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Fri. 09/09 – White House Comes Out Against Proof-Of-Work?
Is the US government about to legally curtail proof of work crypto projects? Intel’s big new GPU specs. Uber Eats signs a deal to get into the ankle bots business. What I believe is the oldest startup ever to be acquired by a tech giant. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- White House report proposes possible restrictions on proof-of-work crypto mining (The Block)
- Intel Reveals Specifications For Arc Alchemist Desktop GPUs (Tom's Hardware)
- Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas (The Verge)
- Amazon is buying Cloostermans, a mechatronics specialist in Belgium, to ramp up its robotics operations (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again (ArsTechnica)
- They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down (Rest of World)
- Inside the World's First No-Coiner Conference (Decrypt)
- Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits (The Atlantic)
- The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse (The Guardian)
- Apple's features graveyard: Once heavily marketed, now gone (Apple Insider)
- The ‘deaditors’ of Wikipedia (HayKranen.nl)
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