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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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Tweets: @timbray, @profmatsuoka, @dinodaizovi, @quinnypig, @stevesi, @film_girl, @timsweeneyepic, @thedavedev, @fredericl, and @kfury
| 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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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
AWS unveils an appliance called AWS Panorama, which can transform existing on-premises cameras into computer vision-enabled surveillance devices — AWS has launched a new hardware device, the AWS Panorama Appliance, which, alongside the AWS Panorama SDK, will transform existing on-premises cameras …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS announces Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, which aims to make it easier and cheaper for Microsoft SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud — AWS today announced a new database product that is clearly meant to go after Microsoft's SQL Server and make it easier — and cheaper — for SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| CNBC: |
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 … | 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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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Tanium, a cybersecurity company valued at $9B+, is moving its HQ from just outside Oakland, CA to Kirkland, WA near Seattle, after going remote first in June — Orion Hindawi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and helped build two successful companies there.Thanks:@toddbishop
| TechCrunch: |
Salesforce announces it's buying Slack in a $27.7B deal — Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billion megadeal. — Every worker at every company needs …
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TechCrunch and PYMNTS.com
| 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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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Scale, which helps companies label data for use in artificial intelligence models, raises $155M led by Tiger Global at a $3.5B+ valuation — - Start-up Scale helps companies label data for use in artificial intelligence models. — It has had trouble keeping up with one of its customers …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Wyze unveils a $20 smartwatch with nine-day battery life and heart rate and blood oxygen tracking but no GPS support, slated to ship in February 2021 — With heart rate and blood oxygen saturation tracking — Wyze, the smart home company best known for its range of budget internet-connected …
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9to5Google, Android Headlines, Digital Trends, Trusted Reviews, and 9to5Toys
| 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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About Facebook, BBC, MakeUseOf, Engadget, The Verge, MediaNama, Neowin, Social Media Today, Axios, and Express & Star
Tweets: @rasmus_kleis, @ryanvailbrown, @lizzie_oshea, and @emmalbriant
| 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 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.| 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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Roku hires Brian Pinkerton, who was Apple's chief architect of Siri until November and was previously the CTO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — Roku Inc. has hired a Siri executive at Apple Inc. to lead advanced technology development. — Brian Pinkerton has joined the San Jose …
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