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Fortnite maker Epic Games has reached a “comprehensive settlement” with Google that could end its five-year legal crusade targeting Google’s Play Store for Android apps, both companies revealed in a joint legal filing.Epic CEO Tim Sweeney called the settlement an “awesome proposal” in a social media post.Google and Epic Games said the settlement “would allow the parties to put their disputes aside while making Android a more vibrant and competitive platform for users and developers,” according to the document, filed in a San Francisco federal court Tuesday.skip past newsletter promotionA weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our livesPrivacy…

Wes Streeting has failed in an attempt to end the long-running resident doctors’ dispute with a new offer to them, which means their five-day strike next week is expected to go ahead.The health secretary tabled a new offer to resident doctors – formerly junior doctors – in England on Wednesday in a move intended to avoid the strike, their 13th.But the British Medical Association’s resident doctors committee (RDC) rejected Streeting’s attempted olive branch and said his proposal was too limited for them to call off their action.Streeting pledged to double his previous offer to create 1,000 extra places for early-career…

Nearly half of Gen Z say that YouTube or social video platforms are their preferred entertainment platforms over traditional TV or paid streaming. According to Activate Consulting’s Technology & Media Outlook 2026, which was unveiled by CEO Michael Wolf at the WSJ Tech Live event on Wednesday, 43% of Gen Z are opting for YouTube and TikTok for their media and news consumption. Per the same survey, the popularity of “microdramas” — one of the latest trends on those platforms, consisting of 1-2 minute scripted episodes of an ongoing storyline — has been increasing at a fast rate with 28…

A 3,000-year-old Maya site is actually a giant, city-size map depicting the “order of the universe,” researchers say. The ruin, in what is now southeastern Mexico, was a cosmogram — a representation of how ancient people at the site viewed the cosmos, a new study suggests.The site, known as Aguada Fénix, is the “oldest and largest monumental architecture in the Maya area” and is larger than many ancient cities in Mesoamerica, the researchers wrote in the study. Although its construction was a major endeavor, its cultural significance, likely motivated people to help construct it, meaning its builders were probably not…

new video loaded: Fire in Bosnia Rips Through Retirement HomeA blaze at a retirement home in a Bosnian city killed at least 11 people, mostly residents, according to the authorities. The cause of the fire remains undetermined.By Nader IbrahimNovember 5, 2025

Unionized Starbucks baristas voted to authorize an open-ended strike ahead of Starbucks’s high-traffic holiday season, announced Starbucks Workers United on Wednesday.The union said workers are prepared to strike if a contract is not finalized by 13 November, which is the company’s Red Cup Day, and strike actions could hit more than 25 cities and escalate if there is a lack of progress.Starbucks Workers United, which represents more than 9,000 workers out of Starbucks’s over 200,000 baristas, has filed more than 1,000 charges against Starbucks for alleged unfair labor practices to the National Labor Relations Board, the union said.Michelle Eisen, a…

An MP has called for Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to be shut down after it called him a “rape enabler”.The Grok chatbot made the post on X about SNP MP Pete Wishart, after a user asked it to comment on the member’s opinion on whether there should be an inquiry into grooming gangs in Scotland.Mr Wishart said he was seeking legal advice over the “deeply distressing” accusation and called for Musk to “recalibrate” the bot to shut it down.The BBC has approached XAI, the parent company of X, for comment.”I was genuinely shocked to be described in such…

Although he was a major modernist artist whose collaborators ranged from European greats like Pablo Picasso and André Breton to new world giants like Aimé Césaire, Cuban artist Wifredo Lam has not seen a major US retrospective worthy of his stature. That changes with the MoMA’s blockbuster show Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream.The product of years of work and dozens of collaborations with institutions and collectors around the world, When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream shows the entire sweep of a career that straddled eras. Lam is best-known for agglomerations of elongated and mysterious figures that borrow…

Rory McIlroy said being the target of rowdy US supporters at the Ryder Cup was a “compliment” and it “galvanised” the European team during their 15-13 victory at Bethpage.

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