were unimaginable and inaccessible to earlier generations.
Tweets: @sub8u
| Rich Woods / Neowin: |
Microsoft stops offering 32-bit version of Windows 10 to OEMs for new PCs, but still offers support for existing 32-bit PCs — Microsoft is beginning what will be a very long and drawn-out process of no longer supporting 32-bit versions of Windows 10. Beginning with Windows 10 version 2004 …
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