Innovations in Gaming Laptops and Twitter's New Weather Service

Whole bunch of chip news from Computex. New Flagship Nvidia GPUs. New AMD graphics adapters. The thinnest gaming laptops in the realm? Twitter launches a weather news collective. Amazon is signing you up to Sidewalk whether you like or it not. And yeah, that Uber ride really has gotten more expensive. Here’s why.

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• Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd (The Verge)
• AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut (AnandTech)
• AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing (Engadget)
• Alienware's New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet (Gizmodo)
• Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios)
• Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (ArsTechnica)
• Prepare to Pay More for Uber and Lyft Rides (New York Times)

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