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    GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets “censorship” of Republicans instead

    A related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNZTtoQBmA
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    This is Apple’s roadmap for moving the first Macs away from Intel

    Did they actually say that? What games? Certainly none that will be for sale on Steam or any place like that. In fact, many smaller developers have already stopped doing macOS versions of their games due to stringent notarization requirements--I know technically this is not required, but Steam...
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    PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller: Two-toned design, more haptic feedback

    Aaand it looks like the L2/R2 buttons can still be activated accidentally simply by setting the controller down on some kind of a surface. The same flaw present in all previous Playstation controllers. I wonder why they keep insisting on this kind of setup...
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    Adobe cancels all user accounts in Venezuela to comply with Trump order

    Luckily, software like Pixelmator satisfies all my needs in that area, so I don't have to deal with Adobe's crap. On the other hand since I do Java development, I do have to (kinda) deal with Oracle crap sometimes, so... Also, what do you want to bet, that if it came to chasing down pirates in...
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    Facebook launches cryptocurrency with Visa, MasterCard, Uber, and others

    I'm gonna go with NO on this one. And the thing about spinning off a separate subsidiary for privacy reasons is a good joke when the facebook app and Whatsapp already sneakily share your data when installed together on the phone.
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    Apple News+: a newsstand of 300 glossy magazines published for iPhone, iPad

    According to the below, the WSJ content will only include the "fluff" part of the newspaper and not the finance/business side. So don't cancel your $30/month subscription just yet. https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status ... 6481359873
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    Google jumps into gaming with Google Stadia streaming service

    I don't see any comments in the article regarding the availability of this service outside of the US? Games suffer much less from the "different publisher in different regions" syndrome than the films/TV but there is still a non-negligible quantity of smaller games where this is definitely an...
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    European Parliament approves copyright bill slammed by digital rights groups

    My crystal ball tells me there is currently approx. just over 5 years left until the next extension. ;) Hint: Steamboat Willie is currently scheduled to enter the public domain on 1st January 2024. You and me we both know there is no way in hell that's going to happen.
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    A perfect time for Fahrenheit 451 remakes; HBO’s version falls short

    Well, to be honest, I don't know if that's the reason or not, I was just pointing out that there exists a connection between Moby-Dick and Ray Bradbury, because otherwise, Moby-Dick seems like a bit of a random choice in this case, that's all.
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    A perfect time for Fahrenheit 451 remakes; HBO’s version falls short

    To be honest, I think it's probably the best here to employ Occam's Razor and conclude that the simplest explantion for including Moby-Dick is as a little in-joke reference since Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of the book in the 1950s. I doubt there was any more...
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    Gmail.com redesign leaks, looks pretty incredible

    If it's anything like today's GMail, then comfortable means wide spaced lines, default is "normal" and compact is more tight spacing. In that way it makes sense, but maybe not best choice of wording.
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    Gmail.com redesign leaks, looks pretty incredible

    Hopefully they will keep some sort of dark theme as I can't stand the blinding white material design wheatever... but I'm not holding my breath.
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    Modders try to fix what Square Enix broke with PC Chrono Trigger port

    In addition to all this, I wish I wish I wish they would stop using that stupid plain Arial font for all their mobile/PC RPG ports! It's completely inappropriate and does not fit even a little bit with the rest of the game's aesthetics (even in it's severely filtered form), and the fact that...
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    Developer of the prolific NanoCore backdoor gets prison

    I wonder what the flight sim guy from a few days ago is thinking about this...
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    Report: Google considering a game streaming service, console hardware

    In fact, why just one? Rather, have three competing game streaming services! That is, until you get bored and neglect all of them and let them die a slow death.
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    Google rebrands all its payment solutions as “Google Pay”

    Honestly, I trust Google so little with this stuff, that one time when I had to use Google Wallet to pay for something (it was a google product, so no other payment option was available), I actually create a whole other account, just so it would not be tied to my regular one in any way! I know...
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    Library of Congress to get selective about the tweets it keeps

    Oh, gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that US president criminally incriminates himself at least once monthly and causes a diplomatic incident on Twitter at least weekly... No, I'm sure it's got nothing to do with that.
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    Chrome’s ad blocker goes live on February 15

    So they are going to be simultaneously an advertising company and also an ad-blocking company? How does that work? On a general subject of ads, it seems that more and more sites simply block you from their content until you turn off the ad blocker. Cleary this is a situation in which something...
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    Extreme digital vetting of visitors to the US moves forward under a new name

    Honestly, simply not travelling to the US is a pretty easy decision these days. Sorry for the people working in the tourism industry as most of this is not really their fault...
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    Get Out director Jordan Peele to reboot The Twilight Zone

    The original run was definitely 100% black & white, although there is one episode which used to pop up in a partially colourised version: 1963's "Miniature", starring Robert Duvall. I am certainly no supporter of colourisation, but the way it was done in this episode actually makes half a sense...