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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Studios creates a new venture The Initiative and buys game studios Undead Labs, Playground Games, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion Games — Microsoft kept the gaming announcements coming at its Xbox E3 press conference where it announced a series of four studio acquisitions meant …
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VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Engadget, CNET, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Verge, Windows Central, Polygon, This Is Xbox, MSPoweruser, PC Gamer, and IGN
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer says the company is building a game streaming network “to unlock console-quality gaming on any device” — Microsoft has been teasing it's working on game streaming from the cloud recently, but today at E3 the company made it official.
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Engadget, CNET, Windows Central, Brad Sams, VentureBeat, Polygon, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @ludwigk and @tomwarren
| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
EA explains how tech advances and users' embrace of subscriptions will soon let it profitably stream games from the cloud to any device you can watch Netflix on — Kyle Fujita is sitting across the room from me playing Titanfall 2. He's running around the popular game's futuristic world and readying himself to gun down enemies.| Laura Kate Dale / Kotaku UK: |
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Tweets: @twthereddragon and @twthereddragon
| Gethin Chamberlain / The Guardian: |
After China Labor Watch probe, Amazon admits its own audit found many workers were hired and paid illegally at a Foxconn factory that makes Kindles and Echos — US tech giant admits audit of Foxconn factory in Hengyang found irregularities — Amazon has admitted that thousands of agency workers …
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Engadget, The Guardian, Gizmodo, Fortune, China Labor Watch, Good e-Reader, TechSpot, and reddit.com
Tweets: @techworkersco, @ibjiyongi, @craigmod, and @lawsofrule
| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Leaked photos of Google Pixel 3 XL show glass back and display notch, dual front-facing camera sensors, single rear camera, 4GB of RAM, Snapdragon 845 SoC — Late last night, XDA Senior Member meraz9000 blindsided us with real-life pictures of a Google Pixel 3 XL prototype.
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Android Authority, Thurrott.com, Engadget, BGR, The Verge, CNET, Ars Technica, iPhone Hacks, Inquirer, 9to5Google, CNET, SlashGear, International Business Times, Business Insider, International Business Times, Android Authority, Android Beat, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, and Gizchina.com. Tweets: @johnsboyd
| Rick Rojas / New York Times: |
Newark opens high-quality feeds from city's surveillance cameras to the public, asks to report suspicious activity; some fear it may help stalkers and burglars — Surveillance cameras monitored by the police have become a ubiquitous presence in many cities. In Newark, anyone with internet access is allowed to watch.
Tweets: @kimzetter, @barryfriedman1, @tomstandage, @meganfrancis, @jswatz, and @nytimes
| Andrada Fiscutean / ZDNet: |
A behind the scenes look at Russian search giant Yandex's efforts to bring self-driving technology to Moscow's chaotic, snow filled roads — Yandex, Russia's Google, is optimizing its self-driving tech for bad weather and human drivers who bend the rules. — Video: Yandex's autonomous car hits Moscow's streets.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb to pilot new Open Homes program in San Jose, CA that will let residents register as “standby” hosts for emergencies, attend in-person training, more — Airbnb — the travel startup that lets individuals rent out private homes or rooms in private homes to people as an alternative …
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The Verge, Airbnb Citizen, Engadget, and Fortune
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Agora, a startup that helps developers add voice and video to their apps, adds $30M to its $20M Series B announced in 2015, to fund its global expansion efforts — Agora, a platform that enables developers to add voice and video features to their applications, has announced that it has added …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Mode, a startup with a new approach to software-defined wide area networks, emerges from stealth and announces a total of $24M in funding led by GV and NEA — Mode, a San Francisco-based startup, came out of stealth today with a new approach to software-defined wide area networks …
Tweets: @gvteam
| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
A look at the ways Alibaba and JD.com are investing billions to upgrade their logistics infrastructure for faster package delivery and more convenient pickup — China's courier industry has boomed with the rise of e-commerce - investment in new logistics technology is aimed at reducing delivery times even further
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| Alyssa Hertig / CoinDesk: |
51% attacks on small coins like Zencash, Verge become feasible and profitable due to the growth of computing power available for rent for cryptocurrency mining — Monacoin, bitcoin gold, zencash, verge and now, litecoin cash. — At least five cryptocurrencies have recently been hit …
Tweets: @bytecoin_bcn and @el33th4xor
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