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Coinbase will let US customers borrow cash against their Bitcoin holdings
Editor's take: Coinbase is taking a bit of a risk with its lending feature. Bitcoin is incredibly volatile and there's no guarantee that the collateral put up today will be worth enough to cover the value of the loan a year from now. Then again, lending in general is risky business for both the borrower and the lender, so perhaps it's par for the course.
San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase this week said it’ll soon allow US customers in select states to borrow cash
Apple subscription bundles will reportedly launch alongside iPhone 12
Why it matters: There are a lot of subscription services out there, and Apple is just one of the companies offering several of them to overwhelmed consumers. To try and make life easier and slightly cheaper—and tempt more people into signing up—Cupertino is preparing a series of bundles that bring together its music, TV, games, news, and storage products, as well as a new fitness service.
Rumors that Apple was considering bundling its subscriptions into several tiers grew stronger last November . Now, Bloomberg reports that
Facebook facing $500 billion lawsuit over Instagram's alleged biometric data harvesting
What just happened? Like all tech giants, Facebook has to deal with lawsuits regularly. This latest one, however, could see the social network fined up to $500 billion. The class action claims that Instagram, which Facebook owns, illegally harvests the biometric data of users.
The Whalen vs. Facebook lawsuit was filed on Monday in state court in Redwood City, California. It alleges that Instagram collects and stores biometric data of more than 100 million users, without their knowledge or consent. Facebook
AMC will reopen roughly 100 theaters on August 20
In brief: The Covid-19 pandemic has negatively impacted just about every industry, but theater chains like AMC have been hit particularly hard. After months of virus-related shutdowns and stay-at-home orders, though, the company is finally ready to begin reopening its theaters.
AMC first announced its intentions to do so last month , but the company's plans were quite vague at the time. Now, they're considerably more concrete: AMC will begin its not-so-grand reopening on
Upcoming feature will explain changes introduced by big Windows 10 updates
Something to look forward to: Have you ever installed a major Windows 10 update and thought, “Right, so what did that do?” Microsoft isn’t always very explicit about what changes an update has introduced, but they'll soon become a lot clearer.
It’s often the case that the most noticeable changes a big Windows update brings are bugs in the system, leaving people to wonder why they even bothered. There are some new features that Microsoft highlights from time to time, but they
GDC 2021 will be a 'hybrid event' with both a physical and digital presence
In context: The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted almost all of us in one way or another, but conventions were certainly hit harder than most. The annual Game Developers Conference, unfortunately, was not immune to this reality. As stay-at-home orders and lockdowns went into effect, event organizers were forced to hurriedly schedule an online-only version GDC 2020 experience.
That digital event kicked off earlier this month, and for the most part, things seemed to proceed smoothly. Nonetheless,
Need $200 quickly? Square's Cash App is experimenting with short-term loans
In brief: Need a small, short-term loan quickly? There’s always payday lenders, but their average annual percentage rate is almost 400 percent. A better option could soon come from Cash App, the mobile payment app from Square.
The company is currently testing the feature with around 1,000 users, but if Square deems it to be successful, expect a wider rollout. The pandemic has brought economic hardship around the world, and a short-term cash infusion could help a
Dropbox rolls out its password manager to all paid subscribers
In brief: Dropbox today announced three new features that are arriving for its users: Dropbox Passwords, Dropbox Vault, and computer backup. These features were previously available to select beta testers, but now, they're here for everyone -- provided you're a Dropbox Plus member, anyway.
Passwords is, as the name suggests, Dropbox's take on password managers. Simply put, it can save your passwords across any website or app and autofill them for you at will -- Passwords is available on
Marvel's Avengers' PC requirements are here: make space on your SSD
Highly anticipated: After becoming one of the many recent games to push its original release date back, Marvel's Avengers finally arrives on September 4. For those eager to take control of the superheroes earlier, a preorder beta test launches on Steam tomorrow. As such, Square Enix has revealed how powerful your PC needs to be to play it: definitely more Hawkeye than Hulk.
The PC version of Marvel's Avengers comes with a number of platform-specific features, including the option to download and install a 3