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Morning Tech Crawl: Bezos talks, AMD's new GPU and Xiaomi bets on Microsoft

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 18: Jeff Bezos (R), founder and Chief Executive of Amazon.com and owner of The Washington Post, participates in a conversation with Martin Baron (L), executive editor of The Washington Post, during the event "Transformers: Pushing the Boundaries of Knowledge," May 18, 2016 in Washington, DC. The Washington Post hosted the event focusing on "breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, commercial space travel, education and health care." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 18: Jeff Bezos (R), founder and Chief Executive of Amazon.com and owner of The Washington Post, participates in a conversation with Martin Baron (L), executive editor of The Washington Post, during the event "Transformers: Pushing the Boundaries of Knowledge," May 18, 2016 in Washington, DC. The Washington Post hosted the event focusing on "breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, commercial space travel, education and health care." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
By Omar L. Gallaga
June 1, 2016

Happy Wednesday, Austin! Here's what tech blogs are buzzing about this morning:

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos didn't disappoint those looking for quotable tidbits yesterday at Recode's Code Conference.  He weighed in on Peter Thiel's campaign against Gawker, why the Echo is becoming a larger part of Amazon's business and how the company decides what's not working. He also thinks we may someday build processors on another planet.

A few weeks after Nvidia's big Geforce 1080 announcement, AMD debuted its RX 480 GPU, which will provide VR-capable power for around $200. We'll have lots more about AMD and VR this week, keep an eye on the site.

More big moves in Chinese electronics: Xiaomi will begin including Skype and Microsoft Office on some of its Android-based products in a deal with Microsoft.

Speaking of Microsoft, the company plans to allow manufacturers to build HoloLens mixed VR/AR devices instead of only building them itself.

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