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A jury has told Samsung it must pay Apple $539 million for infringing on three design patents with Android phones sold between 2010 and 2011. The unanimous decision was made in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in San Jose, California. The number is significant because it’s higher than what Apple was likely to get based on past court decisions, according toBloomberg. In what could be one of the final courtroom decisions in the decade’s old battle between Apple and Samsung over smartphone design patents, Apple had sought over $1 billion....

Are you ready, kids? Nickelodeon sure is; that is, ready to expand their most recognizable property with a brand-new spin-off movie. Since its 1999 debut,SpongeBob SquarePantshas become Nickelodeon’s flagship series and unofficial mascot. The eternally optimistic sea sponge is one of the mosticonic cartoon charactersof all time, airing nearly 300 episodes in its record-breaking nearly 25-year run on Nickelodeon. Given howintegral to pop cultureSpongeBobis, it makes sense that Nickelodeon is using him to build their own SpongeBob Cinematic Universe, or SCU, if you will....

U.S. carrier Sprint, the latest wireless provider to offer the Apple iPhone, announced Thursday it sold a record 2.2 million during the holiday fourth-quarter. A total of 6.6 million iPhones were sold for all of 2012, according to the company. Despite complaints of losses due to high subsidies, the iPhone has improved Sprint’s ability to attract new customers. According to amedia release, the 2.2 million iPhones sold during the fourth quarter of 2012 dwarfed the 1....

As a long-timeiPhoneuser, I’ve gone through the wringer over the years with various cases from brands of all sorts. Oftentimes, I’ve adopted the latest and not-so-greatest from Apple. I’ve also ventured towards some third-party cases. I mean, everyone had an OtterBox Defender at some point or another, right? However, after being drastically let down by Apple’sFineWoven casefor theiPhone 15 Pro Max, I have found myself disenchanted with phone cases. Then I came across Supcase’s Unicorn Beetle MAG....

There’s just something cool about flying past other drivers in Mario Kart World with a perfectly timed boost and landing in a way that seems impossible. Picking the right kart and character matters, but if you really want to have fun on the track, it’s all about your driving technique. The best players know how to take turns better, speed up faster and stay in control no matter what’s happening around them, so we’re here to show you how to pull off some cool driving tricks....

Things You Need To Know Before Buying A New Air Fryer With the cost of living increasing every year, more and more people are turning towards appliances that encourage them to cook more at home and eat out less, such as air fryers. Because of its health and time-saving features, air fryers are probablyone of the best gifts you can give yourself (or other people)to encourage them to cook more often....

UPDATE:In a statement emailed to Pocket-lint yesterday, ARM simply said “ARM is complying with all of the latest regulations set forth by the US government”. However, it has now emailed us a softer quote giving due deference to Huawei. “ARM is complying with the latest restrictions set forth by the US government and is having ongoing conversations with the appropriate US government agencies to ensure we remain compliant. ARM values its relationship with our longtime partner HiSilicon and we are hopeful for a swift resolution on this matter”....

Valve have now created a way for developers and publishers to have a place to share their dedicated content on theSteamclient. The initiative was created as a way for players to help discover more titles from their favourite developers or publishers. Valve Launches Steam Creator Homepages in Open Beta Players will now be able to set up notifications and announcements to help get informed when a new title has been released by a certain developer or publisher....

iDownloadBlog readerNiles Mitchellhas been making cool videos about connecting new stuff with old stuff, and it’s been quite a ride so far. His latest project recreates using a DaynaFile device, which is a very rare piece of lost Macintosh history dating back to the late 80’s. A rare piece of Macintosh history Made by Dayna Communications, the DaynaFile is basically an external enclosure for floppy disk drives that was used to enable PC compatibility on the Macintosh in the late 1980s....

Why Elon Musk Isn’t Happy With Tesla Recalls Tesla is no stranger to recalls, but the latest oneaffecting a healthy 1.1 million electric carshas apparently stung the company’s mercurial CEO Elon Musk. The Tesla chief is not so much flustered about the recall itself, but it’s the terminology that has drawn the ire onhis favorite social megaphone. Musk claims that “recall” is not really the right term to describe the recent turn of events....

Your OnePlus Phone Can Be So Much Faster: Here’s How A funny thing happened while I was testing this year’s flagship phones. I started the year by testing theOnePlus 12and subsequently put theSamsung Galaxy S24 Ultraand Honor Magic 6 Pro through their respective paces, and I noticed something odd. While I’m not much of a fan of benchmark apps, I usually run each phone I test through Geekbench 6 as a standard way to measure where these phones all sit in relation to each other....

American Primeval, Netflix’s newest limited series that was released earlier this week, has quickly moved up to the top of the charts on the streaming platform.The series is currently at the #1 spot in the top ten TV shows section on the service, with viewers flocking to watch the limited series.The entirety of the 6-episode show is directed and executive produced byPeter Bergand written by Mark L. Smith, givingAmerican Primevala consistent creative vision throughout....

Leila and the Wolvesjust got its first-ever U.S. theatrical witha restored 40th anniversary edition, and it’s an important moment in cinematic history. It’s yet another example that the traditional “canon” of great cinema has a Western bias that has largely neglected the Third World. The Lebanese film by Heiny Srour is a groundbreakingepic of Arab cinema, what Srour called, “An archaeological excavation of the collective memory of women of the Middle East....