Month: August 2023
Verizon is shutting down the videoconferencing app it bought for $400 million
Verizon is shutting down BlueJeans, its Zoom competitor it acquired in the early days of the covid pandemic, as reported by 9to5Google. 9to5Google shared the text of an email received by BlueJeans customers that said that “we have made the difficult decision to sunset our suite of BlueJeans products.” BlueJeans’…
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X hopes ‘sensitivity settings’ will bring back advertisers
X is giving advertisers new ways to have some control over what type of content can appear near their ads. The company formerly known as Twitter introduced new “sensitivity settings” that allow advertisers to choose between different types of content filtering for their ads. The new controls arrive as X…
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Banks fined $549 million for hiding messages in iMessage and Signal
Several US financial firms, including multiple Wells Fargo companies, will pay a combined $549 million in fines after admitting they couldn’t produce discussions about company business from smartphone messaging apps used by their employees, “including those at senior levels.” Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 patch fixes indecent exposure bug
I love it when games give you the ability to choose your genitals. Not because of the glaringly obvious horny reasons but because, when games give you the ability to customize The Goods, it almost always leads to patch notes like the one we got in the latest Baldur’s Gate…
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Netflix’s new iOS game controller app will soon let you play its games on your TV
Continuing its expansion into gaming, Netflix has released a brand new digital controller for iOS devices, giving subscribers a way to play cloud games on a TV. Or should we say, one day it will? The App Store listing for the Netflix Game Controller doesn’t mention which titles will support…
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Netflix levels up as the platform launches its new Game Controller for iOS
Continuing its expansion into gaming, Netflix has released a brand new digital controller for iOS devices, giving subscribers a way to play cloud games on a TV. Or should we say, one day it will? The App Store listing for the Netflix Game Controller doesn’t mention which titles will support…
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