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Kuo: Apple has canceled plans to release an iPad Air with an OLED display in 2022 due to quality and cost concerns, will still release mini-LED 11" iPad Pro — Apple has canceled its plans to release an updated iPad Air with an OLED display next year due to concerns around quality and costs …
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Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats — The social network has been all hands on deck as it grapples with revelations that it knew the harmful effects its Instagram photo-sharing app was having on teenagers.
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| Charlie Campbell / TIME: |
TSMC chairman Mark Liu on US-China tensions, the push for semiconductor localization in the US, which he says will not improve supply chain resilience, and more — On the northwest coast of Taiwan, nestled between mudflats teeming with fiddler crabs and sweet-scented persimmon orchards …
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| Brandon Katz / Observer: |
A look at Apple's TV+ progress and strategy as it navigates a crowded streaming video market — Why Apple TV+ isn't necessarily competing with Netflix. — Nearly two years after launching Apple TV+ in November of 2019, Apple has remained notoriously secretive about its fledgling streaming service.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The new tab design in Safari 15 for macOS makes usability worse and shows a complete disregard for the familiarity users have with the previous tab design — Our long national iOS 15 Safari nightmare ended last month, praise be, but the lesser of the two bad Safari designs unveiled …
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| Carolina Milanesi / Fast Company: |
Amazon Astro review: impressive autonomous navigation skills, reasonable price for the tech, attractive design, but its daily utility is questionable — In a two-week trial, Astro was surprisingly endearing and avoided hazards such as pets and stairs. But I still don't know what I'd do with one.
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| Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
South Korean show Squid Game, topping Netflix charts in 90 countries, vindicates Netflix's strategy of creating franchises using content from around the world — At your service. — This story also ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
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| Kyle Stock / Bloomberg: |
Online used-car dealers like Shift, Vroom, and Carvana have seen record sales over the past year, as the pandemic and chip shortages upended the US auto market — In December, David Tvaltchrelidze bought a 2016 Mazda Miata for $16,450 from Shift Technologies Inc., one of a crop …
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| Kaya Genç / Rest of World: |
As Istanbul becomes the world's capital of casual mobile gaming, a look at Turkey's estimated $880M gaming industry and its exploitative labor practices — Overworked and underpaid engineers are helping fuel Istanbul's mobile gaming bonanza. — • ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft details Office 2021 features and pricing ahead of Oct. 5 release: Office Home and Student will cost $150 and Office Home and Business will cost $250 — Microsoft is launching Office 2021 on October 5th, and the company is finally detailing the features and pricing today.
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Tweets: @thisisnoahevans and @tomwarren
| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Amazon's new PC game New World is a hit, with hundreds of thousands on Steam playing it at any given time, representing a leap for Amazon's gaming ambitions — - Amazon released a new video game for PCs this week called “New World.” — The game is already a smash hit …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google announces a $1M sponsorship for Linux Foundation's Secure Open Source, a new pilot program to enhance the security of critical open source projects — Google has announced today a $1 million sponsorship for a new pilot program aimed at enhancing the security of critical open source software projects.
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