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Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20 billion, LG Wing gets a $530 discount, Edge gets a Workspaces feature

April 12, 2021

Hi folks! Here's the April 12 edition of the newsletter.

Microsoft has officially announced its acquisition of Nuance Communications in a transaction valued at a whopping $19.7 billion. The purchase will bolster Microsoft's efforts in the cloud and AI.

If you were interested in getting the LG Wing but could not get one due to the price, then now might be the best chance pick one up as Flipkart has announced a 58% discount on the LG Wing in India.

According to a new report, Apple is facing shortages with the new miniLED displays said to be featured in the upcoming iPad Pro, meaning supply may be limited for some time after launch.

Today at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced Grace, its first Arm-based CPU for data centers that promises ten times the performance of today's fastest servers and then some.

Microsoft has posted a cryptic video on its social media platform teasing the upcoming Surface Laptop 4. The device is expected to come with the latest hardware and is expected to launch this month.

Microsoft is working on a new Workspaces feature for the Chromium-based Edge browser, allowing users to group tabs and save them for later. The feature is now available in the Canary channel.

HP's new Z2 Small Form Factor workstation is here, packing an 125W Intel 11th-generation CPU, along with an Nvidia Quadro RTX 3000 graphics card, 32GB RAM, a 512GB SSD, and a 1TB HDD.

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