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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