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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Studios creates a new venture The Initiative and buys game studios Undead Labs, Playground Games, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion Games — Microsoft kept the gaming announcements coming at its Xbox E3 press conference where it announced a series of four studio acquisitions meant …
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VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Verge, Windows Central, GeekWire, This Is Xbox, MSPoweruser, PC Gamer, CNET, and IGN
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer says the company is building a game streaming network “to unlock console-quality gaming on any device” — Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo may be selling you game Xbox, PlayStation and Switch consoles today, but it appears that's destined to change, and soon.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
EA explains how tech advances and users' embrace of subscriptions will soon let it profitably stream games from the cloud to any device you can watch Netflix on — Kyle Fujita is sitting across the room from me playing Titanfall 2. He's running around the popular game's futuristic world and readying himself to gun down enemies.
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| Laura Kate Dale / Kotaku UK: |
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Tweets: @twthereddragon and @twthereddragon
| Gethin Chamberlain / The Guardian: |
After China Labor Watch probe, Amazon admits its own audit found many workers at a Foxconn factory that makes Kindles and Echos were hired and paid illegally — US tech giant admits audit of Foxconn factory in Hengyang found irregularities — Amazon has admitted that thousands of agency workers …
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Engadget, Fortune, The Guardian, Good e-Reader, Gizmodo, China Labor Watch, TechSpot, and reddit.com
Tweets: @techworkersco, @ibjiyongi, @lawsofrule, and @craigmod
| Rick Rojas / New York Times: |
Newark opens high-quality feeds from city's surveillance cameras to the public, asks to report suspicious activity; some fear it may help stalkers and burglars — Surveillance cameras monitored by the police have become a ubiquitous presence in many cities. In Newark, anyone with internet access is allowed to watch.
Tweets: @kimzetter, @barryfriedman1, @tomstandage, @meganfrancis, @jswatz, and @nytimes
| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Leaked photos of Google Pixel 3 XL show glass back and display notch, dual front-facing camera sensors, single rear camera, 4GB of RAM, Snapdragon 845 SoC — Late last night, XDA Senior Member meraz9000 blindsided us with real-life pictures of a Google Pixel 3 XL prototype.| Andrada Fiscutean / ZDNet: |
A behind the scenes look at Russian search giant Yandex's efforts to bring self-driving technology to Moscow's chaotic, snow filled roads — Yandex, Russia's Google, is optimizing its self-driving tech for bad weather and human drivers who bend the rules. — Video: Yandex's autonomous car hits Moscow's streets.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb to pilot new Open Homes program in San Jose, CA that will let residents register as “standby” hosts for emergencies, attend in-person training, more — Airbnb — the travel startup that lets individuals rent out private homes or rooms in private homes to people as an alternative …
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The Verge, Airbnb Citizen, Engadget, and Fortune
| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
A look at the ways Alibaba and JD.com are investing billions to upgrade their logistics infrastructure for faster package delivery and more convenient pickup — China's courier industry has boomed with the rise of e-commerce - investment in new logistics technology is aimed at reducing delivery times even further
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| Alyssa Hertig / CoinDesk: |
51% attacks on small coins like Zencash, Verge become feasible and profitable due to the growth of computing power available for rent for cryptocurrency mining — Monacoin, bitcoin gold, zencash, verge and now, litecoin cash. — At least five cryptocurrencies have recently been hit …
Tweets: @bytecoin_bcn and @el33th4xor
| Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney: |
Survey: 17% of business school graduates in the US are working in tech, compared to 12% in finance; in 2008, 20% worked in finance while 12% worked in tech — 5 stunning stats on Amazon — Ten years after the financial crisis, Silicon Valley has replaced Wall Street as the place to be.
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| Financial Times: |
Chainalysis: long-term investors sold ~$30B worth of bitcoins from November to April as ratio of bitcoins held by investors vs traders fell from ~3x to ~1.2x — On the final day in his insurance job last week after 14 years in the sector, Donnie wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a rocket logo …
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