Month: May 2021
Virgin Galactic spaceplane VSS Unity completes successful flight
Virgin Galactic completed its first successful space flight in more than two years on Saturday, with its crewed VSS Unity spacecraft carried to an altitude of more than 44,000 feet before gliding safely back to Earth. Virgin’s VMS Eve carrier aircraft took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico at…
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Apple says HomePod and HomePod Mini will support lossless audio after future update
In a new support document on its website, Apple dives a little deeper into the details around the upcoming launch of lossless audio on Apple Music. Apple now says that both the HomePod and HomePod Mini will support lossless audio after a future software update. That’ll be good news to…
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Google just broke the internet for some Chrome users in Windows 10 – but there’s a fix Sad business man and laptop
Update: The Chrome team has now released an official guide to fixing the issue on the Google Chrome Help website. Following these steps should now fix the issue. Interestingly, the team mention fixing the issue on Linux as well as Windows 10 devices, suggesting the issue was more widespread than…
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Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
The Epic v. Apple trial was bookended by Tims. Epic Games called its CEO Tim Sweeney as the first witness nearly three weeks ago. Yesterday, Apple called Tim Cook as the last to take the stand, before both sides make their final case to a judge on Monday. Cook was…
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The League of Legends 2021 World Championship will be in Shenzhen, China
The 2021 League of Legends World Championship will be held in Shenzhen, China, Riot Games announced late Friday. The Worlds Final will be at the Universiade Sports Centre, a 60,000 capacity stadium that’s home to the Shenzhen FC football (soccer) club, on November 6th. “We’re extremely excited to push the…
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This Week in Apps: Google I/O hits and misses, Snap goes shopping, Parler returns to App Store
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes…
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