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Live stream of Apple's “It's show time” event from Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino — Apple Special Event. March 25, 2019. From the Steve Jobs Theater, Cupertino, CA.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple will charge $9.99/mo each for HBO, Showtime, and Starz subscriptions, and will monetize its own content; premium news service will cost $9.99/mo — For the first time, Apple will present its Services vision to the public at tomorrow's March 25 event.
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| The Verge: |
Live blog of Apple's services-focused event — Apple is expected to announce a TV service, TV shows, and an Apple News subscription plan — Apple is all set to announce a huge slate of TV shows, a new video service to go along with them, and even a new subscription service for Apple News.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
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| Kim Zetter / Motherboard: |
Kaspersky: ASUS pushed a malicious backdoor to ~500K Windows machines for at least five months last year, after its live software update tool was compromised — The Taiwan-based tech giant ASUS is believed to have pushed the malware to hundreds of thousands of customers through … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Telegram debuts anonymous sending, which strips forwarded messages of author's info; now lets users delete messages from both sender's and recipient's devices — To further increase privacy, Telegram announced today that they have added a feature that allows users to delete any message …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Report: Nintendo could launch two new Switch consoles this year, a high-end model aimed at serious gamers and a cheaper model with a focus on portability — Nintendo might launch two new Switches as early as this summer, reports the WSJ. As previously rumored, one would likely be a smaller …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: YouTube has canceled plans for high-end dramas and comedies as it pulls back from earlier plans for a paid service with Hollywood-quality shows — - Google video unit is said to cancel plans for high-end series — Executive Susanne Daniels is said to be looking to move on
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces Apple Card, backed by Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, with 3% cashback on Apple purchases, deposited daily in user's Wallet, coming in US this summer — Today, Apple announced... a credit card. The Apple Card is designed for the iPhone and will work with the Wallet app.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Palmer Luckey says the redesigned Oculus Rift S headset won't properly fit around 30% of users' eyes, up from the original Rift's ~10% of users — Since leaving Oculus in 2017, consumer virtual reality pioneer Palmer Luckey has occasionally used his personal blog to discuss minor and not-so-minor issues at the company he founded.
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The Blog of Palmer Luckey, TechSpot, Road to VR, VRFocus, and UploadVR
Tweets: @palmerluckey and @joshuaogundu
| Lily McIlwain / Hospitality Net: |
Overview of Google's new dedicated search site for hotel listings, announced last week, that features an uncluttered, map-based interface, similar to Airbnb — Google has launched a full destination search site for hotel listings in a move that could seriously shake up online travel - again.
Tweets: @rakeshlobster
| Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
Naspers plans to spin off its internet businesses, including a $133B stake in Tencent and investments in Mail.ru, Delivery Hero, and Swiggy, in a Dutch listing — - Bulk of the company will be listed on Euronext Amsterdam — Move is part of plan to cut gap with value of Tencent holding| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber to announce the $3.1B acquisition of Dubai-based Careem soon, paying $1.4B in cash and $1.7B in convertible notes at a price of $55 per Uber share — Uber Technologies Inc. is set to announce a $3.1 billion cash-and-share deal to acquire its Dubai-based rival Careem Networks FZ …
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