Apple has agreed to pay out $25 million to settle a class action lawsuit over its Family Sharing feature, which lets users and up to five of their family members share access to apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books that they purchase. The lawsuit, […]
Day: December 15, 2023
Apple agrees to pay out $25 million to settle lawsuit over Family Sharing
Apple has agreed to pay out $25 million to settle a class action lawsuit over its Family Sharing feature, which lets users and up to five of their family members share access to apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books that they purchase. The lawsuit, […]
Startups must embrace sustainable scaling strategies
Baris Guzel Contributor Share on X Baris Guzel is an engineer with work experience in top-tier investment banking and venture capital. He is a partner at BMW i Ventures, where he has led investments and supported many companies as a board director/observer. Brian Wei Contributor […]
Jagat, a location-based social network that focuses on real-life connections, surpasses 10M users
Jagat, a social network that is designed to get you out more with your friends instead of mindlessly scrolling on your phone, has surpassed 10 million users globally. The location-based social network, which launched earlier this year in March, wants to help people focus on […]
News publisher files class action antitrust suit against Google, citing AI’s harms to their bottom line
A new class action lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. District Court in D.C. accuses Google and parent company Alphabet of anticompetitive behavior in violation of U.S. antitrust law, the Sherman Act, and others, on behalf of news publishers. The case, filed by Arkansas-based […]
Twitch immediately rescinds its artistic nudity policy
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Mere days after Twitch updated its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content, the platform has withdrawn the portion of the policy permitting “artistic nudity.” “Effective today, we are rolling back the artistic nudity changes,” the […]
Twitch cracks down on boobs again by rolling back its ‘artistic nudity’ policy
Days after freeing the (fictionalized) nipple, Twitch is backtracking on its “artistic nudity” policy that allowed streamers to show illustrated, animated or sculpted renderings of breasts, butts and genitals. The announcement comes days after Twitch announced sweeping updates to its sexual content policy, which streamlined […]
Apple is adapting the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series Murderbot
The Hugo Award-winning The Murderbot Diaries books from Martha Wells are becoming a 10-episode Apple TV+ series starring Alexander Skarsgård, Apple announced. It will follow a self-aware “SecUnit” robot that must hide its free will in order to complete a dangerous assignment and comes from […]
Amazon is offering $10 credit when you buy a $100 Apple gift card
Gift cards can get a lot of hate as being impersonal, but when it comes down to it, they’re a great option for anyone who is unsure what to give. This is all the more true when they come with an extra incentive — as […]
Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Field just got a nifty bit crusher effect
Teenage Engineer’s OP-1 Field synthesizer/groovebox/thingamajig just got a fairly substantial system update. Software version 1.5.0 brings a fun new effect to the instrument and a long-requested feature. First up, there’s a new effect called Terminal. This is a bit crusher, finally bringing distortion to the […]