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— Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) August 17, 2020 The injunction specifically cites a recent quote from Tim Cook denying that Apple has ever bullied developers who criticized the App Store, and says: The problem is that several games in the App Store are built on the Unreal Engine, so Epic says, and they would no longer have access to Epic’s developer tools. Epic makes it sound like this would be a disaster, saying “an entire ecosystem based on the Unreal Engine will collapse” and that “will threaten the viability of the engine and disrupt development of a constellation of apps and uses that rely on its graphics to render hundreds of video games, the human brain, Baby Yoda and space flight....

The Apple Watch packs new hardware, including an Always On retina display. Users will be able to see their watch faces without raising their wrists or tapping the device — though, according to Apple, the screen will be dimmed when the user’s wrist is down. Reportedly, this won’t affect battery life — the Series 5 will still have roughly 18 hours of battery. The phone will also have new software, including international emergency calling, which works with built-in fall detection to alert authorities should you ever take a tumble....

It’s hard to imagine “independent” meaning anything other than propaganda in this instance. Particularly considering the very obvious attempted cover-up of the Kerch incident by the Sputnik publication which took place late last year, as exposed by British Express. Sputnik would have been successful, except that thanks to a new decentralized internet called the Permaweb, their actions are visible for everyone to see. The Kerch incident The Kerch incident occurred following escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine over the former’s annexation of Crimea and subsequent disputes....

So… why València? Easy: it’s Spain’s fastest-growing entrepreneurial ecosystem. On top of that, it has the country’s highest number of startups per capita. You feel pretty silly for asking now, don’t you? “In València we firmly believe in public-private collaboration and proof of this is TNW València, an initiative which we are jointly promoting to move forward to VLC Tech City,” Sandra Gómez López, Vice Mayor of València, said about the announcement....

In addition to temporary bans, the government is reportedly considering legislation to force digital platforms to improve the safety of their services. Taking down ‘abhorrent’ content “We are doing everything we can to deny terrorists the opportunity to glorify their crimes,” said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, according to Reuters. Officials are said to be working on a framework to determine what kinds of “abhorrent” violent material — including murder, sexual assault, torture, and kidnapping — would be removed on a case-by-case basis....

This means you’ll be able to control multiple, independent, synchronized audio streams from a source device – like a smartphone – to many headphones, speakers, and audio sinks. Bluetooth LE will also allow you to broadcast audio resulting in audio sharing between headphones. The new standard will let public spaces, such as malls or gyms, provide audio streams simultaneously to their customers. This can also prove useful in museums as they’ll be able to stream tour guides in various languages directly to visitors’ phones....

Brussels’ public transport operator, The Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (STIB), has announced that from September 2021, its services will be free of charge for travelers under the age of 25. The transit company’s budget has been increased by over €61 million (US$72.5 million) – to €945 million – for 2021, which has allowed it to absorb the impact on revenue. Rudi Vervoort, Minister-President of the Brussels Capital Region, said: “I am delighted that we have reached a budgetary agreement in principle allowing free STIB for our young people in 2021, access to public transport for the greater number is essential and its implementation is underway....

If a campaign from Burger King is to be believed (more on that later), an Autopilot-equipped Tesla confused its billboard for a stop sign, and began slowing the car down. It appears the car knows when its driver needs some, uh, fuel in the same way it does itself. Is it a bug? Or is it a feature? You decide. Oh, and of course, Burger King turned this into a potentially irresponsible ad campaign, check out the video below for what supposedly happened....

There’s a simple problem with driving an expensive car: you’re not always in it. Sometimes, there will be moments, awful, heart-wrenching moments where everyone in your vicinity won’t know that you own a vehicle that, objectively, makes you better than everyone else. But, friend, dry your leaking eyes moistening face. Because Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Master & Dynamic to make several pairs of headphones that will finally to let people around you know how idiotic and disgusting and destitute they are....

Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Some updates from us you certainly didn’t ask for: Cara went through some uterus troubles when she thought her vagina swallowed her IUD — turns out, it just wandered around a little too much, so all is well. Anouk continues to shine as publisher, but her usual hair-removal studio went bankrupt, so now she’ll be a hairy puss forever....

Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 This month, we’re handing the Byte Me reigns over to Grlzwave for a takeover! Enjoy (: [Read: Byte Me #16: Breonna Taylor, police surveillance, and virtuencers] ~ Grlzwave is a feminist multimedia platform from Georgia, created by three friends: Atina, Sopho, and me, Tekla (I’m TNW’s former video producer — you might remember me from my Big Spam takeover on 90’s Georgian music)....

If you travel a lot, you know how fun it is to capture photos and videos of places that you go to and things that you do. But, you need to remember your phone’s battery is precious. Plus, you can’t always take your phone underwater to shoot some cool footage. That’s where the GoPro HERO 7 Black comes in. The waterproof action camera’s base bundle is selling for just $343, down from $565....

Summer’s nearly here, so you know what that means? TIME TO GET RIPPED AND SHREDDED AND IN BEACH SHAPE! But doing that is hard. Really hard. Like, how are you meant to keep on top of all your physical activity? Track all your workouts? Analyze all your exercise? If only there was some sort of… fitness device you could… wear. And imagine if it was on offer too… Wait, what’s that?...

The big story here is that Clearview AI can no longer sell its databases to third party companies — but that’s not exactly news. Up front: The suit was filed in 2020 by the ACLU. It alleged that Clearview AI had failed to comply with the Illinois biometric information privacy act (BIPA). As Tech Crunch’s Taylor Hatmaker recently wrote: This, of course, doesn’t stop Clearview from working with government entities outside of Illinois....

In addition to the Solaris operating system and the Java programming language, Sun Microsystems also fostered development of the MySQL database, which today powers a disproportionate swath of the Internet, including Facebook. Sun was also a pioneer of open source. In 2006, the European Union recognized the company as the largest global corporate contributor to open source, exceeding the next five commercial contributors (IBM, Red Hat, SGI, SAP, and MySQL AB) combined....

When the world finally emerges from the pandemic and travel restrictions are ended, a whole reservoir of pent up demand will be suddenly released as people seek to make up lost time. Yet by that point the sector could already look very different, and months of lockdown could have changed patterns of behavior forever. So what will the crisis mean for how we travel in the future? The short-term changes are clear: transport has been restricted to people making only necessary journeys....

Since mid-February, researchers at Check Point have seen an escalation in the number of these attacks from a few hundred daily, to more than 5,000 on March 28 alone. We’re now seeing more than 2,600 attacks per day on average. The following graph represents all coronavirus-related attacks based on ThreatCloud, Check Point’s threat intelligence engine. Credit: Check Point For these purposes, coronavirus-related attacks are understood to mean any website with “corona” or “covid” in the domain, as well as files with “corona” or related file names....

And yet, after all this time, tablet PCs have been never been great at being, you know, tablets. Usually, it’s not been for the lack of decent hardware — manufacturers have been able to put out devices with good designs and nearly iPad-matching performance. Instead, it’s the dearth of software that makes it hard to use a Windows tablet to its fullest potential. Earlier this week, Microsoft revealed this technology would be rolling out in a public preview starting next month, although it’s been under testing via the Windows Insider Program for months now....

The case emerged following last month’s edition of the event in which digital identity startup, Crown Stirling, was heckled during its presentation of the paper titled “Discovery of Quasi-Prime Numbers: What Does this Mean for Encryption,” Ars Technica reports. The paper was authored by Crown Sterling CEO, Robert E. Grant, and co-authored by Talal Ghannam. The paper itself is fairly light, just five pages long and focuses on something called digital root analysis, a technique used to rapidly identify prime numbers....

According to a company announcement, Nuro will partner with CVS, one of America’s biggest pharmacy chains, to deliver prescriptions to customers in a “pilot area,” which is made up of three zip codes in Houston, Texas. [Read: Uber scraps thousands of Jump ebikes, because recycling them is ‘too complicated’] Starting next month, CVS customers can choose the autonomous delivery option during checkout on the pharmacy’s website and app. Nuro will then use one of its vehicles to pick up the prescription and deliver it to the customer within three hours....