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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Facebook’s service will launch on the desktop web and Android, but not iOS due to what Facebook frames as usability restrictions outlined in Apple’s App Store terms and conditions.

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Apple agrees to $50 million settlement over MacBook's old defective butterfly keyboards

Mashable VR

If you purchased a MacBook between 2015 and 2019 with the dreaded butterfly keyboard, a couple of Benjamins may soon be on your way, courtesy of Apple. On Tuesday, Apple agreed to settle a class action lawsuit against the company over its flawed butterfly keyboards. As part of the settlement, Apple will pay $50 million.

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XREAL AR Smart Glasses to Tackle Meta, Apple Vision Pro during 2024 Holiday Period

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

In October, Micro Center will be selling XREAL products in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. Can XREAL take on Meta and Apple? The answer is yes.

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Siri, bring me weed

Mashable VR

Buying weed on the Apple App Store is getting way easier — and even more competitive. The Apothecarium, a new app on the Apple App Store , lets users in New Jersey and California place orders for pickup for their dispensaries.

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My dad’s letter to kids of the future

Robert Scoble

Because Silicon Valley grew up around us, literally, I had a front-row seat from a very early age (I got a tour of Apple when it was only a building or two back when I was 13 in 1977. Apple started a mile away from my house, so close that I stole apricots from where many of its buildings now sit. High in Cupertino that same year.

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Where to access banned books

Mashable VR

Think: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe , a memoir about adolescence and gender identity ( banned/challenged in schools in Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Ohio, Washington, and Texas). You can download a copy of your selected book or read it on the site itself. Credit: Screenshot / Many Books.

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Bringing the AR of the Military to the Eyes of Consumers, with ThirdEye Gen’s Nick Cherukuri

XR for Business Podcast

And as you may know, the military, a lot of the technologies we use today have evolved from there, so for example, the Internet, GPS, even Siri for your iPhone originally came from SRI, which is right down the road from us in Princeton, developed there and Apple bought it off them. And I think from Apple’s perspective.

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