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Anthem is an online multiplayer action role-playing game that was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, Play Station 4, and Xbox One on the 22nd of February of 2019. The game is a beautiful creation by the veteran developers: BioWare and EA. The game takes place on an unnamed planet where players take the role of Freelancers. Freelancers are valiant heroes who utilize powerful exosuits to defend the human race from threats that lay beyond their colonies’ walls....

The anti-loot box bill that has been a talking point in the games industry over the past month has garnered more support in Senate prior to its introduction today, as two Democratic senators have committed to the proposal that would see a ban on the sale of loot boxes to children. The bill is the brainchild of Sen. Josh Hawley, who proposed it two weeks ago and was met with polarizing responses from critics both inside and outside the video game industry....

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According to a report from Foss Patents (and confirmed by Reuters), Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and Samsung Chief Executive Officer Gee-Sung Choi will meet within the next 90 days for settlement talks over ongoing patent disputes. Judge Lucy Koh, who is presiding over the two cases in California, initiated the meeting after ordering the companies to submit their CEOs and legal counsels to an Alternative Dispute Resolution. The report called the talks “semi-voluntary,” because the companies did not have to submit to the Alternative Dispute Resolution....

At WWDC today Apple has announced changes to Apple Music. Eddy Cue first noted that Apple Music has 15 million paying subscribers, which is the most of any streaming service during the first year. As expected, Apple has entirely redesigned the Music app interface with a new design. Now, when you open the Music app the first screen you will see is the “Library,” as opposed to previous versions when the “For You” screen was shown....

Pros Thanks to E-Ink, the display on Kindle device reads like paper without glares in bright sunlight. Also, the text is designed to read like a printed page with the pixel level set for maximum readability. Additionally, Kindle devices offer great battery life with the time between charges measured in weeks, not days. Kindle also comes with Goodreads, a social cataloging website that allows you to search for annotations, quotes, and reviews of the current book....

Global Positioning System, or GPS, is one of the most popular satellite-based navigation systems in the world. However, there are other technologies that provide precise location by satellite – and now India is trying to push NavIC, its own navigation system. However, Apple and other companies seem to be worried about this. As reported by Reuters (via Tecnoblog), the Indian government wants to reduce its dependence on foreign systems like GPS (which is owned by the US) by creating its own technologies....

Apple today is continuing its Apple Pay Cash ad campaign. The latest ad comes a day after Consumer Reports crowned Apple Pay Cash as the top peer-to-peer payment platform… In the latest ad, Apple Pay Cash is used between friends to split a dinner bill. The ad is a continuation fo Apple’s ‘Just text them the money’ series, which it has been gradually rolling out over recent months. Just yesterday, Consumer Reports crowned Apple Pay Cash as the top peer-to-peer payments platform, citing its focus on user and data security, as well as additional authentication steps, as its advantages over services like Zelle, Venmo, and Square Cash....

Apple has so far made one move designed to help it sell more HomePods: a price drop from $350 to $300 back in the spring. Indications are that this didn’t really help. Other efforts seem… limited. Click the Search button on Apple’s website and AirPods – and even iPod – come up as Quick Links; HomePod doesn’t. Even on the Music page, HomePod gets second billing after Apple Music. Part of the challenge for Apple is that decent-quality audio is one of those product categories that has to be experienced before you appreciate the value....

Since being flagged, all user data is no longer accessible. Prior to that, an exploit enabled completed submissions with personal data to be publicly accessible, and retrieval of said data was trivial. So what happened? Essentially, Exposure is an automation tool that companies like Apple can use to speed up the collection of photo licensing. When an Apple employee finds an image they like, they use the Exposure app to send the Instagram account a message with a link to a form to fill out....

Following the release of macOS 10.14 Mojave this afternoon, Apple has published a pair of support documents with details for specific machines. These documents relate to installing Mojave on older Mac Pro machines, as well as Boot Camp support on select iMacs. First off, Apple outlines the graphic cards that support Metal and are therefore compatible with macOS Mojave on the mid-2010 and mid-2012 Mac Pro models: MSI Gaming Radeon RX 560 128-bit 4GB GDRR5 SAPPHIRE Radeon PULSE RX 580 8GB GDDR5 SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition NVIDIA Quadro K5000 for Mac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition Apple says that “some other third-party graphics cards” based on certain AMD GPU families “might” also be compatible with Mojave on the mid-2010 and mid-2012 Mac Pro models:...

Apple has slowly been expanding mobile phone billing (or carrier billing) to additional countries, and three more have been added to the short list of supported countries this week. Customers in Austria, Italy, and Singapore can now use mobile phone billing with select carriers where available. Mobile phone billing lets customers roll charges for the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Apple Music memberships into monthly phone bills from the carrier as an alternative to storing debit or credit cards with Apple....

A new job listing on Apple.com could add fire to the rumors that Apple is considering including fingerprint technology in upcoming devices. The job posting seeking a software engineer to write “low-level code to configure and control hardware” is the only listing on Apple’s site located at the “Melbourne Design Center” in Melbourne, Florida. Not only is the position looking for someone familiar with testing various sensors with LabTool and FA software, but Melbourne is also the home base of Authentec, the company Apple acquired fingerprint technology from last year for around $365 million....

In an interview with Bloomberg, Apple’s Lisa Jackson has announced that the company has achieved 96% worldwide renewable energy up from 2015’s 93%. Already having been at 100% renewable energy in the United States, three more of the company’s worldwide suppliers have pledged to follow suit. In the interview, Jackson mentions that the company won’t stop until it hits 100% everywhere. Within the United States Apple is at 100% renewable energy usage, alongside 23 other countries....

One of the most competitive online battle royale shooters available now, Apex Legends challenges a player’s team-building skills alongside their shooter capabilities. With a cast of characters filled to the brim with personality and powerful abilities, Apex makes use of the hero shooter archetype through the lens of a battle royale game type. The game forces players to collaborate with the members of their squad in order to survive. The title encourages individual skill alongside a player’s ability to collaborate and excel with the members of their squad....

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Apple patents all sorts of crazy things, mostly just concepts that never see the light of the day. We would have classed this one under the ” highly improbable” drawer had it not been for the company’s past patents which toy with various aspects of laser-based projection systems. This one surfaced in the United States Patent & Trademark Office database under the code 20110075055 and entitled “Display system having coherent and incoherent light sources”....

After cutting its California self-driving test fleet to 54 in May, Apple has been expanding the number of drivers as months go by. Now, the company has over 114 drivers. As spotted by macReports, Apple has been consistently expanding its California self-driving test fleet as it reached up to 154 drivers in October of 2020. Though, the number of self-driving vehicles available is the same since August: 69. According to the California DMV, Apple has yet to apply for a driverless permit, as there are several manufacturers who have driverless permits for their fleets....

Not only has Apple charged me $100 to use my 30 inch screen with my Unibody MacBook, but the adapter is huge and takes a USB port for power. Oh, and there was a one month wait for these parts initially. Also, the way this technology works, I can’t use a regular DVI adapter on a 30 inch monitor. If I try, I get the same resolution as on my MacBook’s built-in display, not normal 1920×1200 resolution that the normal DVI supports....

An App Store antitrust investigation in South Korea could see Apple, Google, and local company One Store found guilty of breaching a law that came into effect earlier this year. If confirmed, then each company could be fined up to 2% of its revenue in the country … App Store antitrust background Apple has come under fire in multiple countries for forcing app developers to use the company’s own payment system for App Store and in-app purchases....