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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Following Anthem's rough launch, current and former BioWare employees say its development was hampered by EA's Frostbite engine and poor leadership — It wasn't even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare …
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| CNBC: |
After a NY Post report that Morgan Stanley offered Lyft's pre-IPO investors a short-selling product, Lyft sends a letter threatening to sue the investment bank — - In a letter sent to Morgan Stanley on April 2, Lyft questioned the firm about its role in helping market certain products …
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Testing US Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System, a version of HoloLens 2 modified for military use, which felt like a real-life game of “Call of Duty” — - Microsoft is building the military's IVAS headset, which is based on HoloLens 2.
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| Foreign Policy: |
How Huawei, once an upstart using licensed and sometimes stolen tech to undercut rivals, became a telecom infrastructure juggernaut during the 4G upgrade cycle — The same year, Huawei landed an even bigger and more unexpected contract to completely rebuild and replace Norway's mobile phone network …
Tweets: @eliasgroll, @harriszainul, @foreignpolicy, and @foreignpolicy
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Netflix says it pulled AirPlay support because it is technically unable to ensure a good enough user experience on 3rd party devices now getting AirPlay 2 — A “technical limitation” — With no warning and little explanation, Netflix has removed the easiest way to sling its shows from one Apple device to another: AirPlay.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
TikTok is becoming a new platform for a song to find an audience, as shown by the viral hit “Old Town Road”, which now has more than 65M streams on Spotify — ‘TikTok helped me change my life,’ says Lil Nas X — Montero “Lil Nas X” Hill's parents were concerned when their son dropped … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Founder of Change My View subreddit, which has 700K+ subscribers, launches Change A View site, with paid moderators and some funding from Alphabet's Jigsaw — A FEW MONTHS shy of his high school graduation, Kal Turnbull came to a realization: Conversations on the internet are broken.
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| Kevin Carey / The Huffington Post: |
A look at “OPMs”, companies which manage online courses for top US universities and take a 60% cut from tuition fees, which may reach $60K+ per online degree — The price of college is breaking America. At a moment when Hollywood celebrities and private equity titans have allegedly … | The Guardian: |
UK regulator launches investigation into auto-renewal, cancellation, and refund practices of online gaming services from Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft — CMA examines auto-renewal terms for Switch, PlayStation and Xbox subscriptions — The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) …
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GOV.UK, VG247, Eurogamer.net, BetaNews, TechSpot, Engadget, Gamnesia, The Independent, ScreenRant, Game Rant, GamesIndustry.biz, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, Telegraph, and VG247
Tweets: @michaelmacleod1, @cmagovuk, @cmagovuk, and @martinsfp
| Bloomberg: |
As Google disbands its external AI ethics board, a look at its internal AI ethics council comprising of senior execs and led by its chief legal officer — A board filled with internal executives raises questions about accountability — Two weeks ago, Google established an external panel …
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The Guardian, Fox News, Wired, Android Authority, MIT Technology Review, TechSpot, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @techworkersco and @lizthegrey
| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Profile of CarpeDonktum, a stay-at-home dad posting highly popular pro-Trump memes and blurring the lines between viral trolling and the business of politics — A stay-at-home dad in Kansas reveals how the lines have blurred between viral trolling and the business of politics.
Tweets: @cwarzel, @eddiezipperer, and @annehelen
| Mark Murray / NBC News: |
Poll: 69% of Americans use social media at least once a day, 82% believe it wastes their time, 55% think it spreads lies and falsehoods, 57% say “it divides us” — A sizable majority say social media does more to divide the country than unite it, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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