Author: Zach_Wilson
Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly
Judge James Donato just made it crystal clear: Google will pay. Eight months after a federal jury unanimously decided that Google’s Android app store is an illegal monopoly in Epic v. Google, Donato held his final hearing on remedies today. While we don’t yet know what will happen, he repeatedly…
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iPhones will help decide offside violations in English soccer this season
The UK’s top soccer league is switching up the tech it uses to detect offside violations on the football pitch. The Premier League has contracted with a company called Genius Sports, which will use dozens of iPhones combined with machine-learning models to help game officials make an offside call. Offside…
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Valve is now hiding meme-y and ASCII art reviews on Steam store pages
Valve has started publicly testing sorting reviews in the Steam store based on how well they help players make purchase decisions about games. Historically we’ve sorted reviews by the number of ‘helpful’ votes given to each review by other players. However, we’ve seen that many players use reviews for sharing…
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I like this ridiculous Playdate pizza case so much I bought a Playdate
A bunch of the Engadget crew loves the Playdate, the tiny, quirky portable console with a load of great indie games and a crank on the side. I’ve long had my eye on it, but never pulled the trigger for one reason or another. I do get Playdate emails, though,…
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Apple’s secret, rumored robot project might have one thing going for it – it’ll be cheaper than Vision Pro
Rumors that Apple is hard at work on a home table-top robot persist, with the latest report estimating the potential price of this animated bot at somewhere around $1,000. According to a new report in Bloomberg, Apple has hundreds of people working on the project, with most of them led…
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iPhone camera app Halide has an ‘anti-intelligent’ mode to make shooting with RAW easier
Halide is one of the best camera alternatives for the iPhone, a lovingly-crafted app that gives users plenty of manual control over the images they take. And today they just pushed out a major update with an intriguing proposition: an “anti-intelligent” camera. Of course, more advanced digital photographers will already…
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