CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are preparing their defense in landmark antitrust hearing


For scale, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook currently have a combined market cap of around $5 trillion and generated revenues of $773 billion in 2019. The hearing is not meant to seek punitive action against the four tech companies, but it should serve as the basis for an updated...

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Where did that come from? Cuphead just landed on the PS4 today!


Well, that came completely out of left field. Studio MDHR announced on Tuesday that not only is it bringing its bullet-hell platformer Cuphead to the PlayStation 4, but the game already launched earlier today. The developer introduced the game to PlayStation fans with a blog post and a quirky stop-motion...

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Your old disc-based backups may be in danger of being lost forever


Disc rot, or the tendency of optical discs to become unreadable, is a very real thing. Common causes include, but aren’t limited to, physical scuffs on the bottom of the disc, damage from ultraviolet light and reactions to contaminants as well as the de-bonding of a disc’s adhesive layers and...

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Roblox added 35 million monthly active users in just five months


Online gaming platform Roblox now enjoys more than 150 million monthly active users, the company revealed during its recent developer conference. The event, like most others in this uncertain time, was hosted digitally online.

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InfinaCore's new 'completely wireless' power bank can charge up to four devices at once


On Tuesday, mobile accessory company InfinaCore launched its latest power bank called Pandora Portable Power, or P³ for short. The battery pack is completely wireless. The foldable prongs at the rear plug into any standard US electrical outlet to charge the 8,000mAh power core, although it does come with adaptors...

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CES 2021 will be online-only after all, the CTA confirms


The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) on Tuesday announced that the 2021 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be an all-digital experience.

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Opinion: The shifting semiconductor sands


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Google's new undersea cable will connect the US with Spain and the UK


As society becomes increasingly reliant on the Internet, the importance of this critical infrastructure only gets magnified. It’s why Google on Tuesday announced it is building a new private subsea cable to link the US with other parts of the world.

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Joe Biden's staff told to remove TikTok from their work and personal phones


TikTok was already incredibly popular before lockdown, which boosted its userbase even higher. With over 1.5 billion downloads, it was the seventh most-downloaded app of the 2010s, and has over 800 million monthly average users.

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Intel's Core i9-10850K arrives, offers near 10900K performance for less


Earlier this month, a GeekBench entry for the Core i9-10850K showed it offering similar performance to the Core i9-10900K, which isn’t a surprise, given that the only difference between the two is the newer chip runs 100MHz slower across all clocks, from base to turbo.

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