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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
On June 8, Amazon devices will join its Sidewalk wireless mesh network in select countries, sharing a slice of bandwidth with neighbors, unless users opt out — Amazon's experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs. — If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi demos fully charging a 4,000mAh battery in eight minutes over a 200W “HyperCharge” system or in 15 minutes with 120W wireless charging — New ‘world records’ in wired and wireless charging — Xiaomi has shown off its latest fast charging tech demo …
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Tweets: @xiaomi, @xiaomi, @jonoh, @manukumarjain, and @imhassan
| Andreessen Horowitz: |
Analysis of 50 public software companies finds that repatriating workloads from public cloud infrastructure could help them reduce their cloud spend by 50% — There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant platform shifts in the history of computing.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Instagram's algorithm will now rank original and reposted content equally amid employee concerns about suppression of pro-Palestinian voices — Social media app will promote viral posts and original content equally — Instagram is changing its app to show more viral and current affairs …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex, the world's third-largest electronics manufacturing company, on the complicated politics of global manufacturing — This week, I'm talking to Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex. Now, Flex isn't a household name, but it is definitely in your household … | Allie Jones / Vox: |
Study reveals the strange marketing of “loop” giveaways on Instagram, where lesser influencers get on “must follow” lists and are paid to post about giveaways — Influencers and marketing firms keep teaming up to give you cars, cash, and more. No one ever seems to win.
Tweets: @thatchelseagirl, @banditelli, @taylorlorenz, @davepeck, @rtushnet, @sesmith, @prettycritical, and @kelljokrause
| Damon Poeter / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia and NERSC lab unveil Perlmutter, which they say is the world's fastest supercomputer for AI workloads, built using 6,144 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Nvidia and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center … | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Chipper Cash, which provides cross-border payments services in Africa and says it has 4M users, raises $100M Series C led by SVB Capital — Fintech in Africa is a goldmine. Investors are betting big on startups offering a plethora of services from payments and lending to neobanks …
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Techpoint Africa, WeeTracker, and Finextra
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple releases its supplier responsibility report for 2020, saying there was a reduction in major violations of its code of conduct and no cases of child labor — - Annual responsibility report covers labor, energy, Covid-19 — Apple stopped providing specific addresses for facilities
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Apple, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iMore, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, Patently Apple, iPhone in Canada Blog, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @refsrc
| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils a refresh of its 11th-Gen Tiger Lake-U chips aimed at laptops and debuts a 5G modem developed with MediaTek that supports 5G on slower, sub-6 GHz — Due to the global pandemic, this year's annual Computex event in Taiwan is being held virtually, but all the big-name companies … | Kellie Mejdrich / Politico: |
As big financial industry players like Fidelity Investments push SEC to approve Bitcoin-linked ETFs, crypto lobbying efforts meet resistance from US lawmakers — A strong push by Wall Street to open up access to Bitcoin investment is meeting resistance from a bipartisan group of lawmakers …
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| Virginia Hughes / New York Times: |
Maryland and Montana have passed the nation's first laws limiting forensic genealogy, the DNA matching technique that found the Golden State Killer in 2018 — Maryland and Montana have passed the nation's first laws limiting forensic genealogy, the method that found the Golden State Killer.Sponsor Posts
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