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Apple was hit with a $115 million fine Monday after Italy’s competition authority alleged the tech giant was abusing its dominant position to harm third-party developers in its App Store. In a press release, the Italian Competition Authority said that an “App Tracking Transparency” (ATT) privacy policy that Apple introduced in 2021 forced third-party developers to seek consent twice for the same data collection. Requiring such “double consent” was “extremely burdensome” and “harmful” to some developers—especially the smallest developers, the regulator said. Many developers struggled to earn ad revenue after the policy was introduced, as users increasingly declined to opt…
Xiaomi has officially listed the new Xiaomi Home Screen 11 on JD.com. The company describes it as its most powerful home screen device to date. The smart display is expected to launch next week alongside the Xiaomi 17 Ultra and other upcoming products. Xiaomi Home Screen 11 Specifications The Xiaomi Home Screen 11 comes with an 11-inch display at 1920×1200 resolution and a 16:10 aspect ratio. The panel reaches 400 nits of brightness, offers a 1500:1 contrast ratio, and carries TÜV Rheinland low blue light certification to reduce eye strain. It also supports family photo albums, dynamic magazine-style screensavers, and…
Any deal on digital memory might be a “get it while you can” proposition, if all the chatter about AI giants buying it up as quickly as they can for their data centers is true. Right now digital memory prices are still very reasonable, and when they go on sale like right now at Amazon, where you can score a massive 18TB Western Digital Elements external hard drive for just $284, it’s a smart move to grab one. The WD Elements 18TB external hard drive isn’t pocket-sized, but it’s designed to fit neatly on your desktop, close to your tower…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. An aquarium in New Jersey welcomed two new residents, just in time for the holidays. On December 20, staff at Adventure Aquarium in Camden revealed the recent births of Duffy and Oscar, a pair of African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) and some much needed good news in light of ongoing conservation concerns.“These milestones are incredibly important for the critically endangered African penguin population, and we couldn’t be more proud to play a role in their future,” the aquarium just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania wrote in a social…
It’s difficult to underestimate the tremendous influence Homer’s epic has had on global culture. Nolan himself recalled seeing the Odyssey performed as a school play when he was just 5 or 6 years old. “I remember the Sirens and him being strapped to the mast and things like that,” he recently told Empire. “I think it’s in all of us, really. And when you start to break down the text and adapt it, you find that all of these other films—and all the films I’ve worked on—you know, they’re all from the Odyssey. It’s foundational.” In addition to Damon, the…
The Xiaomi 17 Ultra was previously rumored to include a single, “more capable” telephoto camera instead of two. However, it wasn’t clear how exactly it would improve image quality. Now, we have more information—and it’s much more exciting. Leaked screenshots of the camera app, shared on Weibo, reveal more details about the telephoto setup of the upcoming flagship. The images show standard zoom presets at 0.6x, 1x, and 2x. However, the telephoto section appears to allow smooth zooming between 3x and 4.3x, covering focal lengths from 70mm to 100mm. The interface also includes references to a “Leica 200MP continuous optical…
The Switch 2 Pro controller is the best controller Nintendo has ever made – and that’s saying something. It’s incredibly comfortable to hold, its joysticks are buttery smooth, and all of its buttons are wonderfully responsive. Nintendo even made it customizable this time with rear buttons that can easily be mapped inside of any game. The only downside? The Switch 2 Pro Controller costs $85, which seems a bit egregious when you can get an excellent controller like 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 wireless gamepad for $60. As good as the competition is, though, you won’t find anything that can be easily…
The Indie Game Awards, a usually delightful and low-controversy annual celebration of the best of indie games in a given year, has found itself having to retract three different awards handed out in last week’s event, including its Game of the Year prize. That originally went to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which also won Best Debut Indie, both already controversial choices given the game is not “indie” by pretty much every understanding of the term, but was withdrawn on the allegation that the developers, Sandfall Interactive, were not honest about the game’s use of AI when it was submitted. The…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Atacama Desert, ChileWhat’s in the photo? A rare dusting of snow covers parts of one of the driest places on EarthWhich satellite took the photo? Landsat 9When was it taken? July 10, 2025This striking satellite photo captured a rare spectacle earlier this year, when “one of the driest places on Earth” experienced a rare snowstorm. This freak event temporarily turned the barren, rocky landscape white — and briefly shut down one of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes.The Atacama Desert is a roughly 40,500-square-mile (105,000 square kilometer) non-polar desert, located within a 1,000-mile-long (1,600 km) strip…
On Monday, the US Department of the Interior announced that it was pausing the leases on all five offshore wind sites currently under construction in the US. The move comes despite the fact that these projects already have installed significant hardware in the water and on land; one of them is nearly complete. In what appears to be an attempt to avoid legal scrutiny, the Interior is blaming the decisions on a classified report from the Department of Defense. The second Trump administration announced its animosity toward offshore wind power literally on day one, issuing an executive order on inauguration…