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The Saudi-led $55 billion takeover of EA has closed
Electronic Arts is once again a privately held company, but it's saddled with $20 billion in new debt. Electronic Arts is now privately owned after a $55 billion buyout of the game publisher closed on Tuesday. EA said last week the deal had cleared all of the required regulatory hurdles, paving the way for the company and its new owners to wrap things up, several months later than they originally anticipated. The proposed acquisition…
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Everything Apple Is Expected to Announce in September
Apple is going to announce at least five new devices next month at its annual iPhone-centric event, though it's possible we'll also get devices that were waiting on Siri AI. Here's what's coming. iPhone 18 Pro Rumors suggest the iPhone 18 Pro is going to look a lot like the iPhone 17 Pro, but with a smaller Dynamic Island. It's getting a new Wide camera with a variable aperture for more control over lighting…
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Apps & Logiciels
Telegram CEO says 'takedown extortionist' was responsible for the app being briefly delisted by Apple
Pavel Durov claims there's “a potential systemic risk” for platforms with user-generated content. Telegram founder Pavel Durov took to social media to address the circumstances of the app's brief removal from the App Store earlier this week. The exec claimed that the service was targeted by "a takedown extortionist." In a lengthy post on X, Durov alleged that a malicious actor edited an old message in an active group chat to show "AI-modified illegal…
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Smartphones
Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account
Signal’s secure messenger can easily work across multiple Android devices and iPhones now. Signal’s secure messenger can easily work across multiple Android devices and iPhones now. You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, but not additional phones. When you link a device on Signal, you can check and respond to new messages across all of your…
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Actualité : Bon plan – Le clavier Logitech MX Keys S Graphite à 69,99 € (-11%)
Après quelques années de bons et loyaux services, l'excellent clavier MX Keys de Logitech est mis à jour dans une version S qui s'améliore par petites touches. Le MX Keys S de Logitech est finalement une simple mise à jour du MK Keys et n'apporte que quelques menues — mais toujours bienvenues — nouveautés. Avec son design soigné et ses fonctionnalités avancées, il avait déjà fait ses preuves, et il reste donc l'un des…
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Actualité : Bon plan – L’enceinte de monitoring EVE Audio SC204 "5 étoiles" à 329,00 € (-15%)
L’enceinte de monitoring SC204, petite sœur de la SC205, embarque exactement la même chose que son aînée : seule la taille du HP change et passe à 4 pouces, tout comme le gabarit de l’enceinte. De ce fait, la SC204 vise directement les plus petites configurations et les espaces de travail les plus exigus. Cette réduction de taille a-t-elle une répercussion sur les très belles performances que nous offraient les SC205 ? Les Allemands…
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Actualité : Bon plan – La crêpière électrique WMF Lono Crêpière à 67,00 € (-19%)
WMF propose de nombreux appareils au sein de sa gamme Lono. Tout comme le Grill et Plancha, la crêpière ne se distingue pas vraiment par ses caractéristiques, mais ses finitions soignées cachent tout de même de bonnes surprises. Pour sa crêpière Lono, WMF a soigné les apparences sans pour autant négliger les performances. La montée en température aurait certes pu être plus homogène, mais la chaleur finit par se diffuser dans la plaque assez…
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Perplexity has successfully overturned Amazon's injunction on its AI shopping bot
Amazon's public fight with Perplexity over online shopping started in November 2025. Perplexity has successfully overturned an injunction that banned the AI shopping tool built into its Comet browser from accessing Amazon, Bloomberg reports. According to an opinion from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Amazon's original claim that Perplexity violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) doesn't hold up to scrutiny and shouldn't have been rewarded with an injunction. Successfully claiming that…
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Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction markets"
Several US senators have written a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), inquiring about the agency’s “plans to crack down on prediction markets” that offer “contracts for individuals to bet on wildfires.” “Offering bets on destructive wildfires threatens to minimize communities’ suffering, all so the rich and powerful can profit,” wrote the group of senators, who represent Oregon, California, Nevada, Minnesota, and New Hampshire. The document specifically cites that Polymarket hosted bets…
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We just got our first real look at how small X's ad business is
Advertisers seem to be spending a whole lot less than they used to on the platform. SpaceX just reported its first quarter of earnings as a public company and it shed new light on the state of X's advertising business, which, spoiler, has shrunk dramatically since Elon Musk's takeover in 2022. The company brought in $367 million in advertising revenue between April and June of this year, the company reported. That's up a bit…
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SpaceX's first public earnings statement shows the financials of an AI company in 2026
SpaceX has published its first earnings report since going public on June 12. The company's Q2 topline is broadly positive. As a whole, SpaceX increased revenue by 92 percent year-over-year, bringing its total revenue for the quarter to $7.8 billion. The company also shaved the gap between its revenue and operating expenses by more than half, reducing net losses to $541 million, down from $1 billion a year ago. But digging deeper, the financials…
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These Motorola phones are next in line for the Android 17 beta
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Android 17 has already been available on Pixel phones for several weeks, but owners of other Android devices are still waiting for their manufacturers to catch up. Motorola is making progress on that front, opening its Android 17 beta to a much wider selection of Razr, Edge, and Moto G phones. Nokiamob spotted the new testing opportunities on Motorola’s community forums. The…
