Month: April 2021
Amazon adds 720p streaming to its Luna cloud gaming service to improve stability
Amazon is adding a new streaming option to its Luna cloud gaming platform that will cap resolution at 720p to help improve stability for players on slower internet connections. Right now, Luna streams only at 1080p, with 4K coming at some point in the future. Yet even at 1080p, internet…
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Epic Games Store free games: this week’s giveaways revealed 3 out of 10 Epic Games Store
Ready for this week’s free Epic Games Store games? With the world continuing to be still turned upside down Covid-19, there’s never been a better time to stay indoors and game. Whether you’re setting out on an epic single-player adventure, or teaming up with your buddies online, video games are…
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The best of Yahoo! Answers
During the aughts, there was a vague notion among techno-optimists that crowdsourcing knowledge was the answer to just about every problem. Using the wisdom of crowds, the thought went, people would have unprecedented access to expertise. “With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow,” said the open-source software community. The success…
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UK software firm launches £270m antitrust court action against Microsoft Court gavel
UK-based preowned software license reseller ValueLicensing has filed a lawsuit in the London High Court against Microsoft for abusing its dominant position in the European markets to restrict resale of perpetual licenses for Windows and other company products. In its claim, ValueLicensing calls into question certain contractual practices employed by…
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Mercato raises $26M Series A to help smaller grocers compete online
The pandemic upended the way people shop for their everyday needs, including groceries. Online grocery sales in the U.S. are expected to reach 21.5% of the total grocery sales by 2025, after leaping from 3.4% pre-pandemic to 10.2% as of 2020. One business riding this wave is Mercato, an online…
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Mobile phone sales to return to pre-pandemic levels in 2022 iPhone 12
Sales of mobile phones won’t return to pre-pandemic levels until 2022 but pent-up demand, a wider macroeconomic recovery, and the wider availability of 5G networks and handsets are all set to drive recovery in the market., new analyst figures have said. The smartphone sector has been hit by Covid-19 due…
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