10 things in tech you need to know today, October 2

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Tuesday.

1. 
   Google announced “Project Stream,” an experimental video game
   streaming service which will allow people to play games for
   free from the Google Chrome browser. The first
   game available will be the upcoming “Assassin’s Creed:
   Odyssey,” but there are only a limited number of spots.
2. 
   Facebook appointed a 10-year company veteran to replace Kevin
   Systrom as the head of Instagram. Instagram
   has named Adam Mosseri, the current VP of product, to head up
   the photo sharing platform after the two cofounders announced
   they would be leaving the company last week.
3. 
   Google’s longtime advertising chief is leaving after 15 years
   to join VC firm Greylock. Sridhar Ramaswamy
   is leaving to join the venture capital firm, and will be
   replaced by Prabhakar Raghavan, vice president of Engineering
   at Google.
4. 
   Sony’s annual PlayStation conference has been canceled this
   year due to a lack of announcements. Sony’s
   PlayStation Experience will not be held in North America for
   the first time since its launch in 2014.
5. 
   Some iPhone XS owners are reporting that their new iPhones have
   problems charging. Affected iPhones won’t
   begin charging when the screen is turned off, only starting
   when the iPhone is awakened.
6. 
   Former students say that Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak’s
   $13,200 coding bootcamp is ‘broken’ and sometimes links to
   Wikipedia. Last fall, Apple cofounder Steve
   Wozniak launched a coding bootcamp called Woz U, but course
   materials were of low quality and many students felt like they
   did not get enough value out of the bootcamp to justify the
   $13,200 it cost to enroll, CBS reports.
7. 
   Someone bought an unreleased Chromecast from a Best Buy store
   nearly a week before Google’s big hardware
   event. A Reddit user bought an unannounced
   and unreleased Chromecast streaming device from Best Buy over
   the weekend.
8. 
   Tim Berners-Lee launched his vision for an alternative web
   because he believes the current web is abused by powerful
   entities for their own agendas. The inventor
   of the world wide web posted a blog on Saturday laying out his
   vision to create a new, decentralized web.
9. 
   One of Tesla’s biggest bulls thinks Al Gore would be a good
   pick to replace Elon Musk as chairman. Gene
   Munster, a managing partner at the venture capital firm Loup
   Ventures, said Gore would be a good pick following Musk being
   made to step down as chairman by the SEC. 
10. 
    The latest Google Easter egg is a secret text adventure game
    hidden inside Google Search. Thanks to a
    Reddit user who posted on the r/google thread, we now know
    about a secret game hidden inside Google’s code.

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