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Earlier this week, Musk claimed that Apple has threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store and has also “mostly stopped” advertising on the platform. He posted a string of tweets targeting the company. Musk alleged that Apple censored free speech in the past and is distancing itself from the social media platform because he is promoting free speech. The Twitter CEO even questioned the company’s App Store policies, including the 30 percent cut it takes from developers’ revenue....

FCC recently certified an upcoming OnePlus smartphone with the model number CPH2469. But it isn’t a new device. Instead, it’s a rebrand of an existing OPPO phone identified by the model number CPH2387. The FCC documents contain a letter from OPPO authorizing OnePlus to re-launch the device with the OnePlus branding. “They (OnePlus) wish to market this product under their own company name,” reads an excerpt of OPPO’s letter, which was first spotted by Android Authority....

The very first smartphone with 240W charging is expected to launch soon The very first smartphone with 240W charging is expected to launch soon Are you confused? Well, don’t be, as it only technically won’t be an OPPO phone, as in it won’t have OPPO branding on it. The device in question is the Realme GT Neo5, almost certainly. That phone is rumored to become the first to support such fast charging....

Android on TV platforms isn’t updated as regularly as on phones and tablets. Most of the new additions come in the form of standalone software updates rather than in nearly platform upgrades. This is why the jump to Android 12 on TV is much less significant than the jump to Android 12 on phones. Frame rate matching from fast with Google TV is here, but it doesn’t work Frame rate matching from fast with Google TV is here, but it doesn’t work...

The CNIL alleges that Google and Facebook restricted users in France from rejecting cookie tracking technology. Allowing users to opt-out of cookie tracking is written into EU’s privacy rules, so this is a pretty steep violation. “In addition to the fines, the restricted committee ordered the companies to provide Internet users located in France with a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them, in order to guarantee their freedom of consent, within three months,” the CNIL said in a release (via Engadget)....