Month: June 2021
Google delays blocking third-party cookies in Chrome until 2023
Google is announcing today that it is delaying its plans to phase out third-party cookies in the Chrome browser until 2023, a year or so later than originally planned. Other browsers like Safari and Firefox have already implemented some blocking against third-party tracking cookies, but Chrome is the most-used desktop…
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JW Player raises $100M to build subscriptions and other monetization tools around its video software
JW Player, a very early mover in the market for online video technology — it powered YouTube’s first video player, before Google acquired it and it built its own — has long been profitable through a business model of providing one-to-many video streaming tools to publishers and others that want…
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Microsoft’s Xbox Series S is available for $10 off at Costco right now
Amazon Prime Day is officially behind us, and while many of the event’s best deals still linger, some retailers are already moving on to bigger—or at least different—things. Take Costco, for example, which is currently offering a members-only deal on the Xbox Series S online, dropping the price from $300…
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Reliance Digital back to old ways cancels – PS5 orders again PS5
Reliance Digital was in focus earlier this year when the Sony PS5 first went for pre-orders because it was found that the retailer was cancelling the PS5 orders on its own without the involvement of the customers. And while it stopped the practice with the subsequent rounds of pre-order of…
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Vivo V21e 5G smartphone launched in India with MediaTek Dimensity 700 Vivo V21e 5G
Vivo has launched the 5G variant of the V21e smartphone in India. The new Vivo V21e 5G comes after a slew of leaks already revealed most of the specs of the smartphone. The Vivo V21e 5G has been priced at Rs 24,990 for the 8GB RAM and 128GB storage variant.…
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Beeple and the founder of Pitchfork are launching an NFT site where you can buy moments in time
After selling an NFT for $69 million in March, Beeple is making his next big move in the digital art space: he’s launching an NFT platform that’ll sell “iconic” moments in time. The platform, called Wenew, is co-founded by Beeple and some longtime collaborators. They’re also bringing on Ryan Schreiber,…
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