Month: June 2022
Apple’s giving up ground in its App Store fight with Dutch regulators and Tinder
Apple announced on Friday that it’s once again updated its rules about how Dutch dating apps can use third-party payment systems, after the company had “productive conversations with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM).” The updated rules give developers more flexibility about which payment systems they use, change…
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Duke Nukem is getting a movie from some guys who could actually pull it off
I wouldn’t be surprised if you have no idea who Duke Nukem even is — that’s how hard the classic video game franchise cratered a decade ago. Today, the character is mostly known as a punchline for video game vaporware jokes, about how Duke Nukem Forever spent 14 years in…
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Apple is about to make your iPad more useful than ever
Audio player loading… Apple has revealed a new expansion that it hopes will make iPad devices open to more accessories than ever. DriverKit, one of the many updates coming to iPadOS 16, will let manufacturers and developers create drivers specifically for iPads for the first time, and even build multi-platform…
Read MoreStadia just made it a lot easier to play the Resident Evil Village demo
Capcom has launched a demo of Resident Evil Village that’s powered by Google’s Stadia cloud gaming tech, letting people test out the horror game in a browser. In a press release, Google says that the idea is to let people try out the game, no matter what device they own.…
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New AT&T subscribers will no longer get HBO Max (or any other video service)
One perk most wireless carriers offer to pull you to their side is a free streaming video-on-demand subscription, but now AT&T won’t be giving HBO Max to new customers, and hasn’t replaced it with a different service either. The carrier stealthily discontinued its top-tier Unlimited Elite plan for new subscribers…
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Tesla files for a three-way stock split to make its shares more affordable
Tesla is asking its shareholders to approve a three-way stock split to help make the company’s shares cheaper for buyers. The request is included in a list of provisions Tesla is planning to bring up at its August 4, 2022 shareholder meeting, which it filed Friday with the US Securities…
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