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Some power companies in Texas are remotely adjusting the smart thermostats of users enrolled in their energy saving programs to reduce strain on power grids — Some said they didn't know their thermostats were being accessed from afar until it was almost 80 degrees inside their homes.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysts say the dominance of TSMC, which makes ~92% of the world's most sophisticated chips and 60% of chips used in cars, poses risks to the global economy — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s dominance poses risks to the global economy, amid geopolitical tensions and a major chip shortage
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Interview with Jim Keller, a chip expert lauded for his work at AMD and Apple, on ARM vs x86 vs RISC-V, managing 1,000 people at Intel, and plans at Tenstorrent — I've spoken about Jim Keller many times on AnandTech. In the world of semiconductor design, his name draws attention … | Betsy Ladyzhets / MIT Technology Review: |
An analysis of the usage of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in 25 US states and DC finds that only 13 have enough usage to benefit from exposure notification — A year ago, engineers built apps to track potential virus exposure. Our research shows the impact has been mixed—but there's still potential.
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| Nicole Kobie / Wired UK: |
A look at the evolution of AI chips and where they are headed, as companies like Google, Amazon, Graphcore, and Cerebras look to challenge Nvidia's dominance — NVIDIA's GPUs dominate AI chips. But a raft of startups say new architecture is needed for the fast-evolving AI field
Tweets: @jbonne5, @cerebrassystems, @wireduk, @vickiturk, and @sub8u
| Ezra Fieser / Bloomberg: |
A look at El Zonte, a surfing village in El Salvador dubbed Bitcoin Beach after an anonymous 2019 donation turned it into a controlled alt-currency experiment — An anonymous donor turned a tiny Pacific coast town without a bank into the world's biggest Bitcoin experiment. Up next: the entire country.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Pandemic boosted the “phone-ization” of PCs, which are adopting power efficient CPUs and thin designs, a trend which will accelerate with broader adoption of 5G — Apple is dragging Microsoft, Google and the entire PC industry into the 21st century
Tweets: @parthodasgupta, @psb_dc, @mims, @gregorymbryant, @onelinders, @mims, @dsilverman, and @stevesi
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Amber Group, a Hong Kong-based crypto finance startup that provides trading and asset management services, raises $100M Series B at $1B pre-money valuation — More mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly consider bitcoin an investable asset …
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Drought-stricken communities in the US push back against data centers' water usage; a typical data center uses same water per day as a city of 30K-50K people — On May 17, the City Council of Mesa, Arizona, approved the $800 million development of an enormous data center …
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| Forbes: |
Leonid Radvinsky, billionaire owner of OnlyFans, ran sites in the '90s promoting “hacked” porn site passwords, including links promising access to child porn — Associate editor at Forbes, covering cybercrime, privacy, security and surveillance. — I cover the work and wealth of Europe's richest.
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| Kristen Sinclair / The Verge: |
A look at some Twitch streamers using the service to showcase minority languages like Galician, Welsh, Basque, and te reo Māori — Minority languages are often associated with aging rural communities, thought to have fallen out of use or confined to textbooks.
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Tweets: @3000twitz, @zacharydiaz, @biliteracyseal, @unaminhkavanagh, and @xipiryon
| Chuq Von Rospach / 6FPS: |
Apple, whose arrogance and sense of entitlement let it treat developers as a hassle for two decades, will find few allies as it fights looming regulation — If this issue seems late, believe it or not, it's not. But given the vagaries of our calendar, this is the latest possible …
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