Fortnite Removed From App Store And Play Store After Epic Game Added Direct Payment Option
Apple on Thursday removed Epic Games’ Fortnite from its App Store after the company implemented its own in-app payment system. The upshot was Epic bypassed Apple’s 30% cut. Enter lawsuit. Apple’s 30% cut, which looked like a deal when first instituted, has been under scrutiny…
Google Is Helping People Spot The Spoofs: A URL Experiment
Google is experimenting with showing domain names only in Chrome’s address bar instead of full URLs. The feature will be tested in the upcoming Chrome 86 release, with Google hoping the change could protect users against scams and phishing attacks using misleading URLs The blog post read, “On…
Intel Offers A First Look At Its Next-Gen Tiger Lake Processors And Xe Graphics
Intel Thursday announced details of forthcoming chips for compute, graphics, and artificial intelligence in its first architectural roadmap presentation since 2018. Intel’s Raja Koduri, the company’s chief architect, told reporters that the spirit of the company’s engineers is high despite a couple weeks of grueling press coverage…
Message Requests Are Now Available In Signal
The privacy-focus instant messaging app Signal is rolling out a new feature i.e Message Requests. With message requests, when someone who isn’t in your contacts starts a new chat with you or adds you to a group, you can quickly see more info before accepting…
Twitter Users Can Now Control Who Replies To Their Tweet
The microblogging site Twitter rolled out a moderation feature that would allow its users to limit how many people can reply to their tweets, giving account-holders more control over conversations on their page. All accounts, including those of elected officials, can now select the people…
Russia Has Developed ‘First’ Coronavirus Vaccine’ In The World
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to approve a vaccine offering “sustainable immunity” against the coronavirus and that one of his daughters has been inoculated. Officials have said they plan to start mass vaccination in October.The vaccine is based…
Google Delays Deprecation Of Chrome Apps
Google is going to let you use Chrome apps for a little while longer, as the company on Monday announced an extension to its planned timeline to end support for the software. Google cites “feedback from our customers and partners” in making these changes. The Chrome Web…
How To Send Google Drive Attachments In Gmail
Using the Gmail user interface, you can attach a file up to 25 MB in size, where the size is determined by the size of the file on disk. If you attach a file larger than 25 MB in size, then Google uploads it to…
How To Restore Windows Photo Viewer In Windows 10
Windows 10 uses the Photos app as the default app to open image files. By default, Windows Photo Viewer is no longer listed in Open with, and only has .tiff files associated with it in Default Programs. This tutorial will show you how to restore Windows Photo…
US Officially Passes 5 Million Coronavirus Cases
The United States surpassed 5 million coronavirus cases on Sunday, the most in the world. The figures were released Sunday by Johns Hopkins University, which said the U.S. death toll is above 162,000. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has released a model predicting…
China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 And ESNI
China’s Great Firewall“is now blocking HTTPS connections set up via the new TLS 1.3 encryption protocol and which use ESNI (Encrypted Server Name Indication),” reports ZDNet: The block has been in place for more than a week, according to a joint report authored by three organizations tracking…
How To Choose A Strong Password
Passwords are the digital keys to our networks of friends, our work colleagues, and even our banking and payment services. The most important two passwords are those for your email and social network accounts. If someone gains access to your email account, they could use…
Donald Trump Signs Executive Orders Banning TikTok & WeChat
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday banning transactions with ByteDance, the parent company of popular app TikTok According to the first order that will take effect in 45 days, any transaction with TikTok’s owner, ByteDance Ltd, or its subsidiaries, will be prohibited. The second order…
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