Shifts in Tech: Acquisitions, Innovations, and Financial Strategies

Who needs a gaming console? Not Xbox, not anymore. Twitter is gonna give Elon the firehose treatment. Dell unveils some new XPS goodness. Apple does its own banking. More signs of the NFT market cooling off. And a popular developer tool is riding off into the sunset.

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• Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (The Verge)
• The Xbox game streaming TV app feels almost like the real thing (The Verge)
• Xbox Project Moorcroft will bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
• In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (Washington Post)
• Dell unveils a slimmer XPS 13 and a detachable 2-in-1 (Engadget)
• Apple Will Handle Lending Itself With New Pay Later Service (Bloomberg)
• Ethereum’s Merge Upgrade Goes Live Today on Ropsten Testnet (Decrypt)
• ApeCoin Owners Vote Against Leaving the Ethereum Blockchain (Bloomberg)
• The NFT slump is real (TechCrunch)
• GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 (TechCrunch)

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