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Apple Earlier Reduced the Commission It Was Charging on Transactions Made in Dating Apps That Use Alternative Payment Systems In a report from Reuters, The Netherlands’ ACM believes that it has not received sufficient information from Apple to assess whether the company has properly complied with the order. As such, the regulator will continue to fine Apple five million euros per week up to a maximum of 50 million euros, or $57....

Apple’s Next-Gen CarPlay WIll Support All Kinds of Screens, to Feature Widgets With Deep Integration With Vehicle’s Hardware Today, Apple has seen fit to announce major changes to its CarPlay platform, including support for multiple displays. The next-generation CarPlay will support a wide range of displays and digital gauge clusters. The interface will be able to show a vehicle’s speed, and RPM, along with Apple Maps navigation. In terms of design, CarPlay will support different widgets for your ease....

Developers Will Have to Take Apple’s Permission to Use a Specific API, Inform Customers They Are Being Re-Directed, File Revenue Reports Separately, Making the Entire Process Beyond Cumbersome Apple is said to make things difficult for developers who are presenting users with the option to use third-party payment options. Firstly, such developers will need to take special permission from Apple to include a specific API and inform customers that they are being redirected to a third-party payment option....

Public Beta Testers Can Now Download iOS 16, iPadOS 16, watchOS 9, macOS Ventura and tvOS 16 Public Beta 3 Absolutely Free Having released its entire lineup of future software to developers as fifth betas yesterday, Apple has now released the same software for public beta testers. What this means is, if you have been testing out iOS 16, iPadOS 16, watchOS 9, macOS Ventura or tvOS 16 as a public beta tester, you can download the latest version of the software over the air, same as registered developers, but absolutely free....

Apple’s iPad 9 Seeing Massive 18% Price Drop Ahead of Black Friday - Just $269, Down from $329 There are no discount codes or coupons needed here. But, if history has taught us anything - iPads tend to sell out fast whenever they are heavily discounted. If you want to secure one for yourself at a low price, then today is your lucky day. Just be quick about it. Buy 2021 Apple 10....

iOS 16 and macOS 13 Ventura Public Beta 2 Released For Compatible Devices Starting with iOS 16, the second public beta brings major changes to the table. The Lock Screen has been completely redesigned with customizable wallpapers and widgets. With beta 2, iOS 16 brings a plethora of additions to the Messages app. These changes include editing and deleting messages. If you are unfamiliar, you can see more details on the features in our announcement post....

Improvements such as enhanced multi-user support, Personalized Spatial Audio when using AirPods, and Accessibility upgrades have been added. Coming to the macOS Ventura beta 11, it comes one week after Apple released beta 10 to developers. In case you are new to this, if you are a registered developer, you can download the latest beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the correct profile is installed, the betas will be available through the Software Update mechanism in ‘System Preferences....

New AR Headset Will Feature Performance Equivalent to a Portable Mac, With a Copious Number of Cameras Placed All Over the Wearable Carrying a price between $2,000-$3,000 may discourage customers from proceeding with a purchase, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman implies that the product is a high-end one, featuring the latest generation of sensors and chips. Another reason why Apple might be inclined to charge customers a hefty sum is that the company is reported to start off with a very small initial batch of its AR headset....

Apple Could Potentially Offer USB-C With iPhone 15 in 2023 to Bring Enhanced Data Transfer and Charging Speeds Apple will potentially launch its iPhone 15 models in the second half of 2023 with USB-C instead of a Lightning port. At this point, USB-C has become a standard on all Android flagships. In his latest tweet, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that the iPhone 15 models in 2023 will house a USB-C port instead of Lightning....

Apple Watch Series 8 Will Not Sport Flat Edges Like Current iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, but Physical Changes Are Still in Tow With no new sensors expected for the Apple Watch Series 8, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that the biggest changes we will see are physical. He states the following information below as to what to expect from the lineup later this year. A total of three Apple Watch Series 8 versions are rumored to launch later this year, with the one model to look out for being the ‘rugged’ variant, which could be called the Apple Watch Pro and is rumored to be the most expensive out of the three....

