Beloved Cheers star George Wendt dead at 76
Beloved Cheers star George Wendt dead at 76
Actor George Wendt, who once played the ever-loyal Norm on Cheers, died Tuesday morning at his home at the age of 76, his family confirmed in a statement through his publicist.
“George was a doting family man, a well-loved friend and confidant to all of those lucky enough to have known him,” the statement said. “He will be missed forever.”
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Cheers star George Wendt dead at 76.
Wendt was one of TV’s most recognizable faces after appearing in more than 260 episodes of the popular Boston bar-set sitcom. His character, Norm, was a jovial beer lover who sat at the same stool at the bar, which shared the same name as the show.
Norm was a dedicated patron of the bar “where everybody knows your name”, proving the adage true when the bar would call out “Norm!” when he walked in.
A Chicago native, Wendt’s career began at The Second City comedy theater. He joined the improvisational group after dropping out of the University of Notre Dame with 0.0 grade-point average, according to his Second City biography.
Wendt returned to higher education to study economics, however, from Rockhurst College in Kasnsas City, Missouri. He revisited some of his favorite old haunts with the Kansas City Star in 2016.
“I remember going to see Second City (in Chicago) when I was in college,” Wendt told the paper. “It looked for all the world like a bunch of young men and women goofing off onstage, and I was pretty sure they got paid. So I thought, wow, if I could do that.”
Camera IconGeorge Wendt has died after a long career in film and television including his iconic role as Norm Peterson on popular sitcom Cheers. Credit: Ira Mark Gostin/AP
Comedy may run in the family as Wendt’s nephew is Ted Lasso creator Jason Sudeikis. Sudeikis was also a member of The Second City before joining the cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
A representative for Sudeikis did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wendt’s death.
Wendt was cast in guest starring roles in the late 1970s and early 1980s on shows such as Hart to Hart and Making the Grade. But it was in 1982 when Wendt got his big break with the role of Norm Peterson on Cheers.
The long-running Cheers, which aired from 1982 to 1993, also starred Ted Danson, Rhea Pearlman, Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley, Shelley Long and Kelsey Grammar.
Wendt was nominated for six Emmys during his tenure on Cheers, though he never took home the winged statuette.
Following the end of the show, Wendt had a short-lived series called the The George Wendt Show where he played a mechanic with a radio show.
The actor also starred in several movies throughout his career and made even small moments stand out, such as the 1994 film version of The Little Rascals. Wendt played a man selling lumber when the mischievous children were trying to rebuild their clubhouse.
Source link
#Beloved #Cheers #star #George #Wendt #dead
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
George Wendt, who played beloved barfly Norm on 'Cheers' and found another home onstage, dies at 76 – AP News
George Wendt, who played beloved barfly Norm on 'Cheers' and found another home onstage, dies at 76 – AP News
George Wendt, who played beloved barfly Norm on ‘Cheers’ and found another home onstage, dies at 76 AP NewsGeorge Wendt, who played Norm on ‘Cheers,’ dies at age 76 NBC NewsGeorge Wendt Had Sweet Reunion with Cheers Costars Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson in Final Public Appearance People.comGeorge Wendt, the Beer-Loving Norm on ‘Cheers,’ Dies at 76 The Hollywood ReporterTed Danson, John Ratzenberger, and more ‘Cheers’ stars pay tribute to late castmate George Wendt Entertainment Weekly
Source link
#George #Wendt #played #beloved #barfly #Norm #039Cheers039 #home #onstage #dies #News
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Artefacts returned after ’emotional’ journey
Artefacts returned after ’emotional’ journey
Ten glass spearheads and a kangaroo tooth headband are being returned to Australia after almost a century away from Country.
The culturally significant objects were returned to the Larrakia people of the Northern Territory in a handover ceremony at the Fowler Museum in California.
The objects were collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and donated to the museum, spending generations away from Larrakia Country.
Elders have been working with the museum and the *********** Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies to have the objects returned since 2021.
Elder and Larrakia Development Corporation chairperson Mark Motlop said once the objects are back on Country, they will be displayed at a Larrakia Cultural Centre, which is under construction and set to open in 2026.
“It has been a long and emotional journey for Larrakia people in the repatriation of these items back to Larrakia Country and one that will facilitate healing and the intergenerational transfer of knowledge,” he said.
Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said the return is an important milestone for Larrakia people.
“Safeguarding our Indigenous cultural heritage is vital to the continuation of Australia’s rich and diverse First Nations cultures and ensures the stories of our ancestors are passed on,” she said.
The repatriation was facilitated through the *********** Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies’ return of cultural heritage program.
It is the second return from the Fowler Museum through the program, following a repatriation of Warumungu cultural materials in July 2024.
Institute chief executive Leonard Hill said he is proud of the work being done to return cultural heritage material to Country.
“It is so important that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia not only have access to, but also agency over their cultural heritage material,” he said.
“These events reinvigorate cultural connections and promote healing and reconciliation more broadly.”
Source link
#Artefacts #returned #emotional #journey
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
New Study Finds This Common Supplement Cuts Dementia Risk by 40 Percent
New Study Finds This Common Supplement Cuts Dementia Risk by 40 Percent
New research offers promising hope in the battle against cognitive decline.
Biochemist Rhonda Patrick shared a study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, which found a strong link between vitamin D supplementation and a lower risk of developing dementia.
Researchers followed over 12,000 people for a decade and discovered that those who took vitamin D supplements were 40 percent less likely to develop dementia compared to non-users. Within the first five years alone, 84 percent of supplement users remained dementia-free, while only 68 percent of non-users did.
The protective effects of vitamin D were especially strong in those with mild cognitive impairment or who carried the APOE4 gene, a well-known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s.
Carriers of this gene can have an increased Alzheimer’s risk, but vitamin D supplementation still appeared to reduce dementia risk by about 33 percent in this group.
Once processed by the body, vitamin D becomes a steroid hormone that influences over 1,000 genes, including many involved in brain health. It regulates nearly 5 percent of the human genome by entering cell nuclei and turning genes on or off, which plays a key role in everything from inflammation to neural communication.
Vitamin D deficiency is shockingly common, with about 70 percent of Americans falling into the deficient or insufficient range. Fortunately, supplementation can easily correct this.
