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Apple acquires California-based VR startup NextVR; a report in April said the deal is valued at around $100M — - NextVR provides virtual-reality sports content to headsets — Apple developing virtual reality, augmented reality headsets — Apple Inc. confirmed it acquired NextVR …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Kuo: Apple planning a 10.8 inch iPad in H2 2020 and a new iPad mini in H1 2021, predicts AR glasses with laminated lens in 2022 at the earliest — - Apple could launch new iPads in the coming year, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a new note on Thursday.
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Sources: TSMC is set to announce plans to build a 5nm chip factory in Arizona as the White House seeks to increase domestic chip production — Plans for TSMC's Arizona Plant Come As Trump Seeks To Cut Dependence on Asia — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., TSM 2.32% …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
From August, Chrome will start blocking ads that consume 4MB of network data, 15 seconds of CPU usage in any 30 second period, or 60 seconds of total CPU usage — Google today announced that Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads. The company ads that mine cryptocurrency …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
As tech giants introduce new work from home guidelines, employees are considering moving away from Silicon Valley and companies contemplate adjusting salaries — Sachin Dhar thought he and his fiancée had a great deal paying $2,650 per month for a one-bedroom rental in South San Francisco …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it will acquire Metaswitch Networks, a provider of virtualized network software whose customers include telecom companies like BT and Sprint — - The announcement comes less than a month after Microsoft closed the acquisition of another company focused on the telecommunications market, Affirmed Networks.| Bloomberg: |
Dara Khosrowshahi, who completed 41 transactions with a total value of $12.7B as Expedia's CEO, is following the same playbook at Uber of buying competitors — In nearly three years at the helm of Uber Technologies Inc., Dara Khosrowshahi has focused mostly on cutting costs.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
A coalition of 20 children's advocacy 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitch announces an eight-person Safety Advisory Council, with both online experts and Twitch creators guiding decision making around new policies and products — Amazon-owned game streaming site Twitch announced today the formation of a new group that will guide decision-making around …
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
As pandemic-related budget cuts come to call centers, organizations turn to chatbots like IBM's Watson to filter calls, reducing the need for human operators — Covid-19 is accelerating job losses in an industry that was already automating work at a rapid pace. — Brian Pokorny had heard of AI systems for call centers before.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Mobile marketing startup AppLovin will acquire mobile game developer Machine Zone; Sensor Tower says Machine Zone has generated $5B on 310M+ downloads to date — AppLovin will acquire Machine Zone, the maker of Game of War: Fire Age and Mobile Strike, as it doubles down on mobile games.
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Apple publishes its 2020 Supplier Responsibility report, offering a glimpse into how the company has changed its supply chain in the wake of COVID-19 — Today, Apple released its 2020 Supplier Responsibility progress report. In it, Senior Vice President of Operations Sabih Khan published … | 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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Inside AT&T's $4B bet to stand out in the streaming wars with HBO Max, which is to launch on May 27 despite 30 projects shuttering due to the pandemic — A starry group came together for a meeting at Courteney Cox's Malibu beach house on Oct. 5, 2019. Had the paparazzi gotten wind, pandemonium would have surely ensued.| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Microsoft opens up its threat intelligence data, including file hash indicators used in email scams, to wider security community via GitHub during the pandemic — Microsoft is making the threat intelligence it's collected on coronavirus-related hacking campaigns public, the company announced Thursday.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources say the USPS has launched a review of its package delivery contracts with companies like Amazon, amid Trump's growing power over the service — Deputy Postmaster General Ronald A. Stroman will leave before new agency head Louis DeJoy takes the helm
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