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Jay Peters

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    Two new indie games are coming to Netflix.

    Dust & Neon, a western-themed roguelike shooter, will be joining Netflix’s lineup of mobile games on February 16th, while Highwater, a post-apocalyptic turn-based strategy adventure game, will be added “soon,” according to a blog post from publisher Rogue Games. You can learn more about Dust & Neon, which is also coming to Switch and PC, in the video below.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Here’s a video of TikTok’s new transparency center.

    The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz shared an Instagram video of the recent media tour of the center. The Verge got to visit, too; check out our written story from Alex Heath.

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    Jay Peters
    More than 100 million people watched The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon says.

    We don’t know exactly what Amazon counts as a view — Netflix changed its own definition of that in 2021 — and this isn’t even a new number. But I wasn’t aware of it until today, and I’ll take it as evidence that the Prime Video series has been a hit for the company.

    The show’s second season is currently in production.

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    Jay Peters
    Apple Pay Later is launching “soon,” CEO Tim Cook tells CNBC.

    The company’s take on a buy now, pay later service was announced alongside iOS 16 at WWDC in June, but it still isn’t here yet and has reportedly faced issues during development.

    Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said in September that the feature may not arrive until iOS 16.4. Given Cook’s comment on Thursday, it seems like that might be right.