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Roblox raises $150 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz

Online gaming platform Roblox has raised $150 million in funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s late stage venture fund. It seems the folks at Andreessen Horowitz have been playing a lot of user-generated games on Roblox, like Work at a Pizza Place or Meep City, each of which have gotten billions of plays on the platform. In the funding round, Roblox is also offering employees and…
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The creator of the Konami Code has died

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a and start. It’s the most famous cheat code in all of gaming, and now its creator, former Konami employee Kazuhisa Hashimoto, has died. He was 61-years-old. Konami confirmed the death on Wednesday, saying on Twitter…
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Broadcom chip flaw left select iPhones vulnerable to network eavesdropping, researchers say

A flaw in Wi-Fi chips made by Cypress Semiconductor and Broadcom left “billions of devices” open to an eavesdropping vulnerability, reports today. The flaw was announced by researchers at the RSA security conference today, and has already been patched by most manufacturers. The vulnerability primarily affects FullMAC WLAN chips from Cyperess and Broadcom. These chips are used in billions of…
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Could you live with this budget Android for four years?

Five years ago, Sharad Mittal had a dilemma. He and his wife had just watched , a movie starring Russell Crowe with a heavy environmental message underneath its retelling of the classic Biblical tale. The movie moved him deeply, giving him a new perspective of the world that…
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LG V60 ThinQ 5G hands-on: Two screens, not enough polish

LG’s smartphone business spent most of last year struggling to turn a profit, but the company has found at least one strategy it wants to stick with. Instead of giving people unpolished, unproven, expensive foldables, it starting building phones you could attach secondary screens to when you needed a little extra room to work with. LG hopes this wide-eyed idea enough to convince people to…
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Apple releasing third developer beta of iOS 13.4 and more today

Apple today is releasing the third developer beta of iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4. This update comes a week after the second release of iOS 13.4 for developers. iOS 13.4 includes new features like iCloud Drive folder sharing and much more. Update: The third developer betas of…
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Apple won’t let bad guys use iPhones in movies, says Knives Out director

Knives Out and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has said that Apple won’t let the bad guys in movies use iPhones. “Apple… they let you use iPhones in movies but — and this is very pivotal if you’re ever watching a mystery movie — bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera,” the director said in a video interview with Vanity Fair. He joked that revealing this information could…
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