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Sony confirms the new PlayStation Store won’t let you buy PS3, PSP and Vita games outside those consoles,

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If you prefer buying older PlayStation games over the web or on mobile, you won’t be able to do that for much longer. Sony is sending emails to PlayStation gamers that confirm a revamped digital storefront coming between October 21st and 26th, which will remove users’ options to purchase games and DLC released initially on the PS3, PSP, and Vita …

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Twitter’s massive outage may be over, company says ‘no evidence’ of hack,

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Twitter has been experiencing an outage that began in the early evening on Thursday, with some users reporting problems sending tweets and refreshing their timelines starting shortly after 5:30PM ET. Just after 7PM ET, tweets began to cross our timelines, and things may be returning to normal. “We have no evidence of a security breach or hack, and we’re currently …

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Twitter is experiencing a massive outage right now,

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Twitter is experiencing an outrage that began in the early evening on Thursday, with some users reporting problems sending tweets and refreshing their timelines starting shortly after 5:30PM ET. We have seen no new tweets cross our timelines since then, though we were able to find a tweet sent as late as 5:40PM ET using Twitter’s search tool. User-generated reports …

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FAA cuts the red tape for commercial rocket launches (and landings, too), ,

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Commercial space is about to become more accessible than ever before. Today (Oct. 15), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration‘s (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) announced that it has published a new launch and re-entry rule known as the Streamlined Launch and Re-entry Licensing Regulation-2 (SLR2). The new rule aims to increase launch and reentry access for commercial space …

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Go read about the dire working conditions for Ring’s call center employees in the Philippines,

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Amazon extended its work-from-home policy into 2021 for corporate employees, but call center workers in the Philippines contracted by the company’s Ring subsidiary continue to work in person with increased risk of COVID-19 infection, as detailed in a report for NBC News by Olivia Solon and April Glaser. Employees of Teleperformance — contracted by Ring in the Philippines — describe …

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Facebook is accidentally locking some users out of their new Oculus headsets,

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Facebook says a “small number” of customers have been locked out of their new Oculus Quest 2 headsets, following a string of reports that buyers were unable to use the virtual reality headsets because their Facebook accounts were suspended. On Twitter, it urged users to contact Oculus if they had problems. As UploadVR reported yesterday, users complained that they had …