EV charger maker Wallbox to go public in $1.5 billion New York SPAC deal

Spanish electric-vehicle charger maker Wallbox plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange later this year through a merger with shell company Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp, the companies said on Wednesday. https://ift.tt/2TaClCg

EU antitrust regulator cite concerns about voice assistants' exclusivity practices

A year-long inquiry into voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri and other internet-connected devices has led to among more than 200 companies expressing concerns of potential anti-competitive practices, EU antitrust regulators said on Wednesday. https://ift.tt/3gjTktF

Fastly Blames Software Bug for Major Global Internet Outage

Fastly, the company behind a major global Internet outage this week, said the incident was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings. https://ift.tt/3vg5z05

Realme Laptops Teased to Be Launched in India Soon

Realme laptop launch in India may take place very soon. While the company is yet to provide concrete details, its India and Europe CEO Madhav Sheth has tweeted an image giving us a glimpse of the... https://ift.tt/3zg5DQD

OnePlus Nord CE 5G Specifications Surface as Promo Video Leaks

OnePlus Nord CE 5G leaked promo video shows the phone will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 750 SoC, have Always-on Display (AOD) feature, and support 30W fast charging. The company could also be... https://ift.tt/3io6XLc

Scalable Capital, a Germany-based neo-broker and wealth management service, raises $180M Series E led by Tencent at a $1.4B valuation (Isabel Woodford/Sifted)

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Scalable Capital, a Germany-based neo-broker and wealth management service, raises $180M Series E led by Tencent at a $1.4B valuation  —  The round is led by Tencent, continuing a trend of Chinese funds investing in European fintech.  —  Scalable Capital fundraise gives Germany its sixth fintech unicorn

An inside look at how Google's Ethical AI team fell apart following the contentious departure of Timnit Gebru and then Margaret Mitchell (Tom Simonite/Wired)

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An inside look at how Google's Ethical AI team fell apart following the contentious departure of Timnit Gebru and then Margaret Mitchell  —  She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism.  Google brought her in.  Then it forced her out.  Can Big Tech take criticism from within?

Watch: This Humanoid in the Works is the Acrobat of the Future

MIT researchers are developing a dynamic robot capable of performing acrobats including frontflips and backflips as well as spin jumps. They claim to have developed new proprioceptive actuators that... https://ift.tt/2TTzoXd

Adobe Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign Updated for Apple M1

Adobe has updated Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Illustrator, InDesign to fully utilise the potential of Apple's M1 SoC. Third-party benchmarking test suggest that Lightroom is twice as fast,... https://ift.tt/3itj9dB

BMW Cooperates With Solarwatt on Home Batteries

BMW has teamed up with Solarwatt to start selling storage batteries as part of an ongoing convergence of renewable power and electric mobility. https://ift.tt/3xcW8Qn

Mi 11 Lite India Launch Set for June 22, 4G Variant Expected

Mi 11 Lite is scheduled to launch in India on June 22 at 12pm (noon), Xiaomi has revealed. It is expected to launch the 4G variant of the phone while both the 4G and 5G variants launched globally... https://ift.tt/3pyGTyz

WWDC 2021: Key Announcements From Apple You May Have Missed

Siri is getting supported on third-party devices and has added offline support, Apple has announced at the WWDC 2021 keynote. Here, we are covering all these announcements and other supplementary... https://ift.tt/34ZHgZu

In a letter to shareholders and employees, India's Paytm has confirmed that it plans to file for an IPO (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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In a letter to shareholders and employees, India's Paytm has confirmed that it plans to file for an IPO  —  Paytm, India's most valuable startup, confirmed to its shareholders and employees on Monday that it plans to file for an IPO.  —  In a letter to shareholders and employees …

Hackers stole and posted 70GB of data from LineStar Integrity Services, a compliance tech provider to pipeline clients, on dark web around time of Colonial hack (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Hackers stole and posted 70GB of data from LineStar Integrity Services, a compliance tech provider to pipeline clients, on dark web around time of Colonial hack  —  LineStar Integrity Services was hacked around the same time as Colonial Pipeline, but radical transparency activists have brought the attack to light.

Singapore court jails techie for racially offensive tweets, slurs to Indians: Report

A 35-year old senior executive at a software company in Singapore, who made racially offensive tweets in April last year, including slurs to Indians and condemning Indian immigrants about COVID-19, was jailed for three weeks on Tuesday, a media report said. https://ift.tt/3w5kxXI