Elon Musk declared on Friday “let the good times roll” after he completed his $44bn (£38.1bn) takeover of Twitter. The purchase of the social media firm by the world’s richest man was confirmed in a filing with the US government.
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It now costs $22.99 per month or $29.99 per month through the Apple App Store. The price of a YouTube Premium family plan is unexpectedly being increased from $17.99 to $22.99 per month starting on or after Nov. 21 (depending on your
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Turns out the rumors were true: Google is shutting down its Stadia game-streaming service. Stadia launched in November 2019, but Google now says the cloud-gaming service failed to resonate with consumers. “While Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong
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What just happened? Intel will begin phasing out the long-standing Pentium and Celeron brands next year. Entry-level notebooks shipping in 2023 and beyond will feature CPUs under the new “Intel Processor” umbrella. Josh Newman, Intel VP and interim GM of mobile
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KEY POINTS Meta and Qualcomm are teaming up to develop custom chipsets for virtual reality products. The two U.S. technology giants have signed a multi-year agreement “to collaborate on a new era of spatial computing,” powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon extended
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What just happened? Anyone still using Samsung Galaxy phones between roughly 2014 and 2018 — of which there could be half a billion — should check for firmware updates. The updates Samsung is pushing are minor but unusual because the affected
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In brief: Lower PC sales are part of the reason for Intel’s weak performance this past quarter, but the company’s graphics division also saw a massive $507 million operating loss. The chipmaker confirmed rumors that it plans to hike prices for
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Google has quietly introduced some convenient new Google Photos features, but they’re easy to miss if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Google is continually upgrading the Google Photos app, but smaller changes often go unannounced, making some new features easy
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Samsung said on Thursday that it has started mass production of chips using its 3-nanometer (nm) process node, its most advanced technology yet for contract chip production. The South Korean tech giant said its 3nm process, compared to its 5nm process, reduced
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Amazon will show off four new pieces of robotics technology, including fully autonomous robots and high-tech scanners, at its re:MARS event in Las Vegas. The new technology comes ten years after Amazon’s purchase of Kiva, which set up an arms
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