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Apple, Google drop Fortnite from app stores over payments
NEW YORK (AP) ??" Apple and Google dropped the popular game Fortnite from their app stores after the game's developer introduced a direct payment plan that bypasses their platforms.Apple and Google both take a 30% cut from in-app revenue purchases in games, which has long been a sore spot with developers.
Fortnite is free, but users can pay for in game accoutrements like weapons and skins. Its developer, Epic Games, said in a blog post Thursday that it was introducing Epic Direct payments, a direct payment plan for Apple's iOS and Google Play. Epic said the system is... Read More
Computer scientist, pixel inventor Russell Kirsch dead at 91
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ??" Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world's first digital photograph, died Aug. 11 at his home in Portland, Oregon, The Oregonian reported. He was 91.Pixels, the digital dots used to display photos, video and more on phone and computer screens, weren't an obvious innovation in 1957, when Kirsch created a small, 2-by-2-inch black-and-white digital image of his son, Walden, as an infant. That was among the first images ever scanned into a computer, using a device created by his research team at the U.S... Read More
US seizes virtual currency alleged to fund militant groups
WASHINGTON (AP) ??" The Justice Department said Thursday that it has seized millions of dollars from cryptocurrency accounts that militant groups, including al-Qaida and the Islamic State, used to finance their organizations and violent plots.Law enforcement officials said the groups used the accounts to solicit donations, including through a scam that sought to raise money from the sale of fraudulent personal protective equipment for the coronavirus pandemic.
Officials described it as the largest-ever seizure of virtual currency funds related to terrorism. It's also... Read More
TikTok and its employees prepare to fight Trump over app ban
TikTok and its U.S. employees are planning to take President Donald Trump's administration to court over his sweeping order to ban the popular video app, according to a lawyer preparing one of the lawsuits.The employees' legal challenge to Trump's executive order will be separate from a pending lawsuit from the company that owns the app, though both will argue that the order is unconstitutional, said Mike Godwin, an internet policy lawyer representing the employees.
Trump last week ordered sweeping but vague bans on dealings with the Chinese owners of TikTok and... Read More
UK begins testing a new app to fight COVID-19 spread
LONDON (AP) ??" Britain started testing a new smartphone app Thursday to help people find out whether they've been close to someone infected with COVID-19 after security concerns torpedoed an earlier effort to use technology to track the disease.The Department of Health and Social Care said that trials of the app began on the Isle of Wight, with testing in the London borough of Newham scheduled to begin soon. The app, which was developed in conjunction with privacy experts and companies such as Google and Apple, is similar to technology being used in Germany and Ireland.
Top Stories in Technology
- Apple, Google drop Fortnite from app stores over payments
- Computer scientist, pixel inventor Russell Kirsch dead at 91
- US seizes virtual currency alleged to fund militant groups
- Michigan plans dedicated road lanes for autonomous vehicles
- TikTok and its employees prepare to fight Trump over app ban
- Israel successfully tests advanced missile defense system
- UK begins testing a new app to fight COVID-19 spread
- Facebook beefs up anti-misinfo efforts ahead of US election
- Pompeo, in Slovenia, pushes 5G security, warns about China
- Israel says it foiled hackers targeting defense industry
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