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  • UK Regulators Want Apple to Open its App Store Doors to Cloud Gaming

    UK Regulators Want Apple to Open its App Store Doors to Cloud Gaming

    Florence Ion

    Apple’s walled garden is a nice place to be if you want a no-fuss experience with technology. But the bushy greens and red roses don’t necessarily indicate you’re getting the most out of the device in your hand. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a governmental entity, has launched an investigation into Apple’s —…

  • How a ‘Playboy’ Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG

    How a ‘Playboy’ Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG

    Blake Montgomery

    In her new book, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History, Samantha Cole traces the twisting history of the “Lena Centerfold,” an image from Playboy that became an international standard for training computers to recognise images. The image, taken in 1972, persisted for decades in computer science, even inspiring…