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Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8cx, an "extreme" processor for Windows laptops that it says is the first 7nm chip for a PC platform (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8cx, an “extreme” processor for Windows laptops that it says is the first 7nm chip for a PC platform  —  Could Qualcomm replace Intel in your next Windows PC?  —  The “X” stands for “extreme.”  That’s what Qualcomm’s marketing department wants you to think about the

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Blockchain startup incubator ConsenSys says it is laying off 13% of its staff amid a "re-focusing of priorities"; report estimated its annual burn rate at $100M (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

Zack Seward / CoinDesk: Blockchain startup incubator ConsenSys says it is laying off 13% of its staff amid a “re-focusing of priorities”; report estimated its annual burn rate at $100M  —  ConsenSys, the ethereum production studio, is letting go 13 percent of its staff, according to a company announcement … Blockchain startup incubator ConsenSys says

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Mechanizing A Eurorack Sequencer

Eurorack has taken over the synthesizer community, and hundreds of people are building their own eurorack modules. [Michael Forrest] designed and built his own Eurorack sequencer module that doesn’t use weird things like capacitors and chips to store a signal. Instead, he’s doing it with stepper motors and some clever engineering. The basic idea of

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As part of Microsoft's embrace of Chromium, Edge users will get access to Chrome extensions, and EdgeHTML will be replaced by Blink and Chakra with V8 (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: As part of Microsoft’s embrace of Chromium, Edge users will get access to Chrome extensions, and EdgeHTML will be replaced by Blink and Chakra with V8  —  Microsoft today embraced Google’s Chromium open source project for Edge development on the desktop.  The company also announced Edge … As part of Microsoft's

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Firefly, which wants to use GPS and other sensors to display contextual ads on ride-sharing cars, raises $21.5M in seed funding (Jason D. Rowley/Crunchbase News)

Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: Firefly, which wants to use GPS and other sensors to display contextual ads on ride-sharing cars, raises $21.5M in seed funding  —  A car is just a packet carrying a payload through a network so plopping an ad unit atop it as it caroms from node to node is

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Pandora officially launches its Podcasts on Pandora platform for iOS with hundreds of podcasts from various genres (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)

Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: Pandora officially launches its Podcasts on Pandora platform for iOS with hundreds of podcasts from various genres  —  Pandora has officially launched its podcasts platform today after running a beta on iOS and Android for about three weeks.  Podcasts on Pandora is now available for all users … Pandora officially launches

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Microsoft says it will rebuild Edge to run on Google's open source Chromium project and will make it available on macOS, Windows 7, and Windows 8 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says it will rebuild Edge to run on Google’s open source Chromium project and will make it available on macOS, Windows 7, and Windows 8  —  A Chromium version of Edge will also arrive on Windows 7 and Windows 8  —  Microsoft is announcing some significant changes to its

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Kik begins rolling out tipping using its Kin cryptocurrency, letting users send tips to admins and mods, available only in group chats initially (Mix/The Next Web)

{$inline_image} Mix / The Next Web: Kik begins rolling out tipping using its Kin cryptocurrency, letting users send tips to admins and mods, available only in group chats initially  —  Kik is getting ready to roll out its Kin cryptocurrency to its mobile messenger in a big way.  —  The company has announced a new

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