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Thursday, May 20, 2021

Google Store to Open in New York City This Summer

Google said it would open its first physical store in New York City this summer, mirroring a retail approach that has helped Apple rake in billions of dollars in the last two decades. https://ift.tt/2T6gkEK

Snap to Introduce New Version of Spectacles Augmented Reality Glasses

Snap, owner of photo messaging app Snapchat, is developing new augmented reality (AR) glasses. The first to feature AR, Spectacles is a part of a push to create ways for users to interact with their... https://ift.tt/2RrXbNb

Volunteer staff of Freenode IRC, a key communication channel for FOSS developers, resign in protest over what they describe as a hostile takeover of the service (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Volunteer staff of Freenode IRC, a key communication channel for FOSS developers, resign in protest over what they describe as a hostile takeover of the service — Crown Prince and network boss Andrew Lee disputes claims made by those leaving the internet chat community

OnePlus extends warranty of its products till June 30

Following its peers from the Indian smartphone market, OnePlus has also extended the warranty of its products in India. The BBK-owned brand has announced that it is extending the warranty of all its products till June 30, whose expiry date lies between April 1 and June 29. https://ift.tt/3f4mHAY

Xiaomi Mi Power Bank Boost Pro to go on sale today at 12 pm

Xiaomi Mi Power Bank Boost Pro is priced at Rs 2,299. It comes in a single Black colour variant. The power bank is set to go on sale in the country today. It will be available on the company’s official website along with Mi.com at 12 pm. It can also be purchased via Flipkart and Mi Home. https://ift.tt/2QBrGQ3

China's new crypto ban is more bark, less bite: Industry watchers

China's latest salvo against cryptocurrencies has driven a brutal selloff in bitcoin markets but retail traders, miners and even crypto finance firms reckon Beijing's bark is louder than its bite. https://ift.tt/2SYCgRY

Portals for delivering public services to give special focus on differently-abled: MeitY official

"We are working with all ministries to ensure that their digital interfaces can be transformed. In that transformation, we are keeping accessibility issues in the centre," Kumar said at the Broadband India Forum program on Global Accessibility Awareness Day. https://ift.tt/3fydjVk

Amazon app quiz May 21, 2021: Get answers to these questions and win Rs 25,000 in Amazon Pay balance

Results of today’s quiz will be announced on May 22. https://ift.tt/3ywiBJI

Opera has ‘good news’ for mobile gamers

Internet web browser Opera has announced that it is launching a gaming browser for mobile users — called Opera GX Mobile. Touted as the world’s first mobile browser designed specifically for gamers, the Opera GX Mobile is available in beta on Android and iOS and will become available to the wider public in a few weeks. https://ift.tt/2SYyhF0

Mumbai-based Eruditus Group, which makes top tier university courses accessible globally, acquires SV-based iD Tech, which offers online coding camps, for $200M (Kaavya Chandrasekaran/The Economic Times)

Kaavya Chandrasekaran / The Economic Times:
Mumbai-based Eruditus Group, which makes top tier university courses accessible globally, acquires SV-based iD Tech, which offers online coding camps, for $200M — The acquisition will mark the Mumbai-based entity's expansion beyond higher education into the K-12 STEM space

Jam City, a Harry Potter mobile game publisher, files to go public via SPAC at a $1.2B valuation, buys Ludia, a Canadian mobile game publisher, for $175M (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Jam City, a Harry Potter mobile game publisher, files to go public via SPAC at a $1.2B valuation, buys Ludia, a Canadian mobile game publisher, for $175M — Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here! — Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery mobile game publisher Jam City has filed …

Sunbit, which helps physical and e-commerce stores offer customers the option to pay in installments, raises $130M Series D at $1.1B after money valuation (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech:
Sunbit, which helps physical and e-commerce stores offer customers the option to pay in installments, raises $130M Series D at $1.1B after money valuation — Sunbit focuses on the American credit market and develops a payment method that allows stores to offer their customers the option to pay in installments