Month: February 2021
After Facebook’s news flex, Australia passes bargaining code for platforms and publishers
A week after Facebook grabbed eyeballs globally by blocking news publishers and turning off news-sharing on its platform in Australia, the country’s parliament has approved legislation that makes it mandatory for platform giants like Facebook and Google to negotiate to remunerate local news publishers for their content, to take account…
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The Morning After: ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ runs into another delay
Cyberpunk 2077’s woes have continued long after the game launched, with all the issues that entailed. CD Projekt Red announced yesterday that we'll have to wait until the second half of March for the next big patch. The developer cited that recen… Source
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Microsoft Surface Pro 7+ has swappable SSDs – but Microsoft doesn’t want you to upgrade Microsoft Surface 7+
Microsoft may have included swappable SSDs for the Surface Pro 7+, but this doesn’t mean you’re getting an upgrade any time soon – at least not with approval anyway. Despite including the removable SSD, Microsoft admitted that upgrading a larger storage device is “technically possible”, but it strongly discourages users…
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Zoom adding automatic closed captioning for all free accounts
Zoom plans to roll out support for automatic closed captioning to free accounts this fall as part of its efforts to make the service more accessible, the company has announced. If you’re a free account holder who needs access to the feature before then, Zoom is allowing users to manually…
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Calling Czech VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC
TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our survey of VCs in the Czech Republic and Prague will capture how the country is faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by the coronavirus pandemic. We’d like to…
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Microsoft Teams is doubling down on this seriously underrated feature Teams
Microsoft is planning a significant overhaul to an underrated Teams feature that allows meeting hosts to poll attendees in real-time. Over the last two days, Microsoft has published multiple entries to its product roadmap that set out a variety of tweaks to the Teams polling service. For starters, Teams will…
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