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Facebook launches free-to-play cloud gaming on desktop and Android but says it is unable to bring games to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies — - Facebook announced the launch of cloud gaming on its desktop website and Android app but not to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies.
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Sources: Apple is working on third-generation entry-level AirPods without noise cancellation and a smaller second version of the AirPods Pro — - New AirPods earbuds planned to be announced as early as 2021 — Hit accessory sees new competition from Amazon, Google, others
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| Stephanie Clifford / New York Times: |
Seesaw, a remote learning startup with just 60 employees in February, saw rapid growth during the pandemic and is now used in over 75% of American schools — It wasn't simple to become a do-it-all education tool almost overnight. — The first requests that upended Seesaw, a popular classroom app …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Ant Group will raise $34.5B in its dual Shanghai and Hong Kong IPOs, valuing it at $313.37B, making it the biggest listing of all time — - Ant Group will raise $34.5 billion in its dual initial public offering (IPO) after setting the price for its shares on Monday, making it the biggest listing of all time.| Bloomberg: |
SAP shares drop as much as 21%, the biggest intraday fall since 1999, as profit and sales declined and it cut revenue forecast for the full year — - Previous outlook incorrectly ‘assumed economies would reopen’ — German software maker also delays longer-term financial goals
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Profile of Maddie Stone, who leads Google's Project Zero team that studies and neuters actively exploited Android malware — The Project Zero reverse engineer shuts down some of the world's most dangerous exploits—along with antiquated hacker stereotypes. — EVEN WITH A knee injury, Maddie Stone is formidable.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
As part of its plans to deprecate Internet Explorer, Microsoft will force certain URLs to open in Edge instead of IE, starting next month for most users — Here's the list of 1,156 sites you won't be able to open in Internet Explorer anymore. — Big changes are coming to Internet Explorer.| Variety: |
Sources: Apple TV+, Netflix, and others explored buying the rights for “No Time to Die”, but balked at MGM's $600M price tag — Apple, Netflix and other streaming services explored the possibility of acquiring “No Time to Die,” the upcoming James Bond movie that was originally slated to debut last April.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Melbourne-based Linktree, a social media platform with lightweight, link-centric user profiles, raises $10.7M Series A and says it has 8M+ users — Simple, link-centric user profiles might seem might not seem like a particularly ambitious idea, but it's been big enough for Linktree.
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Oculus owners will lose all store purchases and account information if they delete their Facebook accounts — If you've linked your Oculus account to Facebook and decide you want to delete your Facebook account, your purchases on Oculus will be lost as well.
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Sources: Facebook preps responses to possible post-election unrest, like slowing the spread of viral content, with tools it has used in countries like Myanmar — Tools include slowing the spread of certain posts and tweaking users' news feeds — Facebook Inc. teams have planned … | Matt Binder / Mashable: |
PayPal terminates account of web hosting service Epik, home to right-wing sites like the Proud Boys domain and Gab; source says over Epik's digital currency — PayPal, Hunter Biden, Bloomberg News, and several Avengers were targeted in a series of unhinged open letters from Epik after PayPal terminated its account.| Paola Rosa-Aquino / New York Times: |
Right to repair gains ground with proposed regulations in US and EU that would force companies to share parts, tools, and info with consumers and repair shops — Both Republicans and Democrats are pursuing laws to make it easier for people to fix cellphones, cars, even hospital ventilators.| The Markup: |
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