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You know what – the creators of comics probably knew something, because in our culture there are so many villain organizations whose names are an abbreviation where the first letter is H. Organizations whose goal is to harm ordinary people as much as possible. Don’t believe me? Let’s list them: HYDRA, HAVOC, HIVE, and HOA, after all…And it’s damn true – no HYDRA has caused as much harm to people as all these entitled HOAs across the whole world. At least we know quite a few neighborhood drama stories having an HOA as…

Spotify said that Apple's new plan to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) is “a complete and total farce.” From early March, developers will be able to offer alternative app stores on iPhones and opt out of using Apple's in-app payment system, which charges commissions of up to 30%, under the bloc's new rules. However, developers will still be required to pay a "core technology fee" of 50 euro cents per user account per year under Apple's new EU regime. "From the beginning, Apple has been clear…

Spotify said on Friday that Apple's new plan to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) is "a complete and total farce."From early March, developers will be able to offer alternative app stores on iPhone and opt out of using Apple's in-app payment system, which charges commissions of up to 30 percent, under the bloc's new rules.However, developers will still be required to pay a "core technology fee" of EUR 50 (roughly Rs. 4,500) per user account per year under Apple's new EU regime."From the beginning,…

Spotify said on Friday that Apple's new plan to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) is "a complete and total farce."From early March, developers will be able to offer alternative app stores on iPhone and opt out of using Apple's in-app payment system, which charges commissions of up to 30 percent, under the bloc's new rules.However, developers will still be required to pay a "core technology fee" of EUR 50 (roughly Rs. 4,500) per user account per year under Apple's new EU regime."From the beginning,…

Spotify said on Friday that Apple's new plan to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) is "a complete and total farce."From early March, developers will be able to offer alternative app stores on iPhones and opt out of using Apple's in-app payment system, which charges commissions of up to 30%, under the bloc's new rules.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For ManagersVisitMITMIT Technology Leadership and…

Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which sets the stage for sideloading apps, alternative app stores, browser choice, and more. On Friday, the streaming music company issued its response to Apple’s new DMA rules, calling the new fees imposed on developers “extortion” and Apple’s compliance plan “a complete and total farce,” that demonstrated the tech giant believes that the rules don’t apply to them. Apple earlier this week announced a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere is a lot of “furious jumping” going on in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things. This is the phrase its heroine Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) uses to describe sex. Once she’s first stuffed a cucumber inside what she calls her “hairy business”, a new world of adventure and tragedy opens up for her.Lanthimos’s screenwriter Tony McNamara adapted the film from the novel by cult Scottish author…

At the start of Matt Rowland Hill’s bracingly candid memoir, we find the author locked in a bathroom about to shoot up heroin. Having observed with satisfaction that the bathroom is clean, he notes that if he could change one thing, “it would be the fact that it’s in a church filled with mourners at the funeral of a friend of mine who died from an overdose of the same drugs I’m about to mainline into my bloodstream”.Subtitled “A Memoir of Faith, Family and Addiction”, Original Sins tells of Hill’s difficult childhood as…

 Twitter really has been the gift that keeps on giving since Elon Musk’s semi-successful buyout of the social network in late 2022. I say semi-successful because anyone watching along must surely agree that things have gone all kinds of wrong since Musk signed his name on whatever dotted line gave him control of Twitter.Since that fateful day we’ve seen Musk fire thousands of employees, revamp Twitter Blue, ditch legacy blue checkmark verification, and a whole lot more. We even saw him walking around Twitter HQ carrying…

Twitterrific developer The IconFactory has confirmed that the app has reached the end of the line after 16 years in the App Store.Alongside other third-party apps, Twitterrific found itself out in the cold last week when its access to the Twitter API was revoked with no explanation. It took days for Twitter to confirm that the move was intentional, saying it was applying long-standing rules.At the time, developers, including The IconFactory, couldn’t figure out which rules they had supposedly broken. However, after…