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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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| Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: |
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 — A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers' say-so during …
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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 Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
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 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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.
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| 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 … | 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.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
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 …
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| 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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| 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
| 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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| 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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