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News items you should check out: April 20

Best Buy is rolling out its new suite of membership options, My Best Buy Memberships just in time for the retailer’s Fourth of July Sale.

Since Steve and I can’t cover everything, occasionally we’ll direct your attention to articles from various other sources worth your time.

° Best Buy has added itself to Apple’s Business Chat. This means that users can talk to Best Buy’s customer service right through iMessage on their iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac notes Appleosophy.

° Following the removal of the app in January, Apple will now allow the social media app Parler to return to the App Store following changes to how the social media network moderates content, CNN reports.

° Microsoft has announced that it will launch its browser-based Xbox Cloud Gaming service in beta to selected testers on the iPhone and iPad today.

° Charles Geschke, the co-founder of the software company Adobe who helped develop the Portable Document Format, or PDF, has died at the age of 81, reports the BBC.

° Apple has shared a new video that shows how the filmmakers of the Apple TV+ docuseries, ”Tiny World,” were able to get those impressive underwater shots.

° As noted by Gizmodo, Discord has updated its guidelines on NSFW servers following the negative reaction from multiple users regarding last week’s decision.

° The second part of a MacVoices Live! conversation with Glenn Fleishman wraps up a discussion of the M1 Macs, his new ”Take Control of Your M-Series Mac,” and what makes them different.

Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.