Some small trials have also indicated that vitamin D supplementation may improve cognition in individuals with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer’s, though results in healthy adults are mixed.
If you’re not getting enough sun, are over 50, or carry extra body ****, a daily vitamin D supplement could help bridge the gap. As always, consult with a healthcare provider to check your levels and determine the right dosage.
Related: Biochemist Rhonda Patrick Says Most Supplements Are Useless—These 5 Are the Exception
Source link
#Study #Finds #Common #Supplement #Cuts #Dementia #Risk #Percent
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Judge Presses Trump Administration About Reported Deportations to South Sudan – The New York Times
Judge Presses Trump Administration About Reported Deportations to South Sudan – The New York Times
Judge Presses Trump Administration About Reported Deportations to South Sudan The New York TimesLive updates: US immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants to South Sudan, attorneys say AP NewsTrump admin deports immigrants to South Sudan in violation of court order, lawyers say PoliticoTrump officials ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan The GuardianU.S. put Asian migrants on deportation flight to South Sudan, lawyers allege CBS News
Source link
#Judge #Presses #Trump #Administration #Reported #Deportations #South #Sudan #York #Times
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]
Peter Dutton, Adam Bandt oustings beat Labor’s ‘most optimistic expectations’, Jim Chalmers says
Peter Dutton, Adam Bandt oustings beat Labor’s ‘most optimistic expectations’, Jim Chalmers says
With two party leaders ousted and a collapsed Coalition, Jim Chalmers says the federal election results beat Labor’s “most optimistic expectations”.
On Wednesday morning, Labor was safely on track to win 93 lower house seats, with the Liberals – now the official opposition after the Nationals split from the Coalition – miles behind with 28.
Meanwhile, the Nationals held 15 seats and the Greens were reduced from four seats to just one.
Ousted opposition leader Peter Dutton and former Greens leader Adam Bandt – two enormous thorns in the Albanese government’s side during its first term – were both swept up in Labor’s red wave.
The Treasurer on Wednesday boasted that while Labor did not expect the results, it was “confident” it would do well.
NED-13707-Parliament-numbers-after-Coalition-split
“I think it’s fair to say that the outcome in the election exceeded even our most optimistic expectations,” Mr Chalmers told the ABC.
“But we were confident, in the context of all of this global economic uncertainty, that Australians would go for the stable, methodical, considered, responsible economic leadership of the Prime Minister and his Labor government.
“When it comes to the Coalition, obviously what we’re seeing in the former Coalition parties is a mess, but it’s not our focus.
“We’re focused on providing that responsible economic management, which has seen inflation come down, wages go up, unemployment stay low, and now two interest rate cuts in the space of three months.”
Camera IconTreasurer Jim Chalmers says the federal election results ‘exceeded’ Labor’s ‘most optimistic expectations’. NewsWire / Martin Ollman Credit: News Corp Australia
He denied that the Albanese government’s only threat now was hubris and overconfidence, saying there was “no sign of that”.
“We are very grateful for the support that was shown us in the last election,” Mr Chalmers said.
“We approach the coming term with humility. We’ve got some big challenges to address together with Australians, building more homes and rolling out more renewables, making our economy more productive, finishing the fight against inflation, getting wages growing again, helping people with the cost of living.
“This is the focus of this Labor government.”
More to come
Source link
#Peter #Dutton #Adam #Bandt #oustings #beat #Labors #optimistic #expectations #Jim #Chalmers
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
New Cars Don’t All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here’s Why
New Cars Don’t All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here’s Why
Ever wondered when your last oil change was and needed to check the oil level? Most of us don’t have this problem — when we take a car in for an oil change, the mechanic will usually put a sticker on the windshield to let us know when’s the next time to come in for a visit. But let’s say we don’t have a sticker or any kind of maintenance reminder. So we pop open the hood and look for the dipstick. Wait … where did it go?!
Once, dipsticks were the go-to method for checking oil levels and finding out if your oil has gone bad. But as odd as it may sound, many cars don’t come with dipsticks anymore. Some sources say it’s because automakers don’t trust us to use them, so why make them? (That’s kind of along the lines of rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it, right?) Or maybe it’s some kind of conspiracy to keep drivers coming in for oil changes more often. But in actuality, it’s because a lot of things are going digital.
Read more: These Are The Dumbest Looking Cars Of All Time, According To You
Dipsticks Are Disappearing In The Auto Industry’s Digital Age
A digital screen displaying a vehicle’s oil level. – K-FK/Shutterstock
“With digital oil level measurement, customers can easily monitor their vehicle’s oil level in their vehicle’s driver display and receive timely alerts if oil level is outside normal limits,” Mercedes-Benz spokesperson Andrew Brudnicki told Automotive News Canada in 2024 (via SlashGear). “This proactive approach helps to avert potential engine damage.”
It may just be us, but technology doesn’t fix everything. Sometimes, one solution can undo all others. Using the dipstick was fast and easy. Some cars even had dipsticks for checking transmission fluid. Now, drivers are left to rely on a touchscreen to know if their car needs oil. It sounds simple, but what if the touchscreen isn’t working. What if the car is off? It sounds like auto manufacturers thought getting out and checking oil was a problem that needed fixing, but we haven’t heard any complaints.
If anything, consumers are angry about the new change. These systems aren’t very reliable, especially when it comes to the sensors they use to measure oil level. Some consumers have complained about inaccurate readings, with the system suggesting they add in a quart of oil, only to end up overfilling the oil pan. Others have checked the oil level before and after adding oil, and the system measured much more oil than what was poured. Modern cars are beginning to rely on the engine computer to check oil level and engine condition, but it seems these systems are already becoming a problem.
Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox…
Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Source link
#Cars #Dont #Dipsticks #Anymore #Heres
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Arrested New Orleans jail worker says he helped inmates to escape after stabbing threat – AP News
Arrested New Orleans jail worker says he helped inmates to escape after stabbing threat – AP News
Arrested New Orleans jail worker says he helped inmates to escape after stabbing threat AP NewsSources: First arrest made in connection with the Orleans Parish Jail inmate escape WDSUNew booking photos released of recaptured Louisiana inmates as manhunt continues Fox NewsAunt of four-time killer Derrick Groves says she hopes Orleans escapee safely turns himself in fox8live.comOPSO maintenance worker allegedly aided in prison break arrested WGNO
Source link
#Arrested #Orleans #jail #worker #helped #inmates #escape #stabbing #threat #News
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Pep Guardiola: Manchester City manager says he will quit club if squad size not reduced
Pep Guardiola: Manchester City manager says he will quit club if squad size not reduced
Pep Guardiola has said he will quit as manager of Manchester City if he is given a big squad to select from after the summer transfer market.
A number of Man City’s senior players were not included in the squad for Tuesday’s 3-1 win against Bournemouth and Guardiola says he is unhappy at leaving so many players out.
Abdukodir Khusanov, Savinho, James McAtee, Claudio Echeverri and Rico Lewis all missed out on Tuesday’s 20-man matchday squad as City moved to third in the Premier League and within a point of Champions League qualification.
But, despite this showing the depth Guardiola has at his disposal, the Spaniard wants to work with a smaller squad.
He said: “I said to the club I don’t want that [a ******* squad]. I don’t want to leave five or six players in the freezer. I don’t want that. I will quit. Make a shorter squad, I will stay.”
Guardiola says it is “impossible for my soul” to leave players watching from the stands.
“Maybe [for] three, four months we couldn’t select 11 players, we didn’t have defenders, it was so difficult. After people come back but next season it cannot be like that,” the 54-year-old added.
“As a manager I cannot train 24 players and every time I select I have to have four, five, six stay in Manchester at home because they cannot play. This is not going to happen. I said to the club. I don’t want that.”
City spent more than £200m on four players in January after suffering a number of key injuries. Kevin De Bruyne is one of those players who will definitely depart in the summer, while the future of Jack Grealish is in doubt.
When asked if it meant more exits were inevitable, Guardiola – who signed a deal keeping him at the club until 2027 – said: “It is a question for the club. I don’t want to have 24, 25, 26 players when everyone is fit. If I have injuries, unlucky, we have some players for the academy and we do it.
Guardiola said a big squad is unstainable and that it is important for “the soul of the team” that his players “create another connection with each other that this season we lost it a bit”.
Source link
#Pep #Guardiola #Manchester #City #manager #quit #club #squad #size #reduced
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]
Wednesday’s big stock stories: What’s likely to move the market in the next trading session
Wednesday’s big stock stories: What’s likely to move the market in the next trading session
The S&P 500 slid on Tuesday, ending a six-session winning run as investors dropped tech stocks. Here’s what’s on CNBC’s radar heading into Wednesday.
Source link
#Wednesdays #big #stock #stories #Whats #move #market #trading #session
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
RFK Jr. tells farmers, GOP not to worry about his report targeting pesticides
RFK Jr. tells farmers, GOP not to worry about his report targeting pesticides
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought Tuesday to reassure farmers and one Republican senator about his upcoming report on how pesticides are driving up rates of childhood chronic diseases, acknowledging that chemicals like glyphosate that he has long criticized are widely used for growing crops in the U.S.
“I have said repeatedly throughout this process, that we cannot take any step that will put a single farmer in this country out of business,” Kennedy said at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “There’s a million farmers who rely on glyphosate. 100% of corn in this country relies on glyphosate. We are not going to do anything to jeopardize that business model.”
The White House in February tasked Kennedy with leading a “Make America Healthy Again Commission,” which is producing a report assessing the threat of a range of issues that might be causing disease in children.
Targets include the “potential over-utilization of medication, certain food ingredients, certain chemicals, and certain other exposures” in children. Kennedy said their report was due to be released Thursday.
“Your information about the report is just simply wrong,” Kennedy told Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi in response to a question about the report. “The drafts that I’ve seen, there is not a single word in them that should worry the American farmer.”
Hyde-Smith had told Kennedy that she was “deeply concerned” that the report will “unfairly target American agriculture, modern farming practices and the crop protection tools” that U.S. farmers use.
“We all know what confirmation bias is. It’s no secret that you were involved with pesticide litigation, prior to becoming secretary,” Hyde-Smith told Kennedy.
What has RFK Jr. said about pesticides like glyphosate?
Kennedy has criticized the use of several pesticides in the U.S. food supply, including as an environmental attorney during court battles with chemical manufacturer Monsanto over accusations that its widely-used weedkiller Roundup — made from the chemical glyphosate — was causing *******.
“If my life were a Superman comic, Monsanto would be my Lex Luther. I’ve seen this company as the enemy of every admirable American value,” Kennedy wrote in a 2020 Facebook post.
During his longshot independent presidential campaign, Kennedy pledged to get toxins out of the food supply, warning that “toxic chemicals like glyphosate” were widely contaminating what Americans were eating.
He continued that criticism in the months ahead of the 2024 election as he stumped in support of President Trump, recalling how his son resolved his “really agonizing” eczema by switching to eating pasta made in Europe.
“As soon as he comes back here and he eats the pasta in this country, he gets eczema,” he told Donald Trump Jr. on a podcast in September of last year. “And you know, they don’t have the glyphosate like we do, that is sprayed on the wheat at harvest time. So it’s going right into the food.”
What will be in RFK Jr.’s “MAHA Commission” report?
One of Kennedy’s top HHS advisers, Calley Means — whose sister Dr. Casey Means was nominated by President Trump earlier this month for the surgeon general post — said that the report is aimed at outlining “obvious” ways that children are “being poisoned through areas that there’s not even that much scientific disagreement on.”
“Obviously, it’s because of environmental toxins,” Means said, speaking at a May 15 event hosted by the Kennedy-aligned MAHA Institute. “We produce and ingest 25% of the world’s pesticides. The leading herbicides and pesticides that we use in the United States, many of them are phased out or banned in every other country in the world.”
Means said that the report was not intended to result in “a European nanny state system” to crack down on pesticides, pledging instead to come up with “pro-innovation policies to solve this issue” under Kennedy. He blasted lobbyists for opposing the report’s release.
