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Apple is expanding its Tap to Pay on iPhone feature for merchants to five more countries in Europe. Businesses in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco and Norway will now be able to accept in-person contactless payments on their iPhones. The functionality is limited to specific third-party iOS apps that vary by nation. For example, British fintech … Read more
Riot’s long-awaited fighting game 2XKO, previously called Project L, will be released for PC as an early access title on October 7. That’s just two weeks away. The company dropped a development update video that’s filled with nods to the source material. 2XKO is set in the League of Legends universe and features many characters … Read more
You know how annoying it is to click multiple edits on a photo? What’s that? It’s actually pretty easy to do. Well, Google says otherwise and has a solution for you: conversational editing, a feature that lets you tell Google your requested edits, rather than have to make them yourself. Google first introduced conversational editing … Read more
Disney might be trying to put the Jimmy Kimmel Live fiasco to bed by bringing the show back on Tuesday night (good luck with that). But the company isn’t exactly putting itself back in customers’ good graces. Once again, it’s hiking the prices of Disney+ subscriptions in the US. Several standalone plans and bundles are … Read more
Meta is launching a national super political action committee (PAC), according to a report by Axios. This super PAC will be committed to fighting “onerous” AI regulation across the country. It’s called the American Technology Excellence Project and Meta spokesperson Rachel Holland said the company is investing “tens of millions” into the effort. The goal … Read more
The long-running joke about Hideo Kojima is that he’d secretly rather be making movies than video games. Kojima somehow nearly got into double figures on Metal Gear games without any of them receiving the adaptation treatment (though not for the lack of trying on his part), but it’s looking like a very different story for … Read more
The European Union has asked Apple, Google and Microsoft to explain how they police online financial scams, stepping up enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA), as first reported by the Financial Times. Formal information requests were also sent to Booking Holdings, the owner of Booking.com, regarding how the company handles fake accommodation listings. Likewise, … Read more
Meta put the smartglasses industry on alert when it announced the Meta Ray-Ban Displays last week. And while those might feature one of the most advanced optical engines on a device its size, after testing out one of its competitors — the Rokid Glasses — I’m convinced there’s still plenty of room for competition. At … Read more
WhatsApp is now rolling out message translations on its iOS and Android apps. Starting today, Android users will be able to translate messages between six languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic. On iPhone, there’s support for translation between the following languages (i.e. all of the ones supported by Apple’s Translate app): Arabic Dutch … Read more
Meta is allowing more governments to access its suite of Llama AI models. The group includes France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea and organizations associated with the European Union and NATO, the company said in an update. The move comes after the company took similar steps last year to bring Llama to the US … Read more