Month: March 2022
Two men arrested for $1.1 million NFT ‘rug pull’ scam
US government prosecutors have charged two men with fraud and money laundering over a cryptocurrency “rug pull” scheme. Ethan Nguyen and Andre Llacuna allegedly earned around $1.1 million by selling non-fungible tokens (or NFTs) based on cartoon-like characters called “Frosties.” After selling the NFTs, they shut down the project and…
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Google changes how it decides which product reviews come up in Search
Google announced Wednesday it’s making some improvements to how it decides which product reviews it shows in Search results. The idea behind these and other recent product reviews updates is to ensure that reviews you see are high quality and actually include helpful information about a product you might be…
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Apple might want you to subscribe to your next iPhone
Audio player loading… What if instead of buying your next iPhone or even spreading payments out for the nearly $1,000 device across multiple months, you leased it, like you would a car? Bloomberg is reporting this week that the Cupertino tech giant is investigating the possibility of launching yet another…
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Spotify might soon bypass Android billing, but Google’s still getting paid
For years, a loose coalition of companies, including Spotify and Epic Games, has been railing against the so-called app store tax — taking Apple and Google to court and spurring regulators to investigate their up-to-30 percent cut of developers’ app revenue. They argue they’re locked into grossly overpriced billing, hosting,…
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Netflix cancels critically-acclaimed horror series after just one season
Audio player loading… Netflix has canceled Archive 81 after just one season. The horror series, which debuted on the streaming service at the start of 2022, had drawn good reviews from critics, with an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but that has not been enough to earn it a second…
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Google Cloud is making a major change to its VMs
Audio player loading… Google Cloud customers will now be able to suspend their virtual machines (VMs) when not in use which will help lower their cloud spending. The software giant’s cloud computing division has announced that its new Suspend/Resume feature for VMs is now generally available after launching in alpha…
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