Beyond “environmental toxins” like pesticides, Means listed a number of other issues he alleges are making American children sick, including ultra-processed foods, added sugars, seed oils, sedentary behavior, lack of sleep, overprescriptions and vaccines.
“They’re saying it’s going to scare the American people to get facts out. They’re putting so much pressure on President Trump, so much pressure on Secretary Kennedy to not release facts,” Means said last week.
What power does RFK Jr. have over pesticides?
The Department of Health and Human Services does not directly set the limits on how glyphosate and other pesticides are used. That is left up to the Environmental Protection Agency. However, HHS does oversee the major research that underpins how the EPA regulates chemicals.
Studies into pesticides like glyphosate to inform the EPA’s limits often come from the federal health agencies within HHS.
For example, the National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program published results in 2023 suggesting that glyphosate is “unlikely” to be genotoxic, which had been one of the main ways international experts previously suspected it might cause *******.
Results from a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published in 2022 found that diet was likely a factor in how much glyphosate people were being exposed to, based on ****** samples taken in adults and children.
Through the Food and Drug Administration, Kennedy also has authority over how glyphosate levels in food are tracked and the EPA’s limits are enforced.
The last round of published sampling by the FDA in 2022 found that 54 samples of human food had detectable amounts of glyphosate out of 731 analyzed. Corn and beans were among the most frequent detections.
Alexander Tin
Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies.
Source link
#RFK #tells #farmers #GOP #worry #report #targeting #pesticides
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Zoran Panzich: Long-time Manjimup journalist signs off
Zoran Panzich: Long-time Manjimup journalist signs off
ZORAN STEPHEN PANZICH
Born: November 16, 1953 Sarajevo, Croatia
Died: May 13, 2025, Manjimup, Australia
There are no streets named after Zoran Panzich, he wasn’t nominated for an Order of Australia, and his name is not in gold letters on a board at the council or any sports club.
His family wasn’t exactly welcomed to the district as European migrants in 1958, his school years were peppered with disdain, and later, as the local journalist, he could cop the worst.
Yet Zoran loved the Lower South West.
So much so, that the house that his parents built five years after arriving in Australia, remained his home right up to his death last week on May 13 aged 71.
When Zoran joined the then Warren Blackwood Times in 1984 as the senior journalist — and for a long while the only journalist — he alone had the choice in how he would write about the place that had treated him with less than fair respect.
And for 21 years he chose to champion it.
Then, in retirement he took to emails and the internet to set right those in power who he thought did not have the best intent for the region.
But the rage in his writing to government ministers over issues such as the closing of the timber industry, was never hinted in the way he approached life.
Zoran was habitually enthusiastic. He openly subscribed to the idea that the way of the world was largely “nuts” and that people who worked only for money had missed the point.
He obsessed over doing a good job at the Warren Blackwood Times (later the Manjimup-Bridgetown Times) and so rarely had a day off, and regularly worked 60-plus hour weeks.
Yet visit the office, whatever the time, and it was in a state of chaos, as he always had more stories he still wanted to write, fuelled by a fridge stocked with soft drinks and chocolate bars.
The kid who had arrived as a four-year-old from Sarajevo, and learnt English with his Dad at classes for migrants at the Jardee Mill Hall, loved being the local newspaper reporter.
It was his Dad, a dock saw operator, who encouraged Zoran to understand the “language” and get an education, with the alternative there would always be a spot at the mill.
Zoran chose the education, but in his early years, the schools of the time often didn’t have the skills, patience or interest in southern European migrant kids.
He would recount numerous times how he and the other “Slav, Italian and Masso” kids were left out, but he wasn’t bitter, rather he would say “imagine this place now without us”.
As it was, he left Manjimup not long after finishing high school, and eventually worked as a journalist in the Wheatbelt, writing for various local papers and as a contributor for the Sunday Times.
When the job opened at the Warren Blackwood Times in July 1984 it was only supposed to be temporary, but he stayed until his retirement in 2005.
Along the way, head office finally decided to send him some help, and he threw himself into mentoring the junior reporters.
Zoran readily accepted, as with all people in public jobs, he would be criticised at times, but he also didn’t always make it easy on himself.
For a few seasons, he took on the unenviable job umpiring the local football league.
On retiring from the paper, he bought the then Overlander Motel just before the Manjimup gateway, but didn’t stay in that long. It was said he liked his customers too much to always charge them correctly.
Even a few years later when he contracted ******* and as he sat in his bed at Fiona Stanley Hospital awaiting the start of treatment, it seemed as if his unending optimism would still not allow him the words to be negative.
In his life Zoran Panzich loved and fought for a place that gave him plenty of reasons not to, and those who knew him will long miss his laughter and enthusiasm.
Source link
#Zoran #Panzich #Longtime #Manjimup #journalist #signs
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Google announces smart glasses partnerships as it takes on Meta, Apple preps its own eyewear
Google announces smart glasses partnerships as it takes on Meta, Apple preps its own eyewear
Google (GOOG, GOOGL) is teaming up with Warby Parker (WRBY) and Gentle Monster to develop AI-powered smart glasses. The company announced the partnerships during its Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif., on Tuesday, saying that it is also extending its existing relationship with Samsung to intelligent eyewear, as well.
The move puts Google in direct competition with Meta (META), which already offers its own Ray-Ban Meta AI-powered glasses. Apple (AAPL) is also working on its own smart glasses, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, but they may not hit the market until sometime in 2027.
Google’s plans call for its glasses to work with your smartphone, similar to Meta’s offerings, and will come equipped with a camera, speakers, and microphones that will allow you to interact with apps without having to reach for your phone. Naturally, they’ll also feature Google’s Gemini AI models.
The glasses will run on Google’s new Android XR operating system and will be available with an optional in-lens display that will provide you with information like text messages, turn-by-turn directions, the ability to take photos, and real-time translation.
Android XR-powered glasses will offer turn-by-turn glasses. (Image: Google) · Google
Google says it’s working with partner companies to help them start building glasses later this year and that it will team up with testers who will provide feedback on usefulness and privacy.
This isn’t Google’s first foray into smart glasses. The Search giant famously released its Google Glass headset as part of its Explorer program in 2013 and later made them available to the public in 2014. But their design, which included a small prism-like display in front of one lens, and $1,500 starting price turned off potential customers.
