Allie Jones / Vox:
Study reveals the strange marketing of “loop” giveaways on Instagram, where lesser influencers get on “must follow” lists and are paid to post about giveaways  —  Influencers and marketing fi…

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
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  —  Amazon’s experiment wireless mesh networking …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex, the world’s third-largest electronics manufacturing company, on the complicated politics of global manufacturing  —  This week, I’m talking to Revathi Advaithi, CEO …

Damon Poeter / VentureBeat:
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  —  Elevate your enterprise data technology and s…

Lockdown puppy madness has left sidewalks littered with feces. Robots that scan and scoop can help.

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Instagram’s algorithm will now rank original and reposted content equally amid employee concerns about suppression of pro-Palestinian voices  —  Social media app will promote viral posts and original c…

Don’t want to get scammed by a scalper or pay more than double for a new GPU? We have some tips to help you keep gaming without emptying your wallet.

Like a giant bucket with a hole, the Funil Hydropower Plant sprays out an enormous jet of water. We can use its speed to calculate the depth of the reservoir.

Bloomberg:
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  —  – Annual responsibility report covers labor, energy, Covid…

Stephen Shankland / CNET:
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  —  It’s been eight years since Google first anno…