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A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section. The app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as a moneymaking tool offering “hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year” for access to …

DICE’s Vice President and General Manager, Rebecka Coutaz, recently sat down with GamesRadar to talk about the upcoming Battlefield 6. With the game only weeks away from release, she opened up about the challenges of joining DICE after the troubled launch of Battlefield 2042. Coutaz revealed that she joined DICE in November 2021, just two weeks after the release of …

For decades now, the Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise has been associated with Microsoft’s own DOS/Windows operating systems and, more recently, Xbox consoles (weird exceptions like this 1986 Macintosh port notwithstanding). However, that era seems set to end as Sony announced during this evening’s State of Play livestream that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will come to the PlayStation 5 on December …

“The Supreme Court is Google’s last hope to avoid an Epic reckoning in October,” I wrote last week. Google apparently agrees. Today, it’s finally elevated its Epic v. Google case, the one that might fracture its control over the entire Android app ecosystem, to the Supreme Court level. Google has now confirmed it will appeal its case to the Supreme …

Steam user becomes first person to own 40,000 games on the platform  TechSpot You won’t believe how much money this Steam user spent to own 40,000 games  Polygon Manic Steam game collector first to surpass 40,000 game titles in library — $640,000 digital collection took 15 years to build  Tom’s Hardware PC Gaming Legend Wins Steam With Achievement For Buying 40,000 Games  Kotaku Steam …

If you’ve heard that Apple’s new iPhone 17 Pro models are more prone to scratches than past models, the story is not as cut and dry as it might appear. Bloomberg reported on September 19 that in-store iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro were already showing scratches, including circular marks from where the phones mounted on MagSafe stands. Now Apple …

Sony Adds Official Desktop Speakers to Its Increasingly Enormous Product Family  Push Square Introducing Pulse Elevate – Sony Interactive Entertainment’s first wireless speakers for desktop gaming  PlayStation.Blog PlayStation Pulse Elevate portable speakers are coming for your desktop in 2026  Engadget PlayStation’s new wireless speakers are for your desktop  The Verge Sony Unveils Pulse Elevate Wireless Speakers for Gaming, Arriving Next Year  CNET Source link

ZDNET’s key takeaways The new flagship iPhone brings two big photography upgrades, in the zoom camera and the front-facing camera The new A19 Pro processor, the N1 chip, and the thermal upgrades combine to rev up performance For the author, this year’s upgrade choice boils down to overcoming a flaw in the past two Pro Max models more buying choices …

We got our first proper look at Hideo Kojima’s return to horror as the trailer for OD premiered at Kojima Productions’ 10th anniversary event. In typical Kojima fashion, the trailer was cryptic and weird, without revealing anything about the plot. In fact, Kojima Productions even went as far as redacting some text to keep us in the dark about the …

Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon promised a “new phase of Snapdragon,” bringing, in his words, “AI everywhere.” One key technology: the next-gen “6G” technology, which will be ready in 2028. Google’s Rick Osterloh, senior director of devices and services, also indicated that his company was building a common technical foundation for PCs, apparently referencing an initiative to merge ChromeOS and …