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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake-H 10nm mobile processors for high-performance desktop and gaming, with five consumer chips and five commercial ones — Ever since the launch of the first series of Intel Core 11th Generation Tiger Lake processors aimed at the ‘U-series’ 15 W market … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MSI unveils new laptops for creators and gamers, like the $2,599 Creator Z16, aimed at MacBook Pro users, with a 120Hz 16:10 QHD+ display and GeForce RTX 3060 — New models for creators and gamers at all price points — MSI has announced a number of gaming and creator laptops that include Intel's brand-new Tiger Lake H processors.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Nvidia unveils the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti laptop GPUs that bring ray tracing and AI features to affordable laptops for 1080p gaming, starting at ~$799 — spoiled the surprise last month, it was only a matter of time until NVIDIA confirmed the existence of its new mainstream laptop GPUs.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: TikTok is launching a tool for brands to recruit employees that it's currently beta testing with a group of companies — TikTok is testing a tool for brands to recruit employees, sources tell Axios. — Details: The pilot program is designed to help people find jobs on TikTok … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google Pay users in the US can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore; Google has partnered with Western Union and Wise to enable this feature — Google Pay users in the U.S. can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore, Google said on Tuesday, making its first push into the remittances market.
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| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
Apple's ATT privacy policy is a commercial land grab dressed up as a moral crusade and it will ultimately subvert the open web and the freemium business model — Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page. — Rumors of this new unit had circulated previously
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Continuous software integration/delivery service CircleCI raises $100M at a $1.7B valuation and has acquired Vamp, a cloud-native release orchestration service — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — CircleCI, a continuous integration and delivery …
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| The Verge: |
A county-by-county map of the broadband gap in the US shows how lack of fiber stifles economic activity in poor counties which in turn results in disinvestment — A county-by-county look at the broadband gap — If broadband access was a problem before 2020, the pandemic turned it into a crisis.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Palantir reports Q1 revenue of $341M, up 49% YoY, with $208M from government and $133M from commercial sources; Palantir has 149 customers, up from 125 in 2020 — - Palantir, the maker of software and analytics tools for the defense industry and large corporations, reported 49% revenue growth …
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| Eamon Javers / CNBC: |
DarkSide, the group behind the pipeline attack, claims it wants to make money, not cause “problems for society”, and it'll add “moderation” to picking targets — - A hacker group called DarkSide is behind the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline that shut down a major oil pipeline over the weekend.
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
South Korea's Kakao Entertainment acquires US-based online comic app Tapas for $510M and serialized fiction app Radish for $440M — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Kakao Entertainment Corp said on Tuesday it was acquiring U.S.-based online comic app Tapas and serialized fiction app Radish …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Big chip buyers, including Apple and Google, are joining top chip-makers like Intel to create a lobbying group for chip manufacturing subsidies — (Reuters) - Some of the world's biggest chip buyers, including Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google, are joining top chip-makers …
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Sources: Sony's next-gen VR headset for PlayStation 5 will have improved resolution of 2000×2040 per eye, inside-out tracking, foveated rendering, and more — Sony's next-generation VR headset for PlayStation 5 has significantly higher resolution, inside-out tracking, a vibration motor …
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| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Facebook ordered to stop collecting German users' WhatsApp data by regulator, starting with a three-month emergency ban on the data collection — - Hamburg regulator issues a three-month emergency order — Watchdog calls new terms intransparent and overly broad
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis of 57K large companies globally: the average tax burden ratio of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon is just around 60% of their peers — Inequality and COVID spending spur rethink of how to grab bigger slice of corporate profit — TOMOSHIZU KAWASE, Nikkei corporate tax editor …
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
San Francisco-based Legion, which makes workforce management software, raises $50M Series C led by Stripes, bringing its total raised to $85.5M — San Francisco-based Legion closed a $50 million Series C to try to help companies find the right balance between workforce and market demand as the world emerges from a pandemic.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to pay $100M to top creators on YouTube Shorts, its TikTok competitor, through 2022, starting in the next few months in the US and India — YouTube is giving its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, an injection of cash to help it better compete with rivals.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Foxconn's iPhone output in India has dropped by more than 50% because of COVID-19 infections among workers — Production of the Apple iPhone 12 (AAPL.O) at a Foxconn (2317.TW) factory in India has slumped by more than 50% because workers infected with COVID-19 have had to leave their posts, two sources told Reuters.
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| Eyk Henning / Bloomberg: |
Block.one is launching Bullish, a crypto exchange, in the second half of 2021, capitalized by about $10B in digital assets and cash — - Bullish Global to launch in the second half of this year — Funding round includes Alan Howard, Louis Bacon and Richard Li — Follow us @crypto for our full coverage.| Ben Bergman / dot.LA: |
Docs show that Bird is preparing to go public via a SPAC merger at $2.3B valuation; Bird expects to trim adjusted EBITDA loss to $96M in 2021 vs. $183M in 2020 — Bird Rides, the Santa-Monica e-scooter company that was once a startup darling but saw ridership plunge during the pandemic …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Netherlands-based enterprise process automation company Redwood Software raises €315M from growth equity firm Turn River Capital — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Redwood Software, a provider of cloud-based business …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
HTC unveils the Vive Pro 2 VR headset with a 5K resolution display, 2448×2448 pixels per eye, a 120Hz refresh rate, and 120-degree FoV, coming June 4 for $799 — Available to preorder today and on sale from June 4th for $799 — HTC has unveiled the new Vive Pro 2 …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SightCall, an AR-based visual assistance service for field workers, raises $42M Series B and says it has 200+ enterprise clients like Kraft-Heinz, GE Healthcare — Long before Covid-19 precipitated “digital transformation” across the world of work, customer services and support was built to run online and virtually.| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Facebook is starting to test Live Audio Rooms with a handful of public figures and creators in Taiwan and is planning to bring Audio Rooms to Facebook Groups — - Social-media leader is also building podcasts into its app — Live Audio Rooms starts with select public figures, creatorsSponsor Posts
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