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Sources: digital bank Chime raises $500M Series E at a $5.8B valuation led by DST Global, just nine months after its Series D which valued Chime at $1.5B (Hugh Son/CNBC)

Hugh Son / CNBC: Sources: digital bank Chime raises $500M Series E at a $5.8B valuation led by DST Global, just nine months after its Series D which valued Chime at $1.5B  —  – Chime, valued at $1.5 billion in March, is now pegged at $5.8 billion just nine months later, according to people with

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A Magnetron Tear Down

Microwave ovens are everywhere, and at the heart of them is a magnetron — a device that creates microwaves. [DiodeGoneWild] tore one apart to show us what was inside and how it works. If you decide to do this yourself, be careful. The magnetron may have insulators made of beryllium oxide and inhaling dust from

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Sources: Galaxy S11 to have a 108MP sensor, ultrawide-angle lens, 5x zoom, and time-of-flight sensor like in Note 10+; Galaxy Fold to have 108MP sensor, 5x zoom (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: Sources: Galaxy S11 to have a 108MP sensor, ultrawide-angle lens, 5x zoom, and time-of-flight sensor like in Note 10+; Galaxy Fold to have 108MP sensor, 5x zoom  —  – The Galaxy S11 and clamshell Galaxy Fold will feature 5x zoom  — Next flagship to have almost every camera phone feature Sources:

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Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8c, with a Kryo 490 CPU, Adreno 675 GPU, and X24 LTE modem, and a lower-end 7c chip; both designed for budget Windows laptops (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8c, with a Kryo 490 CPU, Adreno 675 GPU, and X24 LTE modem, and a lower-end 7c chip; both designed for budget Windows laptops  —  The Snapdragon 8c and 7c join the high-end 8cx  —  Qualcomm has had big ambitions for ARM-powered Windows laptops for years.

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Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8c, with a Kryo 490 CPU, Adreno 675 GPU, and X24 LTE modem, and a lower-end 7c chip; both designed for budget Windows laptops (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

{$inline_image} Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8c, with a Kryo 490 CPU, Adreno 675 GPU, and X24 LTE modem, and a lower-end 7c chip; both designed for budget Windows laptops  —  The Snapdragon 8c and 7c join the high-end 8cx  —  Qualcomm has had big ambitions for ARM-powered Windows laptops for

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Cyberhaven, which provides data behavior analytics to protect company trade secrets such as IP for customers including Motorola and DARPA, raises $13M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Cyberhaven, which provides data behavior analytics to protect company trade secrets such as IP for customers including Motorola and DARPA, raises $13M Series A  —  For obvious reasons, trade secrets are highly valuable — they’re the innovations that confer competitive advantage. Cyberhaven, which provides data behavior analytics to protect company trade

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