Google and 3M have joined the Universal Stylus Initiative. Will this herald a new age of stylus interchangeability between hardware vendors? Plus eBay will end use of PayPal as a back-end payment system in 2020 and YouTube TV is now available on select Roku devices.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.
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- Quick Hits
- (01:10) Discord Desktop Apps Gain Deep Spotify Integration, Including Real-Time ‘Listen Along’ Feature | mac rumors
- (01:35) Data-friendly YouTube Go app is available in 130 more countries | engadget
- (01:55) Microsoft extends Windows 10 support period, but makes cuts to Office 2019 | ars technica
- More Top Stories
- (02:35) Amazon’s results beat estimates on holiday season boost | reuters
- (04:10) Alphabet’s earnings miss Wall St. estimates as spending grows | reuters
- (06:15) Telegram apps fall foul of iOS App Store content rules | tech crunch
- (09:05) YouTube TV available on Roku, coming to Apple TV ‘very soon’ | cnet
- (12:30) Nintendo announces Mario Kart Tour smartphone game | polygon
- (14:20) Instagram’s new ‘type mode’ lets you add text-only pages to your stories | the verge
- (17:50) After 15 years, eBay plans to cut off PayPal as its main payments processor | recode
- (20:50) Google and 3M have joined an initiative working toward an open standard for styluses | the verge
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