Nvidia announces flagship gaming GPU GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, promises to deliver 1.5x more performance over RTX 2080 Ti, available worldwide on June 3 for $1,199
This is Nvidia's new flagship gaming GPU — Nvidia is unveiling its latest flagship gaming GPU today, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
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. Source: Newsroom | AMD .
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 experimental wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs. — If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device …
Samsung and AMD are collaborating to build Exynos mobile chips featuring RDNA 2 graphics that will support ray tracing and variable rate shading
working together on a GPU since 2019 and today we're getting another major update on the partnership. As part of its Computex keynote …
Alienware unveils its thinnest 15-inch and 17-inch X-Series gaming laptops with 11th-gen Intel CPUs and Nvidia 30-series GPUs, starting at $2,000 and $2,100
It's been a few years since the last time Alienware's laptops got a big revamp, but with its new X-Series laptops …
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.
Coinbase says users can add Coinbase Card to Apple Pay and Google Pay and spend crypto, with Coinbase automatically converting crypto to USD for a fee
You can now use your Coinbase Card with Apple Pay and Google Pay to make it even easier to spend crypto¹ at home and on the go.
Twitter launches Tomorrow, a weather news service, which includes newsletters, ticketed audio sessions, Q&As, and is led by climate journalist Eric Holthaus
Twitter is partnering with veteran climate journalist and meteorologist Eric Holthaus to launch a local weather news service …
Analysis of data from 5,411 warehouses in 2020 finds Amazon workers suffer serious injuries at nearly double the rate of workers at comparable companies
A Washington Post analysis of Occupational Safety and Health Administration data shows Amazon's serious injury rates are nearly double those at warehouses run by other companies.
UN report: a Turkish-made autonomous weaponized drone “hunted down” and attacked a human target without instructions to do so during a 2020 conflict in Libya
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Xiaomi demos fully charging a 4,000mAh battery in eight minutes over a 200W “HyperCharge” system or in 15 minutes with 120W wireless charging
here's how Vanshika Malhotra / BGR India : Xiaomi's new 200W fast charging tech will fully charge phones in just 8 minutes Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Xiaomi's new fast-charging technology can charg...
Personal finance app Truebill raises $45M Series D led by Accel at a $500M valuation
Six months after personal finance app Truebill brought in a $17 million Series C round, it is supporting demand of its services with $45 million in Series D funding to give it a valuation of $500 mill...
Amazon quietly changed its terms of service to let customers file lawsuits against it, after facing over 75K arbitration demands from Echo users
The retail giant is no longer steering customers away from the court system, as companies scramble to find ways to avoid lawyers who file mass-arbitration claims
Wefox, a Berlin-based digital insurer focused on personal insurance products, raises $650M Series C led by Target Global at a post-money valuation of $3B
German startup Wefox has raised a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global. Following this funding round …
Sennder, a digital freight forwarder that focuses on moving cargo around Europe, raises $80M extension to its $160M Series D at a $1B+ valuation
Freight forwarding — the process of organising how and where items will be shipped around the world, and specifically the technology that underpins …
Profile of Kurtis Minder, who for the past year has been managing fraught discussions between companies and hackers as a ransomware negotiator
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying. — A few days after Thanksgiving last year … Tweets: @howelloneill , @andyboxall , @davbatz , @hello...
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
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Instagram's algorithm will now rank original and reposted content equally amid employee concerns about suppression of pro-Palestinian voices
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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
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LinkedIn data shows Austin is the top beneficiary of tech-related migration in the past 12 months, followed by Nashville; Miami was #11 by net migration rate
Austin is the top beneficiary of tech-related migration in the past 12 months, according to data from Microsoft Corp.'s LinkedIn profiles. Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : Austin wins big from te...
PE firms KKR and CD&R agree to buy enterprise data cloud company Cloudera in an all-cash deal valuing the company at about $5.3B
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Thailand-based Flash Group, which provides e-commerce logistics services including Flash Express, raises $150M in new funding to become Thailand's first unicorn
it took a little longer than planned to get over the line due to the recent spike in Covid cases in Thailand My @TheKenWeb story on its expansion plans and crazy cash burn 👇🏻 https://the-ken.com/... h...
Project44, which helps companies track shipments and spot supply chain issues, raises $202M Series E at a $1.2B post-money valuation, says it just hit $50M ARR
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted a lot in the world, and supply chains are no exception. — A number of applications that aim …
Analysis of 50 public software companies finds that repatriating workloads from public cloud infrastructure could help them reduce their cloud spend by 50%
Andreessen Horowitz : Tweets: @zackkanter , @jasnonaz , @lizrice , @jaycuthrell , @zackkanter , @zackkanter , @stratelogical , @sandykory , @divinetechygirl , @teej_m , @matt_levine_1 , @martin_casad...
Redacted, which proactively tracks hackers to recover data loss, raises $35M Series B led by Ten Eleven Ventures, bringing its total raised to $60M
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Malt, a freelance marketplace for developers, designers, project managers, and others, raises €80M led by Goldman Sachs, sources say at a €400M valuation
The world of professional services has long relied on contractors to fill in for assignments and projects that might …
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
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China is escalating a crackdown on its online education sector, which received $10B+ in VC funding last year, unraveling plans for several mega-IPOs
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Exabeam, which helps companies monitor cybersecurity threats on their networks, raises $200M Series F at a $2.4B valuation
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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
Latin American startup Belvo, whose open finance API platform is used to access end-user data to build financial products, raises $43M Series A
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Kushki, which enables service providers to bring local and cross-border payments to Latin American and global firms, raises $86M Series B at a $600M valuation
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A look at TikTok's incubator program for Black creatives, which ran from Feb. to May; over 5,000 people applied for the 100 spots, 3,000 just in the first day
São Paulo-based idwall, which offers a suite of data and identity validation and risk analysis products, raises $38M Series C led by Endurance
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Q&A with Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex, the world's third-largest electronics manufacturing company, on the complicated politics of global manufacturing
what's next? https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : One of my favorite episodes of Decoder yet: @RevathiAdvaithi, CEO of giant contract electronics manufacturer...
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