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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Earlier this month, Google removed Fortnite from the Google Play Store after publisher Epic Games tried to get around the 30% fee the company charges app developers for purchases on its platform (Apple, which charges the same fee, also removed the battle royale game). The decision led Epic to file lawsuits against the tech giants while promoting the hashtag #FreeFortnite on social media. But don’t fret, Android users, you …
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Apple is developing augmented reality content to accompany its Apple TV Plus offerings, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The move is apparently intended to stoke interest in AR technology, as well as drawing more subscribers to the streaming service. The AR feature, which was revealed to Bloomberg by anonymous sources, would display elements of a TV show in the room where the viewer …
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Welcome to this week’s episode of The Cheapskate Show, a podcast devoted to helping you save money. One of the best ways to save a bundle on new tech gear is by buying it refurbished. But you’d be forgiven for wondering if a refurb is a good deal or just a way to inherit other people’s problems. We’ve got answers, …
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Facebook said Wednesday that Apple’s upcoming privacy update could make it tougher for the social network to target some iPhone users with ads on other mobile apps. Facebook offers a service to businesses called the Audience Network, which lets businesses use the social network’s targeting to run ads on thousands of mobile apps. Facebook collects a trove of data from …
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Geofence warrants are a concern among privacy advocates and lawmakers, and recently unsealed court documents show that Google engineers also have issues with the sweeping requests for location data. On Friday, Arizona’s attorney general published internal emails from Google obtained as part of an ongoing lawsuit by the state on alleged consumer fraud and location data. Google had fought to keep …
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Global smartphone sales dropped 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to a Tuesday report by Gartner. The coronavirus pandemic continues to impact the phone industry, the research firm says, with worldwide sales dropping to 295 million units. Out of the top five smartphone vendors, Samsung saw the biggest drop in sales. The company sold around 55 million smartphone in the second …
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Mozilla released Firefox Daylight on Tuesday, an overhauled version of its Firefox browser for Android phones that marks a new step to claim some influence player in the crucial mobile market. The new browser, with better speed and stronger privacy, is available in Europe and will be released in North America on Thursday. About 33 million people use Firefox on Android each month, …
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Apple won’t be required to restore Fortnite to its App Store, but a judge’s temporary restraining order against the company late Monday prevents it from revoking access to Epic’s Unreal Engine developer tools. The legal battle between the two companies stems from a dispute over collecting revenue from in-app purchases, resulting in Apple — and Google — removing the game …
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Apple is giving Final Cut Pro an update to help its video software adapt to the ever-changing needs of social media and working from home and has dubbed this new version Final Cut Pro X. The free update, labeled 10.4.9, adds support for new proxy workflows in either ProRes Proxy or H.264 to make libraries more manageable and portable even …
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