Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways

From TechCrunch: Instacart has announced this morning it will no longer be doing business with Whole Foods, a U.S. organic grocery chain the company launched a partnership with in 2014. This comes roughly one year after Amazon closed its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods; Amazon, of course...

FCC Investigates Wireless Coverage Cheating by Telecom Carriers

From eWeek: The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it’s putting on hold a $4.53 billion payout to wireless broadband providers while it investigates charges that a major U.S. carrier has overstated its wireless coverage. The FCC grants are intended to help cover the cost for...

Intel Adds B365 Chipset to Lineup: The Return of 22nm

From AnandTech: Intel has quietly added a new chipset that is made using the company’s 22 nm fabrication process to its 300-series lineup. As the name suggests, the Intel B365 PCH for desktop PCs has a similar positioning with the company’s B360 chipset, but the two products have many differences...

Phanteks introduces the new PH-TC12LS RGB CPU Cooler

From Phanteks Press Release: Phanteks today announced the new PH-TC12LS RGB CPU Cooler. The already popular CPU cooler now gets a new illumination upgrade from the award-winning Halos RGB fan frame.

Phanteks’ PH-TC12LS_RGB is a low profile CPU cooler designed for cases that are limited in space and...

Intel's 3D Chip Stacking Tech Aims For Smaller, Power-Efficient PCs

From PC Mag: Intel's latest advancement in chip-making is focused on packing the silicon together to create a lean, power-efficient PC.

On Wednesday, the company debuted a new manufacturing technology called "Foveros" that overhauls a PC's internal guts by fabricating the microprocessors on top of...

Epic Is Already Announcing Exclusives for Its Game Store

From ExtremeTech: Epic Games is riding high on the success of Fortnite, which is currently the most popular title in the world by most measures. The company decided recently that gave it enough clout to take on Steam, the largest and best-supported source for PC games. Epic’s storefront launched...

Amazon warehouse workers push to unionize in NYC

From The Verge: Employees working in Amazon’s new Staten Island fulfillment center have announced their intention to unionize, reports Bloomberg. Through a partnership with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), the employees said that they’re aiming to address numerous issues...

Report: Marriott Data Breach Part of Chinese Spy Campaign

From PC Mag: Chinese state hackers may have been responsible for the massive Marriott data breach, which exposed the personal information of up to 500 million guests, according to a new report from The New York Times.

Citing two unnamed sources "briefed on the investigation," the newspaper on...

Apple may be working on cellular modem chips in-house

From CNET: Your future iPhone might have a home-grown cell modem in it.

Apple's looking to hire a lead designer for a cell modem platform, according to a job listing it recently posted. A story in The Information (subscription required) brought attention to the job posting and also said a source...

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