Despite failing to gain traction, many of the technologies Google built into Glass are coming into vogue. It’s worth remembering that Glass hit the market before the world was used to the ubiquity of smartphone cameras in their faces all of the time. And the idea of someone being able to snap a photo of you using their glasses raised a number of privacy concerns.
Google’s Android XR will provide real-time translation. (Image: Google) · Google
To be sure, those worries are still relevant today, but consumers appear more tolerant of the concept now. It’s also worth noting that Glass was far from attractive. Meta’s smart glasses look like any other pair of Ray-Bans, whereas Glass looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.
Google’s smart glasses are part of its broader augmented reality and virtual reality efforts. The company is also working with Samsung and Qualcomm (QCOM) to develop Samsung’s Project Moohan, which is scheduled to go on ***** later this year.
Story Continues
Tech companies are scrambling to catch the next major hardware revolution after the smartphone. There’s no guarantee that smart glasses will be the successor to the smartphone, especially since they still need a handset for things like connectivity and processing power, but as companies develop the technology, they’ll become more independent of those glass rectangles.
Meta has the early lead, but Google has the knowledge it accrued from its Glass experiment. And don’t sleep on Apple. The iPhone maker is certain to put up a fight in the space as it develops its own glasses.
Now customers just have to prove they’ll buy smart glasses in the same numbers they currently buy smartphones.
Sign up for Yahoo Finance’s Week in Tech newsletter. · yahoofinance
Email Daniel Howley at *****@*****.tld. Follow him on X/Twitter at @DanielHowley.
For the latest earnings reports and analysis, earnings whispers and expectations, and company earnings news, click here
Read the latest financial and business news from Yahoo Finance
Source link
#Google #announces #smart #glasses #partnerships #takes #Meta #Apple #preps #eyewear
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn – The Guardian
Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn – The Guardian
Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn The GuardianThe world’s ice sheets just got a dire prognosis, and coastlines are going to pay the price CNNCoastlines in danger even if climate target met, scientists warn BBCSea level will rise fast even if we limit global warming to 1.5°C New ScientistOvershooting 1.5°C: even temporary warming above globally agreed temperature limit could have permanent consequences The Conversation
Source link
#Sea #level #rise #catastrophic #inland #migration #scientists #warn #Guardian
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Kevin Spacey, feted in Cannes, ‘glad to be working’
Kevin Spacey, feted in Cannes, ‘glad to be working’
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey says it was “nice to be back” at an awards ceremony on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival.
Spacey, who won Oscars for American Beauty and The Usual Suspects, was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars before he was first accused of ******* assault in 2017, after which he was dropped from the TV drama House of Cards.
In 2022, the now 65-year-old was charged in Britain with nine ******* offences against four men between 2004 and 2013 but was acquitted of all charges after a high-profile trial in 2023.
In the United States, Spacey in 2022 defeated a ******* abuse case against him after jurors in a Manhattan civil trial found his accuser did not prove his claim that Spacey made an unwanted ******* advance on him when he was 14.
Spacey was in Cannes to receive an award on Tuesday night for excellence in film and television from the Better World Fund, which fundraises in the name of “cinematic art at the service of humanity,” at a charity gala dinner at the Carlton Hotel.
“I’ve heard from so many of my friends, colleagues and co-stars in the last week since this award was announced that I feel surrounded by support,” Spacey said before the event.
“I’m glad to be working,” he added, when asked whether his appearance marked a comeback.
Spacey is also at the festival to help Britain’s Camelot Films sell the conspiracy action thriller The Awakening, in which he plays the character Balthazar.
He faces separate civil lawsuits from three men for alleged ******* abuse in London and is defending the cases.
Source link
#Kevin #Spacey #feted #Cannes #glad #working
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Weinstein Accuser Says He Dragged, Stripped and ****** Her After Learning She Was Seeing Someone Else in 2014
Weinstein Accuser Says He Dragged, Stripped and ****** Her After Learning She Was Seeing Someone Else in 2014
Jessica Mann, the last of three women to testify against Harvey Weinstein in his Manhattan retrial, made a pointed gesture at the disgraced movie mogul on her way out of court Tuesday after breaking down on the stand while recounting a 2014 encounter in which she accuses him of dragging, stripping and raping her in a Beverly Hills hotel.
Mann, a cosmetologist and hairstylist who moved to Los Angeles to launch an acting career in 2012, stared down Weinstein, then pointed to her own eyes – and then him – as she walked past the defense table Tuesday, sobbing, the Associated Press reported.
The exchange happened moments after Mann finished telling the jury that Weinstein grabbed, dragged, forcefully undressed and ****** her after informing him that she was dating someone else. She said Weinstein shouted “You owe me one more time!” as he forced sex on her against her repeated protests.
Weinstein shook his head as Mann told the jury of the encounter through tears and heaving breaths. She did not respond to reporters’ questions about the gesture outside the courtroom.
Weinstein attorney Arthur Aidala cited the gesture and emotional display in a subsequent request for a mistrial. It was one of many such requests that Judge Curtis Farber swiftly denied.
Weinstein is charged with raping Mann on a separate occasion, in 2013, though the 2014 encounter is not one of the charged incidents. He is also facing charges of forcing two other women to have ********* in separate 2006 encounters.
“I can’t control what people do in the courtroom,” Farber said, adding that Weinstein himself has also reacted to testimony before the jury.
Defense attorneys have yet to cross-examine Mann, now 39, about her complicated relationship with Weinstein she says began when they met at a party. She says she began a consensual, on-and-off relationship with the then-married Weinstein after he initially pressured her for sex in New York.
Defense attorney Arthur Aidala said during opening statements that Mann’s relationship with Weinstein was mutually beneficial, and that she hoped she could fast-forward to an acting career if she agreed to sleep with him.
Weinstein’s initial conviction in New York was thrown out by an appeals court over what was ruled to be improper “prior bad acts” testimony in the 2020 trial. He is charged in New York with raping Mann and with forcing ********* on two other women, both of whom have testified, in 2006.
Weinstein’s conviction in a California court, which allowed New York authorities to hold him while he awaited retrial, is being appealed.
