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Chief engineering officer Dr. Murthy Renduchintala will leave August 3rd. Last week Intel revealed that yields for CPUs manufactured on a 7nm process were running a year behind schedule, which will slow its transition to the technology that lets it build more efficient processors. Now the chipmaker has reshuffled executives in charge, with chief engineering officer … Continue reading Intel puts Dr. Ann Kelleher in charge of its delayed 7nm CPU project Continue Reading →

The NHL and the NBA are back, along with baseball (for now). While the MLB struggles to keep its season going, the NHL and NBA are ready to air real games later this week. In non-sports viewing options, Netflix is ready to release season two of The Umbrella Academy, as well as its Rubik’s Cube documentary The … Continue reading What’s on TV: ‘Umbrella Academy,’ ‘Speed Cubers’ and sports Continue Reading →

It will add new content every Monday until August 31st. YouTube is throwing parents who can’t take watching Frozen over and over anymore a lifeline. Over the next month until August 31st, YouTube Kids will release over 100 movies and specials as part of the platform’s “After School” experience project. In an announcement, Don Anderson, YouTube’s Head of Family & Learning … Continue reading YouTube will offer 100 kids movies and specials for free Continue Reading →

Analogue  has repeatedly proven that it’s the gold standard when it comes to retro gaming, delivering extremely faithful, but modern hardware to play original NES, SNES, Sega cartridges and more. The company revealed its forthcoming Analogue Pocket last October, and now it’s about to kick off pre-orders for the portable classic console, which can play Game Boy, … Continue reading Pre-orders for the Analogue Pocket retro portable game console start August 3, ships May 2021 Continue Reading →

Smart assistants are sensitive to their wake words, but who among us doesn’t trigger the smart speakers in their house with alarming frequency? Add in some heavily detailed privacy mishaps and a general feeling of distrust and there’s plenty of reason you might want to silence your smart speaker occasionally. A new device promises to … Continue reading MSCHF drops an ultrasonic jamming device add-on for your Amazon Echo Continue Reading →

We’re excited to announce a new event at Disrupt 2020. Called Pitch Deck Teardown, top venture capitalists and entrepreneurs will evaluate and suggest fixes for Disrupt 2020 attendees’ pitch decks. First impressions are everything, and pitch decks are often the first glimpse of companies by investors and business partners. It’s critical that these decks accurately present and illustrate … Continue reading Submit your pitch deck to Disrupt 2020’s Pitch Deck Teardown Continue Reading →

Walmart’s recent partnership with Shopify to expand its online marketplace appears to already be paying off.  The retailer in June announced it was opening its marketplace to Shopify’s small business sellers with the goal of onboarding 1,200 new sellers by the end of 2020. Following the Shopify announcement, the marketplace added 3,000 more sellers in June and is expected … Continue reading Walmart Marketplace seller additions surge following Shopify deal, up 3x from January Continue Reading →

Stanford’s success in spinning out startup founders is a well-known adage in Silicon Valley, with alumni founding companies like Google, Cisco, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and, yes, even TechCrunch. And venture capitalists routinely back more founders coming out of the Stanford business program than any other university in the country. One group of Stanford graduate students is … Continue reading Stanford students are short-circuiting VC firms by investing in their peers Continue Reading →

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox.  Hello and welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B. It’s … Continue reading The Station: Winners and losers in Paris, Rivian sets a delivery date, Waymo and FCA deepen ties Continue Reading →

Sport and fitness tech giant Garmin  has confirmed its five-day outage was caused by a ransomware attack. In a brief statement on Monday, the company said it was hit by a cyberattack on July 23 that “encrypted some of our systems.” “As a result, many of our online services were interrupted including website functions, customer support, customer facing applications … Continue reading Garmin confirms ransomware attack took down services Continue Reading →