Ian Sherr

The Witcher is taking on Pokemon Go because why not

Get ready to throw more coins to your Witcher, this time with your smartphone. CD Projekt Red, a Polish game developer known for its intricate fantasy adventure titles, announced the latest installment in its The Witcher series, this time focused on mobile devices. The upcoming title is called The Witcher: Monster Slayer, and it marks the …

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Microsoft brings transcriptions to its Word documents app, but there are catches

Microsoft’s Word writing tool will soon be able to record and transcribe audio, marking an evolution long requested by everyone from students to reporters to Microsoft executives. However, it has strikingly limited features when compared with competitors. The new transcription technology, which will be made available for free to Microsoft 365 subscribers writing with Word via a web browser, allows …

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Fortnite unlikely to be forced back into App Store as Apple and Epic clash

Apple and Epic met over Zoom in a digital version of court Monday, following nearly two weeks of public squabbling over an increasingly dramatic legal battle between the companies over payments and power in the App Store. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who oversaw the hearing with a virtual backdrop of a courtroom, was deciding whether to force Apple to allow the …

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Apple looks to cut iPhone component costs to offset high price of 5G parts, report says

Apple is expected to include superfast 5G wireless technology in its next iPhone, rumored to be announced Sept. 10. But that higher speed will come at a higher component cost, says a new report, so Apple is finding other ways to even out the price of its parts to make up the difference. An analyst note from Ming-Chi Kuo, reported …

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Apple says Epic’s Fortnite can come back any time it wants to play by the rules

Apple‘s argument with Epic Games, the company behind the popular battle title Fortnite, goes back to June, the tech giant said in a Friday filing. And it started with Epic asking for a deal to offer a competing app store and payment system, separate from Apple’s, on iPhones. Apple said it received an email from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on June 30, …

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Apple appears to post Sept. 10 stream details for 5G iPhone event on YouTube

Apple’s signature secrecy may have slipped a little Thursday, when a Twitter user posted a photo of what appeared to be a scheduled livestream for the iPhone maker’s YouTube account set for Sept. 10. “It was on my YouTube subscription page, it is now removed,” the person tweeted. Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Apple’s YouTube page …

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Nab an iPhone with Fortnite installed

Ever since Apple banned Fortnite battle royale from its App Store, you can’t play the game on an iPhone or iPad if you didn’t download it previously. Unless, that is, you buy someone else’s phone that has it installed — for, say, a cool 5,000 smackers. “Please help me get rid of Fortnite!!!!!!” Lorena Nacari wrote with a joking wink on …

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What coronavirus? Apple becomes a $2 trillion company

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Just two years ago, Wall Street investors pushed Apple to a trillion-dollar market capitalization, making it the most valuable tech company in the world. Now, even in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the market says Apple is worth twice as much. At around 7:53 …

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Apple’s out to crush Fortnite and Unreal Engine, Epic Games says. Apple refuses to make exception

Apple and Epic’s legal battle dramatically escalated over the weekend. What began as an argument over Epic Games wanting to charge players directly for in-game items for its hit game Fortnite, instead of using Apple’s payment system and the up to 30% commission it charges, has turned into a battle that threatens to upend game development across the industry. After …

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Fortnite maker Epic’s battle with Apple and Google is about making them into villains

Epic Games put the billions of dollars it’s raked in from its hit Fortnite video game to some use, provoking Apple and Google to kick its title from their respective platforms, then blitzing them with a pair of lawsuits and an online video mocking the two tech giants. And in doing so, Epic drew the tech world’s attention to antitrust …

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