Month: July 2020

Amazon stops selling apps and games for older Kindles

Once upon a time you could play Scrabble, do crossword puzzles, and run other third-party apps and games on Amazon Kindle eReaders. But Amazon stopped offering the feature in 2014 when the company launched the Kindle Voyage. Every new model since then…

Once upon a time you could play Scrabble, do crossword puzzles, and run other third-party apps and games on Amazon Kindle eReaders. But Amazon stopped offering the feature in 2014 when the company launched the Kindle Voyage. Every new model since then has lacked support for so-called “Kindle Active Content.” Still, if you had an […]

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Uber plans to gobble up delivery rival Postmates in $2.6 billion deal

Analysts have been expecting the delivery apps to consolidate; now they are.

Bicycle couriers making deliveries to Uber Eats customers in São Paulo in April, 2019 (a year before the novel coronavirus pandemic).

Enlarge / Bicycle couriers making deliveries to Uber Eats customers in São Paulo in April, 2019 (a year before the novel coronavirus pandemic). (credit: Joel Carillet | Getty Images)

Uber is trying again to acquire a food delivery rival after it wiped out on its last attempt earlier this year. The company said today it plans chow down on Postmates in a deal valued at $2.6 billion.

The companies announced the all-stock transaction this morning. Uber said the companies' businesses are "highly complementary," as they have different customer bases in different parts of the country. Uber in its press release praised Postmates as "an early pioneer of 'delivery-as-a-service,'" a truly spectacular buzzword jam for our era.

What Uber probably wants, though, is for someone to deliver it a profit. The company lost $2.9 billion in the first quarter of this year (period ending March 31), after losing $1.1 billion each in Q4 and Q3 and a whopping $5 billion in the quarter before that.

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Atari VCS game console set to ship by December 24 (allegedly)

It’s been a long and (very) bumpy road, but the developers of the Atari VCS retro-inspired game console have finally announced a ship date. The Atari VCS All-in bundle is up for pre-order from Atari, Walmart, and Gamestop, and it’s expecte…

It’s been a long and (very) bumpy road, but the developers of the Atari VCS retro-inspired game console have finally announced a ship date. The Atari VCS All-in bundle is up for pre-order from Atari, Walmart, and Gamestop, and it’s expected to begin shipping to customers by December 24, 2020. Customers who pre-order by July […]

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Videocodec: H.265-Nachfolger VVC ist fertig

Der neue Videocodec VVC alias H.266 ist offiziell fertig. Im Vergleich zum Vorgänger soll die Bitrate um bis zu 50 Prozent sinken. (Video-Codec, H.264)

Der neue Videocodec VVC alias H.266 ist offiziell fertig. Im Vergleich zum Vorgänger soll die Bitrate um bis zu 50 Prozent sinken. (Video-Codec, H.264)