Electronics gadgets: Tinder Swipes Right on Epic Games

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Tinder Swipes Right on Epic Games

AUGUST 17, 2020

Everything worth knowing in tech today, August 17, 2020. Today in computing history, the first computer to use off-the-shelf tech, the SWAC, went live in 1950.

⏰ Today's Big Stories... in 30 Seconds

Today We Watched, Read, and Listened to (so you don't have to):

453 Articles, 7 Podcasts, 14 Press Releases, 657 Tweets, & 13 YouTube videos

1. Spotify, Tinder Support Epic Games in Apple and Google Fight

Last week, the Fortnite developer challenged app fees on both iOS and Android app stores, resulting in the tech giants booting them out. Both Spotify and Tinder-owner Match showed their support for the game devs soon after. The lines are being drawn!

2. Instagram Kept Deleted Messages and Photos

Whoops. A security researcher found that his photos and messages on Instagram were still there after he deleted them more than a year earlier. Now, the Facebook-owned photo app will pay him a bug bounty of $6K for his troubles (and hopefully fix the issue for all of us).

3. Microsoft Confirms You Can Root and Mod its Surface Duo

The Android-based Surface Duo may get some side-eye due to its high-end price, but Microsoft may be crazy like a fox. The company confirmed that savvy users can mod and access the device OS via an official bootloader.

🦑 Go Deeper

Netflix has joined Amazon Prime in courting the massive Indian market, specifically by adding Hindi as a native language to the streaming platform's user interface. David Fierro dives deep, Lifewire-style, into the details.

🎱 By the Numbers

Facebook really does have a huge lead

Data: Statcounter

Poor Instagram. The app's small, loyal base really loves photo-sharing, but it's nothing compared to its owner, Facebook. If nothing else, it could try to get closer to Pinterest's marketshare. Maybe?

🤓 Nerd Out

"With great power comes a great costume." -Rob LeFebvre, Senior News Editor

What's nerdier than cosplay? Wait, don't answer that. These folks dress up as their favorite superheroes, sure, but they focus on charitable causes, like Cystic Fibrosis and Traumatic Brain Injury. Excelsior! (Share on Twitter)

💎 You Know You Want It

The toy version pales in comparison

Image: Lego

Lego isn't just for kids anymore, as this full-sized working motorcycle proves. Ok, fine, it's not for sale, but was created to promote the brick company's much smaller-scale $70 Ducati Technics model, which is definitely more within our budget.

🎧 Listen Up

Isn't Blockbuster that building Captain Marvel fell into?

If you're of a certain age, you remember Blockbuster and how it ruled the home video market (it wasn't THAT long ago, youngsters). This episode of Vox's Land of the Giants podcast explores just how scrappy startup Netflix took on the behemoth and won.