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Apple releases macOS Catalina with new apps Find My and Screen Time, as well as Music, TV, and Podcast apps to replace iTunes, Sidecar for companion iPads, more — Apple today released the newest version of its operating system for Macs, macOS Catalina, to the public. macOS Catalina comes …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Catalina review: Sidecar is great, Arcade is solid but has fewer games than on iOS, iPad apps via Catalyst are lacking, and security prompts are overbearing — iTunes is gone, but what comes next? — It's been a messy fall for Apple software releases. iOS and iPadOS have already … | Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Instagram is removing the Activity feed's Following tab, which showed users what their friends were liking, saying that few people used it — Instagram is ditching the “Following” tab in the Activity feed. — A Catholic priest notices a fellow priest liking gay porn star pics on Instagram.
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Google to require new devices launching with Android 9 or later to come with a wellness app and parental controls, either Google's own apps or third-party ones — One of the biggest themes of Google I/O 2018 was improving digital wellness. As consumers realized they're spending way too much time online …
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Sources: Apple has recently approached big music labels about bundling together Apple Music and Apple TV+ for one flat monthly fee — Apple's hopes of creating a super-bundle of media content for one flat monthly fee have run into early opposition, with some record labels nervous …
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump admin blacklists eight Chinese tech companies, including video surveillance camera giants, implicated in human rights violations against Muslim minorities — - Move comes as U.S.-China high-level trade talks set to resume — Action targets Chinese surveillance companies, public entities
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu launches support for offline viewing, letting users download up to 25 titles across 5 devices, initially available only to iOS users on its “No Ads” plan — Hulu is finally adding downloads to its streaming service, years after Netflix and Amazon Prime Video did the same.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo is raising $1.5B at a $10B valuation, of which $700M is from the founder Ritesh Agarwal, who plans to raise his stake to 30% — - 25-year-old founder will spend $700 million for new shares — Existing investors such as SoftBank, Sequoia will add the rest
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku to sell low-cost versions of its Smart Soundbar and Wireless Subwoofer under Walmart's onn brand for $129 — Roku will produce lower-cost versions of its new Smart Soundbar and Wireless Subwoofer for Walmart under the retailer's own onn brand, the company announced this morning.| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS refuses to review a 2018 decision by appeals court that found Apple didn't infringe on a Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison patent and threw out $506M in damages — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by the University of Wisconsin's patent licensing arm …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Next Insurance, which offers digital insurance products for small businesses, raises $250M Series C at a valuation of $1B+, bringing its total raised to $381M — Next Insurance, a three-year-old U.S.-based firm that sells insurance products to small businesses, has become the latest unicorn … | David Carnoy / CNET: |
Amazon launches $110 Kindle Kids Edition, with a choice of four cases, one year free FreeTime Unlimited subscription, and features like achievement badges — Amazon's been selling kid-friendly editions of Fire tablets for a while, but now it's bringing the Kids Edition concept to its Kindle e-reader.
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