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Leaked image suggests Xbox Series S is white, appears to look closer to the Xbox One family than the Series X, and will retail for $299 — Want a first look at the Xbox Series S? Here is your first look at the new hardware it will cost, $299.
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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 …
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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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BBC. Tweets: @ccm_ryan, @karrisaarinen, @iamchasemaher, @melissadaimler, @ldrogen, @wsj, @alexjamesfitz, @jbflint, @jbflint, @mjasay, and @mattriva
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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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Tweets: @sigjudge, @tzm_tmt, @annemariebridy, and @charlesarthur
| 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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Reuters, Engadget, AppleInsider, MediaPost, Thurrott, CNBC, Tech Xplore, MacRumors, The Hill, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @benedictevans and @baphometx
| 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: @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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Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Light Reading, International Business Times, Nikkei Asian Review, ZDNet, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, Coinspeaker, CNET, Android Headlines, Neowin, Associated Press, South China Morning Post, PhoneArena, and ajudaily.com
Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @vijayshekhar, @drewfitzgerald, and @adrianweckler
| 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 … | 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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BBC, Tom's Guide, and Slashdot
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