📱 TikTok's future hangs in balance ⌚️ OnePlus smartwatch secrets 📺 Surprising new streaming service 🕹️ Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story | |
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TikTok's U.S. fate could be decided by lawmakers today
| The vote in the House of Representatives represents the biggest threat to TikTok's availability in the U.S. since it launched there seven years ago
| A House of Representatives vote on Wednesday could see TikTok banned in the U.S. unless links with Chinese parent company ByteDance are severed within six months. The crucial vote is the latest chapter in the long-running saga over whether the popular app poses a national security threat. If lawmakers pass the bipartisan bill, "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act," it will go before the Senate and then to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. But with former president Donald Trump recently switching sides to now support the app, the vote could be close ... | |
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OnePlus told us the secrets behind its one-of-a-kind smartwatch
| The OnePlus Watch 2 marks a bold entry into the world of Wear OS smartwatches
| How do you stand out in the smartwatch world? How do you attempt something new and unique with wearables in 2024 when so many companies seem to be coasting by? That’s what OnePlus is trying to figure out with the OnePlus Watch 2, and in many ways, it has succeeded. The OnePlus Watch 2, while not perfect, is one of the more interesting Wear OS watches we’ve seen in a while — and that’s largely due to a hybrid design unlike any we’ve seen before. Digital Trends spoke with Justin Liu, the general manager of OnePlus’ wearable division, to better understand what makes the OnePlus Watch 2 tick. In doing so, we learned some of the watch’s most fascinating secrets ... | |
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A new streaming service is coming ... from North Korea | The secretive state’s streaming service will offer its own unique brand of content, though some countries may ban it | Move over Netflix; there's another streaming service in town. OK, it's unlikely to be a huge success, but some folks may be willing to pay the monthly fee of around $20 when it goes global later this year. Shiwani TV will offer content from state-run Korean Central TV and its radio station, The Telegraph reported, adding that subscribers can expect a "unique brand of earnest singing, marching soldiers, and weeping newscasters." Other shows will include "soaps about soldiers weeding out disloyal class enemies and sitcoms from gleaming Pyongyang apartments [as well as] missile launches [and] military parades." A Poland-based organization that helped set up the service said that "around 50 people" have so far expressed an interest in subscribing to it ... | |
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GAMING FEATURE by Giovanni Colantonio |
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is a vital piece of video game history
| The interactive documentary gives modern players a crash course in one of gaming's most important developers
| Depending on what era of gaming you grew up in, the name Jeff Minter could mean everything or nothing to you. The visionary developer behind Llamasoft, one of the industry’s most eclectic studios, was practically gaming royalty from the 1980s to the mid-90s. He made a name for himself with titles like Gridrunner and Revenge of the Mutant Camels before creating a true magnum opus in 1994’s Tempest 2000. While he hasn’t stopped making games, Minter isn’t exactly a household name outside of game history buffs these days. That’s not because he’s no longer producing great work; it’s the harsh reality of a commercialized industry he’s always revolted against. Now, Minter is getting his due in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, the latest interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse’s Gold Master Series. | |
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