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Reliance Industries on Sunday announced US fund General Atlantic will invest Rs. 6.598 crores in Jio Platforms, a fourth deal that takes investment in its digital unit to over $8 billion in less than a month.

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Roborock has just introduced its latest vacuum, but this time around it’s not a robotic vacuum that’s meant to target just your floors. The new Roborock H6 is a powerful, cordless stick vacuum that can clean just about anywhere, and the company is offering an early-bird discount that sees the price drop from its $449 retail to just $399.

The new Roborock H6 is a fully-equipped vacuum with all the different accessories you need to give your house a deep clean both high and low. It has a long wand that lets you easily use it on floors like a traditional vacuum or reach up to the ceiling, while a flexible hose simplifies cleaning the tops of shelves and cupboards.

Thanks to its motorized brush heads, the Roborock H6 is also ready to dig deep into carpets and furniture, especially with the mini-brush. The vacuum’s motor is capable of 150AW of suction power, so it can pull up messes with ease and even tug mites loose from furniture.

The battery inside the Roborock H6 is the first of its kind in a stick vacuum. It’s a Lithium-Ion Polymer that maintains its capacity over the long term. Even after 400 recharge cycles, it will continue to hold 80% of its capacity. That max capacity is enough for up to 90 minutes of vacuuming in Eco mode or 10 minutes at max power. So, you can not only get a thorough clean around the house, but also head out to your car and give it a deep clean with the crevice tool, all without having to worry about where the closest power outlet is.

For all that, it’s exciting enough that Roborock’s starting price is $449, which undercuts plenty of the competition. But, the company’s early bird discount is exceptionally compelling. The discount will run from May 18 to May 22, so you’ll have to act quick.

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As reported last week, General Atlantic, a big ticket investor in the consumer tech space, has decided to invest  Rs. 6,598.38 crore ($870 million) for buying in 1.34 % stake in Reliance Industries' digital assets subsidiary Jio Platforms Ltd.

What more, General Atlantic has confirmed that this is the first of its investments in Jio and wouldn't mind increasing its stake in the future.

General Atlantic had previously made strategic investments in high-profile companies like Facebook, Alibaba, Airbnb, Slack, Ant Financial, ByteDance, Snapchat and Box. General Atlantic was attracted by Jio’s content play platform with their broadband connectivity reach.

Apparently, General Atlantic was also impressed with the opportunities around health care that Jio brings along with it. "It is exciting given what is happening during Covid times and digital health. Then the opportunity around commerce and what it could potentially do,” a top official of GA involved in the deal said.

There were three scorching deals for Jio Platforms in the three preceding weeks with the social media giant Facebook ($5.7 billion), and investment firms Silver Lake Partners ($750 million) and Vista Equity Partners ($1.5 billion).

General Atlantic's investment comes just two days ahead of RIL’s Rs 53,000 crore rights issue, and valuing the company at Rs 4.91 trillion. RIL said the deal with General Atlantic gives Jio Platforms an enterprise value of Rs. 5.16 trillion ($65 billion) — the same valuation implied by the Silver Lake and Vista deals and a 12.5% premium over Facebook’s deal.

Jio, by off-loading about 14.7% of its stake at premium value in the last month, has underlined its growing supremacy in the world’s second largest internet market.

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of RIL said, “General Atlantic shares our vision of a digital society for India and strongly believes in the transformative power of digitization in enriching the lives of 1.3 billion Indians. We are excited to leverage General Atlantic’s proven global expertise and strategic insights across 40 years of technology investing for the benefit of Jio."

Akash Ambani emerges

Bill Ford, Chief Executive Officer of General Atlantic, said “As long-term backers of global technology leaders and visionary entrepreneurs, we could not be more excited about investing in Jio. We share Mukesh’s conviction that digital connectivity has the potential to significantly accelerate the Indian economy and drive growth across the country. General Atlantic has a long track record working alongside founders to scale disruptive businesses, as Jio is doing at the forefront of the digital revolution in India.”

Interestingly, the Reliance press statement also had a quote attributed to Akash Ambani, Director of Reliance Jio, and the older son of Mukesh Ambani. His name was not in the press statements in the previous three big--ticket investments.

Akash Ambani is, however, presented by Indian financial newspapers as the person behind these major investment deals.

