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Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy Discord but Discord might just take itself public instead. A ton of video game news including an Xbox rebranding, a new Niantic partnership with Nintendo, and new rumors of that upgraded Nintendo switch. A new consortium wants to take the pain out of browser compatibility and Apple faces a class action lawsuit over the butterfly keyboards.

Links:

• Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live to Xbox network (The Verge)
• Pikmin is the next AR game from the makers of Pokémon Go (The Verge)
• Nintendo to Use New Nvidia Graphics Chip in 2021 Switch Upgrade (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft, Google, and others join forces to improve browser compatibility (Neowin)
• Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers (TechCrunch)
• Angry MacBook owners get class action status for butterfly keyboard suit (The Verge)
• Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47 (The Verge)

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