Epic Games' app store will be preinstalled on millions of Android phones

Epic Games has struck a deal with Telefónica to have its mobile storefront pre-installed on millions of compatible Android devices. As such, those who buy a phone from a Telefónica network such as O2 or Movistar in Spain, the UK, Germany and Spanish-speaking Latin America will immediately have the app, which offers access to

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Derek COPY v1 OF The 70 best Black Friday tech deals you can still get under $50

The expensive tech gets all the attention — thousand-dollar phones and $500 tablets. But the supporting players, the cables and batteries and chargers that make those devices work properly, are just as important. Right now for Black Friday, many of those smaller gadgets are on sale for less than $50 even after the day has passed. And there are even some standalone devices like

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Star Trek: Lower Decks sets up its finale elbowing its own ribs

Spoilers for Lower Decks, “Fissure Quest.”

It turns out you can have your cake and eat it.

The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is an exercise in box ticking for the show’s creative team. It does the grunt work of laying the table and raising the sta

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BeReal accused of annoying users into sharing their data

BeReal, the in the moment social media platform, is far from its 2022 heyday, but that hasn't stopped one organization from going after it. Austrian advocacy group Noyb has filed a complaint surrounding the platform's data consent banner practices. The organization claims that the banner disappears if users accept that their personal data can inform advertising practices, but if they click reject then the

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One of our favorite air fryers is 27 percent off right now

There are far too many fads that are blown out of proportion, as if a single item could really change your life. The air fryer — arguably one of the most talked about devices of the past few years — does not fall into this category. Having an air fryer is as good or better than everyone makes it out to be. 

Yet, there are two barriers to getting an air fryer: cost and counter space. While, there's nothing we can do to expand your kitchen, we're happy to point out a great deal on

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LG will stop making all of its UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players

LG has discontinued all of its Blu-ray players, including its UBK80 and UBK90 UHD Blu-ray players, according to FlatpanelsHD. Remaining stock will still be available, but the company doesn’t have plans to make more. This decision isn’t surprising, as LG isn’t the first company to pull out of the UHD Blu-ray player market.

UHD Blu-ray is a separate format fro

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Most US teens still use TikTok daily as ban looms

With a TikTok ban in the United States looking more and more likely, a new report from Pew Research on teen social media use underscores just how influential the app is among its youngest users. Not only is it one of the most-used social media services by teens, 57 percent of 13 to 17-year-olds scroll TikTok every single day, Pew reports.

The report underscores the impact a ban would have on teens. Sixty-three percent of teens report “ever” using the app, while 57 percent say they log

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NASA is investigating the Ingenuity helicopter's final flight on Mars

When the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter finally flew for the last time and went silent, many people thought that would be the last we heard about it. However, NASA engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laborator

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Australia demands big social platforms pay local news publishers

Australia is not messing around when it comes to big tech. Last month the country introduced a law that, if passed, would ban all people 16 and younger from social media. Now, its coming after social media and search engines alike, ensuring they pay publishers for their content after Meta backed out of doing so, the

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Google lays out its vision for an Android XR ecosystem

Google's latest push into extended reality is taking shape. While the company isn't entirely ready to show off any products just yet, it has laid out a vision for a unified Android XR ecosystem that will span a range of devices — such as virtual reality headsets and mixed reali

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