The post Weinstein Accuser Says He Dragged, Stripped and ****** Her After Learning She Was Seeing Someone Else in 2014 appeared first on TheWrap.
Source link
#Weinstein #Accuser #Dragged #Stripped #****** #Learning
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Fortnite approved by Apple, returns to U.S. App Store after 5 years
Fortnite approved by Apple, returns to U.S. App Store after 5 years
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images
Apple approved the Epic Games title Fortnite on Tuesday, returning the first-person shooter game to the App Store in the U.S., five years after its removal.
Fortnite was kicked off the App Store in 2020 after Epic updated its game over the web to take payments directly, instead of through Apple’s in-app payment mechanism, which takes fees up to 30%. The move angered Apple and kicked off a years-long legal battle.
Last month, Epic scored a victory in court, when a judge ruled that Apple wasn’t allowed to charge a commission when apps link out for payment, or dictate whether the links look like buttons. Epic said last week that it had submitted Fortnite to the U.S. App Store. To return, Fortnite had to pass App Review, Apple’s process in which new apps or updates are reviewed by Apple employees to ensure they work and adhere to the company’s guidelines.
Apple had dragged out its approval process for the app since May 9, when Epic submitted it to Apple. Last week, Epic filed a legal challenge, and on Monday, a judge said that Apple had to explain why Fortnite hadn’t been approved yet or come to a resolution with Epic over the game’s status.
Apple is appealing the latest court order, and looking to get a pause enabling it to roll back changes the company has already made to the App Store in response. An Apple representative didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Last month’s ruling led major app makers such as Amazon and Spotify to change their apps to accommodate links to buy content. For example, users can now buy Kindle books inside the Kindle app on an iPhone.
Amazon and Spotify were able to update existing apps that had already been approved with changes enabled by last month’s order. After Epic sued Apple, the iPhone maker revoked Epic’s developer account in addition to booting Fortnite.
Epic was able to get a European developer account and now offers Fortnite in Europe through a third-party app store under the Digital Markets Act, which went into effect last year. IPhone users can also play Fortnite through cloud gaming services. But even in Europe, Apple tried to terminate Epic’s account before backing off, Epic said.
The fees that Apple takes from the App Store are an increasingly important part of Apple’s business. They’re reported in Apple’s Services business, which also includes advertising, AppleCare warranties, payments, and subscription offerings such as Apple TV+. Apple reported nearly $27 billion in services revenue during the March quarter.
WATCH: Interview with Epic Games CEO
Source link
#Fortnite #approved #Apple #returns #U.S #App #Store #years
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Fortnite is back on US iPhones again – The Verge
Fortnite is back on US iPhones again – The Verge
Fortnite is back on US iPhones again The VergeFortnite says it’s offline on Apple’s iOS around the world AP NewsJudge calls out ‘Apple official who is personally responsible’ in Fortnite app order CNBCApple blocks Fortnite on iOS globally, Epic Games says, weeks after the developer scored a big win in court Yahoo FinanceFortnite returns to the App Store for iPhone and iPad 9to5Mac
Source link
#Fortnite #iPhones #Verge
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Did Trump really strike Gulf deals worth $2tn?
Did Trump really strike Gulf deals worth $2tn?
Sameer Hashmi
Business reporter
Getty Images
Trump started the four-day visit in Saudi Arabia where deals worth $600bn were announced
Flying home from his Gulf trip last week, President Donald Trump told reporters “that was a great four days, historic four days”.
Visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), he added in this trademark swagger that “the jobs and money coming into our countries, there has never been anything like it”.
Trump claimed that he was able to secure deals totalling more than $2tn (£1.5tn) for the US, but do the numbers add up?
The trip itself was an extravaganza, with the three Gulf states pulling out all the stops.
Escorts of fighter jets, extravagant welcoming ceremonies, a thundering 21-gun salute, a fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks, royal camels, Arabian horses, and sword dancers were all part of the pageantry.
The UAE also awarded Mr Trump the country’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Zayed.
The visit’s optics were striking; the region’s richest petrostates flaunted their opulence, revealing just how much of that fortune they were ready to deploy to strengthen ties with the US while advancing their own economic goals.
Before embarking on the trip, President Trump, who touts himself as a “dealmaker in chief” was clear that the main objective of the trip was to land investments worth billions of dollars. On the face of it, he succeeded.
In Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reiterated a pledge to invest $600bn in US-Saudi partnerships. There were a plethora of deals announced as part of this, encompassing arms, artificial intelligence (AI), healthcare, infrastructure projects and science collaborations, and various security ties and initiatives.
The $142bn defence deal grabbed a lot of the attention as it was described by the White House as the largest arms deal ever.
However, there remains some doubt as to whether those investment figures are realistic.
During his first term in office from 2017 to 2021, Trump had announced that Saudi Arabia had agreed to $450bn in deals with the US.
But actual trade and investment flows amounted to less than $300bn between 2017 to 2020, according to data compiled by the Arab Gulf States Institute.
The report was authored by Tim Callen, the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission chief to Saudi Arabia, and now a visiting fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute.
“The proof with all of these [new] deals will be in the pudding,” says Mr Callen.
The BBC contacted the White House for comment.
Getty Images
President Trump was given a welcome fit for royalty
In Qatar, Trump announced an “economic exchange” worth at least $1.2tn. However, in the fact sheet released by the White House deals worth only $243.5bn between the two countries were mentioned.
One of the Qatari agreements that was confirmed was Qatar Airways purchasing up to 210 passenger jets for $96bn from the beleaguered American aircraft manufacturer.
The White House said the deal would support 154,000 jobs in the US each year of their production, totalling one million jobs over the deal’s lifecycle.
Meanwhile, the UAE inked an agreement to construct the world’s largest AI campus outside the US, reportedly granting it access to 500,000 cutting edge microchips from US giant Nvidia, starting next year.
This project sits within the UAE’s broader pledge to invest $1.4tn in the US over the next decade.
As well as the challenge of delivering what is promised, another potential obstacle to these figures being realised are oil prices.
Oil prices tumbled to a four-year low in April amid growing concerns that Trump’s tariffs could dampen global economic growth. The decline was further fuelled by the group of oil producing nations, Opec+, announcing plans to increase output.
