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Apple said to sell Macs powered by in-house ARM-based chips as early as 2021

Apple’s long-rumored Mac ARM chip transition could happen as early as next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report says that Apple is currently working on three Mac processors

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Why Trump's pandemic policies are so messy

A police officer works a road closure during a rally calling for an end to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's stay-at-home orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic outside of City Hall in downtown Los Angel

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Google data centers watch the weather to make the most of renewable energy

Google’s data centers run 24/7 and suck up a ton of energy — so it’s in both the company’s and the planet’s interest to make them do so as efficiently as possible. One new met

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SpaceX successfully launches 60 more Starlink satellites as it continues towards 2020 service debut

SpaceX has launched another big batch of Starlink satellites, the low Earth orbit spacecraft that will provide connectivity for its globe-spanning high-bandwidth broadband internet network. This brin

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Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more

Google Meet, like all video chat products, is seeing rapid growth in user numbers right now, so it’s no surprise that Google is trying to capitalize on this and is quickly iterating on its prod

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Google Cloud’s fully-managed Anthos is now generally available for AWS

A year ago, back in the days of in-person conferences, Google officially announced the launch of its Anthos multi-cloud application modernization platform at its Cloud Next conference. The promise of

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Poland's biggest nature reserve fights largest fire in years

Wildfires have been ravaging the marshes of the Biebrza National Park in northeastern Poland, home to moose, beavers and unique wetland birds, since Sunday, as the coun

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Spotify launches its promised fundraising feature for artists

Last month, Spotify announced that as part of its coronavirus relief efforts it would soon add new fundraising features for artists on its platform. Today, the company is following through with the la

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New data details the decline in Silicon Valley’s Q1 venture activity

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re unpacking some new data concerning what happened to Silicon Vall

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The Air Force wants you to hack its satellite in orbit. Yes, really

When the Air Force asked hackers to break into a F-15 fighter jet at last year’s Def Con security conference, the results were both eye-opening and eye-watering.It was the first time hackers wer

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Pulumi brings support for more languages to its infrastructure-as-code platform

Seattle-based Pulumi has quickly made a name for itself as a modern platform that lets developers specify their infrastructure through writing code in their preferred programming language — and

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Extra Crunch Live: Navigating the pandemic with an equitable lens

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the tech industry has yet again found itself in a vulnerable state.As we saw in the dot-com era, when the economy takes a hit, so do companies, and they need to make critic

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Google switches its Shopping search service to mostly free listings

Google is making a change to its product search offering meaning that unpaid listings picked by algorithm will dominate results displayed on the Google Shopping tab, instead of mostly paid product li

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Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.2B valuation

The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today, showing that major investment continues in spite of the dire economic situation at the mome

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Sweden's 'risky' coronavirus containment strategy criticized

Swedes enjoy drinks with friends in crowded cafes and restaurants. /Andres Kudacki/AP Photo Crowds gather in Sweden's parks to enjoy the sun or sit by the water, while friends enjoy drinks in

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Loss of remittances will damage many countries

The announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump that he intends to suspend immigration to the United States in response to the coronavirus pandemic is further evidence of the extra pressure that m

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VanMoof introduces new S3 and X3 electric bikes

VanMoof is releasing a new generation of its electric bike. In many ways, the VanMoof S3 and its smaller version the VanMoof X3 are refined versions of the VanMoof Electrified S2 and X2. It features a