GoKawiil - Tech News

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Jeff Bezos Harshly Criticized for $200 Million Pledge to Protect the World’s Most Endangered Species (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: amazon, bezos, billionaire

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Selling the Dream of SpaceX Was the Easy Part. Now Elon Musk Has to Hang On. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: biggest, biggest ipo, billion

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Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: amazon, cash, expected

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Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jake Roach | tags: cycles, domas, hardware

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Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: billion, billion years, earth

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‘If trust breaks, your business breaks’: How Alphonzo Terrell is building Spill to be a different kind of social platform (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: acquisition, acquisition led, alphonzo

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SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: capacity, hynix, memory

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Inside the Trump administration’s $2 billion push to build the world’s first useful quantum computer (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: brought, house, house quantum

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Trump Administration To Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion To Halt US Wind Projects (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | tags: energy, offshore, offshore wind

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Shopping App Whatnot Valued at $20 Billion in New Funding (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-07 | tags: doubled, doubled valuation, fast

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He Started a Business at 26 and Was Rejected by Every Bank and Investor. Now It’s Passed $1 Billion in Sales: ‘People Thought I Was Crazy’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: brands, franchise, unleashed

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‘The Odyssey’ Will Soon Be Christopher Nolan’s Highest-Grossing Film (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: billion, billion dark, crossed

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Trump administration spends another $1.2 billion to kill offshore wind farm projects (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: administration, billion, energy

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I was loyal to T-Mobile for 10 years, but switching to Mint slashed my bill - by a lot (zdnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Kerry Wan | tags: customer, device, line

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The Hottest App in Retail Is Now Worth $20 Billion (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-07 | tags: doubled, doubled valuation, fast

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The AI Billboards Are Killing SF (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by Emily Dreyfuss | tags: city, francisco, new tab

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Whatnot valued at $20 billion as live shopping continues to boom (cnbc.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ian Thomas | tags: billion, million, million series

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SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tim De Chant | tags: billion, gas power, natural

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SK Hynix pledges $38 billion to build two new DRAM and NAND factories (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Steve Dent | tags: hynix, memory, prices

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How Amazon Built a Data Center in a California Town Without Anyone Noticing (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-07 | tags: began, began locals, billion

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SpaceX and Tesla plan their own natural gas power plants for massive $16.8 billion Texas chip factory (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: expected, factory, going

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SK Hynix to invest $38 billion building new memory chip plants as demand soars (cnbc.com)

2026-08-07 | by Arjun Kharpal | tags: demand, hynix, memory

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Meta's child-safety failures will cost it another $567 million as total bill reaches almost $1 billion (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Rob Thubron | tags: facebook, instagram, meta

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Google's $15 Billion India Data Center Project Battles Water, Wildlife Concerns (slashdot.org)

2026-08-06 | tags: google, million, project

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GAO finds Elon Musk's DOGE inflated claims of $110 billion in savings for federal government (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lora Kolodny | tags: claimed, cuts, doge

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Airbnb stock soars 9% on earnings and revenue beat, strong guidance for third quarter (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Ari Levy | tags: airbnb, airbnb said, billion

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Nintendo's Switch 2 sells over 23 million units in its first year, outpacing the original's 17 million (techspot.com)

2026-08-06 | by Daniel Sims | tags: billion, million, nintendo

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Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-06 | by Julie Bort | tags: billion, defense, defense tech

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Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5 show why raw benchmark scores don't predict the bill (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: cost, effort, harness

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'AI Kill Switch' bill needs to be passed this year amid ongoing rogue agent hacks, Rep. Lieu says (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Cj Haddad | tags: advanced, hacks, kill