Here’s How to Get a Piece of the $25 Million Apple Family Sharing Settlement
The 6.1-inch iPhone 15 in green.Image: Florence Ion / Gizmodo If you ever enrolled in the Apple Family Sharing with a family member between 2015 and 2019, you may entitled…
The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users
Last week, Epic won a years-long suit against Google for anti-competitive practices within the Play Store. We were all left wondering: what would happen to Android’s app store moving forward?…
Can Apple Finally Make Mac Gaming Stick?
This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers. “Apple and gaming.” For decades, you’d be laughed…
Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones
The Flipper Zero is billed as a fun tool for tech enthusiasts, but it has also been used to perpetrate annoying and more serious attacks on various devices.Photo: Flipper Apple…
Google’s App Store Is an Illegal Monopoly, Says Jury in Epic Trial
Google lost its antitrust case against Epic Games on Monday night, where a San Francisco jury unanimously ruled the search giant maintains a monopoly with its Google Play app store.…
Apple Quashes Beeper Mini App to Lord Over the Blue Bubbles
Apple isn’t keen to let just any peasant enter its hallowed and gloried domain of iMessage. The company officially declared it had blocked the Beeper Mini app, which let Android…
WhatsApp Will No Longer Butcher Image Quality on iOS
Image: Photo: Eliseu Geisler / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) (Shutterstock) You no longer have to worry about sending low-quality images on WhatsApp. Well, at least on iPhone. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp’s latest…
Apple Will Reportedly Appeal EU’s Gatekeeping Claims
Photo: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto (Getty Images) Apple will dispute the European Union’s latest crackdown on Big Tech by appealing the decision to regulate iMessage and the App Store as anticompetitive services,…
Google Denies That Its ‘Project Hug’ Bribed 20 Developers
Google executives defended its internal campaign “Project Hug,” which enticed 20 developers to not create app stores competitive with Google Play according to Epic Games, in an ongoing trial Thursday.…
WeChat Deemed a Security Risk in Canada, Banned on Government Devices
Photo: Boumen Japet (Shutterstock) Canada banned WeChat on government-issued phones on Monday, roughly two years after the Biden administration lifted American bans on the Chinese “everything” app. The Chief Information…