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March 7, 2024
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CNET

Apple MacBook Air (M3, 13-inch, 2024) Review: The Everything Laptop

Sizable performance gains from M1/Intel Airs · All-around great design, features · Adds dual display support, Wi-Fi 6E …

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CNET

Fortnite Maker Epic Games Says Apple Terminated Its App Store Developer Account

Epic Games, maker of Fortnite, shown here, is in a battle with Apple over a possible competing app store for developers. Nelson Aguilar/CNET.

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The Wall Street Journal

Microsoft Engineer Warns Copilot Tool Generates Harmful AI Images, Needs Better Safeguards

said the company’s AI image tool generated violent and sexual images that could pose a danger to society. In letters to the Federal Trade Commission and to Microsoft’s board on Wednesday, Shane Jones, a principal software …

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Fortune

17 years of your adult life may be spent online. These expert tips may help curb your screen time

Worldwide, internet users spend an average 400 minutes—nearly seven hours—a day online, according to a new report. Getty Images. You’re reading this on …

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Forbes

Apple Terminates Epic Games’ Developer Account—Claiming Fortnite Maker Is ‘Untrustworthy’

Apple has terminated the developer account for Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, preventing the company from releasing Fortnite and a third-party app store in Europe, Epic Games said Wednesday, the latest contention between the two companies amid a …

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CNBC

Epic Games says Apple retaliated over lawsuits by banning company’s developer account

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said Apple rejected Epic’s application for a developer account it would use to launch an app store for iPhones in Europe. Sweeney said Apple’s decision was in retaliation over the gaming company’s antitrust lobbying, …

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Reuters

Apple escalates Epic Games feud by blocking Fortnite app in EU

Apple terminated a new developer account that Epic had created in Sweden. Epic had created the account in an effort to put Fornite and other games back on iPhones in Europe by running its own game store on Apple’s devices. Apple must allow third-party …

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CNET

Google Updates Search to Filter Out Low-Quality Spam Sites

Along with updating its search algorithm to elevate better-quality sites, Google is changing its spam policies to keep sites “repurposed as spam repositories” out of its search results. It wants to filter out a …

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Forbes

Nothing Phone (2a): Snappy Design And A Very Keen Price

A pricier version with 12GB of RAM and 256GB storage costs £349. Only the second of these will go on sale in the U.S. and will sell for $349 through a developer program and, please note, will only work with T-Mobile for 5G, it doesn’t work with AT&T or …

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Space.com

NASA cancels multibillion-dollar on-orbit satellite servicing mission

NASA has canceled a complex and costly satellite-servicing demonstration mission. The On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (OSAM)-1 spacecraft was to use a robotic arm and other tools to grapple the Landsat 7 Earth-observation satellite and …

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