Jay Peters
The Android logo is getting a bit of a glow-up.
Including a capital A in Android and a 3D robot head. 9to5Google has the details.
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“I think the probability of this next flight working, getting to orbit, is much higher than the last one. Maybe it’s like 60 percent.”
That’s SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk’s assessment of the potential success of its next Starship flight, according to Ars Technica. The last flight ended explosively.
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“Tips aren’t unlocking content, @Apple.”
Jack Dorsey isn’t happy with Apple’s decision to remove Damus, a decentralized social networking app that he backs, from the App Store, as reported by TechCrunch. “Users are only ever tipped after posts are made, the idea that content is being sold is nonsense,” Damus argues. Damus says it will be appealing the decision.
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Telegram is getting Stories.
Years after pretty much every social app got them (and in some cases, removed them), Telegram is adding a Stories-like product. They’ll launch in “early July,” CEO Pavel Durov wrote on Telegram, and have been a popular request: “more than half of all feature requests that we receive are related to Stories,” Durov said.
Telegram recently had a major role in international news: in Russia, Wagner private military group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin announced the end to an apparent coup attempt with a post on Telegram.
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Starfield will come with a physical disc — on Xbox, at least.
There was a whole thing recently where a Bethesda support account tweeted that no physical edition of Starfield would have discs, but according to a June 11th post on the Starfield website, a disc is included with “with physical purchases of Xbox Standard Edition.” For physical purchases on PC, a code will be included instead.
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One of these studios could be the next to join Xbox.
A new document published as part of the FTC’s lawsuit against Microsoft details some developers the company has had its eye on watching — including No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games and Hollow Knight developer Team Cherry.
This document is from 2021, so Microsoft’s views may have changed. But perhaps one these studios will be the next to get subsumed into the Microsoft machine.
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A Rickroll you’ll be happy you clicked on.
Rick Astley performed his iconic song “Never Gonna Give You Up” at Glastonbury this year, and it’s great. When you’re done listening to that, you should check out his also-good cover of Harry Styles’ “As It Was” from the festival.
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Fortnite icon gets his own PS5 accessories.
I’m talking about LeBron James, of course. You’ll be able to buy a PS5 console cover and a DualSense “co-designed” with the NBA star directly from PlayStation beginning Thursday.
Image: PlayStation