Month: August 2020
Apple says Epic is ‘putting the entire App Store model at risk’
Apple has responded to Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit over its iOS App Store policies. The filing asks a court not to temporarily reverse an App Store ban while the suit is ongoing. And it accuses Epic of disingenuously creating an “emergency” by accepting direct payments through Fortnite in violation of…
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Scammers Are Using Facebook To Prey On People In Kenya
Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters A man opens Facebook on his computer. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde Early last year, Elizabeth, a salon owner in Nairobi, needed business supplies but didn’t have enough money to buy them. She thought she had found an answer when she came across a sponsored post on Facebook from…
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Hear our reviews of Samsung’s Note 20 Ultra, Galaxy Buds Live, and Galaxy Watch 3
This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast, The Vergecast, Dieter Bohn, Becca Farsace, and Dan Seifert log into a Zoom meeting to discuss their reviews of the next line of Samsung hardware on the market: the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, the Galaxy Buds Live, and the Galaxy Watch 3. The…
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Hundreds of millions of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube accounts compromised by data breach null
Security researchers have discovered an exposed database online which contains scraped data from the social media profiles of nearly 235m Instagram, TikTok and YouTube users. For those unfamiliar with the practice, web scraping is an automated technique used to gather data from websites that is often employed by analytics firms…
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The 5G BlackBerry could be ‘the most American-made phone out there’
BlackBerry faithful were dealt a harsh blow earlier this year when TCL, the biggest company to build phones for the brand, said it would stop. That left enthusiasts clinging to their KEY2s, wondering about would-be replacements, and raising glasses t… Source
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Facebook is reportedly planning for Trump to meddle with election results
Facebook, which has long resisted putting checks on political speech, is now grappling with an uncomfortable new scenario: what should it do if the president is the one trying to interfere with election results. The New York Times reports that the so… Source
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