Epic Games Is Suing Samsung Now

Epic Games Is Suing Samsung Now

Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, had always worried that his company’s victory last year in a multimillion-dollar legal battle against Google’s app store monopoly wouldn’t be enough to open up competition. Even if Google could no longer keep alternative marketplaces out of Android, phone manufacturers could make them harder to access. In a … Read more

Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung too

Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung too

Four years after Epic sued Google for running an illegal app store monopoly — a case it won this past December — Epic is suing again. The Fortnite game developer has filed a second antitrust lawsuit against Google, and now additionally Samsung, accusing them of illegally conspiring to undermine third-party app stores. The lawsuit revolves … Read more

Podcasting startup Podeo gets $5.4M to go beyond the Arab world

Podcasting startup Podeo gets .4M to go beyond the Arab world

Podcast listeners crossed half a billion people at the end of last year as listenership maintained steady growth. With countries in the Arab world having some of the most engaged listeners, a podcasting startup out of Dubai is doubling down on the opportunity. Podeo is a UAE-based podcast distribution platform that has made a name … Read more

You really don’t want to pay for a wallpaper app

You really don’t want to pay for a wallpaper app

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The vast majority of polled Android Authority readers don’t want to pay for a wallpaper app. However, a small number of respondents are open to a one-time payment. Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee (known as MKBHD) released a wallpaper app last week, and it received a negative reception due to … Read more

Could Atom-Sized Black Holes Be Detected in Our Solar System?

Could Atom-Sized Black Holes Be Detected in Our Solar System?

Scientific American has surprising news about the possibility of black holes the size of an atom but containing the mass of an asteroid — the so-called “primordial black holes” formed after the birth of the universe which could solve the ongoing mystery of the missing dark matter. These atom-sized black holes “may fly through the … Read more

The AI Blues – O’Reilly

The AI Blues – O’Reilly

A recent article in Computerworld argued that the output from generative AI systems, like GPT and Gemini, isn’t as good as it used to be. It isn’t the first time I’ve heard this complaint, though I don’t know how widely held that opinion is. But I wonder: Is it correct? And if so, why? I … Read more

Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext

Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext

Getty Images Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees. Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019. The company said that apps for connecting to various Meta-owned social networks had logged user passwords in plaintext and stored … Read more