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Apple sued over alleged lack of age checks for casino games in Brazil
Apple is facing a civil lawsuit in Brazil seeking R$300 million (roughly $59 million) in damages over allegations that children can download and access casino-style games on the App Store without any meaningful age verification. Here are the details. Apple’s Brazilian App Store has a gambling problem Last month, Brazilian officials gave Apple five business […]
Xbox may have a surprisingly smart plan for keeping physical games alive
The fate of physical game discs seems to be set in stone, with an all-digital library becoming increasingly inevitable. Microsoft, though, may at least give Xbox owners a way to bring their shelves full of physical games along for the journey. A leaked Microsoft roadmap sent to game publishers details the planned rollout of Xbox’s […]
Apple Fusses Over Privacy As It Prepares Smart Glasses
Apple is reconsidering its approach to smart glasses before formally entering the market. The company, known for its focus on privacy (to an extent, anyway), is reportedly fixated on maintaining that aspect of its image as it prepares its first smart glasses—a notoriously invasive type of wearable—for launch. Per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is worried […]
Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5080’s PCB Might Be the Weirdest One Yet
Gigabyte’s Aorus GeForce RTX 5080 Infinity Wood might be one of the strangest graphics card PCBs ever made. With everything crammed at the far end, its power connector is front-mounted, and its rear cutout leaves very little actual card space at the I/O end, relying instead on the cooler for structural integrity. When Nvidia launched […]
Team Ternus gains formerly retired vice president of hardware engineering
John Ternus takes over as CEO of Apple on September 1, and he’s busy getting his executive team together. The latest addition is Laura Legros, retired VP of hardware engineering. All eyes are on John Ternus as he prepares to replace Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. Very little is known about the enigmatic character […]
How NTT DATA AIVista closes the last mile of agentic AI for enterprise agents
Presented by NTT DATA AIVista At VB Transform 2026, NTT DATA AIVista CEO Bratin Saha joined VentureBeat CEO and editor-in-chief Matt Marshall to discuss the last-mile challenge of operationalizing frontier models in regulated production, where reliability, context, guardrails, and security determine whether AI delivers enterprise value. The conversation centered around the question facing every enterprise […]
Apple hosts Ted Lasso look-alike contest in New York
If you’ve got the Ted Lasso outfit, moustache, and attitude, you can win custom Beats headphones and exclusive soccer scarves at Apple’s look-alike contest in New York City on Thursday. “Ted Lasso” is, undoubtedly, Apple TV‘s first breakout hit and an unofficial mascot for the service itself. And, just as it’s proven in the past, […]
2027 Toyota Sequoia Gets A New Trim Package Designed For Off-Roading
Following in the footsteps of the Tacoma pickup, the newly updated 2027 model year Sequoia is getting a new trim that should be familiar to Toyota off-roading fans. Toyota hasn’t released any specifics on price yet, but the trim level and overall model upgrades should be hitting the dealership […]
The Hennessey Blackbird Is Further Proof That Technology Isn’t Cool Anymore
Texas Hypercar maker Hennessey revealed their newest model, the Blackbird, this morning, and it solidifies the automotive luddite sentiment as the newest form of exclusivity. The Blackbird takes its name from the SR-71 Blackbird, the legendary spy plane whose only defense was its top speed of over 2,000 mph. […]
The Pope’s Official Prayer App Sends Your Prayers to the Almighty—And Your Data to Hackers
A security flaw in the Pope’s official prayer app and online prayer platform, Click to Pray, has exposed personal data from over 719,000 accounts. Users’ full names, birthdates, and more have leaked through an insecure API endpoint in a data disaster that’s remained open for months after its discovery. The flaw stems from a broken […]