Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech:OnePlus debuts 6.55″ OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9R and 6.7″ OnePlus 9 Pro, all with 120Hz displays, Android 11, on-screen fingerprint sensors, and 128GB base storage — Today OnePlus is launching their new 2021 line-up of flagship devices, the new OnePlus 9 series.
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:Lattice, which helps companies track, reward, and set goals in the workplace, raises $60M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation, up from $450M last year — – Human resources tech startup raises $60 million in new funds — CEO says it helps fix the dreaded employee performance review
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:goPuff, which charges a flat $1.95 fee to deliver products in under 30 minutes in 650+ US cities, raises $1.15B at an $8.9B valuation, up from $3.9B in October — Last fall, delivery startup goPuff made a big splash by raising $380 million in funding and acquiring West Coast beverage retailer BevMo…
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:Facebook announces F8 Refresh on June 2, a single-day, virtual-only conference for developers without a Mark Zuckerberg keynote — After a few twists and turns and then ultimately cancelling its F8 developer conference last year over Covid-19 concerns, Facebook today announced a return …
João Carrasqueira / Neowin:Microsoft, Google, and others join forces to improve browser compatibility, focusing on five areas, including CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, and CSS sticky positioning — Google and Microsoft have announced that they’re joining forces with other companies such as Igalia, as well as the …
Bloomberg:Sources: Nintendo to use new Nvidia graphics chip in its 2021 Switch console upgrade, which can deliver 4K on TVs via Nvidia’s DLSS — – The Nvidia system-on-chip will also add memory and CPU upgrade — Nintendo’s console refresh targeting year-end shopping season
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Wall Street Journal:Investors and players are buying millions of dollars worth of “land” inside games in the form of NFTs, which can then be rented out or even sold to other gamers — Investors and gamers are buying millions of dollars worth of land that exists only in videogames
Wall Street Journal:Analysis of 3,100 sites shows that hospitals are using code to hide pages containing pricing data from being crawled by search engines, violating US federal law — Webpages for hundreds of hospitals require users to click through to find prices, undermining federal transparency rule, Journal analysis shows
Bloomberg:In 2020, 60% to 70% of 9-year-old YouTuber Ryan Kaji’s $30M annual revenue came from merchandise licensing deals, passing YouTube ad revenue for the first time — Ryan Kaji is one of the most popular YouTube creators in the world, with a main channel that’s drawn 29 million subscribers interested …
R. Lawler / Engadget:Android apps like Gmail and Google Pay are crashing and “WebView” is to blame; Google says it is working on a fix — This afternoon, a number of Android users (self included) suddenly saw notifications pop up on their devices saying that apps had stopped running.