For Saudi Arabia, the fall in global oil prices since the start of the year has further strained its finances, increasing pressure to either raise debt or cut spending to sustain its development goals.
Last month, the IMF cut the forecast for the world’s largest oil exporter’s GDP growth in 2025 to 3% from its previous estimate of 3.3%.
“It’s going to be very hard for Saudi to come up with that sort of money [the $600bn announced] in the current oil price environment,” Mr Callen adds.
Other analysts note that a lot of the agreements signed during the trip were non-binding memorandums of understanding, which are less formal than contracts, and do not always translate into actual transactions. And some of the deals included in the agreement were announced earlier.
Saudi oil firm Aramco, for instance, announced 34 agreements with US companies valued at up to $90bn. However, most were non-binding memorandums of understanding without specified monetary commitments.
And its agreement to purchase 1.2 million tonnes of liquified natural gas annually for 20 years from US firm NextDecade was also included in the list of new deals, despite it first being announced months ago.
Getty Images
One of the deals announced on the trip was Qatar Airways buying 210 new aircraft from Boeing
Yet the massive investments mark a continuation of the shift in the US-Gulf relationship away from oil-for-security to stronger economic partnerships rooted in bilateral investments.
Bader Al Saif, an assistant professor at Kuwait University and an associate fellow at think tank Chatham House, says that the deals indicate that US and the Gulf states are “planning the future together and that was a significant change for the relationship”.
He adds that the AI deals with the UAE and Saudi Arabia were central to this as “they clearly demonstrate that they are trying to see how to build the new global order and the new way of doing things together”.
This emphasis on AI underscores the growing strategic importance of the technology to US diplomacy. Trump was accompanied on the trip by Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk, who owns Grok AI.
And on the eve of the visit, the White House scrapped tough Biden-era restrictions on exports of the advanced US semiconductors required to best run AI systems. The rules had divided the world into tiers, with some countries enjoying broad access to its high-end chips, and others being denied them altogether.
About 120 countries, including the Gulf nations, were grouped in the middle, facing strict caps on the number of semiconductors they could import. This had frustrated countries such as Saudi Arabia, who have ambitions to become high-tech economies as they transition away from oil.
Both Saudi and the UAE are racing to build large-scale AI data centres, while Abu Dhabi, the UAE’s capital, aims to become a global AI hub.
The UAE has made visible efforts to reassure Washington – deepening partnerships with US tech firms, curbing ties with ******** companies, and aligning more closely with American national security interests.
Mr Al-Saif says that the UAE is “betting on the Americans when it comes to AI”. “We have seen that the technological turn in the 90s came from the US anyway.”
Getty Images
After Saudi Arabia Trump travelled to Qatar where $1.2tn of deals were announced
Both camps are hailing the visit as a triumph. For the Gulf, and especially Saudi Arabia, it resets a partnership that frayed under Biden, and underscores their ambition to act as heavyweight players on the world stage.
For Trump, touting “trillions” in new investment offers a timely boost – his tariff hikes have dented global trade and pushed US output into its first quarterly dip in three years.
These Gulf deals will be sold as proof that his economic playbook is working.
At the end of the trip, Mr Trump worried that whoever succeeds him in the White House would claim credit for the deals once they come to completion.
“I’ll be sitting home, who the hell knows where I’ll be, and I’ll say, ‘I did that,'” he said.
“Somebody’s going to be taking the credit for this. You remember, press,” he said, pointing to himself, “this guy did it.”
Read more global business stories
Source link
#Trump #strike #Gulf #deals #worth #2tn
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]
Who has made Troy's Premier League team of the week?
Who has made Troy's Premier League team of the week?
After every round of Premier League matches this season, Troy Deeney gives us his team of the week. Do you agree with his choices?
Source link
#Troy039s #Premier #League #team #week
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Fortnite Is Finally Back On iOS In The US; Here’s How To Download It
Fortnite Is Finally Back On iOS In The US; Here’s How To Download It
Fortnite has returned to iOS after nearly five years away from the platform in the US. A lengthy legal drama between Fortnite developer Epic Games and Apple saw the two sides pitted against each other over Apple’s digital storefront business practices. A recent ruling by a judge forced Apple to let Fortnite back on the platform, though soon after, Apple had blocked Epic’s app submission on one last technicality that kept the game from reappearing on iOS last week.
But now, it’s downloadable. It won’t appear in search quite yet, but you can download Fortnite on iOS here.
Fortnite is BACK on the App Store in the U.S. on iPhones and iPads… and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the E.U! It’ll show up in Search soon! Get Fortnite on the App Store in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/w74QPFFkOS
— Fortnite (@Fortnite) May 20, 2025
The Epic versus Apple saga
Source link
#Fortnite #Finally #iOS #Heres #Download
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Kosciuszko mending after brumby cull slashes population
Kosciuszko mending after brumby cull slashes population
A famed alpine national park appears to be on the mend, as authorities make tidy progress controlling its brumby population.
Surveys across the Kosciuszko National Park estimate the brumby population has been slashed from more than 12,000 to between 1579 and 5639 in just a year.
It puts the NSW government on track to hit a mandated target of 3000 feral horses over nearly one-third of the park by mid-2027.
Images from the park show reduced bare ground and increased vegetation coverage along with less soil damage and trampling of stream banks.
Aerial brumby shooting resumed in NSW under the state Labor government in November 2023, with around 6000 believed to have been clipped since to progress towards the population targets.
The progress has been welcomed by the Invasive Species Council, who said the trend down showed genuine momentum towards protecting the park.
“We’re finally seeing a turning point … fewer hard-hooved feral animals trampling the fragile alpine environment means more native species returning, more delicate wetlands recovering and more hope for one of Australia’s most vulnerable national parks,” CEO Jack Gough said.
“‘Kosciuszko is home to threatened species like the northern corroboree frog, broad-toothed rat and critically endangered alpine she-oak skink – all of which suffer when feral horses degrade their habitat. Every delay puts this more at risk.”
The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service trialled three different survey methods in their population count, including standard distance and mark-recapture distance sampling across 39 per cent of the park.
