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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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| 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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Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, Android Police, 9to5Google, Gizmochina, Patently Apple, Phandroid, International Business Times, Candid.Technology, XDA Developers, TechSpot, Firstpost Tech, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, Android Headlines, Liliputing, Gizchina, Mashable, Pricebaba.com Daily, Livemint, Android Central, androidauthority.com, MUO, TNW, SlashGear, Notebookcheck.net, MSPoweruser, and GSMArena.com
Tweets: @xiaomi, @xiaomi, @jonoh, @manukumarjain, and @imhassan
| 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.
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| 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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Washington Post, BBC, Politico, The Hill, The Verge, NBC News, Insider, Engadget, and NBC News
Tweets: @reprashida, @mairavz, @epro, @faizapatelbcj, @themuslimvibe, @ggreenwald, and @ggreenwald
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex, the world's third-largest electronics manufacturing company, on the complicated politics of global manufacturing — This week, I'm talking to Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex. Now, Flex isn't a household name, but it is definitely in your household … | Allie Jones / Vox: |
Study reveals the strange marketing of “loop” giveaways on Instagram, where lesser influencers get on “must follow” lists and are paid to post about giveaways — Influencers and marketing firms keep teaming up to give you cars, cash, and more. No one ever seems to win.
Tweets: @thatchelseagirl, @banditelli, @taylorlorenz, @davepeck, @rtushnet, @sesmith, @prettycritical, and @kelljokrause
| 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 … | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Chipper Cash, which provides cross-border payments services in Africa and says it has 4M users, raises $100M Series C led by SVB Capital — Fintech in Africa is a goldmine. Investors are betting big on startups offering a plethora of services from payments and lending to neobanks …
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Techpoint Africa, WeeTracker, and Finextra
Tweets: @drjid, @pitdesi, @sarthakgh, @davidjchie, @okassim, and @mwiyas
| 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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Apple, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iMore, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, Patently Apple, iPhone in Canada Blog, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @refsrc
| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils a refresh of its 11th-Gen Tiger Lake-U chips aimed at laptops and debuts a 5G modem developed with MediaTek that supports 5G on slower, sub-6 GHz — Due to the global pandemic, this year's annual Computex event in Taiwan is being held virtually, but all the big-name companies … | Kellie Mejdrich / Politico: |
As big financial industry players like Fidelity Investments push SEC to approve Bitcoin-linked ETFs, crypto lobbying efforts meet resistance from US lawmakers — A strong push by Wall Street to open up access to Bitcoin investment is meeting resistance from a bipartisan group of lawmakers …
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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.Sponsor Posts
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