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Everything we know about Apple’s unexpected March 25 event

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by on March 12, 2019 at 1:31 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


For months, Apple has been rumored to be working on a streaming video service, and it looks like the company will finally unveil its next offering on March 25. It’s sent out invites for an event at its new campus, with the tagline ‘It’s show time.’ Apple hasn’t confirmed that this is what it’ll be about, but that’s the word on the street. We heard last year that the company had plans to spend a billion dollars to produce original video content through 2018, with big names like Oprah, Aaron Paul, Steve Carrell, and Kristen Wiig. It also has deals in…

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This Chinese turn-based singing game looks amazing

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by on March 12, 2019 at 1:10 pm
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I used to get so damn excited about apps. I spent hours downloading ridiculous flashlights and mind readers and guessing games, but then, I plateaued. Little blew me away. Thankfully, something amazing has arrived on the scene: Music Meetup. Reported on by supchina, it’s an app that connects six strangers to sing a song. It works like this: people log onto the app and hear a user-sung clip of a big tune. After that, they have to sing the succeeding verse. An AI then rates the quality of this warbling, giving the individual a thumbs-up or thumbs-down depending on their…

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If May’s Brexit deal passes tonight, she’ll have 21 months to build a tech-powered Irish border

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by on March 12, 2019 at 12:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, UK


The Irish backstop is the biggest obstacle preventing Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement from squeaking through parliament. This legal instrument means that, should the UK fail to secure a deal that would permit an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the former would remain in the European Union’s (EU) customs area and large parts of the single market. This is unpalatable for the hard Eurosceptics in the Conservative party, who want to see the UK make a clean break from the EU. It’s also opposed by the Northern Irish Unionist party currently propping up Theresa May’s…

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