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Ben Arnold / NPD Group:

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Corinne Reichert / ZDNet:

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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

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Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:

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Don Clark / New York Times:

How Nvidia's decade-old bet on GPUs for general-purpose computing is helping the company ride the ongoing AI boom — Nvidia, a maker of graphics processing units, is riding an artificial intelligence boom to put its chips in drones, robots and self-driving cars.

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Rani Molla / Recode:

Amazon, Alphabet, Intel, Microsoft, and Apple lead S&P 500 in R&D spending, with Amazon at #1 with $16.1B spent last year — Amazon is No. 1. — Tech companies lead top U.S. companies in R&D spending. — That's notable because spending on research and development is a key indicator …

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Real estate agent hit with 700 robocalls per day, halting her business for 5 days; at 2.4B robocalls per month in US, it's a major problem with no quick fix — Kim France gets a lot of calls—but nothing prepared her for receiving 700 a day. — As a real estate agent …

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