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facing disappointing iphone sales apple probably isn't feeling the holiday
spirit hey kwanzaa and the latest lump of coal in their
stocking is another court battle a federal lawsuit in the u.s alleges that
apple lied about the specs of the iphone 10 lineup specifically the complaint
states that the screen's diagonal size is a little more than a tenth of an inch
smaller than what was advertised yes we got to pay attention to those
details the claim that the phones are all screen was also claimed as being
false definitely and because each pixel doesn't have three RGB sub pixels the
official resolution is also inaccurate do it okay although it's unclear how
much money apple will have to cough up if the plaintiffs prevail they are
seeking class action status so if you bought an iphone 10 maybe look out for a
handsome check that will allow you to like
see a movie maybe if you're a californian that relies heavily on
texting your wallet is probably breathing a little easier today as the
state public utilities commission has scrapped a plan to tax your text
messages originally sacramento wanted to tax any cell phone plan that charged for
texting in order to fund programs for folks in underserved areas although
telecommunications taxes for this purpose are common across the u.s an
additional measure specifically targeting texting unsurprisingly was met
with backlash from both consumers as well as a major trade association
representing a number of large wireless carriers the change of course came after
an fcc action that classified texting in a way that no longer allowed the tax
under existing california law i wonder if maybe they'll try to tax snaps next
but that might also lead to full-scale revolution snap like from snapchat
tax snapchats john you're out of touch no one uses that anymore it's all
tick-tocks don't tax my tick tocks
consoles have become ever more pc-like in their architecture over the years and
valve looks like it might be blurring the lines even further as a new update
to a beta version of steam appears to enable cross-platform play between the
pc and xbox one although this functionality is currently available on
certain titles in the Windows store as part of microsoft's xbox play anywhere
program having this kind of cross play on steam would potentially open up lots
of other games for play on both pc and console without having to buy the same
title twice and possibly enabling cross-platform multiplayer indeed the
industry looks to be moving in this direction as a whole as epic games has enabled cross-play between almost every
major platform for fortnite and they're releasing a toolkit to help other devs
enable the feature as well no word yet on when this feature will be officially
released or how many games will be supported but i'm just hyped to be able
to play hello kitty island adventure on four different devices can i get an amen
heck yeah i don't know what that game is and now
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do you not have a smartphone with a fancy portrait mode for dramatic blurry
backgrounds well facebook will be giving you an assist as they announce today
that their messenger camera can now do this for you natively so if you want to
trick your instagram followers into thinking you can afford an expensive
phone now would be a good time to do it even though this feature is like on
every phone now basically but if it's not messenger the med police in
london are going to be testing facial recognition cameras in a few high
traffic areas on mondays and tuesdays only those days that's when all the
criminals are there faces will be checked against a wanted database though
the cops say anyone who declines scanning won't be viewed as suspicious
personally i just don't want the police to see that weird growth on my chin
there's some definite crossover between gamers and comic book enthusiasts and
digital comic provider inky pen inky pen
is coming to hoping to capitalize on this by coming to nintendo switch
starting today the service will focus on independent comics but should also
feature manga in the future for a price of eight dollars per month in case you
need some reading material after you ragequit smash ultimate oh i do that all
the time falcon's op is he no is it too much effort to unlock
your car with a key fob if so you might be interested in hyundai's new system
that can unlock and start a car with just a fingerprint the feature will
launch next year and will be exclusive to china for the time being but there is
but there is a one in 50 000 chance of a false positive so do keep an eye out for
people inappropriately touching your suv and if you shop for groceries on amazon
you might notice a few things disappearing from their selection as they're cutting back on items that they
can't turn a profit on due to high shipping costs beverages specifically
are a prime target i get it you get that
that's a good joke as they're rather weighty but inexpensive so be prepared
for more bulk buying maybe there can be a pepsi dash button where they'll just
bring you soda in a 50 gallon drum
that sounds unhealthy well that's it for now so we'll see you back here on
wednesday for another 50 gallon drum of tech news that will pour down your
throat in less than 10 minutes john
that sounds weird