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Game War - NETFLIX ENTERS THE BATTLE ROYALE OF GAMING PLATFORMS

Over the past 18 months, consumers have spent more time at home than ever before, not only working, but socializing, learning new skills, and playing games. Video gaming as a whole saw a significant increase during this period and the gaming platform Steam recorded an all-time high of 23.6 million average concurrent users in April 2020. A year later, rival firms want a slice of the pie. Following Apple’s expansion into gaming with Arcade, Netflix is the latest player entering the game, announcing its intention to launch its own gaming titles.

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AppleMagazine

WALZ SAYS ‘CLEAN CAR' RULES HAVEN'T HURT IN 14 OTHER STATES

Minnesota became the first Midwestern state to adopt a plan for encouraging the switchover to electric vehicles as Gov. Tim Walz predicted that someday people will wonder why there was such a fuss.

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AppleMagazine

TOWN WANTS NEW CRYPTOCURRENCY MINERS TO BE ‘PRESENTABLE'

A New York town along the Canadian border plans to impose a 90-day moratorium on new cryptocurrency mining operations to make sure local roadsides are not cluttered with trailers and shipping containers loaded with computers.

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AppleMagazine

UPS EARNS $2.7 BILLION BUT VOLUME DIPS AS STORES REOPEN

Free from the pandemic lockdowns of last year, more shoppers are venturing into stores and relying just a bit less on brown UPS trucks.

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AppleMagazine

MARSQUAKES OFFER DETAILED LOOK AT RED PLANET'S INTERIOR

A quake-measuring device on Mars is providing the first detailed look at the red planet’s interior, revealing a surprisingly thin crust and a hot molten core beneath the frigid surface.

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AppleMagazine

TESLA REACHES MILESTONE WITH FIRST $1B QUARTERLY PROFIT

Tesla’s quarterly profit has surpassed $1 billion for the first time thanks to the electric car pioneer’s ability to navigate through a pandemic-driven computer chip shortage that has caused major headaches for other automakers.

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AppleMagazine

CHINA'S TENCENT ORDERED TO END EXCLUSIVE MUSIC CONTRACTS

Internet giant Tencent was ordered by regulators to end exclusive contracts with music copyright holders, adding to increased enforcement of anti-monopoly and other rules as Beijing tightens control over booming online industries.

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AppleMagazine

CHINA LAUNCHES 6-MONTH CAMPAIGN TO CLEAN UP APPS

China’s industry ministry has announced a 6-month campaign to clean up what it says are serious problems with internet apps violating consumer rights, cyber security and “disturbing market order.”

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AppleMagazine

JUDGE HEARS FIGHT OVER LITHIUM MINE ON NEVADA OREGON LINE

Conservationists suing a federal agency over approval of a mine at the largest known U.S. deposit of lithium urged a judge to issue a temporary restraining order blocking excavations they say would disturb sacred tribal burial grounds near the Nevada-Oregon line.

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AppleMagazine

NETFLIX CONFIRMS MOVE INTO VIDEO GAMES AS ITS GROWTH SLOWS

Netflix reported its worst slowdown in subscriber growth in eight years as people emerged from their pandemic cocoons. But it has an answer to that: Video games.

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AppleMagazine

UN RIGHTS CHIEF ALARMED BY REPORTED USE OF POWERFUL SPYWARE

The United Nations’ human rights chief voiced alarm over the reported use of military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents.

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AppleMagazine

FORD, ARGO AI TO DEPLOY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ON LYFT NETWORK

Ford Motor Co. and a self-driving vehicle company it partly owns will join with the Lyft ride-hailing service to offer autonomous rides on the Lyft network.

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AppleMagazine

ZOOM BUYING FIVE9 IN $14.7B ALL-STOCK TRANSACTION

Zoom, the video-conferencing company whose growth was supercharged by the pandemic over the past year, will buy the cloud call center company Five9 in an all-stock deal valued at about $14.7 billion.

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AppleMagazine

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE FIXED AFTER MONTH OF NO SCIENCE

The Hubble Space Telescope should be back in action soon, following a tricky, remote repair job by NASA.

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AppleMagazine

STELLANTIS CEO EXPECTS CHIP SHORTAGE TO DRAG INTO NEXT YEAR

The leader of the world’s fourth-largest automaker expects a global computer chip shortage that has cut vehicle production to last into next year.

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AppleMagazine

NEW CYBERSECURITY ORDER ISSUED FOR US PIPELINE OPERATORS

The Department of Homeland Security announced new requirements for U.S. pipeline operators to bolster cybersecurity following a May ransomware attack that disrupted gas delivery across the East Coast.

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AppleMagazine

CANADA TO LET VACCINATED US CITIZENS ENTER COUNTRY ON AUG. 9

Canada announced this week it will begin letting fully vaccinated U.S. citizens into Canada on Aug. 9, and those from the rest of the world on Sept. 7.

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AppleMagazine

BIDEN: ‘KILLING PEOPLE' REMARK WAS CALL FOR BIG TECH TO ACT

President Joe Biden tempered his assessment that social media giants are “killing people” by hosting misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines on their platforms, saying that he hoped they would not take it “personally” and instead would act to save lives.

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AppleMagazine

MUSK ON TRIAL: DEFENDS SOLARCITY, CALLS LAWYER ‘BAD HUMAN'

Tesla founder Elon Musk took to a witness stand to defend his company’s 2016 acquisition of a troubled company called SolarCity against a lawsuit that claims he’s to blame for a deal that was rife with conflicts of interest and never delivered the profits he’d promised.

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