Oct. 9, 2020
Fri. 10/09 – Microsoft Game Pass To Do An App Store End-run?
Again, could Gaming, and Microsoft specifically, be the thing that cracks the App Store open? More hints of consolidation in the semiconductor industry that is massively in flux. A major milestone in self-driving cars has been passed. Could hybrid cable-fiber networks compete with 5G. And in the weekend longreads suggestions, what operating systems do NASA’s spacecraft actually run on?
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Links:
- Microsoft told employees it plans to release a browser-based app for the Xbox Game Pass streaming service next year that will get around Apple App Store rules: 'We absolutely will end up on iOS' (BusinessInsider)
- Microsoft app store playbook swipes at Apple, Google (Axios)
- AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx (WSJ)
- Waymo Begins Fully Driverless Rides for All Arizona Customers (Bloomberg)
- Google Assistant finally works with some third-party apps (Engadget)
- Comcast says gigabit downloads and uploads are now possible over cable (ArsTechnica)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Inside the US campaign to cut China out of the tech supply chain (NikkeiAsia)
- Why media formats (like Snapchat Stories and TikTok music videos) become hits? (Medium/Eric Feng)
- THE MASK BARONS OF ETSY (The Verge)
- A Major Online Learning Platform Was Created by a Subterranean Religious ‘Cult’ Whose Leader Has Been Accused of Violence and Abuse (OneZero)
- Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in space? (ArsTechnica)
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