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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games files an antitrust suit against Apple, arguing the App Store is a monopoly, seeking no damages but just injunctive relief to “allow fair competition” — Epic has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit following Apple's removal of Fortnite from the App Store
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple has removed Epic Games' Fortnite from the App Store after the developer implemented its own in-app payment system, bypassing Apple's standard 30% fee — Apple says Epic is violating its App Store guidelines by using its own payment system — Apple has removed Epic Games' battle royale Fortnite …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google removes Fortnite from its Play Store, argues that although its Android ecosystem is open, Epic's decision violates store policies — You can still install it directly from Epic, however — Following its removal from the Apple App Store, Fortnite has also been kicked off of the Google Play Store for Android.
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| Austen Goslin / Polygon: |
Accompanying its lawsuit, Epic released a 1984-inspired Fortnite short, parodying Apple's iconic Macintosh commercial — Epic is taking on the Apple App Store, with a video and a lawsuit — Epic premiered a new short video in Fortnite on Thursday called “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite.”
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Epic enables a direct payment option in Fortnite on iOS and Android alongside the existing method, to get around app store fees; buying direct is up to 20% off — Plus, V-bucks get permanently discounted — Today, Epic announced the Fortnite “mega drop,” a permanent discount on V-bucks …
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Tweets: @markgurman, @ballmatthew, @stephenwarwick9, @pkafka, @tomwarren, @ow, @richontech, @ballmatthew, @icj_, @zhugeex, @jake_k, @tsimonite, @pkafka, @briannawu, @elkmovie, @ow, @onejarednewman, and @blakerochkind
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Epic files a suit against Google alleging that its Play Store payments restrictions constitute a monopoly, also accuses Google of being anti-competitive — Just like Apple — Epic Games has filed suit against Google over alleged antitrust violations, just hours after being dropped …
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Tweets: @tnkgrl, @jcenters, @jsnell, @pkafka, and @stroughtonsmith
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic, in its suit, claims that Google forced OnePlus to break off a deal in which a special Fortnite launcher would come preinstalled on OnePlus phones — Epic sued Google after the search company kicked Fortnite from the Play Store — Epic Games sued Google over pulling Fortnite …
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will launch “Apple One” tiered subscription bundles, with Music, TV+, News+, and a new virtual fitness service, as early as October — Apple Inc. is readying a series of bundles that will let customers subscribe to several of the company's digital services …
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Tweets: @pkafka, @arctictony, @markgurman, @genepark, @markgurman, and @jasongurwin
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft joins Uber in saying it will pull out of California if forced to re-classify drivers as employees — The companies say they can't afford to classify drivers as employees — Lyft said it would shut down operations in California if forced to classify drivers as employees …
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On my Om, Engadget, Axios, Silicon Valley Business …, Financial Times, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @phonesoldier, @wagatwe, and @sesmith
| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
NSA and FBI say Russian state sponsored hacker group Fancy Bear is using a previously undisclosed Linux malware called Drovorub for cyber espionage operations — The National Security Agency and the FBI are jointly exposing malware that they say Russian military hackers use in cyber-espionage operations.
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ZDNet, Ars Technica, Federal Bureau …, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Federal Computer Week, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @nsacyber, @ridt, @us_cybercom, @780thc, @shanvav, @a_greenberg, @jseldin, and @cnmf_cyberalert
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researchers say a now-patched Alexa vulnerability could have been exploited to hand over users' personal data, voice recordings, banking data history, and more — Subdomains belonging to the service were found to be harboring CORS errors and vulnerable to XSS attacks.
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Check Point Research, Wired, Android Authority, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, and Mashable
Tweets: @checkpointsw and @kevinctofel
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
US says it has seized 300+ “cryptocurrency accounts”, worth around $2M, four websites, and four Facebook pages used by al-Qaeda, Hamas' military wing, and ISIS — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations' cryptocurrency accounts” …
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Decrypt, Wired, Engadget, Cointelegraph, Associated Press, New York Times, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, irs.gov, Fortune, Reuters, and Reuters
Tweets: @file411, @theryanford, @lachlan, and @atharproject
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple, Disney, and others participated in a White House call over the potential WeChat ban, arguing it could undermine their competitiveness in China — Companies including Apple, Disney and Walmart participate in call with White House over action against China's most important app
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CNBC, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Reuters
Tweets: @jchengwsj, @lingling_wei, @srussolillo, @ferrotv, and @wsjpolitics
| Matt Simon / Wired: |
A look at Neural Love, which develops AI-powered video enhancement tools that can upscale, colorize, and sharpen old movies, bumping them up to 4K and 60 fps — Denis Shiryaev uses algorithms to colorize and sharpen old movies, bumping them up to a smooth 60 frames per second.
Tweets: @jenlucpiquant and @gadgetlab
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook officially launches a Voting Information Center on Facebook and Instagram, with state-by-state information on how to register and vote — Eager to avoid a repeat of its disastrous role as a super-spreader of misinformation during the 2016 election cycle, Facebook is getting its ducks in a row.
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Reuters, NPR, Vox, CyberScoop, CBS News, and MarketWatch
Tweets: @facebook, @timharper1, @vanitaguptacr, @andymstone, @theleadcnn, @nprinskeep, and @lalasoo
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces the general availability of Amazon Braket on AWS, which provides a development environment for designing quantum and hybrid algorithms — Amazon today announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a fully managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) product that provides … | Gannon Burgett / Digital Photography Review: |
Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel and algorithms that laid the foundations for image processing and image pattern recognition, dies at 91 — Computer scientist Russell Kirsch, best known for inventing the pixel, passed away August 11 at his home in Portland, Oregon. He was 91-years-old.
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Oregonian, PetaPixel, Associated Press, PC Gamer, and TechCrunch
| Joshua Mapperson / Cointelegraph: |
1M South Koreans, about 3% of the population, have opted for a blockchain-based digital license since the program's launch this past May — The program was only launched in May but already one million South Koreans have opted for a blockchain based license. — 13311 Total views — 975 Total shares
Tweets: @steven_kotler
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