Month: March 2021
Incoming Qualcomm CEO warns chip shortage won’t ease until end of 2021 Cristiano Amon Qualcomm CEO
Incoming Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has warned that a global chip shortage caused by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic may not ease until the end of 2021. As Covid-19 spread across the globe, governments enacted lockdown restrictions and social distancing measures that had an inevitable impact on demand for…
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Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti GPU could soon power up budget gaming laptops Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Nvidia has an RTX 3050 Ti laptop graphics card incoming, at least if a leak from notebook maker Asus is on the money. This one was spotted by @momomo_us (via VideoCardz), an ever-present source of hardware leaks on Twitter, with the mobile graphics card being present in the tech spec…
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Microsoft’s $7.5 billion ZeniMax acquisition approved by US and EU regulators
Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda parent ZeniMax Media has cleared its regulatory hurdles. On Friday, the European Commission (EC) quietly approved the deal without applying any conditions to the merger. It concluded that the pendi… Source
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WhatsApp reportedly working on password protected encrypted chat backups
WhatsApp is reportedly working to increase the security of its cloud backups with a new password protection feature that’ll encrypt chat backups, making them accessible only to the user. WABetaInfo reported on the work-in-progress feature last year, and today it shared screenshots of how it could be presented in the…
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UK challenger bank Starling raises $376M, now valued at $1.9B
Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. In the latest development, UK-based Starling announced that is has closed £272 million ($376 million at current rates), at a pre-money…
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WandaVision’s Quicksilver reveal was a cruel joke – but it was the right call WandaVision
WandaVision spoilers follow. WandaVision is over – but some questions remain. And in the wake of last week’s finale, fans were left to process the Marvel Cinematic Universe show’s big bait-and-switch: that Evan Peters’ ‘Quicksilver’ was, in fact, just a resident of Westview. On top of that, his true name…
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