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Roblox pops 10% after initial earnings dip

A child looks back at a banner for Roblox, displayed to celebrate the company’s IPO, on the front facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, March 10, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Shares of Roblox were up 10% on Wednesday morning, marking a stark turnaround from an initial 10% plunge Tuesday […]

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Technology

iPhone 15 Could Replace Lightning Port With USB-C

ipad miniphoto: Caitlin McGarry/Gizmodo I’m getting teary-eyed, and I can’t help it. Why the emotion? Because after years of stubbornly using the Lightning connector on the iPhone, a new leak says that Apple will make the switch to USB-C next year. I’d normally be quite skeptical about such a claim, but this one comes from […]

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Markets

5 things to know before the stock market opens Wednesday, May 11

Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Futures turn lower after consumer prices remain at four decade highs Traders on the floor of the NYSE, May 10, 2022. Source: NYSE US stock futures turned lower Wednesday after the first of two key April inflation […]

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Business

Bitcoin Prices Fall. Cryptos Pressured as Terra’s Meltdown Intensifies.

Bitcoin prices have suffered a route over the past week alongside other cryptocurrencies. dreamstime Textsize Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remained under pressure Wednesday, but above their Tuesday lows, with the focus on the meltdown of stablecoin TerraUSD, which is designed to be pegged to the US dollar. The price of Bitcoin fell 2% over the […]

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Mobile

Musk’s tweets on Tesla funding reckless, court rules | Financial Markets

Judge finds ‘there was nothing concrete’ about Saudi financing to take the electric carmaker private. A US court has ruled that Elon Musk’s 2018 tweets saying funding had been secured to take Tesla private were inaccurate and reckless, delivering a major victory to investors who alleged the billionaire artificially inflated stock prices. US District Judge […]

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SOCCER

EA Sports will end its video game partnership with FIFA

Electronic Arts and its subsidiary EA Sports will end a three-decade partnership with FIFA — global soccer’s governing body — the gaming company announced on Tuesday. Starting next year, the hugely popular FIFA video game franchise will be known as “EA SPORTS FC.” “This new independent platform will bring fresh opportunity — to innovate, create […]

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Music

New Roland T-8 Beat Machine, J-6 Chord Synth, E-4 Voice Tweaker

You can write, record, edit, mix, and publish a song using nothing but a collection of apps on your smartphone, but musicians, even those producing electronic music, like physical instruments with buttons and knobs they can fiddle and perform with. Roland’s new AIRA Compact line is a trio of miniaturized music makersand while not as […]

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Technology

New Lenovo Legion 7 and Slim 7 Laptops Pair Brawn with Beauty

Lenovo Legion 7photo: Florence Ion/Gizmodo Lenovo is best known for its ThinkPad business laptops, but its Legion series has birthed some of the best gaming systems I’ve used in the past few years. Today, the laptop maker is replacing the old with a new fleet consisting of the Legion 7 and Legion Slim 7, each […]

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Business

Prologis Offers to Buy Duke Realty in Nearly $24 Billion Deal

prolog Inc., PLD -5.26% the world’s largest owner of warehouse space, said it offered to buy Duke Realty Corp. DRE 3.92% in a nearly $24 billion deal, a vote of confidence in the e-commerce business at a time when investors are getting nervous about its growth. Prologis controls a 1 billion square foot global network […]

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Technology

Intel Arc Laptop and Desktop GPUs Delayed

when Intel told us in March that the first Arc 3 laptops were shipping “today,” we assumed they were, well, ready. It turns out, however, that like every other thing we’ve been dying to try in the past two years, Arc is delayed. As detailed in a blog posts Written by Lisa Pierce, the vice […]