Image: AltStore AltStore PAL, a third-party iOS app store that’s available in the EU, is dropping its annual €1.50 (plus tax) subscription after receiving a “MegaGrant” from Fortnite developer Epic Games. AltStore originally charged the subscription to help cover Apple’s Core Technology Fee (CTF), which is a fee third-party app marketplaces have to pay for each annual app install. Epic uses MegaGrants as a way to “sponsor the development of exciting projects that may not otherwise have enough funding to fully realize,” the company says. The grants are typically meant for smaller teams using Epic’s technologies to “bring bold, challenging, and insanely creative dreams to life,” but in this case, Epic awarded the grant for “innovation in app... Continue reading…

Google’s bringing the “party” back to the party line with emoji reactions for group calls. | Illustration: The Verge Google’s Meet app is getting a few more features designed for calls. Meet, the videocalling app Google rolled Duo into a couple of years ago, is designed to handle both meetings and personal video calls. The update, which will roll out over the coming months, focuses on the personal side. It offers an updated UI and features like in-call messaging — things that have only been available in meetings until now. With this latest update, the call UI will look more like the meeting interface, with call controls becoming more readily available. In-call messaging is now supported so you can share links and rude comments, if you’re so inclined, while you’re muted. Emoji reactions will also be available in group calls, you’ll be able to stack... Continue reading…

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Adele is tying the knot in style and bringing back a classic while doing it! After her relationship status had been the stuff of mysteries for some time, Adele seems to have confirmed that she is engaged to her boyfriend—now fiancé—Rich Paul. 36-year-old Adele first met Paul while they were attending a mutual friend’s birthday party. Their relationship gained serious momentum in 2021. Three years after going public as a dating, it seems that they are moving on to the next phase of their relationship—and Adele’s engagement ring has everyone feeling nostalgic for the pear-shaped style of diamond ring all over again. Adele apparently confirms she is, in fact, engaged to boyfriend Rich Paul Adele dazzled the audience with an engagement ring, confirming rumors in a development between her and boyfriend Rich Paul / YouTube screenshot Anyone would feel honored to be married to the illustrious, talented Adele. So it’s understandable that, while Adele performed for a concert in Munich, Germany, a hopeful fan from the audience asked for her hand in marriage. Definitely checks off the grand gesture category of proposal, but unfortunately it came too late. RELATED: Adele Pauses Concert To Defend Fan Bothered By Security For Standing And Singing “I can’t marry you,” Adele informed the fan, “I’m already getting married.” To drive the point home, she waved her left hand in front of her, showing off a stunning 8ct yellow gold band and the pear-shaped diamond fastened to it. According to People, fans can trace Adele starting to wear an engagement ring in earnest sometime last month—all while out and about with her sweetheart. Adele may be starting familiar trends with that diamond ring, while embarking on her own very new journey Her concert in Munich, Germany / YouTube screenshot Adele briefly tied the knot with charity entrepreneur Simon Konecki, in a marriage that lasted from 2018 to 2021; their relationship began back in 2011 and saw the birth of their son a year after they started dating. What she has with Paul, however, feels like an entirely different experience, one without precedent. “I’ve never been in love like this,” she admitted to Elle in August of 2022. “I’m obsessed with him.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Adele (@adele) This may feel like unfamiliar territory, but what is quite familiar? The classical, nostalgic shape of her gorgeous engagement ring that has the pear shape making a comeback in earnest. Hello! calls it a mix of timeless and undeniably vintage. It’s a very peculiar shape, with various Reddit threads and other forums full of people discussing the pros and cons of choosing this. Its history with being the odd shape out makes it all the more endearing, though, and something that the wearer must really consider when pursuing it. The ring shape is a tricky one but also one that is so undeniably and endearingly vintage / Pexels RELATED: Adele Performs Tearful Gender Reveal For Couple During Concert Click for next Article The post Adele’s Big New Engagement Ring Brings Back Pear-Shaped Diamond Frenzy appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Dana Daly