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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox TV app to Samsung's 2022 smart TVs on June 30, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers play 100+ Xbox games without a console — Samsung's 2022 smart TVs will be the first to get the Xbox app — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app later this month …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Project Moorcroft, meant to bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass, rolling out within the next year, initially focused on indie developers — Designed to bring back the excitement of E3 game demos — Microsoft is working on Project Moorcroft, a program designed …
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Windows Central, The Verge, OnMSFT.com, Wccftech, Kotaku, XDA Developers, TheGamer, Neowin, VentureBeat, The Verge, IGN, TechRadar, Windows Experience Blog, Mashable, Polygon, GameSpot, and Stevivor
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning a 15" MacBook Air for 2023, a 12" laptop for the end of 2023 or early 2024, and MacBook Pros with M2 Pro or M2 Max for 2022 or 2023 — Apple Inc. plans to expand the lineup of laptops using its new, speedier in-house chips next year, aiming to grab a bigger share of the market …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Ross Young: Apple is developing a 14.1" iPad Pro with a miniLED display and ProMotion, likely for an early 2023 release; recent rumors corroborate the new model — Apple is reportedly developing an iPad Pro with a 14.1-inch mini-LED display, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst Ross Young.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta halted the two-year development of a smartwatch with dual cameras, targeted for a spring 2023 release for ~$349, to focus on other wrist devices — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working …
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AppleInsider, Fortune, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, PCMag, New York Post, PhoneArena, KnowTechie, The Verge, Gadgets & Wearables, BGR India, TechSpot, Tech-pigułka, Mashable, TechEBlog, Insider, 9to5Google, and GSMArena.com
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss that Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not an anti-blockchain conspiracy — Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok expands its screen time controls, adding a dashboard to monitor usage and letting users set time limits; teens will get more restrictions and reminders — TikTok is rolling out more screen time controls to help users manage how much time they are spending in the app.
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Browser maker Vivaldi releases a built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi Calendar and RSS integrations — It's available to use starting today — Vivaldi has launched its own free built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi's Calendar and Feed Reader integrated.| Washington Post: |
Despite Facebook's ban on gun sales, internal guidance shows users can break its rules 10 times before being banned, down to five if they call for violence — The company discloses little information about how it enforces its prohibition of firearm sales on the site, leaving its punishment system shrouded in secrecy| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Dell redesigns the $999 XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1, transforming the 2-in-1 into a detachable Surface rival, adding Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, and more — While all eyes are on the flashy new XPS 13 Plus, Dell hasn't forgotten about its mainstay premium ultraportable or its convertible cousin.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft plans to stop adding noncompete clauses to US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, add salary ranges to US job posts, and more — Bending to employee sentiment and legislative mandate, Microsoft announced a series of reforms Wednesday that will curtail …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple will handle Apple Pay Later's lending, a first for the company; in-house subsidiary Apple Financing LLC will oversee credit checks and make loan decisions — Apple Inc. will handle the lending itself for a new “buy now, pay later” offering, sidestepping partners as the tech giant pushes deeper …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Orderly Network, a permissionless DEX protocol built on the NEAR blockchain to conduct spot and future order book trading, raises a $20M Series A — The decentralized exchange offers permissionless spot and future order book trading infrastructure. — Orderly Network, a decentralized exchange … | Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google says Chrome 102 will use machine learning, running entirely within the browser, to silence unsolicited permission requests from websites — And soon it could swap out your browser buttons — Google Chrome has built-in phishing detection that scans pages to see if they match known fake …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub is sunsetting Atom, the text editor for developers it launched in 2011, and will archive all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022 — GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011.
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The GitHub Blog, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, Silicon Republic, and GitHub
Tweets: @adrian271, @cra, and @carnage4life
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese regulators have begun early talks with Ant Group about reviving its IPO, a sign that China is dialing back its tech industry crackdown — Chinese financial regulators have started early stage discussions on a potential revival of Ant Group Co.'s initial public offering …
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Nikkei Asia, Reuters, CNBC, Axios, Quartz, Benzinga, Pandaily, Tech in Asia, and South China Morning Post. Tweets: @tommackenzietv
| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents show how Cerebral used social media ads to grow its ADHD drug business, as federal prosecutors look into possible Controlled Substance Act violations — The online mental health company surged to a $4.8 billion valuation after it started dispensing ADHD medication …
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Newslit Daily. Tweets: @maxwellstrachan, @theo_wayt, @marcelolprince, @anshelsag, @anfuller, @richardhanania, @contingentvalue, @mkarolian, @anfuller, and @tomfitton
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Snapshot: 54% of ApeCoin owners vote in favor of remaining on Ethereum, after Yuga Labs floated creating its own blockchain after its huge metaverse land sale — ApeCoin owners have decided to keep the token, which is expected to be key to snagging exclusive metaverse game items and deals …
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Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, CryptoPotato, The Block, and Crypto Briefing
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Backbase, which helps banks analyze data, raises €120M from Motive Partners at a €2.5B valuation and says it has 150 banking customers — Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts …
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| Financial Times: |
Palantir is preparing to bid on a £360M contract to underpin UK NHS' operations, to be awarded in November; Palantir employs 600 in the UK and plans to add 250 — US data analytics group hires health service executives in bid to secure £360mn contract| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: tech lobbying group CCIA and others, backed by Meta, Google, and more, have spent $36.4M+ on ads opposing antitrust bills that ban self-preferencing — Legislation would block Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple from favoring own products; backers of the bill have spent less than $200,000
Tweets: @chadsday and @daviduberti
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Memo: Intel freezes all hiring in its client computing group, which handles desktop and laptop chips, cancels some travel, and makes other cost-cutting measures — Intel Corp (INTC.O) has frozen hiring in the division responsible for PC desktop and laptop chips, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters …
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Oregonian, The Register, CRN, Silicon Valley Business …, Benzinga, Tom's Hardware, Fox Business, Fortune, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @quinnypig and @stephennellis
| Bloomberg: |
Sources and filings detail Vy Capital, the third-largest backer of Musk's Twitter bid, a secretive firm run by Alexander Tamas, who has links to Yuri Milner — Elon Musk's bid for Twitter Inc., which has been upended by the billionaire's threat to walk away, attracted a bevy of big-name backers and Silicon Valley mainstays.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Maze, a software product research service that facilitates prototype tests and surveys, raises a $40M Series B led by Felicis, bringing its total raised to $60M — Product research generally involves determining whether an idea for a new product might be successful and how to best develop and sell that product.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Shield AI, which makes software and hardware for military drones and other autonomous aircraft, raises a $90M Series E and $75M in debt at a $2.3B valuation — Technology built with defense in mind is getting some significant and serious traction at the moment, spurred by world events … Sponsor Posts
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