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Jess Weatherbed

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    Google buys part of HTC’s XR business.

    The $250 million deal — announced after Samsung’s extended reality headset made its public debut yesterday — includes parts of HTC’s XR headsets and glasses unit, with some of the VIVE engineering team relocating to Google.

    Google had previously purchased most of HTC’s smartphone business for $1.1 billion in 2017. HTC Vice President Lu Chia-te says the XR deal isn’t “a buyout nor an exclusive license.”

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Logitech globally expands its DIY repair program.

    There are repair guides and replacement parts available for more than 20 Logitech devices, including keyboards, headsets, and MX / G series mice, on the iFixit-hosted Logitech Repair Hub — and now you can get them in 62 countries.

    That includes the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, and across the EU, following Logitech’s iFixit partnership initially launching in the US. Repair guides are also available in multiple languages.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    PowerSchool is being awfully quiet about its data breach.

    TechCrunch says that the US edtech giant declined to answer outstanding questions about the hack it reported this month, and several schools that were impacted have yet to receive an incident report.

    Both the scale of the breach and who was behind it are still unknown. PowerSchool did notify customers that “sensitive personal information” on students and teachers was stolen, however.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Watch spreadsheet superstars battle for a world title.

    The Microsoft Excel World Championship is a reminder that anything can be competitive (and fun) if you’re skilled enough. At the HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas last month, 12 finalists faced off by solving puzzles with spreadsheets in an effort to be named the world’s best spreadsheeter.

    You can check out the highlights below.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Features coming to Instagram’s new tall profile grid.

    Instagram’s chief says the changes reflect the domination of vertical content on the platform, and that highlighted stories should be coming to the grid in the future.

    Instagram is also building tools that will allow users to re-order their grids and post to it directly without pushing posts to feeds — but Mosseri says this “may very well change as we iterate over the next couple months.”

    A screenshot of an Instagram post where Adam Mosseri explains why the platform introduced its new tall grids feature.
    Landscape videos and photos are out, long live vertical-orientation content.
    Image: Instagram / Adam Mosseri