Xbox Game Pass Ultimate — a CNET Editors’ Choice award pick — offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Series S, Xbox One and PC or mobile device for $20 a month. A subscription gets you access to a large library of games with new titles — like Call of … Read more
Apple fans, rejoice! The very popular AirPods Pro 2 are currently available on Amazon for just $189 which is a significant discount from their regular price of $249 (24% off). This $60 price drop presents a fantastic opportunity for those looking to upgrade their audio experience- or dive into the world of Apple’s premium wireless … Read more
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
The value of X (formerly Twitter) continues to circle the toilet at an impressive rate. The social media platform is now worth 79 percent less than what it was worth when Elon Musk purchased it, according to analysis by investor Fidelity. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk’s X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. … Read more
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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
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
What you need to know Code within the recent Google Messages beta shows the company’s plans to upgrade the app with spam detection for international texts. The feature could come in the form of a “Cross-Country” folder, which may function similarly to the current Spam & Blocked bin. Google recently rolled out Gemini in Messages … Read more
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
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
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