Spotify takes on App Store rules with new app update
Spotify newest app update, if approved by Apple, will enable users to purchase subscriptions directly through external payment methods. (via Cult of Mac – Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)
May 1, 2025
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Move over Gemini, Google’s best AI research assistant is getting its own app soon
Credit: Andy Walker / Android Authority Google is launching a standalone app for NotebookLM. The app will let users create and access notebooks, upload sources, generate and listen to Audio Overviews of their content, and more. The app is now available for pre-registration and will launch on Android and iOS on May 20. Google has…
Apple Updates U.S. App Review Guidelines Following Epic Games Ruling
In the wake of yesterday’s court ruling in the dispute between Apple and Epic Games over Apple’s policies restricting developers’ ability to inform users about alternatives to making purchases through Apple’s in-app purchasing system, Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to comply with the ruling. Apple summarized the changes in an email to developers…
Temu Blocks US Shoppers From Seeing Products Shipped From China
The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end a tariff loophole for small packages from China.
Apple updates App Store Guidelines to allow links to external payments
Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with the injunction handed down yesterday in its legal case with Epic Games. According to the new App Store rules, “there is no prohibition on an app including buttons, external links, or other calls to action.” more…
Google reveals NotebookLM app for Android & iPhone, coming at I/O 2025 [Gallery]
After teasing last month, Google today unveiled the design of the native NotebookLM app for Android and iPhone users. more…
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 might not use a Snapdragon chip after all
After mixed reports couldn’t pinpoint whether Samsung would use a Snapdragon or Exynos chip for the Galaxy Z Fold 7, we might finally have an answer.
The investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal group chats is growing
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers remarks to the press during a meeting with UK Defense Secretary John Healey at the Pentagon on March 6th, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. The Pentagon Inspector General is expanding an inquiry into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s questionable Signal group chats. According to the Wall Street Journal, the investigation…