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reader comments 14 with 0 posters participating Share this story The backs of the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. Samuel Axon A new pricing cheat sheet provided by Apple. Apple unveiled the most sweeping change yet to the App Store pricing model it applies to all apps submitted to its …

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Enlarge / Some of the tools and parts offered in Apple’s Self Service Repair program appear in this photo. reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story As of Tuesday, Apple’s Self Service Repair program is now available in eight European countries. It launched in the United States in April, with promises from …

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Enlarge / Waze for Android Automotive. reader comments 10 with 0 posters participating Share this story Google’s other big navigation app, Waze, is coming to Android Automotive. Today the company announced the move on the Waze blog, saying, “The new dedicated Waze app for cars brings the best of Waze real-time navigation, routing and alerts feature[s] …

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reader comments 20 with 0 posters participating Share this story Meta has already been coping with a slump in ad revenue this year, and now a decision from European Union privacy regulators threatens to reduce Meta’s ad revenue even more next year. According to Reuters, a person familiar with the matter said that the European …

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Winamp/Andrew Cunningham reader comments 43 with 0 posters participating Share this story If you’d asked me in January to make some predictions about what 2022 would bring, I don’t think “multiple significant updates to the Winamp player” would have been on the list. But the release candidate for version 5.9.1 of the software builds on …

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Enlarge / Would you pay $95,000 for these jeans? They were salvaged from the wreck of the SS Central America, which sank in 1857. Holabird Western Americana Collections reader comments 23 with 0 posters participating Share this story A pair of men’s jeans recovered from the wreckage of a 19th-century steamer ship fetched an eye-popping …

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reader comments 31 with 0 posters participating Share this story Amazon has gotten flak for how it handles user and partner data, but that hasn’t stopped it from launching a program that openly pays to stalk opt-in participants’ smartphone traffic. The ad-verification scheme is similar to demised programs from other tech giants, like Google, and …

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Enlarge / European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager gives a press conference on Amazon’s antitrust case in November. reader comments 7 with 0 posters participating Share this story Amazon has reached a final deal with EU antitrust regulators over concerns its use of data undermined rivals, in a move that will close two of …

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reader comments 83 with 0 posters participating Share this story When Apple released AirTags in 2021, the small electronic tracking devices were touted by top executives as being “stalker-proof.” Since then, Vice reported a minimum of 150 police cases documenting stalkers using AirTags, and there have already been two severe stalking cases involving AirTags that …

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Enlarge / The Pixel 7 Pro. Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica reader comments 13 with 0 posters participating Share this story Google is shipping its first big Android patch since the release of Android 13. Rolling out to Pixel phones now is Android 13 Quarterly Platform Release 1 (QPR1), which contains a few new features, …

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