On General Atlantic's investments, Akash Ambani said, said "We are delighted that a renowned global investor like General Atlantic is partnering with us in our journey to digitally empower India and Indians. Jio is committed to make a digitally inclusive India that will provide immense opportunities to every Indian citizen especially to our highly talented youth. General Atlantic's endorsement and partnership energises Jio’s young team to set, and achieve, even more ambitious goals in our onward march."

More investments into Jio in the pipeline

In the same statement, Sandeep Naik, Managing Director and Head of India & Southeast Asia at General Atlantic said, “In just three and a half years, Jio has had a transformational impact in democratizing data and digital services, propelling India to be positioned as a leading global digital economy.” 

More importantly, Sandeep Naik was later quoted as saying that this was a long-term investment and not keeping short-term milestones like Jio Platforms’ expected IPO in mind. 

He added that his comany would like to increase its stake in Jio Platforms in the future.

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E-commerce companies are likely to resume full services across most parts of the country from today under the fourth phase of the lockdown that allows greater relaxations, although industry watchers say they are waiting for states’ decision on the matter.

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When they first hit the scene, 3D printers were hailed as the future of printing. Fast forward to 2020 and the reality is a little different; while makers and DIY fanatics have firmly embraced 3D printing, the rest of us still consider the pursuit a little too pricey.

Easythreed is trying to change all that with its X1 mini portable FDM 3D printer.  Available for just $89.99 (£78.76/AU$149.14) using coupon code GBETDX1A, it is the cheapest 3D printer out there right now.

Gearbest ships to most territories worldwide via expedited shipping, although you may be levied additional charges and fees by customs. Exact prices will also vary region by region depending on the day’s exchange rate.

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The machine comes with its own slicing software called Easyware and has a printing speed of up to 24cm per minute. It uses filament up to a diameter of 1.75mm and can build items up to 100x100x100mm.

While the X1's printing accuracy (up to 0.2mm) might put some users off, its simple assembly, one-click printing and quirky design make it an attractive proposition. 

Don’t expect it to work miracles, though. It's designed primarily for prototyping and rough 3D modelling - and, of course, affordability.

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Huami's Amazfit Aeri concept is transparent and can disinfect itself.

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Intel’s Tiger Lake 11th-gen quad-core laptop chip – which could possibly turn out to be the Core i7-1165G7, rumor has it – has been spotted again in an online benchmark, and it’s looking like this CPU could boost performance considerably over Intel’s existing 10th-gen (Ice Lake) mobile chips.

This leak comes courtesy of Rogame, who has spotted the quad-core (8-thread) processor in other benchmarks in the past.

And as before, the purported Core i7-1165G7 – although it could well turn out to be a different model – is listed with a base clock of 2.8GHz. That’s a significant baseline performance increase compared to the fastest existing Ice Lake notebook processor, which has a 2.3GHz base clock (that’s the quad-core Core i7-1068NG7).

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The boost clock is reported as the same as the stock clock speed in this benchmark (and the previous one we’ve seen of this chip, for that matter), which is obviously not correct, and a reflection of this being sample silicon rather than a finished product yet. Which also means that the base clock speed could potentially be slightly higher still when it comes to the finalized CPU…

Further bear in mind that Rogame has leaked a Tiger Lake chip in the past which actually runs up to a base clock of 3GHz (this was spotted back in April via a 3DMark benchmark).

The fact that we are seeing an increasing amount of spillage relating to Tiger Lake-U mobile processors indicates that the launch could be coming rapidly nearer, which marries up with what Intel itself has indicated. The chip giant has previously stated that it expects these CPUs to ship in the middle of the year, so that could mean June.

End of 2020

That said, before you get too excited about the prospect of more powerful laptop chips from Intel arriving soon, remember that the silicon shipping to manufacturers is one thing – and laptops using these 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPUs won’t actually go on sale until the end of the year (or that’s the current plan anyway).

Tiger Lake is built around an entirely new architecture (Willow Cove) and will also be a big boost on the integrated graphics front, with Intel’s Xe graphics coming into play.

These mobile chips are a big deal for Intel, given AMD’s new Ryzen 4000 products have made quite an impression, and they’re shaping up to be a distinct threat in the laptop arena which Intel dominates – and it can’t afford to lose that crown.

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