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OnePlus 12 preorders come with a free storage upgrade for a limited time

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With the impending launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series, OnePlus surely hopes to hitch a ride...
With the impending launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series, OnePlus surely hopes to hitch a ride on the buzz train as upgrade season begins. The newly announced OnePlus 12 arrives on February 6th, however, you can currently get a free storage upgrade if you place a preorder before then. Both Amazon and Best Buy are se...
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Microsoft Teams is down around the world, it’s not just you

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Dirty tricks or small wins: developers are skeptical of Apple’s App Store rules

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Apple is finally opening up the iPhone to sideloading and alternative app stores — at least...
Apple is finally opening up the iPhone to sideloading and alternative app stores — at least in the European Union. It’s also allowing developers to use third-party payment processors in their apps. This is all part of Apple’s efforts to comply with the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), and at the surface, these ch...
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Here’s the new Apple tax every developer is going to hate

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Apple is finally opening the iPhone to third-party app stores in the European Union, kicking off...
Apple is finally opening the iPhone to third-party app stores in the European Union, kicking off a potentially vibrant, unwieldy, and eclectic new era for its app ecosystem. At least, it might, depending on how developers respond to a hurdle that is at once tiny and immense: a €0.50 fee.Apple is introducing a new fe...
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Monkey Man’s new trailer feels like a warning shot fired at John Wick

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For the past few years, Lionsgate has dominated the stylish, hyper-choreographed, bullet-hole-ridden action-thriller genre with a...
For the past few years, Lionsgate has dominated the stylish, hyper-choreographed, bullet-hole-ridden action-thriller genre with a steady stream of John Wick movies as well as a spinoff series. But the first trailer for Universal and Blumhouse’s Monkey Man from director Dev Patel makes it seem like a glorious challen...
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Microsoft explains how Russian hackers spied on its executives

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Microsoft revealed last week that it had discovered a nation-state attack on its corporate systems from...
Microsoft revealed last week that it had discovered a nation-state attack on its corporate systems from the Russian state-sponsored hackers that were behind the SolarWinds attack. Hackers were able to access the email accounts of some members of Microsoft’s senior leadership team — potentially spying on them for wee...
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The Pixel 8 Pro is one goofy way to take your temperature

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Earlier this week, Google updated the Pixel 8 Pro to let its strange new temperature sensor...
Earlier this week, Google updated the Pixel 8 Pro to let its strange new temperature sensor finally take readings of human bodies. I regret to inform you that, having used it, it doesn’t make this feature any less baffling.To measure body temperature, you have to sweep the phone’s infrared temperature sensor over th...
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Switch 2: all the news and rumors on Nintendo’s next console

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The Nintendo Switch is going to be a tough act to follow. With more than 130...
The Nintendo Switch is going to be a tough act to follow. With more than 130 million units sold, the hybrid tablet has become the company’s bestselling console to date, besting the Wii, and slowly but surely approaching the DS handheld. The question is: what comes next?Nintendo infamously followed the Wii with the i...
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Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet

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Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors, tried to send a 90-second video to regulators...
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors, tried to send a 90-second video to regulators of an incident in which one of its driverless cars dragged a pedestrian 20 feet but was hampered by “internet connectivity issues,” according to a report compiled by a law firm investigating the incident. The law...
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Epic intends to launch its game store — and Fortnite — on iOS

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Epic plans to launch the Epic Games Store on the iPhone this year in the European...
Epic plans to launch the Epic Games Store on the iPhone this year in the European Union — and it’s bringing Fortnite back to the platform along with it.The announcement comes after Apple shared how it will open up iOS in response to the EU’s crackdown on Big Tech. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney described Apple’s rules as “hot...
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Pokémon with guns? All the latest on viral gaming hit Palworld

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Gaming’s first big surprise hit of 2024 arrived early with the release of Palworld. Described by...
Gaming’s first big surprise hit of 2024 arrived early with the release of Palworld. Described by some as “Pokémon with guns,” the game launched in early access on Steam and Xbox in January and sold millions of copies in a matter of days. In reality, it’s more of a survival game in the Ark or Minecraft mold, but with...
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The Pokémon Company says it will “investigate” Palworld

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You can all stop calling now — The Pokémon Company’s lawyers are on the case. In...
You can all stop calling now — The Pokémon Company’s lawyers are on the case. In a statement posted on the company’s website, The Pokémon Company says it’s aware of a “game released in January 2024” and plans to “take appropriate measures to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property rights related to t...
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Epic’s Tim Sweeney calls Apple App Store changes ‘hot garbage’

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Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, has a lot to say about the changes Apple...
Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, has a lot to say about the changes Apple made to its App Store in the European Union. In a lengthy post on X (formerly Twitter), Sweeney calls the update “a new instance of Malicious Compliance” — or, in layman’s terms, “hot garbage.”This afternoon, Apple announced it would allow ...
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FTC investigating Microsoft, Amazon, and Google investments into OpenAI and Anthropic

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an inquiry into the investments of Big Tech companies that...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an inquiry into the investments of Big Tech companies that provide cloud services to smaller AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.The FTC sent letters to Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI, requiring the companies to explain the impact these investments hav...
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The most powerful Ryzen Zen 3 processor receives its biggest discount yet

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AMD made bank on its Ryzen chipsets on the strength of bored pandemic-era gamers who spent...
AMD made bank on its Ryzen chipsets on the strength of bored pandemic-era gamers who spent their stimulus checks on new PC builds. Ryzen CPUs offered arguably the best price-to-performance value back then, causing many to go all in on AM4-based systems. AMD has since switched to the next-generation AM5 platform, but...
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Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI

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Apple opens App Store to game streaming services

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Starting today Apple is opening up its App Store to allow game streaming apps and services....
Starting today Apple is opening up its App Store to allow game streaming apps and services. This means that services like Xbox Cloud Streaming and GeForce Now, which previously were only accessible on iOS via a web browser, will be able to offer full-featured apps. “Developers can now submit a single app with the ca...
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Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone

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Netflix is going to take away its cheapest ad-free plan

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Although Netflix no longer allows new or returning members to sign up for the ad-free Basic...
Although Netflix no longer allows new or returning members to sign up for the ad-free Basic subscription that costs $11.99 per month, company executives told investors while reporting its earnings results today that it’s retiring the plan in some countries where ad-supported plans are available. It’s starting with C...
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The best smartwatches for Android right now

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After a long stretch of slim pickings, the last couple of years have been huge for...
After a long stretch of slim pickings, the last couple of years have been huge for Android smartwatches. Now there are more good options than ever. But this is still a transitional era. While we’re encouraged by the stronger third-party app options, the market is still fragmented. Wear OS 4 is already here for Samsu...
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The Pixel 9 leaks are already here

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The Pixel 8 has only been out for a few months, but that isn’t stopping leakers...
The Pixel 8 has only been out for a few months, but that isn’t stopping leakers from getting early images of the forthcoming Pixel 9. Reliable leaker OnLeaks shared a set of renders with MySmartPrice, showing what appears to be Google’s Pixel 9 Pro flagship with completely flat edges framing the phone and giving off...
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Nintendo goes after the Palworld Pokémon modder

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Nintendo has finally come for Palworld... in the form of issuing a takedown for a video...
Nintendo has finally come for Palworld... in the form of issuing a takedown for a video of a mod that swapped all the Palworld pals for pokémon. Lol. If you’re not one of the now 6 million players who’ve bought a copy of the game, here’s a quick explainer. Palworld is a multiplayer survival crafting game in which yo...
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France fines Amazon $35 million over “excessive” worker surveillance

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Microsoft Teams is making it easier to control your webcam and audio during meetings

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