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In-app purchases, Steam Machine, and 'Avatar': 90 Seconds on The Verge

2014-01-15
it's Wednesday January 15 2014 I'm Nathan cycrin i've been using travel versions of products to make me feel toddler and then the early to finish this is 90 seconds on the verge after a lengthy legal battle Apple has settled with the FTC over in-app purchases as a result of insufficient parental controls the company is required to refund customers who have been billed for faulty charges paying out a total of thirty 2.5 million dollars to thirty seven thousand different customers the settlement requires Apple to modify its billing practices to allow for more explicit consent out of all the steam machines soon to be available alien wears is perhaps most exciting and now we finally know when it will arrive today at valves steam dev days conference the company announced that alienware steam machine will launch in September valve also announced it will be making some changes to its steam controller by ditching the touchscreen and simply making it a touch pass the touchpad will utilize ghost mode which shows an image of your finger on the screen when touching the pad allowing you to press virtual buttons and finally some old friends are returning to Pandora avatar director james cameron has signed sam worthington and zoe saldana to return for the next two sequels in the trilogies Stephen Lang who played the brutish military commander will also return but it's still unknown how considering spoiler alert he died in the first film the first avatar sequel is scheduled for release in December of 2016 and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow the porn industry revert back to 240p because 4k is look no no thank you yeah look yucky blah
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