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Epic Games taking names in row with Apple/Google, and more tech news today
July 28, 2025
1. Fortnite/Epic Games versus app store taxes
Epic Games kicked off a brief, enthralling campaign against Apple and Google yesterday. First, it emerged that it had found a way to offer discounted in-app purchases in Fortnite, the lifeblood of the game. All without Apple or Google taking a cut, the lifeblood of those app stores.
This is what was being displayed on each store in the US:
Choosing sides:
2.Apple One: Apple’s rumored subscription service looks like it’s finally here, bundling Apple services as soon as October (Android Authority).
3.Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 review: The best Apple Watch alternative (Android Authority).
4.Microsoft Surface Duo shown off in 30-minute press video: curious about what the unique hinged device can do? This video covers a lot of it (Android Authority).
- Apple, Intel, Disney, Ford, among others,urge Trump to rethink scope of a potential WeChat ban(Android Authority).
- Samsung’smmWave touting Galaxy A51 5G arrives on Verizon, cheapest 5G offer yet (Android Authority).
7.Intel’s Tiger Lake CPUs are ready to take on Ryzen 4000 mobile, and Intel seems confident. Next up: benchmarks, and beating out previous supply issues (Ars Technica).
8.Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, dies in his Portland home at age 91. Kirsch, in his later years, worked on doing away with square pixels (DPReview).
9.Floppy disks refuse to die:Boeing 747s still use them to get critical software updates (Gizmodo).
10. Photoshop willhelp ID images that have been … Photoshopped(Wired).
- Disney+ and Lego are makinga new ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’. The back story is great! (Engadget).
12. Here’s theambient noise within the International Space Station(Soundcloud).
- ELI5: On massive online games and worlds (MMORPGs), how can a server flawlessly handle thousands of players across the entire game world,but experience problems when lots of players are in one place?(r/explainlikeimfive).
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