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http://bit.ly/2HYdl8z Multiple companies dropped out of the conference in the past couple of weeks. What you need to know The Game Developers Conference (GDC) announced it was postponing its event in San Francisco in March. Multiple large companies pulled out this week, including Microsoft and Epic Games. Another GDC event will be held in the summer. After weeks of speculation, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) announced Friday that it'll be postponing this year's event in San Francisco. The move comes after multiple large companies pulled out this week, citing fears surrounding the coronavirus. Sony and Facebook were two of the first to announce they weren't attending. Just today, Activision Blizzard, Amazon, and Gearbox announced they were pulling out. "After close consultation with our partners in the game development industry and community around the world, we've made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this Marc

http://bit.ly/2HYdl8z Multiple companies dropped out of the conference in the past couple of weeks. What you need to know The Game Developers Conference (GDC) announced it was postponing its event in San Francisco in March. Multiple large companies pulled out this week, including Microsoft and Epic Games. Another GDC event will be held in the summer. After weeks of speculation, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) announced Friday that it'll be postponing this year's event in San Francisco. The move comes after multiple large companies pulled out this week, citing fears surrounding the coronavirus. Sony and Facebook were two of the first to announce they weren't attending. Just today, Activision Blizzard, Amazon, and Gearbox announced they were pulling out. "After close consultation with our partners in the game development industry and community around the world, we've made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March

http://bit.ly/3ciwNdW Sales of the three phones could still pick up in the coming weeks. What you need to know A report out of Korea claims initial sales of Samsung's new Galaxy S20 series phones are significantly lower than expected. Apart from the high prices of the new phones, Coronavirus infection fears may also have contributed to the lacklustre sales. While Samsung had shifted 140,000 Galaxy S10 units on day one, it could only sell 70,800 Galaxy S20 units in South Korea on February 27. Samsung's new Galaxy S20 trio went on sale in the company's home market of South Korea yesterday. Due to a variety of reasons, however, initial sales of the Galaxy S20 series in the country weren't as high as Samsung had expected. As per The Korea Herald , Samsung sold 70,800 units of the Galaxy S20 series in Korea on Thursday, which is significantly lower than the first-day figures for the Galaxy S10 series last year. Samsung had sold 140,000 units of the Galaxy S10

http://bit.ly/2TjPZiS If you are like me and have multiple Amazon Echo smart speakers, sometimes when you call out to one, a different device responds. Or, when you ask Alexa to play music, she sends the stream to a different speaker. Here's how to make sure the output comes from where you expect it. Products used in this guide Most popular Echo: Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Gen) ($50 at Amazon) All-around champ: Amazon Echo 3rd Gen ($100 at Amazon) Newest smart screen: Amazon Echo Show 8 ($130 at Amazon) How to set an Amazon Echo speaker group To set a default speaker, you'll need to have multiple Echo speakers arranged into an existing group. If you don't have this setup, here's how. Open the Amazon Alexa app on your smartphone. Tap on Devices in the lower right corner. Tap on the + icon in the top right corner. Tap on Add Group . Select or create a group name . Choose which Echo devices should be in the group, then tap Save . How to set a de

Andrew O'Hara joins Stephen Robles discussing the possible move to ARM-based Macs in 2021, upcoming changes in iOS 13.4, Mac Pro white papers and user-installable wheel kit, Target's leaked photo of "AirPods X," Rian Johnson on iPhones in movies, and more. source https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/28/arm-macs-in-2021-ios-134-beta-airpods-x-mac-pro-news-and-more-on-the-appleinsider-podcast

The increased use of encryption has made the Internet a "wild west, unregulated, inaccessible to authorities, according to chief of British security agency MI5 Sir Andrew Parker, with the use of end-to-end encryption by Apple and other tech companies continuing to make it nearly impossible for law enforcement officials to monitor online conversations. source https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/28/mi5-head-wants-exceptional-access-to-encrypted-communications

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