As the high-profile Epic Games v Apple trial entered its third week on Monday — with key Apple executives now being put on the stand, like Apple’s former marketing chief Phil Schiller — the chief legal officer of a completely separate Apple antagonist decided that this would be the perfect time to publish a screed …
In recent months, the Pokemon Trading Card Game has exploded in popularity. Consumers are buying up Pokemon cards (and reselling them online) at a dizzying pace, and as demand has grown, supply has been increasingly difficult to come by. This has turned the big box retailers into chokepoints, as people rush to stores like Target …
Hackers have been out in force this year, especially when it comes to security incidents like data breaches and, increasingly, the opportunity to take advantage of lax security and other vulnerabilities at banks and financial institutions. A major regional bank based here in Memphis, for example, reported in recent days that some of its customers …
The cryptocurrency Dogecoin was created as a joke in 2013, and as of this January, it was worth less than a penny per coin. By the end of the month, it had hit 5 cents, and in May, it reached a new high of 74 cents. This meteoric rise uncoincidentally coincided with Tesla and SpaceX …
Get used to seeing, over the coming days, lots of Dogecoin news, breathlessly enthusiastic tweets, and maybe even some kind of reference to the cryptocurrency this weekend on Saturday Night Live, when Tesla CEO and die-hard Dogecoin fanboy-in-chief Elon Musk hosts NBC’s weekend variety show. Many people are expecting Elon to at least name-check the …
Peloton issued voluntary recalls for both of its treadmills on Wednesday over safety concerns. In a press release, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Peloton told customers that had purchased either a Tread or Tread+ to immediately stop using the product and contact Peloton for a full refund or another qualified remedy. Peloton …
Welcome to the future, courtesy of an expansion of Kroger delivery options that will soon include packages dropped off via drone. Kroger has announced that this spring, it will pilot a drone delivery program that calls for using drones to ferry products from a test store in Centerville, Ohio, to customer residences, with the products …
Here’s a thought experiment for you streaming fans out there. At this point, many of us are subscribed to multiple streaming TV services — Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV+, and maybe even a few others beyond that. But maybe at some point, perhaps even right now, you’ll arrive at a moment of frustration. Deciding that …
In the lead-up to Monday’s arrival of the long-awaited iOS 14.5 — the new version of Apple’s mobile operating software that strikes a blow against the creepy user tracking underpinning Facebook’s business model — there was a particular dynamic that consistently dominated much of the press coverage. Things tended to be put in pretty binary …
The week began with Spotify making news on multiple fronts, such as with the announcement that, starting today in select markets, a partnership with Facebook means that Spotify users will now be able to discover and enjoy song playback directly from Spotify via a new player insider the Facebook app on both iOS and Android. …
