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three months after the apple v epic games trial concluded judge Yvonne
gonzalez rogers has handed down her ruling in the case broadly speaking
apple won what congratulations oh you're the mac
address guy shut up the judge ruled that epic did not show apple was a monopolist
and that they did breach their contract meaning epic must pay apple 30 of the
revenue collected from epic direct payments through fortnite on iOS which
is millions of dollars an apple statement said the court
affirmed what we've known all along success is not illegal and neither is
scanning all your iphone photos that was part of a different that's not part of this though that's a that's a different
thing but most of the media coverage so far is treating the ruling as a big win
for epic because the judge did find apple in violation of california's
unfair competition law so in 90 days apple must allow apps to include buttons
or links to third-party payment mechanisms
but that wasn't enough of a win for epic ceo tim sweeney who tweeted that this
was not what they wanted apparently because alternative app stores and
in-app third-party payments will still be forbidden on iOS but as the verge
points out it's still unclear what these alternative payment options will look
like because what is a button really stays yeah is it a physical
just text if you push it i miss morphism or pull it
sweeney is also probably butthurt after apple rejected epic's request to
reinstate their developer account but don't worry epic is going to appeal the
ruling and this fight will continue for years to come
yes very exciting facebook finally launched
its smart glasses yesterday in collaboration with luxottica they're
called ray-ban stories and instead of taking the google class approach and
making a weird cyborg crystal design as cool as some people thought that was
so cool i tried it out
i was like am i in the year 2021
these are literally just ray-ban sunglasses with two 5-megapixel cameras
a microphone array and open-ear speakers an led light will turn on to let people
know when you're taking photos or video which can be posted to any social
platform from the glasses accompanying facebook view app
there's no heads-up display of any kind so you won't see anything but the real
world while you capture the souls of others and imprison them for later consumption by the zuk they're also 300
u.s so i don't know what kind of crazy eventful life you're living that you
need a head-mounted camera but if you do i mean
hey that i'm happy for you and so is mark yes get out there
feed me experiences speaking of slurping up data a somewhat
unsurprising report from propublica says that despite facebook's claims that they
have no ability to see the content of messages or listen to calls that are end
to end encrypted facebook employs about 1 000 moderators just to review whatsapp
messages now facebook says the only messages these moderators see are those
that have been flagged by the actual recipient of the message which they
might do if they want to report instances of criminal activity or spam
but the simple fact that facebook has the ability to look at these messages
and that they do so under certain circumstances is vindication for anyone
who switched to signal or telegram out of an abundance of caution i couldn't
get my friends to switch i know me neither i'm still using wait
that's data don't take it a day after propublica's report whatsapp announced
they were also encrypting whatsapp message backups which definitely no one
is reading for sure what report
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amazon is expanding its u.s workers benefits to include full college tuition
for the more than 750 000 operations employees at the company employees will
be eligible for the perk after 90 days of employment and then they'll just have
to figure out how to squeeze in classes between grueling ships moving boxes of
bottled urine around in the warehouse thanks amazon but don't think about that
too long because another really cool thing amazon is doing is opening up its
luna cloud gaming service to prime members for six days also almost we it's
been pretty close to a week guys also you can only play four games
the trial comes along with new luna features such as a co-op mode that can
be played with non-luna subscribers okay and support for chromebooks and fire
tablets but luna is still only available in the mainland us and nowhere else and
this has still not gotten the image of pee bottles out of my brain but that's
an ongoing thing with me that's just don't worry about that australia has
passed another piece of landmark legislation this time a surveillance
bill that will give law enforcement the ability to access delete or even modify
the online data of anyone that's a suspect in an investigation
this is kind of scary but also is this
the key to getting a twitter edit button yes can we can we message the can we get
that we work that into this somehow texas has passed a new law for bidding
social media platforms with more than 50 million users from banning people based
on their political viewpoints which seems reasonable as long as your
viewpoints don't include calls to burn down the library because one of the books spoke to you in a literal sense
critics expect the law to be challenged by a federal judge which is what happened to florida's law banning the
deplatforming of politicians although that one did have an exemption for
disney world so i don't know you do the math there oh
and did you see all those cool games during sony's playstation showcase david
did i mean star wars knights of the old republic is getting a remake on ps5 and
pc my childhood is
that excited there was a trailer for insomniac spider-man 2 and a teaser for
a wolverine game for spoken formerly known as project atheia is also coming
to both ps5 and pc and looks like a doctor strange game but less cringe than
that would be he's got a god of war ragnarok on a
trailer that's obviously going to be decent and best of all gta 5 is
continuing skyrim's legacy of being re-released so many times it's like why
do you even keep doing this everyone has wanted who wanted to play it has already
played it already so i'm pretty excited
tokyo the racing game yes
okay jonathan is fulfilling the car enthusiast segment of the
the population right now i'm even more excited to sleep very soon
so come back on monday for more tech news i would very much like to see you
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