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Google Play opens developer sign-ups for third-party ‘User Choice Billing’

Back in March, Google announced that it would allow Android apps to use their own payment system as long as Play Store billing was offered alongside it. Google Play is now letting non-gaming developers around the world sign up for the User Choice Billing pilot, while naming which markets it will be tested in. The pilot markets for User Choice Billing are European Economic Area (EEA) countries…
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Radius AI brings edge AI to retail, wins Innovation Award

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. At VentureBeat’s fourth annual AI Innovation Awards given out in July at Transform, Radius AI, based in Tempe, Arizona, won the Edge AI award for its artificial intelligence (AI) computer vision technology that equips retailers with real-time insights on queue analytics…
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This massive USB4 speed jump could be great news for the USB-C iPhone 15

The USB Promoter group announced USB4 Version 2.0 spec, a major update that will enable up to 80 GBps of data performance over USB-C. This news comes at a time Apple has been rumored to switch to this technology with the upcoming iPhone 15 series. Although it feels Apple will be more obligated rather than make a natural switch to USB-C, as the European Union said the company and all other tech…
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Apple’s Lightning connector was introduced 10 years ago, and it may not survive the iPhone 15

10 years ago, Apple was still about to introduce iPhone 5, so basically every iPhone and iPad of that time still relied on the old 30-pin iPod connector. In September 2012, Apple announced the Lightning connector with the promise of being a “modern connector for the next decade.” A decade later, it seems that Lightning won’t survive the iPhone 15. Pre-Lightning era Before the iPhone, iPod…
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