Month: May 2021
Amazon is buying MGM Studios for $8.45B
The big media consolidation continues — day after rumors swirled around Amazon’s acquisition of MGM, the online massive retailer confirmed today that it will be acquiring the nearly 100-year-old studio for a cool $8.45 billion. The deal is another big step toward bolster Amazon’s fight in the streaming wars, with…
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When to Reply on Social Media—and When to Not
Sometimes the best thing to do on Twitter or Facebook is to just shut up … isn’t it? Source
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You can now hide like counts on Instagram and Facebook
You can now hide like counts on Instagram and Facebook. After years of testing on both platforms, Facebook and Instagram have settled on an opt-in experience for hiding like counts to allow people to disable seeing them across all posts and an option to hide their own public like counts…
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Arm unveils most powerful CPUs, GPUs to date processors
Arm has launched a new range of products, called Total Compute, built on top of its recently released Armv9 architecture. The product suite, which includes powerful new Cortex CPUs, Mali GPUs and CoreLink interconnect technologies, is designed to drive a broad range of devices, from simple smart tech to the…
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McAfee told to refund customers following auto-renew probe McAfee
Popular antivirus company McAfee will be forced to refund a number of customers who were hit with unwanted subscriptions following a ruling from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The ruling followed a super-complaint filed by the Citizens Advice watchodg following numerous consumer reports that their subscriptions auto-renewed without…
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Scammy iOS app discovered that refuses to open unless you give it a good review
App developer and scam app hunter Kosta Eleftheriou’s latest discovery is a real doozy, an iOS app that refuses to function before you give it at least a 3-star review in the App Store. Although the UPNP Xtreme app — which claimed to let users stream video to their TVs…
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