The Alphabet Workers Union alleges Google and subcontractor Cognizant “unlawfully terminated” a group of YouTube Music contractors in February, who had been working for months for Google to recognize them as employees. The union claims Google fired the contractors “in retaliation” for organizing.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