Those two methods produced estimates of between 1579 and 4007 horses, and between 2131 and 5639 horses, each with a 95 per cent confidence rating.
The NPWS is not expected to shoot any more brumbies in the area and it will maintain the 3000-horse population from mid-2027.
NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe told a budget estimates hearing earlier in March “to actually have them (brumbies) shot from helicopters is not needed anymore”.
Last week, parliament debated repealing the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018, which protects the “heritage value” of the brumby population and shaped the current population targets.
Mr Gough pointed out no MPs had spoken against the proposal.
“The ridiculous (former Deputy Premier John) Barilaro law was never based on science – it was a political stunt that protects a population of destructive feral horses,” he said.
“We now need Premier (Chris) Minns to step up and finish the job – by removing a law that protects a feral animal over native species in a national park.”
Water quality, threatened species and sensitive areas will all be monitored to track the park’s continued recovery.
Source link
#Kosciuszko #mending #brumby #cull #slashes #population
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Keyswitch Standard-Bearer Cherry Offers Up Four New Keyswitches At Computex
Keyswitch Standard-Bearer Cherry Offers Up Four New Keyswitches At Computex
When two things rub together, they create friction, and friction slows things down and creates wear. That includes not just things like analog sticks, but the keyswitches in our keyboards, too. Cherry, the ******* company that sets the standard for keyswitch quality and consistency, is offering their own answer to those problems with some of their latest keyswitches, announced this at this year’s Computex computing convention, held yearly in Taipei, Taiwan.
One of the most common (and annoying) ways we see frictional wear as gamers analog stick drift, which occurs when the potentiometers beneath your analog sticks begin to wear out or get debris caught in them. Cherry has two of their own switches that look to prevent this issue, the MK and IK switches. Cherry name is so synonymous with their MX switches that you might think the company’s name is Cherry MX, but these two switches help prove otherwise.
Gallery
Cherry showed off a preview of the MK magnetic switches at the show. They don’t have a release window for these just yet, but they’re in the works. Magnetic switches promise to offer “frictionless speed and gaming grade precision,” according to Cherry. With these just in preview, they didn’t have more more to say.
More imminent are the IK Series of inductive keyswitches, which the company says will release in Fall of 2025. These switches work on a similar principle to Hall Effect switches, but with Cherry’s own patented design, which they say consumes 5% of the power required for Hall Effect switches (and 50% of the power as compared to the aforementioned MK magnetic switches). According to Cherry, the IK switches feature “a robust, magnet- free metal-based design for enhanced reliability, analog precision, and long-term stability.” This is coupled with “enhanced RGB lighting, customizable actuation, and ultra-low power usage.”
However, if you prefer the traditional physical MX switch series–don’t worry. Cherry still has you covered with three new switch offerings: MX Honey, MX Blossom, and MX Falcon.
The Honey switches are silent, tactile switches, meant to give the user the satisfying feedback of a tactile switch without the clicky-clack of traditional tactile switches. The MX Blossom switches, meanwhile, are the lightest linear mechanical switches the company has offered yet, with an actuation force of just 35 centinewtons (cN). For comparison, many of Cherry’s other MX switches require between 60-70 cN, with others as low as 45 cN. So these switches are light and quiet. Finally, the MX Falcon switches are for heavy typists who want “bold feedback and a satisfying tactile punch,” which the company says was inspired by the “crisp snap of typewriters.” Even the look of the switch–which you won’t see after installation unless you pull off the keycaps–was inspired by ’90s retro design,’ with a PC-beige-and-****** housing and orange key stem.
These new MX switches will be available next month, with 36-switch consumer sets to follow a bit later.
Source link
#Keyswitch #StandardBearer #Cherry #Offers #Keyswitches #Computex
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Fortnite approved by Apple, returns to U.S. App Store after 5 years
Fortnite approved by Apple, returns to U.S. App Store after 5 years
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images
Apple approved the Epic Games title Fortnite on Tuesday, returning the first-person shooter game to the App Store in the U.S., five years after its removal.
Fortnite was kicked off the App Store in 2020 after Epic updated its game over the web to take payments directly, instead of through Apple’s in-app payment mechanism, which takes fees up to 30%. The move angered Apple and kicked off a years-long legal battle.
Last month, Epic scored a victory in court, when a judge ruled that Apple wasn’t allowed to charge a commission when apps link out for payment, or dictate whether the links look like buttons. Epic said last week that it had submitted Fortnite to the U.S. App Store. To return, Fortnite had to pass App Review, Apple’s process in which new apps or updates are reviewed by Apple employees to ensure they work and adhere to the company’s guidelines.
Apple had dragged out its approval process for the app since May 9, when Epic submitted it to Apple. Last week, Epic filed a legal challenge, and on Monday, a judge said that Apple had to explain why Fortnite hadn’t been approved yet or come to a resolution with Epic over the game’s status.
Apple is appealing the latest court order, and looking to get a pause enabling it to roll back changes the company has already made to the App Store in response. An Apple representative didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Last month’s ruling led major app makers such as Amazon and Spotify to change their apps to accommodate links to buy content. For example, users can now buy Kindle books inside the Kindle app on an iPhone.
Amazon and Spotify were able to update existing apps that had already been approved with changes enabled by last month’s order. After Epic sued Apple, the iPhone maker revoked Epic’s developer account in addition to booting Fortnite.
Epic was able to get a European developer account and now offers Fortnite in Europe through a third-party app store under the Digital Markets Act, which went into effect last year. IPhone users can also play Fortnite through cloud gaming services. But even in Europe, Apple tried to terminate Epic’s account before backing off, Epic said.
The fees that Apple takes from the App Store are an increasingly important part of Apple’s business. They’re reported in Apple’s Services business, which also includes advertising, AppleCare warranties, payments, and subscription offerings such as Apple TV+. Apple reported nearly $27 billion in services revenue during the March quarter.
WATCH: Interview with Epic Games CEO
Source link
#Fortnite #approved #Apple #returns #U.S #App #Store #years
Pelican News
View the full article at [Hidden Content]
Privacy Notice: We utilize cookies to optimize your browsing experience and analyze website traffic. By consenting, you acknowledge and agree to our Cookie Policy, ensuring your privacy preferences are respected.