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Trump killed the Digital Equity Act, but US was forced to bring part of it back
The Trump administration said it will reinstate a broadband grant program to comply with a court ruling that prevented it from fully ignoring the Digital Equity Act enacted by Congress in 2021. The US government said in a court filing that it plans to start taking applications for grants in December. However, the Trump administration won a partial victory because the judge ruled the government can’t allocate money based on the race or ethnicity…
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Spider-Man movie fans say Samsung’s Galaxy product placement goes too far
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. It’s only been days since its release, but Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been a roaring success at the box office. Sony’s and Marvel Studios’ new film has been breaking records left and right, setting the bar very high for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Despite the success, the webcrawler’s latest flick is getting a lot of criticism, and Samsung’s partnership with the…
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IT & Science & Technology
SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
SpaceX has ramped up purchases of Tesla Megapack, spending $295 million on the battery storage devices in the second quarter and $329 million so far this year, according to the company’s earnings report released on Tuesday. The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk’s universe of companies are. Musk, who is the CEO and largest shareholder of SpaceX, also runs Tesla. Musk’s artificial intelligence business xAI acquired his social media platform, X, in 2025.…
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IT & Science & Technology
AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat
The company’s data center revenue has more than doubled, hitting $6.7 billion. The company’s data center revenue has more than doubled, hitting $6.7 billion. Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD’s data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That’s up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During Tuesday’s earnings call,…
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SpaceX made more revenue as an AI company than a space company
SpaceX’s AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, according to SpaceX’s quarterly earnings. The AI division, which the company said in its documents to go public was the source of most of its value, lost $1.5 billion this quarter, slightly less than in the same quarter last year. SpaceX made deals with…
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Apps & Logiciels
Google Home will fix broken Familiar Faces alerts on Walmart’s Onn cameras
Google Home is working on a fix for broken Familiar Faces alerts on Walmart’s cheap Onn cameras that integrate similarly to Nest cameras. One could make an argument that Google’s Familiar Faces features as a whole is at least a little broken all of the time, but it’s actually broken on Walmart’s Onn cameras. Like Nest cameras, Walmart advertises its Google Home-integrated cameras as supporting Familiar Faces (assuming you pay for Home Premium), but…
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SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, in large part thanks to the growth of its Starlink satellite internet service and deals it struck to rent out computing power to Anthropic and Google, the company revealed in its first quarterly earnings since going public. Total sales grew from $4 billion in the second quarter of 2025 to $7.8 billion in Q2 2026, a jump of 92%. Nearly $2 billion of that growth came…
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IT & Science & Technology
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers—at least until developers provide more information about their projects’ potential impacts on the grid and communities. The Republican governor directed regulators in an August 3 announcement at the Public Utility Commission of Texas and…
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Bingers, a new TV-tracking app from the founder of TV Time, is now available to download
Following last month’s sunsetting of TV Time, one of the app’s co-founders, Antonio Pinto, announced Bingers, a new TV and movies tracking app that leans more heavily on social features. Here are the details. When Whip Media announced it would shut down TV-tracking app TV Time, one of the app’s co-founders announced Bingers, “a fast and beautiful watchlist with a fun community.” Now, as spotted by TechCrunch, Bingers is available to download on iOS…
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Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers
For many apps, granting permission to access your device’s precise location makes sense. Your favorite weather app needs to know where you are to get the day’s forecast, or your go-to fitness app for tracking your running route. But some apps are also inadvertently sharing their users’ location data with third parties, including advertisers and data brokers, because the app developer may not know that this data-sharing setting is enabled by default. New findings…
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Our first look at the ASUS Googlebook shows Google’s laptop plans taking shape
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Googlebooks are still a little way off from their expected fall debut, but the hardware is becoming less mysterious by the week. Shortly after Lenovo’s upcoming models appeared in leaked renders, we now have our first look at the ASUS Googlebook CX9406. 9to5Google obtained images of the laptop from an iF Design listing that has since been removed. The page confusingly described…
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Telegram CEO Says Extortionist Manipulated Apple Into App Store Removal
Telegram was subject to a "takedown extortionist" who planted AI-modified child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to get Apple to remove the app from the App Store, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said today. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store for about 40 minutes on Monday night after discovering CSAM, but reinstated the app after Telegram removed the content. The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for…
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