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Sources: Xbox Series X will be priced at $499 and will launch on November 10, 2020 alongside the Xbox Series S — Microsoft is set to hold a press event soon to showcase the next-gen console pricing, and it's pretty familiar. … It has long been rumored that Microsoft is working … | Brad Sams / Brad Sams - YouTube: |
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Forbes: |
Profile of Reed Hastings as Netflix thrives during the pandemic, adding ~1M subscribers/month in the US and Canada and another 2M/month globally since March — The man responsible for keeping the world entertained does so, at least this day, alone in front of a computer screen, in his son's largely unadorned childhood bedroom.| Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: |
Reed Hastings calls working from home “a pure negative” for employees and that the Netflix workforce will return to its offices once a vaccine is approved — Co-CEO of streaming giant discusses company's culture of candor and how working from home is harder
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| Maureen Dowd / New York Times: |
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple has hired Tim Connolly, a former executive at Hulu and Quibi, to work on Apple TV+, as the company explores bundling content — In addition to expanding the amount of content on the service, Apple has shown an interest in bundling Apple TV+ with other properties.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
TikTok is trying to remove a graphic suicide video from its app and is banning accounts that re-upload the clip, says video was originally streamed on Facebook — Clips started circulating on Sunday night — TikTok is trying to remove graphic videos circulating the app that show …
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Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Forbes, Mashable, YouTube, Dailystar.co.uk, Heavy.com, Input, BuzzFeed News, and Mirror.co.uk
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Italy's antitrust authority says it has opened an inquiry into Google, Apple, and Dropbox over cloud computing services, including “unfair clauses in contracts” — Italy's competition authority has opened an investigation into cloud storage services operated by Apple …
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| Mike Monticello / Consumer Reports: |
Review: Tesla's “Full Self-Driving Capability” option, which offers some advanced features, still requires significant driver attention to mitigate safety risks — The $8,000 option doesn't make the car self-driving, though it does offer a host of advanced features. CR evaluated all of them.
Tweets: @paulconstant and @consumerreports
| Michael Tobin / Bloomberg: |
Some savvy Twitter users with few followers are making extra money by linking to brands in replies under viral tweets, possibly breaking Twitter's ToS — - The recipe: Find a funny joke, spread it wide, link to brand — At $20-$60 per promo, users say extra cash is nice to have
Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics says it has won a $6.6B order to provide 5G wireless solutions to Verizon in the US — - It's one of Samsung's largest so far in 5G networking — Samsung is pushing hard to compete with Nokia and Ericsson — Samsung Electronics Co. won a 7.9 trillion won …
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Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @vijayshekhar, @drewfitzgerald, and @adrianweckler
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
How iOS app developers draw on behavioral psychology to design user ratings pop-ups that appear at opportune times, like after a high score or on payday — Rating an iPhone app takes just a second, maybe two. “Enjoying Skype?” a prompt will ask, and you click on a star rating from 1 to 5.
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Tweets: @joshspero, @bzamayo, @daveleeft, @ftopinion, @carnage4life, @financialtimes, @carnage4life, @simonchanwh, @patrickmcgee_, and @faktoider
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Four employees of SF-based sales document management startup PandaDoc arrested in Belarus on fraud charges after the founders joined protests against Lukashenko — Yesterday the four employees (pictured) of US-headquartered enterprise startup PandaDoc were arrested in Minsk by the Belarus police … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it stores Hong Kong users' iCloud data in US and that HK authorities' data requests go through DOJ, after saying it was “assessing” HK's security law — After Beijing unilaterally imposed a new national security law on Hong Kong on July 1, many saw the move as an effort …
Tweets: @zackwhittaker
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