Epic has renewed its fight against mobile platforms’ app store restrictions, filing an update to its antitrust case against Google. The filing adds mostly redacted details about Google’s alleged monopolistic behavior on Android, including banning Epic’s game Fortnite from the Google Play Store last year. The amended complaint comes soon after a judge officially linked the case with a recent multi-state lawsuit, which took aim at Google’s Play Store policies. Epic’s complaint… Source link

If you can’t access online services like Sony’s PlayStation Network and Steam, as well as websites like Airbnb, you’re not the only one. Starting at approximately 11:20AM ET, Downdetector began logging a spike in outage reports across a variety of online services and websites. Outside of PSN and Steam, some of the more notable platforms people can’t seem to connect to include LastPass, TikTok and UPS. Visiting the PlayStation Store and other affected websites, they come back with a DNS… Source link

Google has finally given its new, unified smartwatch platform a name — and it’s an obvious one: Wear OS 3. That little detail was part of what may be a more contentious set of information about which current Wear OS smartwatches will be updated, when those updates will come, and what those updates will entail. On all three of those fronts, it’s not very good news. Google says that Wear OS 3 updates will start rolling out to a limited set of smartwatches in the “second half of… Source link

Google is launching a new beta tester program for Android Auto, giving users the chance to get early access to features if they’re prepared to put up with the potential instability of unfinished software. Android Auto has had a testing program, but attempting to sign up for it has shown a message warning that the program had reached its “maximum number of testers.” “As a beta tester, you can help us build a better version of Android Auto. You can test how well new features work… Source link

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Yandex has registered a company in the United Kingdom that will deal with delivery of foods from dark stores, Yandex.Lavka, a food delivery unit of the Russian technology company, told TASS on Thursday. “Yes, we registered a legal entity that will develop the rapid supply of foods from local stores on the British market. We are hiring a team proactively and looking for spaces for dark stores,” Yandex.Lavka said. “This is essentially Yandex.Lavka but oprerating… Source link

Medicare Advantage provider Clover Health (CLOV) is both despised and loved, depending on whom you ask. The newly-public company has earned a prized status among top meme stocks. But the company is also facing significant backlash in the form of lawsuits after a scathing report from short-seller firm Hindenburg Research.  [Read more: Clover Health CEO speaks out for first time on hospital controversies] It’s something the company’s normally media-shy CEO, Vivek Garipalli, recently discussed in… Source link

The Delta variant of the coronavirus has become the dominant strain in the U.S., and experts are warning that its continued spread poses a major risk to those who are unvaccinated. “So far, almost all of the hospitalizations and deaths that we’re seeing — upwards of 99% of those cases — are among the unvaccinated,” Kristen Choi, assistant professor at UCLA School of Nursing, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “So despite this variant — the way it’s changed, that’s… Source link

Former President Donald Trump has ramped up his criticism of Facebook and other tech giants since leaving office. Earlier this month, he filed separate lawsuits against Facebook (FB), Google-owned YouTube (GOOG, GOOGL), and Twitter (TWTR) over alleged censorship. A new book, “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination,” draws on interviews with more than 400 people in and around Facebook to reveal how the rise and presidency of Trump placed the tech giant under immense public… Source link

The 2020 Olympic Games are currently still on in Tokyo, Japan — against all odds — and in celebration of Japanese culture and sports in general, Google is debuting a new interactive Doodle on Thursday with art from Japanese animation house Studio 4°C. The new Doodle, called Doodle Champion Island Games, is actually a series of Olympic event-themed 16-bit mini-games that you can play, contributing to the scores of four teams Google will track on a global leaderboard. Playing as Lucky… Source link

We’re not saying they’ve been discontinued, but if you head over to Google’s online store in the US and Canada, you’ll find that there doesn’t seem to be any option to buy its second-generation true wireless Pixel Buds. Its more recent Pixel Buds A-Series are still available, but the dedicated listing for the Pixel Buds themselves has disappeared. Google won’t officially say whether the second-generation Pixel Buds are reaching the end of their life. What it will confirm is… Source link