Techlife News
AMAZON CEO JEFF BEZOS MAY STEP DOWN WITHOUT STEPPING AWAY
Even after stepping aside as CEO, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appears likely to keep identifying new frontiers for the world’s dominant e-commerce company. His successor, meanwhile, gets to deal with escalating efforts to curtail its power.
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Techlife News
KINGDOM OF WAKANDA DESTINED FOR DISNEY + STREAMING SERVICE
The Kingdom of Wakanda is staking out turf on the Disney + streaming service.
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Techlife News
AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS BING COULD REPLACE GOOGLE
Australia’s prime minister said that Microsoft is confident it can fill the void if Google carries out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia.
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Techlife News
BRITAIN TO TEST MIXING AND MATCHING OF COVID-19 VACCINES
British scientists are starting a study Thursday to find out if it’s OK to mix and match COVID-19 vaccines.
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NINTENDO PROFITS SOAR AS PEOPLE PLAY GAMES DURING PANDEMIC
Nintendo Co. reported that its profit for the first three fiscal quarters nearly doubled as people around the world stayed home for the pandemic and turned to playing games.
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LAWSUIT SAYS FOXCONN COST GOVERNMENTS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
Worldwide electronics leader Foxconn Technology Group violated terms of its contract in Wisconsin, while local governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prepare for the project, a lawsuit filed by a real estate development company alleges.
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Techlife News
UN CHIEF CALLS FOR REGULATING SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES
The United Nations chief called for global rules to regulate powerful social media companies like Twitter and Facebook.
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Techlife News
TESLA TO FIX TOUCH SCREENS, ENDING SPAT WITH US REGULATORS
After initially refusing a request from U.S. safety regulators, Tesla has now agreed to recall about 135,000 vehicles because the large touch screens on the console can go dark.
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PC Gamer US Edition
LEADING A PEASANT REVOLT IN BATTLE BROTHERS PART I
Can low borns forge their own path in a grim fantasy world?
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March 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
NEUROJANK
CYBERPUNK 2077 delivers an incredible setting undermined by an onslaught of bugs.
8 min |
March 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
SIM SETTLEMENTS 2
Tune up Fallout 4’s settlement system.
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March 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
GREEK CHIC
A puny mortal embarks on a quest to save the gods in IMMORTALS FENYX RISING, and finds yet another massive Ubisoft open world game.
8 min |
March 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
GLASS CANNON
How Obsidian built its reputation for masterful, yet buggy, RPGs
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March 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
HOBBIT FORMING
This team dedicated ten years to building Middle-earth in MINECRAFT
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March 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
CRIME DOESN'T PAY
EMPIRE OF SIN is ambitious, but undermined by a mountain of issues.
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March 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
The questing is tedious, but WORLD OF WARCRAFT: SHADOWLANDS is another great WoW expansion.
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March 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
COMEBACK KING
Hunt down a legend as his arch-nemesis in KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE
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March 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
Breaking Ground
Meet the developers making bugs and glitches on purpose
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March 2021
PC Magazine
What Is C-Band, and What Does It Mean for the Future of 5G?
What's New Now / 5G
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February 2021
Reason magazine
The Economist who Says Schools Are Safer Than You Think
When the feds failed to track COVID-19, Emily Oster stepped in.
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March 2021
Mac Life
Papalook PA452 webcam
A decent upgrade for most in–built Mac cameras
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February 2021
Mac Life
OWC Envoy Pro Elektron portable SSD
Rugged, fast data storage for people on the go
2 min |
February 2021
Mac Life
AUSDOM AW635 webcam
An affordable way to upgrade a lower resolution webcam
2 min |
February 2021
New York magazine
The Group Portrait: Running Zoom on Zoom
How this group of executives managed a period of explosive growth while working from their own platform.
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February 1-14, 2021
Techlife News
FACEBOOK Q4 RESULTS SOAR; ZUCKERBERG HITS APPLE OVER PRIVACY
Facebook capped a tumultuous 2020 with soaring earnings in the final quarter, but the company forecast challenges in 2021 that include a coming privacy update by Apple that could limit the social network’s ad targeting capabilities.
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IN DUEL WITH SMALL INVESTORS OVER GAMESTOP, BIG FUNDS BLINK
Across most of America, GameStop is just a place to buy a video game. On Wall Street, though, it’s become a battleground where swarms of smaller investors see themselves making an epic stand against the 1%.
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iPhone12
Now the big question appears to be whether Apple will be able to keep up with the iPhone demand. Some processors and other components may still be in short supply as factories continue to try to catch up with the backlog caused last year’s pandemic-driven shutdowns.
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MICROSOFT KEEPS CHUGGING AS PANDEMIC CONTINUES
As the pandemic raged through the U.S., Microsoft’s business continued chugging ahead and beat Wall Street expectations for the last three months of 2020, powered by ongoing demand for its workplace software and cloud computing services as people worked from home.
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SAMSUNG REPORTS PROFIT JUMP DRIVEN BY STRONG CHIP DEMAND
Samsung Electronics Co. said its operating profit for the last quarter rose by more than 26% as it capped offa robust business year where its dual strength in parts and finished products allowed it to thrive amid the pandemic.
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CYBERCOPS DERAIL MALWARE BOTNET, FBI MAKES RANSOMWARE ARREST
European and North American cyber cops have joined forces to disrupt what may be the world’s largest network for seeding malware infections. The operation appears to strike a major blow against criminal gangs that have used that network for years to install ransomware for extortion schemes and to steal data and money.
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