Category: I-phone

Nintendo’s re-release of the Famicom Detective Club games is an interesting time capsule of the visual novel genre.

ADT has filed a lawsuit against Ring for using blue octagon signs that look similar to its own.

Spotify will take on Apple with its own paid podcast subscription platform, but it won’t take a cut for the first two years.

Today’s headlines: Tesla built, sold and shipped more vehicles in this last quarter than ever before, Apple releases iOS 14.5 with stricter app tracking privacy, and Zoom’s Immersive View crams up to 25 people inside one virtual background.

The EU will reportedly file anti-competitive behaviour charges against Apple later this week over issues relating to its App Store policies.

RE Village’s final 60-minute demo will be playable for a full week.

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Dutch parliament members were fooled into holding a video call with a deepfake impostor pretending to be Alexei Navalny’s chief of staff.

Elon Musk will host the May 8th episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’ in an unusual move for a tech CEO.

The US military has given a Florida company control over 175 million IP addresses in an unusual bid to spot security vulnerabilities.

The ACLU and EFF have asked the Supreme Court to hear a challenge against warrantless phone and laptop searches at borders, including airports.

An experimental Google Assistant feature codenamed “Guacamole” will give you the power to issue voice commands without having to preface it with “Hey, Google.”

India has ordered Twitter to pull dozens of tweets criticizing the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This week’s tech reviews include the Sony A1 camera, the ASUS Zephyrus G15 gaming laptop, the Positive Grid Spark Pearl and the OnePlus Watch.

Crew Dragon has docked with the International Space Station as part of the Crew-2 mission, marking the first time SpaceX has reused a crewed capsule.