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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances, bringing Intel-based Mac minis to its cloud for $1.083 per hour billed by the second — AWS today opened its re:Invent conference with a surprise announcement: the company is bringing the Mac mini to its cloud. These new EC2 Mac instances, as AWS calls them, are now available in preview.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
AWS unveils new compute instances like the compute heavy C6gn powered by Arm-based Graviton2 that it says performs 40% better on price vs comparable x86 options — The company introduced several new advancements to its compute portfolio to kick off re:Invent.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS unveils its new custom ML training chip Trainium with support for TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet, coming 2021; AWS claims it outperforms rival cloud chips — At its annual re:Invent developer conference, AWS today announced the launch of AWS Trainium, the company's next-gen custom chip dedicated …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Samsung may discontinue Galaxy Note next year, reflecting the sharp drop in demand for high-end smartphones due to the pandemic — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd may discontinue its premium Galaxy Note phone next year, sources with knowledge of the matter said …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Qualcomm unveils its upcoming flagship chipset Snapdragon 888, including a 5G modem with both mmWave and sub-6GHz 5G support and an AI engine capable of 26 TOPS — The chip that will power most high-end 5G phones next year is here: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888.
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| BBC: |
Facebook's Oversight Board takes up first cases for review, all involving decisions to remove user content, says users have submitted 20K cases since Oct. 2020 — Facebook's Oversight Board has chosen its first batch of cases to review. — All involve decisions originally made by the platform to remove user content.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Libra Association is rebranding to Diem, distancing itself from the initial Facebook-led vision debuted last year, ahead of its expected 2021 stablecoin launch — The Libra Association put together by Facebook last year is rebranding in further efforts to distance itself from the original Facebook-led vision rolled out last year.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Teams adds support for answering calls via Apple CarPlay, transferring calls between mobile and desktop, and adding call recordings to OneDrive — Microsoft Teams will soon let you transfer calls easily between desktop and mobile — Microsoft is overhauling its calling features inside Microsoft Teams today.
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Amazon says 2020's holiday shopping season has been its biggest ever, with independent sellers reaching $4.8B+ in worldwide sales over the weekend, up 60% YoY — - Amazon has announced that this year's holiday shopping season has been the biggest in its history.
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| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
Reddit says it averaged 52M DAUs in October, up 44% YoY, disclosing the metric for the first time; ad revenue hit $100M+ in 2019, on track to rise 70%+ in 2020 — The disclosure comes as the tech company pursues new advertisers — Reddit Inc. said it averaged 52 million daily active users in October … | Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Filing: Airbnb seeks to raise ~$2.5B in its IPO at a valuation of up to $35B, after pricing its shares at $44 to $50 — - Airbnb filed an updated S-1 Tuesday ahead of its expected IPO later this month. — Airbnb says it expects to price between $44 and $50 per share.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft will remove user names from Productivity Score feature after a privacy backlash, says Microsoft 365 will only aggregate data at the organization level — Microsoft says it will make changes in its new Productivity Score feature, including removing the ability for companies to see data … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Android Enterprise Essentials device management service geared at SMBs, which can enforce policies like device encryption and ban app sideloading — Increasing enterprise adoption of Android devices has been a long-running initiative for Google.
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Facebook to launch Facebook News in the UK in Jan. 2021, says it will pay publishers for news not already on its platform; most big UK publishers have signed up — Facebook is to pay mainstream UK news outlets millions of pounds a year to license their articles, as the social network faces …
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
AWS releases statement saying that it remains Zoom's preferred cloud provider, after Oracle boasted it would meet Zoom's core infrastructure needs in April — Big Red said it was picked for its ‘superior’ cloud, but marketing minutiae and conference-eve thunder stealing have intruded
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
SCOTUS worries about CFAA's sweeping nature, with Justice Gorsuch saying that the US government's view of the law risks “making a federal criminal of us all” — The Supreme Court on Monday indicated serious reservations about the ambiguity and scope of the nation's only major cybercrime law …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Voi, the Stockholm-headquartered micromobility company known for e-scooter rentals, raises $160M in new funding, about two thirds equity and one third debt — Voi, the Stockholm-headquartered micro mobility company known for its e-scooter rentals, has raised $160 million in new funding.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Flexe, which operates a marketplace to buy warehousing space on demand, raises $70M Series C led by T. Rowe Price, bringing its total raised to $134M — Flexe is raising more capital ahead of schedule as the pandemic-driven e-commerce boom spurs faster-than-expected growth for its warehousing technology platform.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry shares jump 50%+ on news that it will partner with AWS to jointly develop and market its vehicle data integration and monitoring platform, IVY — BlackBerry shares shot up in early trading on news that the company will partner with Amazon Web Services to jointly develop and market …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Flock Freight, an AI-driven marketplace helping shippers and SMBs find freight truckers, raises $113.5M Series C led by Softbank, after a $50M Series B in Feb. — Flock Freight today closed a $113.5 million round to accelerate developments of its algorithmic pooling technology for truckload shipping and logistics.
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| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
Report: 3.1M professionals are needed to bridge the global cybersecurity talent gap; experts urge companies to adjust hiring requirements for cybersecurity jobs — Researchers say cyber talent is available but often not considered — Companies need millions more cybersecurity professionals …
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| New York Times: |
E-commerce is in a flux for luxury brands, with Amazon on one side and a new alliance, including LVMH, Kering, Farfetch, and Richemont, on the other — On one side: Amazon. On the other: a new alliance of brands and platforms. Who will win? — In 2015, the chairman and controlling shareholder …
Tweets: @sdunbarj, @bryanboy, @vvfriedman, and @lizziepaton
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Olive, which says 600+ hospitals use its AI-powered bots to automate healthcare admin tasks, raises $225.5M led by Tiger Global, valuing it at $1.5B — Olive, which has developed an artificial intelligence workforce for the health care industry, said it closed $225.5 million in financing to bring its valuation to $1.5 billion.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Databand, a developer of AI-based observability software for data pipelines, raises $14.5M Series A led by Accel. bringing its total raised to ~$18.5M — DevOps continues to get a lot of attention as a wave of companies develop more sophisticated tools to help developers manage increasingly complex architectures and workloads.| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Report: in the past six months 79% of US consumers played a video game, with time spent playing games up 26% YoY, and user spending up 33% YoY — We know that time and money spent on video games is surging due to the pandemic. Now, industry-tracking firm The NPD Group is providing detail on where that growth is coming from.
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