Netflix’s latest experiment shouldn’t scare streaming freeloaders yet

Fairphone beats the entire Android ecosystem with six years of support

Enlarge / The Fairphone 2 and its many modules. (credit: Fairphone ) Fairphone continues to push boundaries and lead the Android ecosystem when it comes to system updates. The company} announced it is shipping Android 10 for the Fairphone 2, a six-year-old device that originally shipped with Android 5. Six years of major updates is […]

Stabbing, crucifixion, eaten by eels: learn all about murder the Roman way

Enlarge / University of Birmingham historian Dr. Emma Southon explores murder in ancient Rome in her new book, A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. (credit: Abrams Press) There once was a wealthy Roman man named Vedius Pollio, infamous for maintaining a reservoir of man-eating eels, into which he would throw any […]

Microsoft pushed Apple for compromise to get Game Pass on the App Store

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Last year, Apple rolled out a set of onerous guidelines that required streaming game subscription services like Xbox Game Pass to package each available title as a separate app in the iOS App Store. At the time, Microsoft said this solution “remains a bad experience for customers. Gamers […]