For nearly a decade, Apple has been progressively growing the revenue it makes from services–not just its search-engine deal with Google and its cut of App Store revenue, but everything from AppleCare support plans to…
After somehow shirking Apple’s App Store payment fees for years, Patreon informed its stable of creators this week that they will soon be subject to the same 30 percent fee as everyone else—and is offering…
Last September, Newegg began a program where you could exchange an older graphics card for a newly-purchased model from Newegg, and the retailer would toss in up to a few hundred bucks as store credit.…
Today, you can ask Microsoft Copilot to draw an AI-generated image of a strawberry pie for free, right from within Windows. But if you want to do the same thing in Microsoft Word, it will…
Two U.K. regulatory bodies have announced a joint investigation into the benefits and risks of digital wallets, including Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal. In a press release Monday, the Payments Systems Regulator (PSR) and…
Avoiding data breaches is all but impossible these days. You can’t control a company’s data security policies—you can only filter what information you share with them and mitigate the potential fallout. But don’t assume that once…
Back in March 2023, Apple announced a new feature for Apple Pay that lets shoppers split purchases between $50 and $1,000 into four payments spread out over six weeks with no interest or fees. A…
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. It’s been a bad couple of years for Microsoft’s security and privacy efforts. Misconfigured endpoints, rogue security certificates, and weak passwords have all caused or risked the exposure…
Most credit-card and debit-card numbers are a sequence of 16 digits, with the final number in the sequence being a “checksum,” or a calculated number that was once useful in checking that a card number…
Enlarge / The HP Envy 6020e is one of the printers available for rent. HP launched a subscription service today that rents people a printer, allots them a specific amount of printed pages, and sends…