Month: February 2020
A boom, a bust, a reckoning, a race: four takes on today’s startup market
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today let’s try to figure out where the startup and private markets stand, as there are a few different takes out there that I can’t reconcile. Our efforts to better…
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This Disney Plus UK deal gets you a year’s subscription for £10 off if you pre-order
Disney Plus UK pre-orders are now live a month before the streaming service’s British release, and grabbing a year’s subscription now saves you £10 if you sign up before launch. The regular Disney Plus UK price is £59.99 per year, and this deal drops it to £49.99 – so you’re…
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Halo Infinite will land on Game Pass at launch, with other first-party Xbox Series X games to follow
What’s new with Xbox Game Pass, you ask? Well, after a surprise slew of announcements from Microsoft on its next-gen Xbox Series X console – coming in late 2020 – we’ve got confirmation that its Xbox Game Pass subscription service will keep getting first-party titles from their launch dates, with…
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iPhone 12 leak suggests Apple wants to make new iPhone all about speed
The new iPhone 12 has already been hotly tipped to increase performance – but now a new link suggests Apple is working to make connections between its smartphones even quicker. According to Macotakara, Apple’s 2020 iPhone will be using the the new 802.11ay specification, which would possibly allow it to…
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Labs in the US will start looking for the new coronavirus this week
Six public health labs in the US plan to start monitoring the general population for the new coronavirus this week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the risk of the virus still remains low for the general population. But activating the disease surveillance network will allow…
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Cyberpunk 2077 confirmed for Xbox Series X as ‘Smart Delivery’ title
Following a flurry of new news on the Xbox Series X, we’ve now got a new game to add to the list of titles heading to Microsoft’s next-gen console – Cyberpunk 2077. The announcement came via a tweet from the official account of Cyberpunk 2077, with it’s team stating that…
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