Enlarge Aurich Lawson / Getty Images Apple’s bitter legal dispute with Epic Games over the distribution of Fortnite on iOS has now managed to rope in Valve. Apple has subpoenaed the Steam maker for a wide range of PC game sales data it says is crucial to its case. But Valve is fighting back against […]
Lewis Tan stars as Cole Young. YouTube/Warner Bros. He bears an unusual birthmark. YouTube/Warner Bros. It’s an invitation to….Mortal Kombat! YouTube/Warner Bros. Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) heeds the call. YouTube/Warner Bros. The iceman cometh: Joe Taslim plays Sub-Zero. YouTube/Warner Bros. Poor Jax Briggs (Mehcad Brooks) will not emerge from this encounter unscathed. YouTube/Warner Bros. Bionic […]
The big tech platforms are facing a challenge unlike any other as Australia moves to make them pay for news. SYDNEY, Australia — In a major escalation, Google threatened on Friday to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government approved legislation that would force tech companies to pay for journalism shared on […]
The temptation to spend a few dollars in your favorite Android game is always there — especially if you’re an avid gamer — but that small amount can rapidly snowball into a large sum of money if you’re not careful. Conversely, you might not be tempted, but if someone else often uses your Android phone […]
WASHINGTON — Google has largely stayed quiet about its conversations with federal investigators as the Justice Department has looked into whether the company abused its dominance of the online advertising market. But a little-noticed 67-page document sent to Australian regulators in May by Google’s advisers may provide clues to how the Silicon Valley titan intends […]
U.S. gamers and movie watchers are binging on entertainment during the pandemic, and game companies and streaming movie services are vying with each other to get consumers to sign up for their services, according to Deloitte‘s 14th annual Digital Media Trends report. The data from the world’s biggest accounting and financial services firm is a […]
With direct flights to Wuhan and a population of 24 million people living in densely packed cities, Taiwan’s coronavirus outlook seemed grave. But, to date, the disease has claimed just seven lives on the island, and it never went into full lockdown. Its leaders credit masks as playing a key role, but not for the […]
The game industry is known for its fierce competition. But during the coronavirus, cooperation is happening. As the people who run these companies go beyond survival mode, they are stepping up with charitable efforts, donations, and awareness campaigns. It’s getting hard to keep track of everything. The biggest effort is PlayApartTogether, a campaign joined by […]
On this episode of Digital Trends Live, host Greg Nibler talks the top tech stories of the day, including Apple and Google battle COVID-19 (sometimes together), robot pizza delivery, possible new iPhone and mini HomePod, all-electric flying car races, and more. We’re all stuck at home, so we may as well win a GoPro Hero8 […]
The next time you spend money in GTA Online’s Diamond casino, you can feel good about it. Rockstar Games said it will donate 5% of revenue for GTA Online and Red Dead Online for the next month to fight the coronavirus. Rockstar said that “community is at the center of everything we do.” It added, […]
Enlarge / No need to use hand sanitizer after handling a download Aurich Lawson / Getty Update (3/19/2020 11:16pm ET): Gamestop provided a statement to Ars Technica saying that “while GameStop is best known as a provider of gaming and home entertainment systems, we also offer a wide array of products and devices that are […]
The U.S. government is reportedly working with big tech to come up with ways that people’s cell phone data location can be used to combat the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Facebook, Google, and other major tech companies are in talks with the government to examine compiling location data that would help follow the spread of the […]
Executives from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook met officials at Downing Street on Wednesday to discuss their role in the coronavirus crisis. One of the things discussed was their role in “modelling and tracking data”. In similar meetings at the White House, meanwhile, companies were asked how they could use artificial intelligence. A World […]
Enlarge / The front of the 2019 iPad Air. Samuel Axon Earlier this week, Apple notified app developers of a revised set of App Store review guidelines—the rules by which Apple curates its iOS/iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS App Stores. Among many other things, the revised rules expand the definition of what constitutes a spam […]
The ice core drill head. Simon Payne Scientists will use an ultra-advanced drill to dig 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) deep into Antarctica’s ice, with the goal of learning more about the Earth’s past and where our climate could be going in the future. The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) unveiled the new drill on Monday. Made […]