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Apple is finally opening up the iPhone to sideloading and alternative app stores — at least in the European Union. It’s also allowing developers to use third-party payment processors in their apps. This is all part of Apple’s efforts to comply with the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), and at the surface, these changes make it



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Apple is finally opening the iPhone to third-party app stores in the European Union, kicking off a potentially vibrant, unwieldy, and eclectic new era for its app ecosystem. At least, it might, depending on how developers respond to a hurdle that is at once tiny and immense: a €0.50 fee.

Apple is introducing a new fee structure for apps that want to



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  • xAI is reportedly in talks to raise as much as $6 billion in funding.
  • Last week, Elon Musk denied a report that xAI had raised $500 million toward a $1 billion goal.
  • Musk has positioned his AI startup as an alternative to OpenAI.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is reportedly looking to lock down billions more in



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OpenAI has an update to fix ChatGPT's "laziness" over the past few months.

On Thursday, the OpenAI announced an update to GPT-4 Turbo, its most advanced LLM. GPT-4 Turbo is still only available in limited preview through the API, meaning it doesn't power ChatGPT. However, the hope is this fix will eventually roll out to ChatGPT, too.



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TL;DR: The 2024 Dutch Darts Masters is available to stream for free on ITVX. Access this free streaming service from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.


After securing a win at the Bahrain Darts Masters, Luke Littler will be looking to do it all over again at the second event of the World Series of Darts: the Dutch Darts Masters. It's not going to be easy, because the best of the best are taking



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For the past few years, Lionsgate has dominated the stylish, hyper-choreographed, bullet-hole-ridden action-thriller genre with a steady stream of John Wick movies as well as a spinoff series. But the first trailer for Universal and Blumhouse’s Monkey Man from director Dev Patel makes it seem like a glorious challenge to viewers to understand how much bigger, wilder, and more



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January saw a huge amount of tech workers laid off as companies shift their focus and spending to AI.
  • Over 20,000 employees across the tech industry were laid off in January 2024. 
  • And more Big Tech layoffs may be coming this year as companies bet big on AI, an analyst told CNBC.
  • Google and Amazon have already made hundreds redundant this month as they shift their focus