Month: January 2022
Heads up: Telstra’s handing out a free year of Disney Plus right now
Audio player loading… Thinking of catching up on The Book of Boba Fett, or maybe binging all the latest Marvel movies? Telstra’s latest offer will ensure you have plenty of time to watch all the Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars content you crave with a free year-long subscription to Disney…
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Google exec says Apple is ‘holding back’ customers who text
On Saturday, Android boss Hiroshi Lockheimer accused Apple of “using peer pressure and bullying as a way to sell products,” after a Wall Street Journal report revealed how US teens have turned Apple’s iMessage into a social status symbol that locks Android users out. Now, Lockheimer is taking a slightly…
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The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism
The Associated Press, or AP, has announced that it’s starting a marketplace to sell NFTs of its photojournalists’ work in collaboration with a company called Xooa. It’s billing its foray into NFTs as a way for collectors to “purchase the news agency’s award-winning contemporary and historic photojournalism” and says that…
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LAPD officers fired for catching a Snorlax instead of a burglar denied appeal
Two LAPD officers who were fired from their jobs in 2017 for playing Pokémon Go while on duty have had their appeal for reinstatement denied by a California judge. The officers’ squad car video camera showed the two officers, Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell, ignored a request for backup to…
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T-Mobile appears to be blocking some iPhone users from turning on Private Relay
T-Mobile appears to be blocking some iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay, a feature that lets you hide the websites you visit from third parties, according to a report from 9to5Mac. Private Relay is still in beta in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, and it isn’t turned on by…
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Why Take-Two wants to pay nearly $13 billion for the maker of FarmVille
Take-Two Interactive just announced its intent to buy FarmVille developer Zynga for $12.7 billion in what could be the biggest acquisition in video game history. It’s an absolutely massive deal; to put it in perspective, the acquisition would be $5 billion more than Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of the parent…
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