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Google is eliminating its traditional 30% Play Store fee and introducing lower commissions, while at the same time allowing alternative billing systems and making it easier for third-party app stores to operate on Android. The changes stem largely from Google's settlement with Epic Games. Engadget reports: The biggest change is to how Google will collect fees from developers publishing apps on Android. Rather than take its standard 30 percent cut of in-app purchases through the Play Store, Google is lowerin
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Apple's new budget MacBook is bringing macOS to a lot of potentially new customers, but its certainly making some meaningful tradeoffs to hit such a low price. Read more ›
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Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a "rate payer protection pledge." It's one way they're responding to growing bipartisan concerns about electricity rates rising as tech companies and the Trump administration rush to build out a new generation of AI data centers. "[Tech […] Read more ›
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Hana Nguyen convinced her parents to let her convert their family home in Vietnam into a coworking space for digital nomads visiting Da Nang. Read more ›
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The prolific leaker who goes by the handle Digital Chat Station (DCS) on Weibo made a bold prediction today, and it's in regard to the pricing of the upcoming OnePlus 16, iQOO 16, and Redmi K100 Pro Max. All of these devices are expected to arrive in the second half of this year and be powered by Qualcomm's next top of the line chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6.... Read more ›
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Chipmaker’s symbiotic relationship with TSMC has been lucrative but it is also a key vulnerability Read more ›
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While we label their stoicism as toxic and their sacrifice as codependency, new psychological research reveals that the "outdated" values of our grandparents' generation—resilience, duty, and quiet service—may actually be the missing ingredients for the mental health crisis we can't seem to solve. Read more ›
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Aikido Technologies has come up with a new way to bring renewable energy to the AI industry. Read more ›
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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world. He fought two of the world's most valuable and powerful companies almost all the way to the US Supreme Court, insulting them again and again: "crooked," "deceitful," "insanely sneaky," calling Android a "fake open platform," calling both […] Read more ›
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When your garage storage space is limited, you need tools and accessories that can be easily collapsed and stowed away for future use. Read more ›
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Across Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Apple unveiled seven new products, including low-cost iPhone and MacBook options, new displays, and refreshes for the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iPad Air. We've rounded up all of our coverage from this week in case you missed any of the product announcements or details. MacBook Neo Apple Announces $599 'MacBook Neo' With A18 Pro Chip Hello, MacBook Neo: Apple Showcases All-New $599 MacBook in... Read more ›
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Crypto exchange Kraken said it became the first crypto firm to gain direct access to the Federal Reserve’s core payments system, a privilege typically reserved only for banks, allowing it to move money for clients without relying on a bank. The approval signals the Federal Reserve’s willingness ... Read more ›
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Welcome back, Fortnite: Google is already making improvements to the Google Play Store following last year's Epic Games settlement. Read more ›
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MWC 2026 was a little light on new wearables, but the devices that were on show look well worth checking out. Read more ›
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After raising my children across different countries (the US, Australia, and Switzerland), I've kept the best parenting strategies and tips that work Read more ›
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Буквально пару дней назад обновил свой старый замок на калитке, не планировал ничего об этом писать, но попалась статья https://habr.com/ru/news/1005908/ - "Samsung сделала цифровой ключ!" Что ж, у меня тоже есть цифровой ключ, хоть и не Samsung. Это не туториал, не "готовое решение", а скорее рассказ о работающей концепции, возникавших проблемах и их решении.Началось всё давным-давно, когда мастера по установке заборов сделали ворота, калитку, и установили на нее "обычный замок",... Read more ›
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They aren't as high-end as the MacBook Neo, but these Windows laptops show that Apple has some strong competition. Read more ›
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Kalshi, the prediction market platform regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has for the first time publicly disclosed the results of an insider trading investigation, naming an editor for YouTube's biggest creator as the offender. The company identified Artem Kaptur, an editor for MrBeast, who it says traded around $4,000 on markets tied to the streamer and achieved "near-perfect trading success" on low-odds bets -- a pattern investigators flagged... Read more ›
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Anthropic last week promoted Claude Code Security, a research preview capability that uses its Claude Opus 4.6 model to hunt for software vulnerabilities, claiming its red team had surfaced over 500 bugs in production open-source codebases -- but security researchers say the real bottleneck was never discovery. Guy Azari, a former security researcher at Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks, told The Register that only two to three of those 500... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Uber employees have built an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi -- internally dubbed "Dara AI" -- and have been using it to rehearse and fine-tune presentations before delivering them to the actual Khosrowshahi, he revealed on a recent podcast. Khosrowshahi said a team member told him that some teams "make the presentation to the Dara AI as a prep for making a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94% of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens. The purpose of the experimental project was not to show off AI coding, but to address an issue with Next.js, the popular React-based framework sponsored by Vercel. According to Cloudflare engineering director Steve Faulkner, the Next.js tooling is "entirely bespoke... If you want... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: In its 250th year, is America, land of immigration, becoming a country of emigration? Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn't definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus -- negative net migration -- as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy... Read more ›
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EBay is cutting about 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees, saying the layoffs are needed to align its workforce with strategic priorities. From a report: "We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce," the San Jose, California-based company said early Thursday in a statement. "We are grateful for the contributions of... Read more ›
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HBO Max will be cracking down on password sharing around the world. From a report: The streamer first started cracking down on password sharing in the United States late last August. Subscribers are now able to add an additional out-of-household account for $7.99 a month. Before that August change, Warner Bros. Discovery had been testing for months to determine who may or may not be a "legitimate user," as CEO... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called "Patty," is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation but also evaluate their interactions with customers for "friendliness." Thibault Roux, Burger King's chief digital officer, tells The Verge that the company compiled information from franchisees... Read more ›
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New York state has filed a lawsuit against Valve alleging that randomized loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 amount to a form of unregulated gambling, letting users "pay for the chance to win a rare virtual item of significant monetary value." From a report: While many randomized video game loot boxes have drawn attention and regulation from various government bodies in recent years,... Read more ›
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A fictional memo set in June 2028, published by short seller Citrini Research, wiped roughly $10 billion off Indian IT stocks in a single trading session on February 24 and sent the Nifty IT index down as much as 5.3% -- its worst single-day fall since August 2023 -- on the argument that AI coding agents have collapsed the cost advantage of Indian developers to the price of electricity. The... Read more ›
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