Elon Musk Sides With Epic, Claims Apple App Store Fees Are Global Tax On The Internet

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Elon Musk Sides With Epic, Claims Apple App Store Fees Are Global Tax On The Internet]( By Nathan Ord on Jul 31, 2021 12:31 pm [Elon Musk Sides With Epic, Claims Apple App Store Fees Are Global Tax On The Internet]( As we watch the Epic Games versus Apple fight continue from the sidelines, a new contender has entered the ring, it seems. Yesterday, billionaire and space mogul Elon Musk surprisingly sided with Epic Games on App Store fees on Twitter. Nearly a year ago, Apple kicked Fortnite off the App Store after Epic Games moved to circumvent Apple’s [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Is 3dfx Making A Graphics Comeback? A Highly Suspect Tweet Has Us Filled With Doubt]( By Ben Funk on Jul 31, 2021 11:27 am [Is 3dfx Making A Graphics Comeback? A Highly Suspect Tweet Has Us Filled With Doubt]( While it may not have been the first 3D accelerator to market, the 3dfx (then, 3Dfx) Voodoo Graphics PCI was the add-in card that kickstarted the 3D gaming revolution. The company made its name on Voodoo graphics, but ultimately could not weather the storm of speedy cards that could process both 2D and 3D graphics. Eventually acquired by NVIDIA [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Spoiler Alert, Microsoft Apologizes For Huge Halo Infinite Preview Campaign Leaks]( By Ben Funk on Jul 31, 2021 11:00 am [Spoiler Alert, Microsoft Apologizes For Huge Halo Infinite Preview Campaign Leaks]( Halo Infinite is the first brand new Halo installation since 2015, when Halo 5: Guardians came to the Xbox One. To say there's a lot of hype around the much-delayed return of Master Chief after apparently going rogue in the previous installment, ultimately being recovered by Spartan Locke. Apologies for the spoilers on a six-year-old game, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Updated: Apple's M1 MacBook Air Falls To Just $749 With This Gold Medal Deal]( By Brandon Hill on Jul 31, 2021 09:50 am [Updated: Apple's M1 MacBook Air Falls To Just $749 With This Gold Medal Deal]( When Apple first introduced its custom Arm-based M1 processor late last year, the MacBook Air was one of the first devices to take the plunge. Emboldened with excellent performance and stellar battery life in a lightweight/fanless chassis, the refreshed MacBook Air remains a hot seller for Apple. With a starting price of $999, the MacBook [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [GeForce RTX 40 Ada Lovelace And Radeon RX 7000 May Be Monstrous, Power-Hungry GPUs]( By Brandon Hill on Jul 30, 2021 05:31 pm [GeForce RTX 40 Ada Lovelace And Radeon RX 7000 May Be Monstrous, Power-Hungry GPUs]( Everything is fine and dandy when it comes to performance in the current-generation discrete GPU market -- that is if you can get your hands on a GeForce RTX 30 or Radeon RX 6000 card. However, there are always people looking towards the next big thing, which is undoubtedly the case for next-generation enthusiast-class graphics cards from [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Vultur Android Malware Swoops In To Stealthily Steal Banking Credentials]( By Nathan Ord on Jul 30, 2021 04:06 pm [Vultur Android Malware Swoops In To Stealthily Steal Banking Credentials]( Some vultures prey on dead animals, other Vulturs prey on banking information entered on Android devices. In late March of this year, ThreatFabric detected an Android-based remote access trojan (RAT) malware, dubbed Vultur, collecting login credentials. However, the threat actors took a different approach to the thievery by simply recording [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Amazon Slapped With Nearly $900 Million Fine Over EU Privacy Violations]( By Nathan Ord on Jul 30, 2021 03:31 pm [Amazon Slapped With Nearly $900 Million Fine Over EU Privacy Violations]( Legislators worldwide have had a microscope on Amazon for some time now, and it seems a weakness has been found. The European Union recently slapped the world’s largest e-tailer with the biggest-ever privacy violation fine of a whopping 746-million euro ($888 million). 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