The Pigeon Express
A popular combat and survival game similar to hit video game PlayerUnknown’s Battleground (PUBG) has been blocked in India. Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) has been taken off the Google and Apple app stores. Google said it had blocked access to the game in the country after receiving a government order. Developer Krafton confirmed the news […]
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit in the US over Apple Pay. The tech giant is being accused of using its market power in the mobile phone industry to fend off competition from other payment card issuers. The class-action complaint was filed in a federal court in California by Affinity Credit Union, an Iowa-based […]
A man was accused of sending lewd photos of himself to his fellow passengers on a flight, as seen in a TikTok video viewed more than five million times. TikTok user @daddystrange333 shared the video and said she accepted the photos from a man she referred to as “Larry.” Once she saw who sent the […]
The European Union has provisionally agreed new portable electronic devices must, by autumn 2024, use a USB Type-C charger. Apple products such as iPhones and iPads will have to conform to the new regulation, as will, eventually laptop computers. Existing devices will be exempt. The agreement will be brought before the European Parliament and the […]
The European Commission has accused Apple of abusing its market position for contactless smartphone payments. In a preliminary finding, it said the US company may have broken competition law by preventing rivals from accessing its “tap and go” technology. Apple denies the charge and has promised to engage with the Commission. If the charges are […]
A Brazilian judge has ordered Apple to pay 5,000 Brazilian reals, or $1,081, to a man for not including a power adapter with the sale of his new iPhone. Judge Vanderlei Caires Pinheiro of a civil court in the city of Goiânia ruled the practice a “tie sale,” or a situation in which a company […]
Apple’s top suppliers is stopping work at its factories in and around Shanghai as the city of 25 million people remains under a strict Covid lockdown. Pegatron announced Tuesday that it had suspended production at its facility in China’s largest city, as well as the nearby city of Kunshan, until further notice. “The date of […]
Apple Maps now shows Crimea as part of Ukraine when viewed outside of Russia, in what appears to be a new and quiet update. Mashable first reported the change, which comes amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Now, when you search or click on Crimea, it is displayed as Ukrainian territory. Russia invaded and annexed […]
At the first product event of the year on Tuesday, Apple unveiled an upgraded iPad Air, new desktop computer and a powerful new Mac chip and a new budget iPhone with access to 5G networks. Apple’s new iPhone SE, only the third version since the model launched in 2017, runs on the company’s faster A15 […]
Apple has become the latest major firm to halt all product sales in Russia, in a widening corporate backlash to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The iPhone giant said it was “deeply concerned” about the Russian invasion and stands with those “suffering as a result of the violence”. Apple Pay and other services such as […]
Dutch police overpowered a hostage-taker by knocking him down with a police vehicle as he ran out of an Apple store in Amsterdam. The man, who had a gun, was searched for explosives by a robot as he lay injured on the ground. What began as an armed robbery evolved into a hostage situation. At […]
A Brooklyn bystander claims they witnessed an “angry spouse” in Bushwick throw an iMac out of a window, killing a pigeon in the process. The frankly ridiculous story was reported by Twitter’s Human Mel Friday who stated: “Walking in bushwick and someone’s angry spouse just threw this mac out the window, killing a pigeon on […]