Thu. 08/05 – Nest Refreshes Everything

Google has refreshed the entire Nest lineup and I guess TPU’s will be a thing going forward. Ethereum’s latest hard fork is live and bringing big changes. There’s a new Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and the government all combatting cyberattacks. And if some companies are seeing a Covid Times hangover, nobody bothered to tell Hopin.

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Links:

• Google’s new Nest cameras and doorbell have lower prices and more smarts (The Verge)
• Ethereum just activated a major change called the ‘London hard fork’ — here’s why it’s a big deal (CNBC)
• Senators propose exclusion of miners, software developers in infrastructure bill's crypto 'broker' definition (The Block)
• U.S. Taps Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Others to Help Fight Ransomware, Cyber Threats (WSJ)
• Nintendo profits decline year-on-year as Switch hits 89 million sold (The Verge)
• Two-year-old events start-up Hopin boomed in the pandemic. Now it’s a $7.75 billion business (CNBC)

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