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Hands-on with the $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with Windows 11, an 8.8" QHD+ screen, an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip, and detachable controllers, available in October — Every company and its mother seems to be putting out handheld gaming PCs these days, and Lenovo is next to the plate.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils Legion 9i, a $4,400 gaming laptop with liquid cooling, a 16" Mini LED screen, 13th Gen Intel Core i9, and a GeForce RTX 4090, shipping in October — Lenovo has announced a new Legion 9i, and it might just be the wildest thing I've ever seen from the Legion line.| Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide: |
Lenovo unveils $329 Legion Glasses with 60Hz displays, equivalent to a 27" monitor, that work with Legion Go, Android phones, iPhones, Macs, and Windows PCs — Finally, a gaming face peripheral that doesn't give me a headache — Gaming on the go is easier than ever …
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Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators — The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restrict Meta's data-collection practices.
More: The Verge, Engadget, The Information, Android Headlines, Neowin, Reuters, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Samsung reveals the world's first 32Gb DDR5 DRAM die, letting the company lower the cost of high-capacity memory modules and build record 1TB RDIMMs for servers — Samsung early on Friday revealed the world's first 32 Gb DDR5 DRAM die. The new memory die is made on the company's 12 nm …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
As a child safety group plans a campaign pressing Apple to scan iCloud for CSAM, Apple says doing so could lead to a “slippery slope of unintended consequences” — Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
The manager of .ai TLD for British territory Anguilla estimates the island will make $25M to $30M from domain registration fees in 2023, up from $7.4M in 2021 — Anguilla is expected to make millions this year from a surge in demand for web addresses ending with .ai, thanks to the frenzy around artificial intelligence.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Robinhood says the company paid nearly $606M to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of Sam Bankman-Fried, set up via an agreement with the US Marshal Service — Stock-trading app Robinhood on Friday said it paid nearly $606 million to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of jailed crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Canada tries to address Big Tech's Bill C-18 concerns, saying Google and Meta would pay publishers ~$126.6M and ~$44M per year; Meta plans to keep blocking news — Canada unveiled draft rules on Friday for a law to compel internet giants to pay news outlets, saying it was addressing …
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Benitago Group, an Amazon e-commerce business acquirer that has raised $380M in equity and debt over the past two years, files for bankruptcy — Benitago Group, an Amazon e-commerce business acquirer, filed for bankruptcy this week. The move comes after the New York-based company …
More: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, FinTech Global, PYMNTS.com, and The Information
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Sources: cloud data management startup Rubrik, valued at ~$4B in 2021, is planning an IPO in 2023, raising $500M to $700M; PitchBook: Rubrik has raised $1B+ — - Offering could raise between $500 million and $700 million — The company held a meeting with research analysts this week| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google removes sketchy live streaming app Chamet, which lets users pay to video call hosts, from the Play Store for violating its user-generated content policy — Google has removed a popular but controversial live video chat app Chamet from the Play Store.
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| Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: |
Honor says its foldable phone Magic V2, launched in China in July 2023, is coming to Europe, the UK, Latin America, and other markets, except the US, in Q1 2024 — The Magic V2 will come to global markets roughly six months after the Chinese launch. Ouch. — • — TL;DR
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| Robert Stewart / NOLA.com: |
Filing: Globalstar signed a $64M deal with SpaceX to launch satellites for Apple's Emergency SOS iPhone feature in 2025 — Globalstar has enlisted Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch a host of satellites it will use to provide a communications network for an emergency Apple iPhone feature …
More: AppleInsider, TechCrunch, PCMag, TS2 SPACE, Via Satellite, SpaceNews, and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Forums: r/spacex
| Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle / New York Times: |
Paris becomes the first European capital to outlaw rented electric scooters, after an April 2023 vote; e-scooter rental companies are shifting to electric bikes — But the city is adding bike lanes, and scooter companies are shifting their focus to electric bikes.
More: TNW, Tech News Outlet, Tech Xplore, Intelligent Transport, and Forbes
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