Thu. 06/09 – Who Needs A Gaming Console? Not Xbox Or Samsung.

06/09/22 • 16 min

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Who needs a gaming console? Not Xbox, not anymore. Twitter is gonna give Elon the firehose treatment. Dell unveils some new XPS goodness. Apple does its own banking. More signs of the NFT market cooling off. And a popular developer tool is riding off into the sunset.

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Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (The Verge)
The Xbox game streaming TV app feels almost like the real thing (The Verge)
Xbox Project Moorcroft will bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (Washington Post)
Dell unveils a slimmer XPS 13 and a detachable 2-in-1 (Engadget)
Apple Will Handle Lending Itself With New Pay Later Service (Bloomberg)
Ethereum’s Merge Upgrade Goes Live Today on Ropsten Testnet (Decrypt)
ApeCoin Owners Vote Against Leaving the Ethereum Blockchain (Bloomberg)
The NFT slump is real (TechCrunch)
GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 (TechCrunch)

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Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (The Verge)
The Xbox game streaming TV app feels almost like the real thing (The Verge)
Xbox Project Moorcroft will bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (Washington Post)
Dell unveils a slimmer XPS 13 and a detachable 2-in-1 (Engadget)
Apple Will Handle Lending Itself With New Pay Later Service (Bloomberg)
Ethereum’s Merge Upgrade Goes Live Today on Ropsten Testnet (Decrypt)
ApeCoin Owners Vote Against Leaving the Ethereum Blockchain (Bloomberg)
The NFT slump is real (TechCrunch)
GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 (TechCrunch)

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Wed. 06/08 – Crypto’s Voldemort Goes Crypto

The crypto world’s greatest supervillain looks like he’s joining the crypto bandwagon. Salesforce... (Salesforce?!) has jumped on the NFT bandwagon. Could Netflix buy Roku? How many layoffs has Silicon Valley seen thusfar? And a look at Apple’s big push into the passwordless future.

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Citadel Securities Is Building a Crypto Trading Marketplace With Virtu Financial: Sources (CoinDesk)
Salesforce takes crypto plunge with new NFT cloud (TechCrunch)
US: Chinese govt hackers breached telcos to snoop on network traffic (BleepingComputer)
Tech Layoffs In 2022: The U.S. Companies That Have Cut Jobs (CrunchBase News)
Inside Roku, talk is heating up about an acquisition by Netflix (Insider)
Apple Just Killed the Password—for Real This Time (Wired)

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Fri. 06/10 – The Next Big—And Small—Things From Apple.

Time to refresh those Yao Ming and Verne Troyer Powerbook ads from the early ‘aughts. Could Meta not release its big metaverse hardware play for years? The NHTSA’s investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot seems to be getting serious. Speaking of Austin Powers actors, Seth Green ransomed his Ape. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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