Techmeme: 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 (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)

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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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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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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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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 experimental 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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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 …

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:

Latin American startup Belvo, whose open finance API platform is used to access end-user data to build financial products, raises $43M Series A — Belvo, a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, announced today it has raised $43 million in a Series A round of funding.

PYMNTS.com:

Kushki, which enables service providers to bring local and cross-border payments to Latin American and global firms, raises $86M Series B at a $600M valuation

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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.

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 …

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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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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

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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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