Month: April 2021
Bitcoin mining firm scores $30m worth of Nvidia GPUs cryptocurrency
One of the largest Bitcoin mining syndicates in the world, Hut 8 Mining Corp., has made an order for $30 million worth of Nvidia GPUs. Although it’s unclear which specific GPUs the company has purchased, the models come from Nvidia’s new cryptocurrency mining processor (CMP) range, designed specifically for mining…
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The huge new Among Us map gives you more ways to be sneaky
Among Us’ huge Airship map finally arrived on Wednesday, offering new tasks for crewmates, new ways to get around, and new ways to plot against your friends as the imposter. I tried out the new level for an hour or so last night, and players who might have grown bored…
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RTX 3080, RTX 3090, and more on Newegg Shuffle for a limited time Nvidia RTX 3080
Newegg Shuffle is back on April 1 from 1pm to 3pm EST, this time with a host of Nvidia Ampere cards, including the very hard to find RTX 3080, as well as the RTX 3060, RTX 3070, RTX 3090, and an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT. For starters, we have…
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Supreme Court says Facebook text alerts aren’t illegal robocalls
The Supreme Court has unanimously decided that Facebook text message alerts don’t violate laws against unwanted auto-dialed calls. The court ruled that a lower court defined illegal “robocalls” too broadly and that the term should only apply to systems that generate lists of numbers and call them indiscriminately, not a…
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Knowing when your startup should go all-in on business development
Mike Ghaffary Contributor Mike Ghaffary joined Canvas Ventures as a general partner in 2019, where he invests in innovation for consumers and software. There’s a persistent fallacy swirling around that any startup growing pain or scaling problem can be solved with business development. That’s frankly not true. Business development is…
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Aperta and its solar car are back from the dead
A decade ago, a small electric vehicle startup died. But now it’s back from the dead — and so is the government program that helped kill it. This zombie company, called Aptera, is once again trying to sell people on a curious idea: an ultra-efficient three-wheeled electric vehicle powered, in…
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