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02 Oct

Microsoft kills HoloLens 2, with no plans for a follow up device

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It looks like Microsoft’s AR platform HoloLens is being sent to a nice tech farm upstate. The company just announced that it’s discontinuing production of its HoloLens 2 headset, according to reporting by UploadVR. Microsoft has no plans for a followup device, so this is the end of the road.The company has told its customers and enterprise partners that this…

01 Oct

The unsealed New Mexico Snapchat lawsuit alleges the company ignored child safety

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On September 5, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a lawsuit against Snap. Torrez claimed that Snapchat has become a platform rife with sexual exploitation, child grooming and other dangerous behaviors. That legal complaint was heavily redacted, but today, Torrez announced in a press release that he has filed an unsealed complaint, which goes into detail on how Snap…

01 Oct

Google allegedly got the Juno YouTube app removed from the Vision Pro App Store

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Juno, a widely praised (unofficial) YouTube app for Vision Pro, has been removed from Apple’s App Store after complaints from Google, according to an update from Juno’s developer Christian Selig. Google, Selig says, suggested that his app violates their trademark.It’s the latest setback for Selig, who shut down his popular Reddit client Apollo last year after the company changed its…

01 Oct

eBay will stop charging seller fees in the UK

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As of today, eBay consumer-to-consumer (C2C) sellers in the UK will no longer have to pay selling fees for any domestic purchases. The company had first tested free selling for pre-owned clothes earlier this year. Using the data from this test, eBay decided to open the floodgates.In addition to the initial test in the UK, eBay also removed seller fees…

01 Oct

Threads will show how many followers you have in the fediverse

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Meta has been steadily improving Threads’ compatibility with the fediverse over the last year. Now, the company is taking another significant step with an update that allows users to see more details about their followers and interactions with people from other servers across the fediverse.Up to now, Threads has surfaced replies from Mastodon and other servers, and has alerted users…

01 Oct

Uber and Wing will partner for drone delivery pilot in Dallas

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A new joint venture between Uber’s Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery drones and Alphabet’s Wing flying drone service will do a dual test run. Both tech companies hope that flying and sidewalk drones can cover areas its counterpart can’t and speed up delivery times.TechCrunch reported that Serve Robotics and Wing will start making deliveries in Dallas, Texas sometime in the coming…

01 Oct

Switch emulator Ryujinx is kaput after Nintendo pressure

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Nintendo has shuttered another emulator, this time putting an end to Ryujinx. The program was an open-source emulator for playing Nintendo Switch games on Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. A message shared today with the emulator's Discord server stated that the developer was contacted by Nintendo with a deal to cease work on the project. No additional details were…

01 Oct

Prime Day deals include an Echo Pop bundle with a smart light bulb for only $18

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Amazon Prime Day is getting really close now and the deals spigot has been turned on. Case in point? There’s an Echo Pop bundle that includes a TP-Link Tapo smart light bulb for just $18. This is a discount of more than 70 percent.The Echo Pop is Amazon’s latest entry-level device in the smart speaker category. It typically costs $40…

01 Oct

Save $40 on the Ninja Creami ice cream maker with this Prime Day deal

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An early Amazon Prime Day deal lets you save $40 on the Ninja Creami Deluxe ice cream maker. The 11-in-1 kitchen accessory, one of our favorite kitchen gadgets, is on sale for only $210 (usually $250).The Creami is based on a patent for an innovation previously only found in the restaurant biz. Once it expired, Ninja leaped at the chance…

01 Oct

US labor board accuses Apple of violating employees’ rights

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Apple has been in hot water with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since 2022 when the company was accused of union-busting. It agreed to review its labor practices last January, but the NLRB determined that Apple had violated workers’ rights soon after. Today, the NLRB strikes again, accusing Apple of anti-union practices, denying employees the right to discuss wages…