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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with Windows 11, an 8.8" QHD+ screen, an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip, and detachable controllers, available in October — Every company and its mother seems to be putting out handheld gaming PCs these days, and Lenovo is next to the plate.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils Legion 9i, a $4,400 gaming laptop with liquid cooling, a 16" Mini LED screen, 13th Gen Intel Core i9, and a GeForce RTX 4090, shipping in October — Lenovo has announced a new Legion 9i, and it might just be the wildest thing I've ever seen from the Legion line.| Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide: |
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators — The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restrict Meta's data-collection practices.
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Information, PetaPixel, TechSpot, Android Headlines, Neowin, Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Mashable
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Samsung reveals the world's first 32Gb DDR5 DRAM die, letting the company lower the cost of high-capacity memory modules and build record 1TB RDIMMs for servers — Samsung early on Friday revealed the world's first 32 Gb DDR5 DRAM die. The new memory die is made on the company's 12 nm …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Robinhood says the company paid nearly $606M to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of Sam Bankman-Fried, set up via an agreement with the US Marshal Service — Stock-trading app Robinhood on Friday said it paid nearly $606 million to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of jailed crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
The manager of .ai TLD for British territory Anguilla estimates the island will make $25M to $30M from domain registration fees in 2023, up from $7.4M in 2021 — Anguilla is expected to make millions this year from a surge in demand for web addresses ending with .ai, thanks to the frenzy around artificial intelligence.
More: Insider, The Verge, TechSpot, and Ars Technica
| Robert Stewart / NOLA.com: |
Filing: Globalstar signed a $64M deal with SpaceX to launch satellites for Apple's Emergency SOS iPhone feature in 2025 — Globalstar has enlisted Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch a host of satellites it will use to provide a communications network for an emergency Apple iPhone feature …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
As a child safety group launches a campaign for Apple to scan iCloud for CSAM, Apple says such scans would lead to a “slippery slope of unintended consequences” — Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting.
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| Reuters: |
Canada tries to address Big Tech's Bill C-18 concerns, saying Google and Meta would pay publishers ~$126.6M and ~$44M per year; Meta plans to keep blocking news — Canada unveiled draft rules on Friday for a law to compel internet giants to pay news outlets, saying it was addressing …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: cloud data management startup Rubrik, valued at ~$4B in 2021, is planning an IPO in 2023, raising $500M to $700M; PitchBook: Rubrik has raised $1B+ — - Offering could raise between $500 million and $700 million — The company held a meeting with research analysts this week
More: SiliconANGLE and CRN
| Jameson Dow / Electrek: |
Tesla cuts its Full Self-Driving Beta's US price from $15K to $12K, reversing the bump from $12K to $15K in September 2022; the subscription is still $199/month — Tesla has cut the price of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software by $3,000, to $12K, down from $15K in the US.
More: TechCrunch, Observer, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Wccftech, 24/7 Wall St., Finbold, 9to5Mac, TechNode, and Benzinga. Forums: r/RealTesla
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Benitago Group, an Amazon e-commerce business acquirer that has raised $380M in equity and debt over the past two years, files for bankruptcy — Benitago Group, an Amazon e-commerce business acquirer, filed for bankruptcy this week. The move comes after the New York-based company …
More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, FinTech Global, PYMNTS.com, and The Information
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Arm looks to target its IPO at a $50B-$55B valuation, well below the $64B valuation implied by SoftBank's recent acquisition of a 25% stake in Arm — Arm plans to start meeting with prospective investors as early as Tuesday — British chip designer Arm Ltd. is eyeing …
More: Bloomberg, Sramana Mitra, and Reuters
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google removes sketchy live streaming app Chamet, which lets users pay to video call hosts, from the Play Store for violating its user-generated content policy — Google has removed a popular but controversial live video chat app Chamet from the Play Store.
More: MediaNama
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