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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: WSJ plans to join the new paid tier of Apple News to be announced on Monday, expected to cost $10/month; NYT and The Washington Post have opted out — SAN FRANCISCO — The Wall Street Journal plans to join a new paid subscription news service run by Apple, according to two people familiar …
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| EU Press Room: |
The European Commission has fined Google €1.49B for “abusive practices in online advertising” and breaching EU antitrust rules — The European Commission has fined Google €1.49 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market dominance by imposing …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google's Stadia could be the future of gaming but the announcement left questions unanswered, like cost and subscription, launch date, or available games — A lot of questions remain unanswered — “The future of gaming is not a box,” according to Google. “It's a place.”
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
By integrating Stadia into YouTube, Google plans to cement YouTube's dominance, as 200M users already watch gaming content there every day — Google's starting a revolution just to keep things as they are — Yesterday, Google announced plans for a new game-streaming service called Stadia.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Square CEO Jack Dorsey introduces Square Crypto, a new initiative for open source contributions to the “bitcoin/crypto ecosystem” — Payments startup Square plans to hire a number of engineers and a designer to work on its crypto initiatives, according to tweets from CEO Jack Dorsey.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus announces $399 Rift S, developed alongside Lenovo, with higher-res 1280x1440 displays and improved optics, available in spring — After years of high-profile onstage announcements, Oculus has decided to quietly deliver the successor to its flagship Rift virtual reality headset …
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple approved production of its wireless charging AirPower mat earlier this year, after announcing it in 2017 with a 2018 launch date — The Wall Street Journal today reports that Apple approved production of its long-awaited wireless charging mat AirPower earlier this year …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Gizmodo: |
AT&T and Comcast say they successfully tested anti-robocall protocol SHAKEN/STIR, which adds a verified status to calls authenticated across networks — We live in a robocall hell with an epidemic of 26.3 billion fraudulent calls made to U.S. numbers in 2018.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says support for Windows 7, which makes up 40% of desktop market, will end Jan. 14, 2020; enterprise customers can pay for extended support until 2023 — Microsoft has rolled out a patch that will warn Windows 7 users that security updates will soon come to an end.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook begins rolling out threaded messages to Messenger users around the world, activated by long-pressing on a message — Facebook Messenger aficionados, good news: It just got easier to respond to your best buds' messages with hot takes. — Facebook today announced that message replies …
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Digital Trends, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Neowin, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, CNET, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @davezatz
| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Two crypto indices from CoinMarketCap, CMC Crypto 200, which includes bitcoin, and CMC Crypto ex BTC, which doesn't, launch on Nasdaq, Bloomberg, and Reuters — Two cryptocurrency benchmark indices from data provider CoinMarketCap will launch today on financial data feeds …
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Amazon vendors say Amazon is more aggressively blocking ads of unprofitable products and telling them to lower wholesale prices for ads to be reinstated — - In recent months, Amazon has been more aggressively enforcing its policy of suspending ads if the product being promoted doesn't make money.| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
Inside Airbnb's “guerrilla war” against US local governments, which often face a slew of lawsuits from the company when they try to collect occupancy taxes — “READ MY LIPS: We want to pay taxes," Chris Lehane, Airbnb's global head of public policy, told the nation's mayors in 2016.| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Epic says Fortnite has 250M registered players, up from 200M in December, releases a free cross-platform SDK to help developers launch, operate, and scale games — When Tim Sweeney built ZZT in 1991, he didn't know how to program graphics. Instead of coding actual characters and objects into his game … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Khronos Group releases OpenXR 0.90 specification for AR and VR hardware standards; supporters include Google, HTC, Microsoft, Oculus, Samsung, Unity, and Valve — The Khronos Group has announced the ratification and public release of the OpenXR .90 provisional specification …
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Road to VR, Phoronix, SYS-CON MEDIA, UploadVR, VRFocus, and Ars Technica
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple updates App Store guidelines to mandate new apps are built on iOS 12.1 SDK or later and support iPhone XS Max and 12.9-inch iPad Pro, starting March 27 — Apple today announced that all new and updated iPhone and iPad apps submitted to the App Store on and after March 27 …
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| Laura M. Holson / New York Times: |
After Rep. Devin Nunes sued Twitter and the @DevinCow account claiming defamation, the parody account gained 465K+ followers, surpassing his own follower count — Consider this: a parody account pretending to be an imaginary cow owned by Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican …
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| Mike Snider / USA Today: |
Survey: average US consumer subscribes to three streaming video services, 69% subscribe to at least one, up from 55%, and 47% experience subscription fatigue — Three streaming video subscriptions seems to be the ticket for cord cutters and binge watchers.| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Qualcomm says it is developing Snapdragon-powered VR and AR headsets that will double as wireless VR for PCs, with hardware arriving this year — There are just too many VR helmets and goggles out there — getting even one on your face is enough of a struggle.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber says Freight, which connects truck drivers to shipping companies, is expanding to Europe, starting in the Netherlands — Uber Freight, the newly spun out Uber business unit that helps truck drivers connect with shipping companies, is kicking off its global expansion plans.
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