Month: June 2020
Activision postpones new Call of Duty content so protestors can ‘be seen and heard’
Activision is postponing new content updates for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Mobile, and Call of Duty: Warzone. “Right now, it’s time for those speaking up for equality, justice, and change to be seen and heard,” the company announced on Twitter. Activision’s message refers to the widespread…
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VMware patches major security flaw in cloud service-delivery platform
VMware has patched a serious flaw in its cloud service-delivery platform, VMware Cloud Director, after cybersecurity firm Citadelo issued a security advisory warning of possible threats. Citadelo said that it uncovered the bug on April 1 while conducting a security audit for a Fortune 500 enterprise client that was using…
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Long-lost ‘Days of Thunder’ NES game recreated from 30-year-old floppies
Unreleased video games tend to show up in ready-to-play forms, but a recent discovery required decidedly more effort. The Video Game History Foundation has reconstructed a lost NES adaptation of the Tom Cruise stock car movie Days of Thunder (one of… Source
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Alibaba adds financing tools and online trade shows for U.S. merchants
Alibaba.com is introducing new tools targeted specifically at U.S. merchants. It sounds like the Chinese e-commerce giant has already been making inroads in the United States. John Caplan, the North American and European president of Alibaba.com (the B2B marketplace that serves as the core business of Alibaba Group), said at…
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Chicago’s Tovala gobbles up $20M for its smart oven+meal kit service
Meal kits have had a rush of interest in recent months, with people turning to them to vary the pace of (and in some cases, completely replace) making meals at home, or ordering take out, at a time when many of us are spending a lot of time at home.…
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HP woos remote working professionals with new all-in-one desktop PCs
HP has set out its aims to target the growing demand for PCs in the wake of increased remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic, by announcing five new desktops. The company, which recently unveiled a new lineup of laptops, said that its latest offering—the Collaboration All-in-One G6—is designed to help…
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