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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 -
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 -
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 -
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Dell upgrades the XPS 15 and XPS 17 laptops with Intel's 11th-Gen H-series processors and Nvidia's RTX 30-series laptop GPUs, starting at $1,200 and $1,400 -
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 -
Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok has begun working with merchants in Europe, including the UK, to test ways they can sell products directly to users within the app -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Wall Street Journal: Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of fuel consumed on the US East Coast, says it halted operations due to a ransomware attack -
25 minutes ago 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 -
New! Wall Street Journal: Uber and Lyft will offer free rides to and from US vaccination sites until July 4, in a partnership with Biden's admin that provides site data to Lyft and Uber -
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 -
Sponsor Post Oura: Oura in The Age of Ownership — An update on funding, the business, and the future of health as a daily practice. -
Joyce Lee / Reuters: South Korea's Kakao Entertainment acquires US-based online comic app Tapas for $510M and serialized fiction app Radish for $440M -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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) … -
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