A federal judge in California ruled this week that Google must stop making it difficult for consumers to install third-party Android app stores, saying the corporate giant was using “anticompetitive friction” to prevent people from doing so. It was the latest chapter in the years-long legal battle between Google and Epic Games, which originally accused
One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today — where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android. It’s been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided
Typically, I’m the one rummaging through my travel tote at each TSA checkpoint. Now that I own a designated travel purse, I’m relieved to no longer be that person holding up the lines. Our main takeaway: The Lo & Sons Aoyama 2 is the best travel purse to carry as a personal item. It’s a
I got married in April of 2000 after living with my now-ex-husband for several years. At the time, I made a good living from my job in advertising, and like many of my colleagues, I’d been doing freelance work on the side for years. In 2001, my husband and I became proud homeowners, one of
Phone screens are Better than ever (bigger, sharper, brighter), but they don’t always offer the best screens for long reading sessions. If you have a lot of text to read, you might turn to a Kindle or even a good old physical book. However, there are ways to modify the screen settings of your iPhone
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the building blocks of AI interoperability, providing AI models with a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that allows a chatbot to access your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, rather than engineers creating custom pipes for each connection. Next