Plaid calls on Ireland to tap fintech boom
US fintech firm Plaid has said it sees a big opportunity in Ireland as Covid-19 fears continue to push innovations around contactless payments and other parts of the financial sector.

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Intel and AMD face an ARM&ed onslaught from this 96-core CPU monsterIntel and AMD face an ARM’ed onslaught from this 96-core CPU monster

Hot on the heels of Amazon’s Graviton2, Marvell has announced the launch of the ThunderX3, its third generation Arm server processor.

Anandtech’s Andrei Frumusanu reports that the chip, originally forged by a small startup called Cavium (subsequently acquired by Marvell), has capabilities shared by none of its big rivals.

The ThunderX3 is one of the

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Lockdown response: Irish mobile phone networks to get more capacity under emergency telecoms regulator move
Irish mobile phone networks are to get more spectrum on a temporary basis to deal with extra demand during the new Covid-19 lockdown, the telecoms regulator, Comreg, says.

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Best PS4 bundles to buy right now online
Looking for fun ways to pass the time during the lockdown? Take a break from the board games and movie marathons, we've listed the top PS4 deals worth buying now

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Detroit Auto Show canceled in preparation for FEMA to turn venue into field hospital

The North American International Auto Show, which was scheduled for June in Detroit, has been canceled as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and the city prepares to repurpose the TCF Center into a temporary field hospital.

NAIAS is held each year in the TCF Center, formerly known as the Cobo Center. Organizers said they expected the Federal Emergency Management Agency to designate the TCF Center as a field hospital.

&Although we are disappointed, there is nothing more important to us than the health, safety and well-being of the citizens of Detroit and Michigan, and we will do what we can to support our communityfight against the coronavirus outbreak,& NAIAS Executive Director Rod Alberts said in an emailed statement.

The NAIAS is the latest in a long line of events and conventions that have been canceled as COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has spread from China to Europe, and now the U.S. and the rest of the world.

More than100 convention centers and facilities around the country are being considered to potentially serve as temporary hospitals. Alberts said it became clear that TCF Center would be an inevitable option to serve as a care facility.

The NAIAS, also known as the Detroit Auto Show, will be held in June 2021. Organizers are discussing plans for a fundraising activity later this year to benefit the childrencharities that were designated as beneficiaries of the 2020 Charity Preview event.

This yearshow was highly anticipated because it had moved from January to summer, following years of encouragement to schedule it during the warmer months.

All tickets purchased for the 2020 NAIAS show, including tickets for the Public Show, Industry Preview and Charity Preview will be fully refunded, organizers said. Charity Preview ticket holders will be given the option of a refund, or the opportunity to donate the proceeds of their refund to one of the nine designated Charity Preview beneficiaries. The NAIAS ticket office will be in contact with all ticket holders, according to the organizers.

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3 tech advances that will change PCs forever

Disclaimer: Most of the companies mentioned are clients of the author.

With the impact of COVID-19, sales of laptops & particularly Chromebooks for education & have been going vertical, and several OEMs are reporting shortages. But the most common clamshell design goes back to the early 1990s, well before recent advances in processor technology, GPUs, memory, storage, operating systems, displays and even battery formulations. We keep playing with different variants like the coming Microsoft Surface Neo, but they still fall well short of what you might have expected to evolve in the last 30 or so years.

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