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    Another emulator is shutting down.

    Pizza Emulators, which made Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color emulators on Android, has pulled all of its apps from the Google Play Store. In a message on Discord, developer Davide Berra writes that he’s shutting down the emulators “to prioritize my family over the development of my apps.”

    The move follows Yuzu’s $2.4 million settlement with Nintendo and the shutdown of 3DS emulator Citra.

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    Google Chrome will soon let you install any webpage as a desktop web app.

    A Chrome Canary update spotted by X user Leopeva64 (via Android Police) introduces a new “install page as app” button in the settings menu for all the websites you visit. You can try out the feature before it’s rolled out by downloading Canary and enabling these flags:

    • chrome://flags/#web-app-universal-install

    • chrome://flags/#shortcuts-not-apps

    Image: Leopeva64
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    Satechi’s new USB-C hub has 8K video output but no USB-A ports.

    The Multiport Adapter 8K with Ethernet V3 spotted by MacRumors costs $99 and features three 10Gbps USB-C ports, one 5Gbps USB-C port, an Ethernet port, a UHS-II SD card reader, and an HDMI 2.1 port that supports displays up to 8K/30Hz or 4K/144Hz, but only on Windows.

    There’s also 85W passthrough charging, meaning you can juice up a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro.

    Image: Satechi
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    Some Spectrum customers now get ESPN Plus for free.

    Charter’s Spectrum TV Plus customers can now access ESPN Plus (which usually costs $10.99 / month) with their cable subscription. It’s all part of the bundle Charter announced with Disney last year, which also brought Disney Plus to Spectrum customers in January.

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    This Lego set puts a 2D-style Gotham City onto your wall.

    Lego has revealed its $299 Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City set (#76271), which features 4,210 pieces making up landmarks like the Gotham City Court and Arkham Asylum.

    It also includes four minifigures of Batman, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and the Joker. The set comes out on April 4th, and you can check out even more pictures of it from Lego’s website.

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    AT&T’s outage is facing a “thorough” investigation from the FCC.

    After last month’s outage left AT&T customers nationwide without service, the FCC has confirmed to Bloomberg that it has requested “more in-depth information from AT&T concerning the cause, effect, and the company’s response to the incident.”

    AT&T has since attributed the outage to the “execution of an incorrect process” and offered customers a $5 credit.

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    What happened to the Apple Car?

    This deep dive from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman offers a detailed timeline of the company’s embattled EV that employees referred to as the “Bread Loaf” due to its microbus-style design.

    Apple poured billions of dollars into the project, reportedly planning “a multi-acre engineering campus in Silicon Valley” dedicated to designing cars and even weighing a deal with Lincoln. One Apple exec tells Bloomberg the project dragged on far too long:

    According to a longtime Apple executive who worked on the car, it was widely seen within the company as an ill-conceived product that needed to be put out of its misery. “The big arc was poor leadership that let the program linger, while everyone else in Apple was cringing.”

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    Rooster Teeth is shutting down after an over two-decade-long run.

    In a memo to employees obtained by Variety, Rooster Teeth general manager Jordan Levin wrote that the company is closing “due to challenges facing digital media resulting from fundamental shifts in consumer behavior and monetization.”

    Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns Rooster Teeth, is in talks to sell the rights to some of the production company’s series, including RWBY, Red vs. Blue, and Gen:Lock, Variety reports. And while WBD is also reportedly looking to sell the Roost podcast network, it will remain operational.