Chinese astronauts carry out country’s first spacewalk outside its space station – CNN | Link Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon boss – BBC News | Link 36 states sue Google for abusing Play Store power | Link Apple Developer Academy expanding with new headquarters in Saudi Arabia – 9to5Mac | Link Netflix Signals Expansion Into Video Games With New Executive Hire – VarietyNetflix Signals Expansion Into Video Games With New Executive Hire – Variety | Link Valve Announces the Steam Deck, a $400 Handheld Gaming PC – IGN | Link
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Microsoft unveils Windows 11, a more polished OS | Engadget | Link Valve continues crackdown on Steam ‘tourists’ who switch countries for cheaper games | Engadget | Link Microsoft closes above $2 trillion market cap for the first time | Link Western Digital blames malware for My Book Live devices being wiped remotely | Engadget | Link Sony Acquires Returnal Developer Housemarque | PCMag | Link
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Apple WWDC 2021 biggest announcements: iOS 15, macOS Monterey and more – The Verge | Link U.S. seizes $2.3 mln in bitcoin paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers | Reuters | Link Tesla Model S Plaid revealed: Elon Musk calls it the ‘quickest production car ever’ – The Verge | Link China’s Zhurong Mars rover takes a selfie – BBC News | Link Google’s Workplace suite is now free and available to anyone | Engadget | Link China sends three astronauts to live on the Tianhe space station for 90 days – SlashGear | Link Texas power companies automatically raised the temperature of customers’ smart thermostats in the middle of a heat wave | Link
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HTC Vive’s Pro 2 and Focus 3 are high-powered 5K VR headsets for pros | Engadget | Link Next-gen PSVR Said to Have 4.1MP Per-eye, Eye-tracking, & Head-mounted Haptics | Link China Lands Tianwen-1 Rover on Mars in a Major First for the Country – Scientific American | Link NASA Developing Plan to Build Arecibo-Like Telescope in Moon Crater | Link Google I/O 2021: the biggest announcements – The Verge | Link Jewish Google employees call for company to support Palestinians amid Israel’s bombing of Gaza | The Independent | Link Amazon in talks to buy Hollywood studio MGM for $9bn | Amazon | The Guardian | Link HBO Max with Ads will cost $9.99 a month, without same-day movie premieres | Link Netflix Reportedly Hiring Executive For Expansion Into Video Games | Link Amnesty International calls for Google to halt cloud business in Saudi Arabia – The Verge | Link UAE to get 3 Amazon Web Services data centres in 2022 | Reuters | Link Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: launching June 3rd for $1,199 – The Verge | Link
Uber will now deliver a rental car to your door — and pick it up when you’re done – Tech | Link SpaceX rocket launches another 60 Starlink satellites, nails its 7th landing at sea | Space | Link Microsoft follows Epic and cuts Xbox PC revenue share to 12 percent | Engadget | Link Humble Bundle creator brings antitrust lawsuit against Valve over Steam | Ars Technica | Link Blue Origin opens up bidding for first ‘spectacular’ space tourism trip in July | Reuters | Link
NASA reschedules Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars for Monday – The Verge | Link Amazon reportedly plans to make drivers double as furniture installers | Link Lord of the Rings MMO Canceled By Amazon | Screen Rant | Link Founder of Adobe and developer of PDFs dies at age 81 | Link Flying-car buyers can put down $5,000 now for an Aska in 2026 – Roadshow | Link Dell to dump 81% ownership stake in VMware, but it’s an amicable split | Link Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is working on a Clubhouse clone – CNBC | Link Reddit unveils its Clubhouse clone, Reddit Talk – TechCrunch | Link Discord has reportedly walked away from buyout talks with Microsoft | TechSpot | Link Apple event recap: new iPad Pro M1, iMac 2021, AirTags… new Ted Lasso | TechRadar | Link
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Microsoft could buy Discord for $10 billion: Bloomberg, NYT | Link Lockheed Martin partners with satellite start-up Omnispace to build a space-based 5G network | CNBC | Link SpaceX Falcon 9 debris mistaken for meteor shower | The Independent | Link Hitachi to acquire US software developer GlobalLogic for $9.6bn – Nikkei Asia | Link LG will reportedly announce closure of smartphone business on April 5 | Link Amazon Explored Opening Home Goods, Electronics Discount Stores | Link Pixel 6 powered by Google-made ‘GS101’ Whitechapel chip – 9to5Google| Link China fines Alibaba $2.8 billion for behaving like a monopoly – CNN | Link
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US drone firm Skydio valued at $1 billion as government freezes out Chinese competition – The Verge | Link DJI officially unveils its cinematic FPV drone | Engadget | Link Parler sues Amazon again, alleging effort to ‘destroy’ app | Reuters | Link Amazon-backed Deliveroo reveals it lost $309 million in 2020 ahead of IPO – CNBC | Link
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Steam Finally Launches in China, But Concerns About Lost Games Arise – IGN | Link Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment | Link Google Search on desktop is finally getting a dark theme | Link The big HBO Max international expansion just got a launch date – SlashGear | Link Disney says it now has 94.9 million Disney Plus subscribers | Link China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe captures epic video of Red Planet during orbital arrival | Space | Link Amazon acquires Selz, a Shopify competitor that helps small businesses build online stores | Link New York sues Amazon alleging ‘flagrant disregard’ of health standards at warehouses | Link
Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3 | Link Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year | Link Robinhood Now Faces Over 30 Class-Action Lawsuits for Blocking Stock Buys | PCMag | Link Alibaba’s cloud division profitable for the first time as Jack Ma’s empire faces regulatory scrutiny | Link SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service now has over 10,000 users | Link Mars ahead! China’s Tianwen-1 mission snaps 1st photo of Red Planet. | Space | Link China is launching a public data platform to name and shame polluters | Engadget | Link The Martian new year happens on February 7 – SlashGear | Link 23andMe set to go public via a Virgin Group SPAC merger – TechCrunch | Link Bloomberg: Apple and Hyundai hit the brakes on Apple Car production negotiations – 9to5Mac | Link
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