Epic Games has filed an appeal to a Friday's ruling in its lawsuit against Apple, calling on a higher court to reexamine the case and overturn the judge’s ruling. The judge found that Epic failed to make the case for Apple as a monopoly in the mobile gaming marketplace.
The US Defense Department has put out a call for nuclear propulsion systems to power small- and mid-sized spacecraft. The nuclear propulsion system will offer "high delta-V" while scaling down to less than 2,000kg in dry mass (4,409lbs on Earth)
Crikey publisher Private Media, Mamamia, The Squiz and Junkee Media are among 20 publishers that are coming together to form what will be known as the Digital Publishers’ Alliance, aiming to boost visibility with advertisers, and give the publications a stronger voice on key industry issues.
Charli XCX stars in a new advertisement for Samsung's Galaxy Buds2 headphones, portraying the musician against a backdrop of lush foliage, matching the muted green tone of one set of earbuds. Each scenario in the ad accompanies a dedicated soundscape, like the sound of water crashing on the singer's body, flowers blooming and lightning exploding around her.
A California judge ruled on Friday that Apple needs to give developers the option to offer alternative app payment options to consumers, restricting developers from using Apple's own Apple payment service. This means that Apple will no longer be able to collect a 30% commission on app sales. The ruling is a major black eye for Apple, but analysts say it will not hurt the company in the long run.
Stablecoins are at the heart of the biggest controversies in the crypto industry as companies and protocols keep announcing new stablecoins on an almost weekly basis. The best known stablecoin is Tether which claims to be backed by commercial paper, but also has questions about its use of Tether to prop up Bitcoin's price.
The biggest industrial plant in the world came online in southwest Iceland yesterday to suck tons of planet-heating carbon dioxide from the air. This particular operation is located to test the emerging technology, and is powered by renewable energy from geothermal power plants nearby. The company plans to keep the captured CO2 in basalt rock formations three kilometers away from the geothermal plant.
Epic Games asked Apple to reinstate its developer account in hopes of re-releasing "Fortnite" in South Korea. The tech giant is embroiled in a worldwide legal battle with Apple over App Store policy. Epic wants to release the game with both first- and third-party payment systems.
The Ukrainian Parliament has adopted a law that legalizes and regulates cryptocurrency, the fifth country in as many weeks to lay down some ground rules for the cryptocurrency market, a sign that governments around the world are realizing that bitcoin is here to stay. The new legislation spells out certain protections against fraud for those who own bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and takes a stab at defining core terminology.
Mastercard has agreed to buy blockchain analytics company CipherTrace, which sells cryptocurrency anti-money laundering services, as the payments company deepens its bet on digital assets. The deal will allow Mastercard to “differentiate its card and real-time payments infrastructure” by helping its customers to comply with regulations as they increasingly “build their own virtual asset offerings”
GPT-4 is coming but the focus will be on coding and that's where the available compute will go. The progress will come from OpenAI working on all aspects of GPT, including data, algos, and fine-tuning. The model will be a text model, but will use more compute than the previous model.
