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Google and Epic Games' antitrust settlement replaces the Play Store's flat 30% commission with tiered fees of 10-20% and creates a formal pathway for alternative app stores on Android — but the deal's structure rewards scale, raising questions about whether it serves the broader developer ecosystem or primarily benefits the two companies that negotiated it.
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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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Timothy Cain, the co-creator of Fallout and the co-developer of The Outer Worlds, has shared his opinion on online discourse and how some players can't form their own opinion about games anymore. Read more ›
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ShinyHunters claims Instructure attack, says nearly 9,000 schools worldwide affected. Read more ›
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On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped in bacon, scrambled eggs, and orange juice), strapped into the Freedom 7 rocket, and blasted off into space, becoming the first American astronaut to do so. Shepard's historic flight - and the first crewed […] Read more ›
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At least some cases aboard the MV Hondius are now suspected to have been caused by human-to-human transmission, WHO officials say. Read more ›
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The Xteink X4 ereader is the latest social media tech obsession, and it's emerging as a serious Kindle rival. Read more ›
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RingConn's Gen 3 smart ring is now available to pre-order starting at $314, with haptic alerts, a 14-day battery, and blood pressure monitoring coming via a future update. Read more ›
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Amazon's 2 for £30 sale on 4K Blu-ray discs from Disney is live, so I've picked my 9 favourite discs from the sale. Read more ›
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Remedy Entertainment's "business review" report of the January to March 2026 period has underlined Control's long-term performance, promised infrastructure support for failed co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak, and confirmed Control Resonant is still on track for 2026. Read more Read more ›
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In terms of pricing, the original AirPods Max remained stubbornly high even years after their debut, which made them hard to recommend over the Bose QC Ultra or Sony’s XM series headphones unless you were an Apple die-hard. The AirPods Max 2, however, have been out for just over a month, and we’re already seeing a $40 […] Read more ›
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It is amazing what some people will do for an in-game cosmetic, and even those who don't live in the right area to receive a pizza promo skin for gory fighting game Invincible Vs are still ordering themselves a slice, just to receive the in-game ensemble. Read more Read more ›
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It's another stacked lineup, with Mixtape also among the games joining Microsoft's subscription service Read more ›
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The iPhone 17 was the world’s best-selling smartphone during the first quarter of 2026, leading a market where the top 10 models captured a record 25% of total global sales. This represents the highest market concentration ever documented for a March quarter. The standard iPhone 17 model accounted for 6% of all global unit sales. It was followed closely by the iPhone 17 Pro Max and the iPhone 17 Pro,... Read more ›
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Meta is expanding Threads messaging to web users as weekly DMs cross 350 million, the app's top executive Connor Hayes said. Read more ›
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The Duffer Brothers ('Stranger Things') executive produce Netflix's new horror series starring Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, and Bill Pullman. Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: On April 15, 2026, a Microsoft employee made a change to Visual Studio Code and pushed it within 8 hours without review, notification, or documentation. The change added "Co-authored-by: Copilot" by default to the end of commit messages in Git when Copilot was used in creating the code. However, the implementation was bugged, and the message was added to every commit regardless if Copilot was... Read more ›
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Spotify is currently developing a new bulk redownload tool designed to streamline the process of upgrading a user’s offline music library to higher-quality audio tiers. This feature specifically addresses a current limitation where users must manually delete and redownload files to transition existing offline content to lossless quality. While Spotify currently allows Premium users to select various download qualities—ranging from low (~24 kbps) to lossless (up to ~2,100 kbps)—the application... Read more ›
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Most rest discourse assumes the problem is time management. For a specific kind of high-functioning adult, it isn't. It's authorisation — and the person you've been waiting on to grant it is yourself. Read more ›
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The moment you realize your carefully crafted approach to avoid your parents' mistakes has simply created a different set of wounds for the next generation to heal is when real growth begins. Read more ›
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Chronic pre-emptive apologising looks like politeness but functions as threat management — a small payment offered up front to head off blame that, in childhood, often did arrive. Here's what the research says, and what actually helps. Read more ›
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Approval that has to be extracted isn't approval. Why some of the people we spent our twenties trying to impress were structurally incapable of granting what we were asking for, and how to spot the loop you might still be running. Read more ›
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Reading question-returning as deflection misses the point. It's a defensive system built in childhood — the brain's way of staying in control of a conversation that used to be unsafe to be the subject of. Read more ›
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The friends who text 'sorry just seeing this' three days later aren't disorganized. They're managing a private rule that says replying when overwhelmed produces worse outcomes than replying late Read more ›
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For most of the last century, the story of automation went something like this. Machines come for the factory floor first. Robots take jobs from welders, packers, and anyone whose work involves repetition or physical strain. The person who studied hard, got the degree, and ended up at a desk with a laptop was supposed ... Read more Read more ›
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The instant 'no worries' reply isn't graciousness — it's a reflex built in childhood to manage other people's feelings before your own disappointment was allowed to exist. What the speed of that response actually reveals. Read more ›
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The polished three-sentence answer to "how are you" looks like openness, but it's often the opposite — a closed door painted to look like an open one, built carefully over years by people who learned that vague answers invite follow-ups they were never given the language to handle. Read more ›
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Those who instantly sense when something's off in a room aren't blessed with a mystical gift—they're often carrying an invisible burden from childhoods where reading the emotional weather meant survival. Read more ›
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