Microsoft's Chris Novak, currently head of Xbox R&D, is leaving after nearly 20 years; Novak has previously worked on Xbox Game Pass and Live (Nicole Carpenter/Polygon)

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon:
Microsoft's Chris Novak, currently head of Xbox R&D, is leaving after nearly 20 years; Novak has previously worked on Xbox Game Pass and Live  —  From Xbox design director, to architect, to leading Xbox research and design  —  If you've subscribed to Game Pass or obsessed over Xbox achievements …

Just Eat Takeaway says it is exploring a partial or full sale of Grubhub, less than one year after buying it for $7.3B (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
Just Eat Takeaway says it is exploring a partial or full sale of Grubhub, less than one year after buying it for $7.3B  —  Just Eat Takeaway.com NV said it's considering a partial or full sale of its Grubhub unit, just as the end of the pandemic has soured investors on food-delivery firms.

Amazon reportedly working on a 'new-to-world' AR smart home product

The tech giant is looking to hire a user experience (UX) designer to work on "the core system interface along with end-user applications spanning from multi-modal interfaces to 3D AR entertainment experiences". https://ift.tt/oxZtUYu

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says reports of the service removing piracy websites are "made up" and blames an issue with its site:operator search function (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Umar Shakir / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says reports of the service removing piracy websites are “made up” and blames an issue with its site:operator search function  —  Blank site search results for The Pirate Bay gave users reason to believe otherwise

NASA moon rocket faces more flight delays following multiple failed fuelling tests

The 30-story Space Launch System rocket has been on the pad at Kennedy Space Center for the past month. It will return to the hangar next week for valve and fuel leak repairs. The problems cropped up earlier this month, preventing NASA from filling the rocket's fuel tanks for a critical dress rehearsal. https://ift.tt/JG5LDve

Facebook set to take on Clubhouse with these new features

Taking on popular audio chat platform Clubhouse, Facebook has announced several audio products like short-form experience called Soundbites and arrival of podcasts on its main platform. https://ift.tt/RVnoJXv