Nick Statt
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How to install Fortnite on Android
Epic Games launched its battle royale hit Fortnite on Android devices in 2018. At the time, would-be players had to deal with a waiting list and / or a restrictive list of qualified Android phones. These days, it’s a lot easier — but you still need to download it directly from Epic. → Read More
Apple trusts Phobio for its trade-ins, but maybe you should think twice
Phobio is behind Apple’s US Mac and iPhone trade-in program, but Phobio has earned itself a reputation online for lowering customer quotes for reasons like “white spots” that are later found to be nonexistent. The torrent of online complaints threatens to undermine Apple’s reputation for quality control. → Read More
Amazon adds 720p streaming to its Luna cloud gaming service to improve stability
Amazon Luna, the company’s cloud gaming service, is introducing a new 720p streaming mode for those with slower internet connections. The resolution cap should help with performance issues, Amazon says. → Read More
Facebook’s first crack at a Clubhouse competitor is a new Q&A platform called Hotline
Facebook’s NPE Team, its experimental app division, today revealed a new project called Hotline, a take on Clubhouse with elements of live-streaming technology built in. The app is just in the testing phase, with only a website with a waiting list and no mobile apps just yet. → Read More
T-Mobile is upgrading all monthly subscribers to unlimited plans for free
T-Mobile is upgrading all existing prepaid customers to unlimited data plans as part of a push to expand access to its 5G network. It’s also offering a promotion for AT&T and Verizon prepaid customers to switch, too. → Read More
Facebook’s Portal TV now supports Zoom so you can take meetings from the couch
Facebook has added Zoom and GoToMeeting support to its Portal TV, so you can take work meetings from your couch. → Read More
Gazelle brings back its phone trade-in program two months after discontinuing it
Trade-in provider Gazelle has resumed accepting used smartphones and tablets after saying late last year it would discontinue its trade-in program on February 1st. → Read More
Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends
Signal is getting into the payments game with a new beta test for sending cryptocurrency in its mobile apps. The test is only live for those in the UK and only supports the MobileCoin protocol and its MOB currency. → Read More
Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th
Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform’s archives will apparently cease to exist. → Read More
Epic just made streaming Fortnite easier than ever with a new Houseparty integration
Epic is adding a new Fortnite integration to its Houseparty group video chat platform that will let you stream your gameplay in addition to live video from your phone camera. → Read More
The latest Loki trailer teases a buddy-cop duo with Owen Wilson across time
Disney and Marvel have released the second trailer for the upcoming Disney Plus series Loki, which will premiere on the platform on June 11th. → Read More
Spotify leaks another look at the Car Thing, this time from within in its own app
Spotify’s Car Thing gadget, a voice-controlled music player that can be mounted inside a vehicle, has just shown up again in digital renders found buried in the company’s mobile app, courtesy of MacRumors contributor Steve Moser. → Read More
Myanmar’s government shuts down internet indefinitely in response to protests
The military leadership is using internet shutdowns to quell dissent. → Read More
YouTube stars the Stokes Twins avoid jail after pleading guilty over fake bank robbery pranks
High-profile prank YouTubers Alan and Alex Stokes, known as the Stokes Twins, pleaded guilty this week to misdemeanor false imprisonment and reporting false emergencies in connection with prank bank robbery videos filmed in 2019. → Read More
It’s game over for Arizona’s controversial App Store bill
Arizona’s controversial app store bill, HB2005, is on death’s door after it was mysteriously pulled at the last minute before a state senate vote last weekend. Here’s what happened, and how Big Tech lobbying factored into its failure before senators even voted on it. → Read More
Google’s new experimental app is a powerful AI document scanner for Android
Google’s new app Stack, an Android-only AI-powered document scanner, comes out of its experimental app lab Area 120. It released on Tuesday. → Read More
This Microsoft Flight Simulator mod features the cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal
The cargo ship Ever Given, which has been stuck in the Suez Canal for almost a week now, has shown in Microsoft Flight Simulator courtesy of a new mod. → Read More
Comic-Con will hold an in-person event in San Diego over Thanksgiving weekend
Comic-Con is returning to San Diego this fall with its first in-person event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will be a shortened three-day convention over the weekend following Thanksgiving. No pricing or other details have yet to be announced. → Read More
Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
Amazon has started waging increasingly unhinged Twitter wars against prominent Democratic Congress members who are involved in a prominent warehouse unionization campaign in Alabama. → Read More
Arizona Senate skips vote on controversial bill that would regulate Apple and Google app stores
The Arizona State Senate was scheduled to vote an unprecedented and controversial bill on Wednesday that would have imposed far-reaching changes on how Apple and Google operate their respective mobile app stores. But the vote never happened, → Read More