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Musk arrives in Indonesia's Bali for planned Starlink launch
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Tycoon Elon Musk arrived on the Indonesian island of Bali on Sunday ahead of the planned launch of SpaceX's Starlink internet service, which the Indonesian government hopes will boost internet penetration and health services in remote parts of the sprawling archipelago.
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Tablets
Apple brings eye tracking to iPhone and iPad in accessibility update
Apple is to enable eye tracking on the iPhone and iPad as part of a new range of accessibility tools aimed at helping those with physical disabilities to more easily use their devices.
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AI
What do Google’s AI updates mean for everyday users?
Google has pledged to make AI “accessible and beneficial to everyone” as it announced a string of new tools powered by the in vogue technology.
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Video games
Preview: ‘MechWarrior 5: Clans’ takes a more cinematic approach to its giant robot campaign
Giant robot games are having a moment. FromSoftware revived its mech franchise with Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. Mecha Break, a futuristic multiplayer game, turned heads during The Game Awards. Now, Piranha Games is entering the mix with a follow-up to its solid title MechWarriors 5: Mercenaries.
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Technology
Britain's M&S apologises after website and app hit by 'technical issue'
LONDON (Reuters) -British retailer Marks & Spencer apologised to customers on Saturday after its website and app went offline for several hours because of a "technical issue".
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Internet
Honey, I love you. Didn’t you see my Slack about it?
Ben Lang didn’t expect to get so much hate just for being organised.
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Video games
The architects of ‘Hades’ strive to bewitch gamers again
When Supergiant Games was wrapping up Hades, a mythologically rich hack-and-slash dungeon crawler it had spent more than three years developing, the studio concluded it was not quite done.
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Video games
A pithy YouTube celebrity’s plea: Buy this video game
Freewheeling assessments of the gaming industry have attracted millions of fans to the YouTube reviews of the personality nicknamed Dunkey, whose self-deprecating humour sweetens his critiques of popular video games.
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Smartphones
Coming soon: Control your smartphone with facial expressions
Google has announced that the code for Project Gameface, its hands-free cursor management solution, where you control what happens on screen using facial expressions, is now available to Android developers. This will enable the project to move up a gear and soon see its first practical uses.
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Technology
Crypto lender Genesis to return $3 billion to customers in bankruptcy wind-down
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crypto lender Genesis Global received court approval on Friday to return about $3 billion in cash and cryptocurrency to its customers in a bankruptcy liquidation, leaving its owner, Digital Currency Group, with no recovery from the bankruptcy.
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Technology
US, TikTok seek fast-track schedule, ruling by Dec. 6 on potential ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department and TikTok on Friday asked a U.S. appeals court to set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban.
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Technology
DXC Technology tumbles as investors fret over latest restructuring plan
(Reuters) - Shares of DXC Technology slumped 18% on Friday, after the IT services provider unveiled a new revamp and forecast fiscal 2025 revenue and profit below estimates.
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Technology
Microsoft to release next 'Call of Duty' game on subscription service, source says
(Reuters) -Microsoft plans to release the coming installment of the "Call of Duty" videogame to its subscription service, in a departure from its longtime practice of only selling the title independently, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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Technology
US labor board will suspend case against SpaceX pending company's legal challenge
(Reuters) -The U.S. National Labor Relations Board told a federal judge in Texas that it will suspend an administrative case accusing SpaceX of illegally firing engineers critical of CEO Elon Musk while the rocket maker pursues a lawsuit challenging the agency's structure.
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Technology
Nigeria court rules Binance executive can face trial on behalf of crypto exchange
ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian court on Friday ruled that Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan can stand trial on behalf of the cryptocurrency exchange in an ongoing tax evasion case.
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Technology
BlackRock in talks with governments about investments to power AI
ROME (Reuters) - BlackRock is in talks with various governments over ways to fund critical investments to support artificial intelligence (AI), including increasing the power supply, the CEO of the world's largest asset manager said on Friday.
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Technology
Factbox-Who is new Prosus and Naspers CEO Fabricio Bloisi?
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Dutch technology investor Prosus and its South African parent group Naspers on Friday named the head of their iFood business, Fabricio Bloisi, as their new CEO, replacing long-time boss Bob van Dijk who stepped down last September.
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Technology
GameStop tumbles on capital raise plans after meme-stocks frenzy this week
(Reuters) - Retail darling GameStop slumped 26% on Friday after the struggling videogame retailer said it would sell up to 45 million shares, taking advantage of the meme-stocks frenzy this week.
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Technology
UK's CMA rejects probe into Microsoft-Mistral AI tie-up
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's competition watchdog said on Friday it would not investigate the partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI, weeks after it invited views on the tie-up.
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Technology
TV companies flaunt ad tech and AI to persuade advertisers to spend
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Television "upfront" advertiser presentations this week in New York City were hardly about TV at all.