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India is taking steps to reshape the business model behind its Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a widely used payments network built by the government, via new legislation that could pave the way for merchants to pay charges on some UPI transactions. The legislation (PDF) lays the legal groundwork for a potential overhaul of India’s zero-merchant-discount-rate […]

Mass layoffs have hit Refractor Games, as developers say their goodbyes online. Fifa World Cup: Launch Edition was released on the 11th June exclusively to Netflix. It was published by Delphi Interactive, a company with credits on the recently released 007: First Light. In the past few days, affected employees took to social media like

A T-Mobile outage last week left many iPhone users across the US without service for several hours, and Redditors are now reporting that they’ve been able to obtain compensation ranging from $10 to $80 … The outage appears to have been a sizable one, impacting almost have a million people. It was around seven hours

In an environment where everything costs more, the major wireless phone carriers have introduced plans to draw in customers who want to reduce what millions of people see as an essential expense. In recent months, AT&T introduced its modular Build-A-Plan, and Verizon cut prices and then rolled out its Simplicity plan. Starting Thursday, the company

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Nothing was reportedly said to be shifting to an AI-first strategy, with wearables and audio products taking priority over smartphones in a phased rollout. While the company didn’t comment on the report, Nothing’s CMF sub-brand has now officially announced the CMF Clip Pro,

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod. Designed as a single transportable unit, the Pod represents a more flexible kind of compute that can sit alongside hyperscalers’ massive data center projects. Runware says the Pod can offer inference at a higher quality but

Apple has filed a request for a preliminary injunction in its ongoing trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI. Without a preliminary injunction, Apple says it will be “irreparably harmed” by the theft of its trade secrets. In the filing, Apple explains that it sent OpenAI a letter after filing the initial lawsuit last month, saying it

We learned yesterday that a judge is allowing a $32B lawsuit to proceed, alleging that Apple Photos face recognition violates a state privacy law. It has been conflated with Meta’s use of face recognition, despite the two companies’ approaches falling at opposite ends of the privacy spectrum. In allowing the case to proceed, the court

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. The global RAM crisis has already forced smartphone manufacturers to bump up prices, and there are no signs of the trend abating anytime soon. In the meantime, we’ve learned that chipmaker Qualcomm is developing a cost-effective version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen