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10 things in tech you need to know today, October 2
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Tuesday.
Google announced “Project Stream,” an experimental video game
streaming service which will allow people to play games for
free from the Google Chrome browser. The first
game available will be the upcoming “Assassin’s Creed:
Odyssey,” but there are only a limited number of spots.
Facebook appointed a 10-year company veteran to replace Kevin
Systrom as the head of Instagram. Instagram
has named Adam Mosseri, the current VP of product, to head up
the photo sharing platform after the two cofounders announced
they would be leaving the company last week.
Google’s longtime advertising chief is leaving after 15 years
to join VC firm Greylock. Sridhar Ramaswamy
is leaving to join the venture capital firm, and will be
replaced by Prabhakar Raghavan, vice president of Engineering
at Google.
Sony’s annual PlayStation conference has been canceled this
year due to a lack of announcements. Sony’s
PlayStation Experience will not be held in North America for
the first time since its launch in 2014.
Some iPhone XS owners are reporting that their new iPhones have
problems charging. Affected iPhones won’t
begin charging when the screen is turned off, only starting
when the iPhone is awakened.
Former students say that Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak’s
$13,200 coding bootcamp is ‘broken’ and sometimes links to
Wikipedia. Last fall, Apple cofounder Steve
Wozniak launched a coding bootcamp called Woz U, but course
materials were of low quality and many students felt like they
did not get enough value out of the bootcamp to justify the
$13,200 it cost to enroll, CBS reports.
Someone bought an unreleased Chromecast from a Best Buy store
nearly a week before Google’s big hardware
event. A Reddit user bought an unannounced
and unreleased Chromecast streaming device from Best Buy over
the weekend.
Tim Berners-Lee launched his vision for an alternative web
because he believes the current web is abused by powerful
entities for their own agendas. The inventor
of the world wide web posted a blog on Saturday laying out his
vision to create a new, decentralized web.
One of Tesla’s biggest bulls thinks Al Gore would be a good
pick to replace Elon Musk as chairman. Gene
Munster, a managing partner at the venture capital firm Loup
Ventures, said Gore would be a good pick following Musk being
made to step down as chairman by the SEC.
The latest Google Easter egg is a secret text adventure game
hidden inside Google Search. Thanks to a
Reddit user who posted on the r/google thread, we now know
about a secret game hidden inside Google’s code.
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