Both the ROG Phone 6D and 6D Ultimate are powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9000-; the main difference is that the Ultimate variant comes with more memory and goes up to 16/512GB configuration, while the standard editing is limited to 16/256GB variant. which s still plenty in our opinion, but hey, more storage is always better. Asus ROG Phone 6D and 6D Ultimate Are Among the Most Powerful Gaming Phones in the Market The ROG Phone 6D variants share the same 6....

ASUS X670E & X670 Motherboards Listed By Online Retailer With Preliminary Prices Ranging From 483 Euros & Up To 1475 Euros The motherboard listing, spotted by Momomo_US, from ASUS includes a total of nine X670E & X670 motherboards ranging from ROG, ROG STRIX & PRO series. The motherboards are obviously listed with preliminary prices which don’t reflect the final MSRPs so do be aware of that. The nine boards include:...

Yesterday, the BAFTA Games awards 2022 ceremony came and went, with many games being honored at the esteemed show. The BAFTAs are meant to celebrate gaming’s achievements for the year, in a pretty similar vein to The Game Awards run every winter by Geoff Keighley. You can watch the stream replay on YouTube below. The two-and-a-half-hour broadcast had multiple different highlights put on display, such as 2021’s Returnal winning four awards at the show....

Base Model of M2 MacBook Pro Features Slower SSD Speeds Compared to M1 MacBook Pro Due to a Single NAND Chip Discovered by the YouTube channels Max Tech, the 256GB MacBook Pro model features slower SSD speeds compared to the M1 MacBook Pro. With Blackmagic’s Disk Speed Test app, it was found that the SSD read and write speeds are both around 1,450 Mbps. This means that the read speed is around 50 percent slower and the write speed is around 30 percent slower compared to the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro model with 256GB of storage capacity....

BCLK ‘Non-K’ OC Motherboards Offer A Nice Performance Improvement For 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs But Intel Says They Void Your Warranty Currently, there are only two products on the market that allow BCLK overclocking on Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake Non-K CPUs. These include the MSI MAG B660M Mortar Max WiFi DDR4 & ASRock’s B660M PG Riptide. These aren’t fairly expensive motherboards and with both of them being DDR4 variants, they have the potential to attract a wider audience in the budget segment considering the DDR5 prices are still way too high....

Privacy is quickly becoming a concern for the global citizen. But, with ISPs keeping extensive logs of DNS lookups and activities of all users and cookies deployed by all websites, how can the average netizen find a modicum of privacy in today’s era? Well, the answer is VPNs. But while Virtual Private Networks increase your digital privacy, they’re not all created equal. Some use unreliable security protocols, slow down your internet speed, or even keep logs....

The Book Is Currently on Pre-Order but Goes on Sale on May 3 Mickle has provided a synopsis of ‘After Steve’ below. The book itself features 512 pages and is expected to go on sale on May 3, 2022. The Kindle, Audiobook, hardcover, and audio CD versions of the book are available to pre-order, giving several options to future readers. It should be an interesting take on things, especially since Apple has been criticized over many topics, such as stifling competition, selling overpriced products, and more....

The new video, which has been put together by TeaserPlay, puts the original 2006 release with their Unreal Engine 5 remake side-by-side, highlighting not only how great the fan-made remake’s visuals look, but also how faithful they are to the original Rockstar Games developed title. Bully is among the most unique games developed by Rockstar Games, and fans have been waiting for a new entry in the series for a very long time....

Basically, Infinity Ward is aiming for Warzone 2 to be a big sequel-worthy evolution of Call of Duty battle royale. The plan is for an all-new map, sandbox mode, and some “disruptive and innovative” ideas. Apparently, Infinity Ward wants to give players more agency, with new modes and rules that will allow you to win matches in different ways. There are also plans to greatly expand the Gunsmith system. As for the original Warzone, there are plans for a number of quality-of-life improvements over the coming months, including better matchmaking and ranked play, although a FOV slider on consoles is unlikely....

Here’s Torn Banner’s basic Tenosian Invasion description… …meanwhile, a PC Gamer preview offers a bit more detail on what we can expect. An all-new faction, the titular Tenosians, which are inspired by Middle Eastern civilizations, most notably the Ottomans. Of course, the new faction will come with a ton of new cosmetics. Four new maps, entitled Desert (deathmatch), The Razing of Askandir (objective), The Breach of Baudwyn (objective), and finally, The Charge of Wardenglade (deathmatch with horseys!...