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Apple Studio Display review: sharp 5K display but the webcam is terrible, no features like HDR, local dimming, and variable refresh rate, and is very expensive — A 5K iMac's panel, six speakers, three mics, and one terrible camera — Oh boy. — Look, people have wanted Apple to sell …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Apple Mac Studio review: compact design with insanely fast M1 Ultra and great port selection but expensive and the graphics performance is not very impressive — This computer is a historic achievement — Apple's 2019 desktop release was supposed to be the computer that professional Mac users had been waiting for.
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Tech execs may face criminal prosecution or jail time for not abiding by Ofcom's decisions two months after the UK's Online Safety Bill passes and takes effect — Executives from Facebook parent Meta Platforms, TikTok and other big tech companies would face the prospect of jail time under sweeping …
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Google schedules a virtual I/O 2022 for May 11 and May 12, with a limited live audience of Google employees and some partners — Registration opens this month — Google's big annual developer conference, Google I/O, will take place May 11th and 12th, the company announced Wednesday.
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Amazon finalizes its $8.5B acquisition of MGM, two days after the deal received clearance from the EU's antitrust regulator — Amazon has closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM, the companies said Thursday. — The pact was first announced in May and has been winding its way through the regulatory process.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Sophos details how scammers are abusing Apple's TestFlight and the Web Clips feature to trick iOS users into installing fake cryptocurrency apps — Getting past the App Store gatekeeper has always been tough. Here are two new ways. — Scammers pushing iOS malware are stepping up their game …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix will test an “add an extra member” feature in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru, letting primary account holders pay a fee for users not in their household — Netflix will soon launch a test letting primary account holders pay an additional fee for users outside their households …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Bored Ape Yacht Club launches ApeCoin, or $APE, with 1B in total supply, and forms the ApeCoin DAO, whose council members include Alexis Ohanian and Amy Wu — Even among the fastest-growing crypto startups, Yuga Labs has had a particularly explosive year. — The startup is behind …
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| Marie Dealessandri / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Frvr, which distributes casual HTML games that can be played from a browser, raises $76M led by Hiro Capital — Investment will go towards securing “high quality” titles for its portfolio — Casual games platform Frvr raised $76 million in a funding round led by Hiro Capital.
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint: iPhones accounted for 37% of global 5G handset sales in January, as 5G phones made up more than half of global smartphone sales for the first time — Apple Inc.'s iPhones led the mobile industry to a milestone in January, when handsets with fifth-generation cellular networking accounted … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Meta says it removed a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asking Ukrainians to surrender, citing its misleading manipulated media policy — In the fake video, Zelenskyy surrenders to Russian invasion — On Wednesday, Facebook's parent company, Meta … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tokyo-based mobile banking app Kyash raises a $41M Series D from Block, Greyhound, and others; report says it is Block's first investment in Asia — Kyash, a Tokyo-based mobile financial app, has raised $41.2 million (4.9 billion JPY) Series D funding. — The round comes from a number …
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AWS says it will spend £1.8B+ over the next two years on expanding its UK infrastructure, more than doubling its total existing investment in the region — £1.8 billion set to be invested over next two years — Audio player loading... Amazon Web Services (AWS) … | Eva Mathews / Reuters: |
Qualcomm says it stopped selling products to Russian companies in compliance with US sanctions, donated to relief organizations, and matched employee donations — Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) said on Wednesday it has stopped selling its products to Russian companies in compliance …
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