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Wefox, a Berlin-based digital insurer focused on personal insurance products, raises $650M Series C led by Target Global at a post-money valuation of $3B (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Nvidia announces flagship gaming GPU GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, promises to deliver 1.5x more performance over RTX 2080 Ti, available worldwide on June 3 for $1,199 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000M series of graphics adapters for gaming laptops, which are based on the RDNA2 architecture that underpins AMD's desktop RX 6000 parts (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

Thailand-based Flash Group, which provides e-commerce logistics services including Flash Express, raises $150M in new funding to become Thailand's first unicorn (Suchit Leesa-Nguansuk/Bangkok Post)

Singapore-based D2C dental brand Zenyum raises $40M Series B from L Catterton, Sequoia India and other investors

Sources: PE firms KKR and CD&R are nearing a deal to buy software company Cloudera and take it private; Cloudera has a market value of nearly $4B (Wall Street Journal)

PS Plus for AU$60: save 25% on a yearly PlayStation subscription while stocks last

SpaceX’s first ocean spaceport is being built and will host launches next year

On June 8, Amazon devices will join its Sidewalk wireless mesh network in select countries, sharing a slice of bandwidth with neighbors, unless users opt out (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Q&A with Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex, the world's third-largest electronics manufacturing company, on the complicated politics of global manufacturing (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nvidia and NERSC lab unveil Perlmutter, which they say is the world's fastest supercomputer for AI workloads, built using 6,144 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs (Damon Poeter/VentureBeat)

Tencent helps Chinese students skip prohibitively low speeds for school websites overseas

Instagram's algorithm will now rank original and reposted content equally amid employee concerns about suppression of pro-Palestinian voices (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Apple releases its supplier responsibility report for 2020, saying there was a reduction in major violations of its code of conduct and no cases of child labor (Bloomberg)

Quic, a UDP-based protocol designed by Google to replace TCP, has been published as a standard by IETF, indicating it's mature enough for mass market adoption (Stephen Shankland/CNET)

Xiaomi demos fully charging a 4,000mAh battery in eight minutes over a 200W "HyperCharge" system or in 15 minutes with 120W wireless charging (Sam Byford/The Verge)

Stockholm-based digital healthcare provider Doktor.se raises €50M and says it is planning an IPO in Q1 2022 (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)