Google Play Games might be headed to the graveyard

Google is quietly building key features of its Play Games app, which lets you track achievements on Android games, directly into the Play Store, Android Police reports — signaling plans that the former may be headed for the infamous Google Graveyard. Coder and self-proclaimed APK teardown specialist AssembleDebug posted on X that Google hasn’t made…

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OnePlus backs off its Watch 3’s huge price hike

OnePlus has reversed a big price hike for the Watch 3 and will sell the smartwatch for $349.99, OnePlus spokesperson Spencer Blank tells The Verge via email. That’s $20 more than the price it was initially announced at, but a big drop from the unexplained $499.99 cost it debuted at on April 10th.  Blank attributes…

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America is living in tariff limbo

For millions of people, any one of the many unprecedented actions in the first 100 days of the second Trump presidency was enough to show that the US is barreling toward – or has already arrived at – billionaire-helmed fascism. Sure, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has indiscriminately fired thousands of federal employees…

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Menendez brothers demand Los Angeles DA recuse himself or be disqualified in resentencing case

The attorney representing convicted murderers Erik and Lyle Menendez has taken action to try to disqualify Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman and his office from representing the state in the brothers’ resentencing case. Attorney Mark Geragos and his cocounsels filed paperwork on Friday announcing a motion to disqualify Hochman’s office, citing a “conflict…

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