Techstrong News Recap – November 15, 2022

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for November 15th. First up. Apple's going to an appeals court as we'll have to face off against epic games in an antitrust lawsuit over its App Store.

Epic games initially filed the lawsuit back in August of 2020 to stop letting Apple have exclusive control over the app store which allows it to impose up to 30% commissions on purchases. 13 months ago a US District Judge cited almost entirely with apple, but with one caveat that Apple needed to provide links to payment Alternatives outside of the App Store. Epic games decided to appeal and oral arguments began yesterday in the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

With all this being said though a ruling isn't expected to be announced for six months to a year. So we might have a long ride ahead of us. while in the subject of App Store payments Google has announced that his expanding the user Choice billing options, which allows Android app developers to use other Payment Systems besides Google's the program will be expanding to the US Brazil and South Africa and will add Bumble as one of their pilot testers.

developers that want to use the user Choice billing have to follow a particular ux guidelines set by Google with all this being said though, not everyone is happy with it the same epic games that is suing Apple is calling it a sham citing the only 4% reduction in commissions. Google says that this pilot program is meant to understand the complexities involved with user Choice billing from the development standpoint as well as a user based one and we'll continue to roll it out over the course of the next couple months. In other news the US Department of energy awarded Oregon State University three million dollars to develop new rechargeable battery technology.

This new Battery Technology would help accelerate clean energy adoption while also relying loss on Rare Minerals like nickel and lithium the two of which which are obtained through environmentally destructive mining. The plan is to look at anion batteries that provide the essential components without the need of these minerals. While the primary purpose of these batteries is for EVS there is potential to be used in large scale utilities as well as homes.

Next an unmanned US military space plane landed after spending a record 98 days in orbit. The plane the x37b is solar powered and landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center early Saturday. The plane was first launched in 2010 and has since broken several records while also allowing an almost unrivaled ability to test new space Technologies.

3 billion miles and it's been a total of 3,774 days in space. On digital cxo we even article looking at budget relations for Tech focus cxos in 2023 determining the next used budget can be extremely difficult tasks for cxos and finding a balance between keeping the lights on and taking steps forward is difficult. com.

On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at open text Security Solutions survey concerning geopolitical tensions and ransomware attacks. Among the results 88% of the respondents that they're worried of an attack impacting their business in 57% So they're worried about cyber security budgets shrinking due to inflation. To learn more about the results of the survey go to Security Boulevard calm.

Finally on container Journal we have an article looking at the best practices for shipping software with containers. The article gives a brief overview of containers as well as help figuring out if containers would be a good fit for you. com.

And that's today's text wrong news recap.