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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 experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs. — If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device …
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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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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi demos fully charging a 4,000mAh battery in eight minutes over a 200W “HyperCharge” system or in 15 minutes with 120W wireless charging — New ‘world records’ in wired and wireless charging — Xiaomi has shown off its latest fast charging tech demo …
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| Andreessen Horowitz: |
Analysis of 50 public software companies finds that repatriating workloads from public cloud infrastructure could help them reduce their cloud spend by 50% — There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant platform shifts in the history of computing.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: PE firms KKR and CD&R are nearing a deal to buy enterprise data cloud company Cloudera and take it private; Cloudera has a market value of nearly $4B — Agreement to take software firm private could be finalized by Tuesday, sources say — Private-equity firms KKR & Co … | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Instagram's algorithm will now rank original and reposted content equally amid employee concerns about suppression of pro-Palestinian voices — Social media app will promote viral posts and original content equally — Instagram is changing its app to show more viral and current affairs …
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| Virginia Hughes / New York Times: |
Maryland and Montana have passed the nation's first laws limiting forensic genealogy, the DNA matching technique that found the Golden State Killer in 2018 — Maryland and Montana have passed the nation's first laws limiting forensic genealogy, the method that found the Golden State Killer.
Tweets: @debbiekennett, @nytnational, @nytpolitics, @someday_deane, and @carnage4life
| 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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| Damon Poeter / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia and NERSC lab unveil Perlmutter, which they say is the world's fastest supercomputer for AI workloads, built using 6,144 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Nvidia and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center … | Allie Jones / Vox: |
An investigation into “loop giveaways” on Instagram, where lesser influencers are paid by marketing firms to post about giveaways that no one ever seems to win — Influencers and marketing firms keep teaming up to give you cars, cash, and more. No one ever seems to win.
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| Bloomberg: |
China is escalating a crackdown on its online education sector, which received $10B+ in VC funding last year, unraveling plans for several mega-IPOs — - A crackdown on predatory practices unravels mega IPOs — It's an unprecedented campaign to dial back excesses| Bloomberg: |
Apple releases its supplier responsibility report for 2020, saying there was a reduction in major violations of its code of conduct and no cases of child labor — - Annual responsibility report covers labor, energy, Covid-19 — Apple stopped providing specific addresses for facilities
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