Techmeme: 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 (Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo)

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

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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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Twitter launches Tomorrow, a weather news service, which includes newsletters, ticketed audio sessions, Q&As, and is led by climate journalist Eric Holthaus — Twitter is partnering with veteran climate journalist and meteorologist Eric Holthaus to launch a local weather news service …

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S. Shah / Engadget:

Samsung and AMD are collaborating to build Exynos mobile chips featuring RDNA 2 graphics that will support ray tracing and variable rate shading — working together on a GPU since 2019 and today we're getting another major update on the partnership. As part of its Computex keynote …

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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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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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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 …

More: TechCrunch, FinSMEs, and Finextra. Tweets: @crunchbasenews

Washington Post:

Analysis of data from 5,411 warehouses in 2020 finds Amazon workers suffer serious injuries at nearly double the rate of workers at comparable companies — A Washington Post analysis of Occupational Safety and Health Administration data shows Amazon's serious injury rates are nearly double those at warehouses run by other companies.

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Rachel Monroe / New Yorker:

Profile of Kurtis Minder, who for the past year has been managing fraught discussions between companies and hackers as a ransomware negotiator — Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying. — A few days after Thanksgiving last year …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Sennder, a digital freight forwarder that focuses on moving cargo around Europe, raises $80M extension to its $160M Series D at a $1B+ valuation — Freight forwarding — the process of organising how and where items will be shipped around the world, and specifically the technology that underpins …

More: FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, Sifted, and Reuters

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 …

More: Tech.eu, Silicon Canals, Crunchbase News, altfi.com, Silicon Republic, Business Wire, and FinSMEs

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Redacted, which proactively tracks hackers to recover data loss, raises $35M Series B led by Ten Eleven Ventures, bringing its total raised to $60M — The cybersecurity industry has no shortage of technology to fight against network intruders, app corrupters, email hackers and other cyber criminals.

More: Crunchbase News, FinSMEs, and SecurityWeek

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Malt, a freelance marketplace for developers, designers, project managers, and others, raises €80M led by Goldman Sachs, sources say at a €400M valuation — The world of professional services has long relied on contractors to fill in for assignments and projects that might …

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.

More: The Markup, Protocol, Insider, Engadget, and Gizmodo

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Jane Lee / Reuters:

Exabeam, which helps companies monitor cybersecurity threats on their networks, raises $200M Series F at a $2.4B valuation — Exabeam, a Silicon Valley startup that helps companies automate the analysis and monitoring of their cybersecurity data, on Tuesday said it raised $200 million …

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