After months of watching Snap’s volatile ride on the stock market from the sidelines, some insiders will be allowed to sell their shares Monday. Known as the “lockup period,” employees and early investors of companies are generally restricted from selling their shares during the initial months following an IPO. The duration of this period varies and in Snap’s case, 150… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Charter Communications says it has “no interest” in merging with Sprint, after the Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint had proposed a deal. The proposed merger would have combined Sprint and Charter into a new publicly traded entity controlled by SoftBank, which currently controls a majority stake in Sprint. Read More
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Broadcasting on YouTube, “The Next Gamer” will whittle a group of 40 gamers down to one pro.
Source: CNET
Russia has banned VPNs and other technology that allows users to gain anonymous access to websites. Read More
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AMD’s massive Threadripper CPUs are ready for their big debut at Siggraph, with unparalleled speed and a massive list of features and hardware support on top. Plus, the red team brought a previously unannounced budget-friendly chip.
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Source: Digital trends
AMD’s consumer Vega 64 and Vega 56 GPUs are finally here, and the Radeon Packs are the perfect way to get your foot in the door. For workstation users, there are two new Radeon Pro GPUs, one of which sports 2TB of memory.
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Source: Digital trends
The history of console gaming is littered with high-profile flops, middling also-rans and vaporware never-weres. In fact, the stories of console failures are perhaps even more compelling than the tales of those companies that crossed the finish line. So join us as we celebrate some of the most colorful and fascinating console failures of the last three decades. Read More
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Fintech startup Revolut just raised a ton of money. But grabbing $66 million from respected VC firms wasn’t enough (£50 million). For the second time, Revolut asked its user base to invest in the startup. Revolut was looking for $5.3 million on Seedrs (£4 million), but 40,000 customers said that they were interested in the investment opportunity. If Revolut took all the money, it… Read More
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“The attention economy” is shaping everything about contemporary life, according to Google’s former design ethicist, Tristan Harris. That economy has brought us Donald Trump by bankrupting our intelligence and exploiting our “lower level vulnerabilities”. Read More
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Una competición medirá a unos programas contra otros en tres pruebas en las que tendrán que engañarse, atacarse y confundirse. El objetivo es detectar los programas más fuertes para emplearlos como armas contra las posibles ciberguerras del futuro
Source: MIT