If you’ve ever grumbled about the App Store being your only way to buy apps for your iPhone, you’re not the only one. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals decided Thursday that iPhone app purchasers can sue Apple on the claim that the App Store monopolizes the iPhone apps market, leading to higher prices …

Social video platform Twitch is cleaning up its chats by introducing a new moderation tool called AutoMod, the company said Monday. AutoMod will use machine learning and natural language processing to keep inappropriate content out of streamers’ chats, should they chose to use the feature. “One of the best ways we can help bring about change is to provide tools …

If you remember when rock was young, music videos weren’t really a thing. Nowadays, they’re everything. So pay attention, Elton John fans. If you have some production savvy, you could get the chance to create videos for three of the music icon’s early songs, which didn’t get the music video treatment when they were originally released: “Bennie and The Jets,” …

Indiegogo campaign owners be warned: The crowdfunding platform can send a collection agency after you. As of Wednesday, a new addition to the site’s terms of use lets Indiegogo take more serious measures to return pledged funds to backers after a campaign has breached its terms of service, or hasn’t fulfilled its promise to those backers after the a campaign …

Sheila Burgel grew up with vinyl records. Almost every weekend, she and her father would comb through rows of record stacks at Crazy Eddie’s (“His prices are INSANE!”) for the latest hits. At home, the music played nonstop on the stereo her father built. That was in the ’80s, when vinyl still ruled the music industry. By 1997, when Burgel …

The FBI is investigating the recent activity of one of its Twitter accounts, Think Progress reported Thursday. On October 30, the FBI Records Vault account tweeted a slew of tweets, including about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s father, and then on November 1, tweeted documents relating to President Clinton’s pardon of commodities trader Marc Rich in 2001. The tweets drew …

The Google Play store is about to get an upgrade Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is looking to address developers’ concerns about the app store, including the difficulty of sifting through the sheer number of apps, Reuters reported Thursday. According to market researcher Statista, Google Play offers more than 2.4 million apps. Improvements could include using artificial intelligence to boost the …

If you have an idea for a Moto Mod, now’s your chance. Motorola is partnering with crowd-funding platform Indiegogo for a Moto Mods Developer contest, Motorola said in a blog post Thursday. For the unfamiliar, Moto Mods are accessories that attach to Moto Z phones. So far, Moto Mods let users turn their phones into movie projectors, speakers, cameras or …

My mouth began watering even before I put on the VR headset. In the middle of the work day, Hormel’s Black Label Bacon virtual-reality experience was the closest thing I was going to get to the real thing. Available today, a trip to BlackLabelBacon.com will put you smack in the middle of four different bacon-centric VR worlds: Salty Sea, The …

Microsoft just unveiled its iMac-killer. “It’s going to seem familiar, but it’s going to feel different,” said Microsoft’s Panos Panay while unveiling the company’s new all-in-one desktop PC, called Surface Studio, at Microsoft’s Windows 10 event in New York. The Surface Studio will have an Intel Core i7 and a 28-inch pixel display. It will weigh 13 pounds. Unlike the …