Apple has responded to Epic’s demands that the iPhone-maker restore Fortnite to the App Store in new legal filings, arguing that the company’s injuries are “entirely self-inflicted” and that Fortnite can return to iOS at any time — just as soon as Epic removes the custom in-app payment system that triggered the game’s removal in the first place.

A French official’s decision to speak out against a book he said was an “ode to misandry” appears to have backfired after sales of the book in question – “Men, I hate them” (Moi les hommes, je les déteste) – have exceeded expectations, forcing extra print runs after the book sold out just weeks after its publication.

Apple is researching ways where Siri can be better at assessing whether you really meant to call it, and also when you're done speaking to it. You've done this. You've had to hurriedly slap your palm over your Apple Watch because Siri has begun talking. And you've had that perplexing moment of trying to fathom out what you could possibly have just said that sounded anything like "Hey, Siri." Apple wants to change that.

In a lengthy and detailed post published on the Netflix Technology Blog, a group that focuses on encoding and video algorithms laid out new techniques they hope will offer up higher-quality video for subscribers. In some cases, their internal testing has offered similar video quality at half the bitrate of their current encoding techniques — a boost that could offer big improvements for bandwidth-constrained customers.

Cryptocurrencies appear to be emerging as the latest means for Chinese citizens to move their assets overseas and evade the nation’s strict capital controls amid escalating tensions in US-China relations. The Chinese government allows its citizens to transfer the equivalent of only US$50,000 or less out of the country each year.

President Trump has backed Oracle's bid to buy TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned video app that must sell its US business within months or face a ban in the country. The Financial Times first reported Tuesday that the software giant had entered the race to buy TikTok. It is working with US VC firms such as Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst, both investors in TikTok parent ByteDance.

A team of researchers at Stanford University has created an artificial intelligence-based player called the Vid2Player that is capable of generating startlingly realistic tennis matches—featuring real professional players. They have written a paper describing their work and have uploaded it to the arXiv preprint server. They have also uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating their player.

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After the failed talks of stimulus negotiators between the Republican and Democratic highest officials, Congress would reportedly act on the second round of the stimulus payment next month.

A NASA spacecraft just discovered a hidden ocean in our solar system. The agency's Dawn probe orbited the dwarf planet Ceres, which sits inside the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, for three years before running out of fuel in 2018. At one point, Dawn zipped 22 miles, or 35 kilometers, above the small world's surface. Scientists are still studying the data it gathered, since it offers an up-close look at some bright regions on Ceres that they'd been scratching their heads o...

ARM's ex-president has warned the sale of the UK-based chip designer to another semiconductor company could put the wider tech sector "in jeopardy". Tudor Brown's comments follow reports that ARM's current owner, Japan's Softbank, is in advanced talks to sell the firm to Nvidia, a US firm best known for its graphics chips. The Nikkei has reported that Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC has also expressed interest.

The number of Americans who believe in God continues a substantial decline. In their latest survey of religion, the Pew Research Center found, “In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace.” (1) [All data quoted in this diary comes from this report].

Facebook said Thursday it had deep-sixed a Romania-based troll farm rife with accounts masquerading as Black Americans supporting President Trump. The posts purported to be from a guy named David Adrian, who lived in Montana but also somehow simultaneously in Romania, NBC News reported. But the person was fictitious, with a stolen profile photo. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter all removed accounts, NBC News said.

In the runup to World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enlisted the entire US economy in an effort to scale up production of war material. All of the country’s resources were bent to the task. In 1939, the US had 1,700 aircraft and no bombers; in 1945, it had 300,000 military aircraft and 18,500 B–24 bombers.

In a brief filed in a New York district court on Tuesday night, the Internet Archive fired back in response to a lawsuit brought against it by five of the world’s largest publishers. The lawsuit seeks to shut down an online National Emergency Library started by the Internet Archive during the Covid-19 pandemic and levy millions of dollars in fines against the organization.

The check has arrived and beleaguered restaurant owners across America are looking down on their empty wallets. Government coronavirus loans in the spring helped eating establishments rehire laid-off employees and ride out the pandemic's initial surge and wave of shutdown orders.

In a report by Independent, Musk revealed that the chip will allow the wearer to hear things that they weren't able to hear before as it was out of a human's hearing range, meaning the Neuralink chip can be used to "extend range of hearing beyond normal frequencies and amplitudes."

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