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Jon Porter is a news reporter, video presenter, and Capricorn. Part of The Verge's UK-based team, his primary focuses are European consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and video games. Oh, and mechanical keyboards. Lots of mechanical keyboards.
Porter started his career covering audio and TV equipment for TechRadar and has also written for Gizmodo UK, Kotaku UK, T3, Trusted Reviews, and Real Homes. He has been interviewed on national and international TV and radio, including on BBC World News, the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, ABC, CBC, and more. He currently lives in South London.
The iPhone maker was accused of defrauding shareholders when it cut its quarterly revenue forecast by up to $9 billion in 2019 due to US-China trade tensions. That announcement literally decimated its share price, just a couple of months after CEO Tim Cook declined to put China in the same category as other emerging markets where Apple faced sales pressure.
Reuters notes that the settlement, which covers any investors who bought shares in those two months, amounts to under two days of profit for Apple.
Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe says the studio is in talks to bring the game to more platforms beyond PC and Xbox.
The obvious question is whether the game, which has been nicknamed “Pokémon with guns” and has faced accusations of plagiarizing characters from Nintendo’s hit franchise, will ever come to the Nintendo Switch.
Almost eight years after Wright publicly claimed to be the digital currency’s enigmatic inventor, UK Judge James Mellor has said the “overwhelming” evidence is that this isn’t the case. In a post on X Jack Dorsey, one of the backers of the organization that brought the legal challenge against Wright, quoted the judge’s verdict:
The European Commission says it’s opened formal proceedings against AliExpress because it may have breached the Digital Services Act’s rules. For example, the Commission says AliExpress may not be enforcing its terms of service properly, and is allowing the sale of “certain products posing risks for consumers’ health (such as fake medicines and food as well as dietary supplements).” Similar investigations have already been opened into TikTok and X.
The company has confirmed to Android Police that only the Galaxy A35 will be coming to the US, and that “we will not be carrying Galaxy A55 5G at this time.” It’s unfortunate given that we rated last year’s Galaxy A54 as one of the best affordable handsets.