Month: April 2023
Disney Plus may soon have enough Star Wars to make you love it again
Disney Plus is about to get some fresh Star Wars content and it could not come soon enough. Since its launch almost three years ago, Disney Plus has enjoyed a meteoric rise in subscribers (topping out at roughly 164.2M (opens in new tab)) numbers right up until this most recent…
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Nest Secure and Dropcam products will stop working in April 2024
Google announced end-of-life dates today for products relying on the Nest app that won’t carry over to the new Google Home. If you own any Nest Secure or Dropcam home-security products, you have a year to use them before they become paperweights. Phasing out old and incompatible hardware could signal…
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NASA launches powerful air quality monitor to keep an eagle-eye on pollution
NASA has launched an innovative air quality monitoring instrument into a fixed-rotation orbit around Earth. The tool is called TEMPO, which stands for Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution instrument, and it keeps an eye on a handful of harmful airborne pollutants in the atmosphere, such as nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde and…
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Fortnite and Roblox are dueling for the future of user-built games
We’re racing toward a world where Fortnite and Roblox could rival Steam and the App Store in terms of the size of their game libraries. Both have growing ecosystems of millions of players who build and spend time in custom battle royales, chat rooms, and all kinds of other games.…
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Now everyone claims Microsoft will build a data center on the Foxconn land in Wisconsin
The Foxconn land in Wisconsin may finally be used for a meaningful technology project — but not by Foxconn. Last week, the village board of Mount Pleasant voted to allow Microsoft to build a data center on land previously cleared for the Foxconn LCD fab that never arrived. Microsoft will…
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The Creator Of Cash App Was Stabbed To Death In San Francisco
Bob Lee, a pioneer of financial technology who created the mobile payment platform Cash App, was stabbed to death in San Francisco on Tuesday, his family said. He was 43. San Francisco police said in a statement that officers were called regarding a stabbing at around 2:35 a.m. in the…
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