Month: May 2020
Apple TV Plus may soon stream classic TV shows and movies
Apple TV Plus may soon start streaming older TV shows and movies, according to a new report. Bloomberg says Apple has licensed some shows and movies as part of private conversations it’s had with Hollywood content owners. Apple TV Plus launched in November, and it’s been built entirely on original…
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Extra Crunch Live: Join Alexia and Niko Bonatsos for a Q&A today at 2 pm EDT/11 am PDT
The Extra Crunch Live series continues today with two venture capitalists: Alexia and Niko Bonatsos. The two investors don’t work for the same firm, but they each have an interesting perspective on the world of investing. Alexia is a former journalist — and a former co-editor of TechCrunch — who now runs…
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Miss the sounds of NYC’s subway? Check out this app
A month into quarantine in New York City, software developer Evan Lewis found himself missing the subway. Maybe not so much the smells, but certainly the sounds. The screech of the brakes, the clack-clack of the train rolling over the tracks, the stern reminder to “stand clear of the closing…
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Following multiple scandals including Luckin Coffee, Nasdaq ready to tighten rules on IPO listings
Chinese stocks have seen the highest highs and the lowest lows in recent weeks. While the country suffered the first economic shocks of the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China’s aggressive containment strategy has allowed the country to reopen in recent weeks, sending stocks at least temporarily to multi-year…
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PlayStation Now reaches 2.2 million subscribers
Sony says 2.2 million people are subscribed to PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming subscription service that offers access to a growing selection of first and third-party titles. PlayStation Now has more than doubled its subscription count from around this time last year, when Sony reported that over 1 million people…
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Samsung’s T7 SSD with fingerprint lock goes on sale starting at $110
That intriguing Samsung SSD with a fingerprint lock we saw at CES earlier this year is finally available for purchase. The T7 SSD is a business card-sized portable storage device that can hold up to 2 terabytes of data. While its fingerprint sensor i… Source
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