Month: April 2022

Intel’s 56-Core Sapphire Ridge Sweeps AMD’s 64-core Threadripper 3990X Early Benchmarks

For the past five years, AMD’s workstation-class Threadripper family has held an edge over Intel’s Xeon processors, either in terms of price/performance, maximum performance, or both. While Ryzen has offered increasingly difficult competition for Intel over time, AMD’s workstation edge has been larger and more consistently sustained than its consumer standing. Intel’s Alder Lake now

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Turtlemint, which helps financial advisors understand and distribute insurance to their customers, raises a $120M Series E at a $900M post-money valuation (Priyanka Iyer/Moneycontrol)

Priyanka Iyer / Moneycontrol: Turtlemint, which helps financial advisors understand and distribute insurance to their customers, raises a $120M Series E at a $900M post-money valuation  —  The firm intends to use the fresh funds to expand in new geographies, scale leadership and strengthen product stack.

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How to watch ‘Shining Girls’ on Apple TV+

What you need to know “Shining Girls” is now streaming on Apple TV+. The new psychological thriller series stars Elisabeth Moss. It tells the story of a reporter whose reality shifts as they hunt down their attacker. Elisabeth Moss makes her Apple TV+ debut. “Shining Girls” is now streaming on Apple TV+. The psychological thriller

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Filings: Elon Musk sold roughly $4B worth of Tesla stock in two days after agreeing to buy Twitter, at prices between $870 and $1,000 per share (Rebecca Elliott/Wall Street Journal)

Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: Filings: Elon Musk sold roughly $4B worth of Tesla stock in two days after agreeing to buy Twitter, at prices between $870 and $1,000 per share  —  The Tesla chief executive reported selling more than 4.4 million shares on Tuesday and Wednesday  —  Elon Musk sold roughly $4 billion

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Poll: Do you play games on Netflix?

Credit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Netflix is betting big on gaming amid subscriber and revenue loss. Last year, the streaming platform hired Mike Verdu, the former head of Electronic Arts’ mobile gaming division, to lead its in-house gaming efforts. It’s even acquiring third-party gaming studios to crank up its exclusive collection. So it’s fair

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Goldman Sachs has extended its lending service to offer cash loans using Bitcoin as collateral, signalling Wall Street is further embracing cryptocurrencies (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Goldman Sachs has extended its lending service to offer cash loans using Bitcoin as collateral, signalling Wall Street is further embracing cryptocurrencies  —  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. offered its first ever lending facility backed by Bitcoin, in a significant step for a major U.S. bank …

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A Real GPU on the Raspberry Pi — Barely.

[Jeff Geerling] saw the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and its exposed PCI-Express 1x connection, and just naturally wondered whether he could plug a GPU into that slot and get it to work. It didn’t. There were a few reasons why, such as the limited Base Address Register space, and drivers that just weren’t written

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Sources: Elon Musk has lined up a new CEO for Twitter and told banks about ideas for monetizing tweets like charging a fee for quoting or embedding tweets (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: Elon Musk has lined up a new CEO for Twitter and told banks about ideas for monetizing tweets like charging a fee for quoting or embedding tweets  —  Elon Musk told banks that agreed to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) that he could crack down on executive …

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