Google, which reaches more internet users than any other firm in India and commands 99% of the nation’s smartphone market, has stumbled upon an odd challenge in the world’s second-largest internet market: Scores of top local entrepreneurs. From a report: More than 150 startups and firms in India are working to form an alliance and toying with the idea of launching…
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Apple’s Battle With Epic Over Fortnite Could Reach Jury Trial Next July
Apple and Epic met in a virtual court hearing on Monday to debate whether Fortnite should be allowed to remain in Apple’s App Store while the two fight an even bigger battle over whether Apple is violating federal antitrust law. From a report: California Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said didn’t issue any update to her previous ruling, which upheld Apple’s ban…
Google’s Epic Response: Android 12 Will Make It Easier To Install App Stores
Google today announced it will make it easier to install and use third-party app stores with the release of Android 12 next year. From a report: Google also reiterated its existing Payments Policy for in-app purchases of digital goods: Android developers who want to distribute apps and games on Google Play, must use Play’s billing system. Google is offering a 1-year…
Google To Increase Push for Apps To Give Cut of In-App Purchases
Google plans to push harder for developers to give the company a cut of in-app purchases through its Play app store, according to people with knowledge of the move. From a report: The Alphabet unit plans to issue updated guidelines as early as next week that clarify a requirement for most apps to use Google’s billing service for in-app content downloads,…
A minuscule spacecraft joins a pilot’s epic journey to fly from pole to pole
On November 16, 2019, pilot and author Robert DeLaurentis took off on an ambitious adventure. Setting out from San Diego county’s Gillespie Field, he banked toward Grand Prairie, Texas on the first leg of a pole to pole expedition. At each stop along the way he planned to talk about STEM education, aviation safety and technology, all with the intention of…
Climate fires and hurricanes collide in this shocking NASA satellite image
An epic series of satellite images shows smokes from the California wildfires clashing with hurricanes in the Eastern United States and Gulf Coast. Source: https://www.livescience.com/smoke-meets-hurricanes-nasa-image.html
Fortnite: Save the World For Mac Is Shutting Down Because of Epic’s Battle With Apple
Epic Games says Fortnite: Save the World will no longer be playable on macOS beginning on September 23rd because Apple is preventing the game from receiving new updates. The Verge reports: The co-op action shooter was initially released as a paid early access title in 2017. Epic’s far more popular free-to-play battle royale will still be playable on Mac, the company…
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars review: Brilliant sci-fi from Eragon author
Christopher Paolini’s epic new novel, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, is an hallucinatory space opera, perfect reading to help us ride out the current storms Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24733000-700-to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars-review-brilliant-sci-fi-from-eragon-author/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Apple Says Epic Is ‘Saboteur, Not a Martyr’ in App Store Battle
Apple is asking a court to reject Epic Games’s latest bid to get Fortnite back on the App Store, saying the game maker is acting as “a saboteur, not a martyr” in its challenge to Apple’s payment system. From a report: In an overnight filing, Apple said “Epic started a fire, and poured gasoline on it, and now asks this court…
Earth Barreling Toward ‘Hothouse’ State Not Seen In 50 Million Years, Epic New Climate Record Shows
[I]n a new study published in the journal Science, researchers have analyzed the chemical elements in thousands of foram samples and found that Earth is barreling toward a hothouse state not seen in 50 million years. Live Science reports: The new paper, which comprises decades of deep-ocean drilling missions into a single record, details Earth’s climate swings across the entire Cenozoic…