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Google aims to power its data centers and offices solely with renewable energy by 2030, its chief executive told Reuters, becoming the biggest company in the world to commit to ditching coal and natural gas power.

SoftBank Group announced on Monday the sale of chip designer Arm to Nvidia for as much as $40 billion in a deal set to reshape the semiconductor landscape.

The Xbox Series X and Series S will be the first consoles to support both Dolby Vision (in 2021) and Dolby Atmos (at launch) for gaming. Sony has yet to reveal if the PS5 will do that too, though it has its own variant of Dolby Atmos in “Tempest 3D AudioTech”.

The world’s biggest tech companies are clamouring for a larger piece of India’s booming Internet space, but that increasingly seems to mean going through the country’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd. is said to be offering to sell a stake of about $20 billion in its retail business to Amazon.com, Bloomberg News reported last week.

Amitabh Bachchan will soon be on Alexa. Amazon has announced a partnership with Bachchan that will make him the first Indian celebrity voice on Alexa, although Samuel L. Jackson was the first to do so in the US. It’s set to launch in 2021 as a paid experience.

SoftBank Group said on Monday it has agreed to sell chip designer Arm to Nvidia for as much as $40 billion in a deal set to reshape the semiconductor landscape.

This week’s News Bits, our 100th, we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. AMD EPYC ecure Encryption Virtualization VM are now generally available on Google Compute Engine. Nutanix partners with Azure and releases new products. Cloudian introduces flash-optimized software. LTO Program releases specifications for upcoming Generation 9. And quantum makes the LTO-9 available for Scalar. (more…)

More and more businesses are using a multi-cloud strategy from public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to facilitate innovation and growth. These cloud giants are the so-called hyperscalers, each of them offering over 100 different services over their platforms. Aligning these multiple cloud services to a specific organization's strategy is critical and leads to new challenges. To overcome these challenges, enterprises must consolidate data and compute resources, meet security and compliance requirements, and institute seamless billing. Dell Technologies Cloud Storage for Multi-cloud, powered

Microsoft has called Apple’s revised App Store guidelines for streaming services “a bad experience for customers.” This comes after Apple revised its App Store guidelines to allow game streaming services like xCloud and Stadia.

Flipkart Big Saving Days sale will start from September 18 and will go on till September 20. There will be more than three crore products on sale.