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Nvidia announces flagship gaming GPU GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, promises to deliver 1.5x more performance over RTX 2080 Ti, available worldwide on June 3 for $1,199 — This is Nvidia's new flagship gaming GPU — Nvidia is unveiling its latest flagship gaming GPU today, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000M series of graphics adapters for gaming laptops, which are based on the RDNA2 architecture that underpins AMD's desktop RX 6000 parts — Headlining a busy Computex for AMD - and a bit of return to form in that regard - this evening the company is making several graphics and CPU-related product announcements.
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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 Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Alienware unveils its thinnest 15-inch and 17-inch X-Series gaming laptops with 11th-gen Intel CPUs and Nvidia 30-series GPUs, starting at $2,000 and $2,100 — It's been a few years since the last time Alienware's laptops got a big revamp, but with its new X-Series laptops …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Wefox, a Berlin-based digital insurer focused on personal insurance products, raises $650M Series C led by Target Global at a post-money valuation of $3B — German startup Wefox has raised a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global. Following this funding round …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Uber and Lyft acknowledge prices are up and wait times are longer, citing a lack of drivers; research found prices rose 37% from March 2020 to March 2021 — The companies say they are charging extra because they don't have enough drivers to match rebounding customer demand.
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| Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: |
UN report: a Turkish-made autonomous weaponized drone “hunted down” and attacked a human target without instructions to do so during a 2020 conflict in Libya — A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers' say-so during …
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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.| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Personal finance app Truebill raises $45M Series D led by Accel at a $500M valuation — Six months after personal finance app Truebill brought in a $17 million Series C round, it is supporting demand of its services with $45 million in Series D funding to give it a valuation of $500 million … | Liana Baker / Bloomberg: |
PE firms KKR and CD&R agree to buy enterprise data cloud company Cloudera in an all-cash deal valuing the company at about $5.3B — - Private equity firms agreed to pay $16 a share in cash — Former high-flyer struggled to make headway against Amazon| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
São Paulo-based idwall, which offers a suite of data and identity validation and risk analysis products, raises $38M Series C led by Endurance — Online fraud and identity theft is a global problem that has only been exacerbated with increased online transactions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.| 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.
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