Wednesday, March 2, 2022
AMD unveils new Radeon mobile and desktop graphics cards designed for thin and light laptops and affordable gaming PCs
Google Cloud to use 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors for high-performance computing workloads
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
An Israeli judge lifts reporting restrictions on the arrest of former Celsius Network CFO Yaron Shalem in 2021 for suspected fraud, as Celsius raised $400M (Financial Times)
An Israeli judge lifts reporting restrictions on the arrest of former Celsius Network CFO Yaron Shalem in 2021 for suspected fraud, as Celsius raised $400M — Yaron Shalem was one of 10 detained in connection with alleged fraud at other cryptocurrency ventures
The SEC says BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani, recently charged with running a $2.4B Ponzi scheme, has disappeared from his native India (David Voreacos/Bloomberg)
The SEC says BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani, recently charged with running a $2.4B Ponzi scheme, has disappeared from his native India — BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani, charged criminally in the U.S. last week with a $2.4 billion Ponzi scheme, has vanished from his native India, officials said.
African financing service M-KOPA, which helps people without bank accounts buy smartphones, TVs, and other items, raises $75M, bringing total funding to $190M (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
African financing service M-KOPA, which helps people without bank accounts buy smartphones, TVs, and other items, raises $75M, bringing total funding to $190M — A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 per day. A large percentage of these adults are unbanked and underbanked …
Baidu reports Q4 revenue rose 9% YoY to ~$5.2B as net income drops to ~$269M, as the company transitions from online marketing to components supplier (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
Baidu reports Q4 revenue rose 9% YoY to ~$5.2B as net income drops to ~$269M, as the company transitions from online marketing to components supplier — Baidu Inc.'s revenue beat estimates after efforts to monetize artificial intelligence technology helped offset losses in ad sales triggered by China's economic slowdown.
YouTube will block Kremlin-backed RT and Sputnik in Europe, following similar bans by Meta and TikTok, citing the Ukraine invasion (Mark Scott/Politico)
YouTube will block Kremlin-backed RT and Sputnik in Europe, following similar bans by Meta and TikTok, citing the Ukraine invasion — Google's YouTube said Tuesday that it would block Kremlin-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik from Europe following similar bans by Facebook and TikTok.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's 26-year-old son passes away
David Boggs, who co-invented Ethernet along with Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC, died on February 19 at 71 (Cade Metz/New York Times)
David Boggs, who co-invented Ethernet along with Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC, died on February 19 at 71 — Thanks to the invention he helped create in the 1970s, people can send email over an office network or visit a website through a coffee shop hot spot.
Tesla offers free EV charging near Ukraine for people fleeing country
Monday, February 28, 2022
Lenovo debuts updated Windows 11 and Chromebook IdeaPads with 12th-Gen Intel CPUs and the Tab M10 Plus running Android 12, available in June starting at $190 (João Carrasqueira/XDA Developers)
Lenovo debuts updated Windows 11 and Chromebook IdeaPads with 12th-Gen Intel CPUs and the Tab M10 Plus running Android 12, available in June starting at $190 — Lenovo has a ton of announcements coming out of MWC 2022, and among them are a handful of new laptops geared towards consumers under the IdeaPad brand.
Orange picks Nokia for rollout of 'standalone' 5G in France
Lenovo unveils updated ThinkPads: X13 with Snapdragon chips, X1 Extreme with a 165Hz display, and updated P-series and T-series with new Intel processors (Monica Chin/The Verge)
Lenovo unveils updated ThinkPads: X13 with Snapdragon chips, X1 Extreme with a 165Hz display, and updated P-series and T-series with new Intel processors — A new X13, a new X1 Extreme, and more — Lenovo has dumped a whole bunch of new ThinkPads into the world, and there's some exciting stuff in there.
Ukraine's military, politicians targeted in hacking campaign on Facebook, says Meta
A look at AcadArena and other "game guilds" in Southeast Asia, which loan out NFTs of in-game creatures as "scholarships" to players of games like Axie Infinity (Rest of World)
A look at AcadArena and other “game guilds” in Southeast Asia, which loan out NFTs of in-game creatures as “scholarships” to players of games like Axie Infinity — In just a year, guilds boosting players into NFT games raised more than $80 million in Southeast Asia.
Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force that creates boom towns (New York Times)
New York Times : Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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