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Google has removed a pro-Hong Kong protestor game called The Revolution of Our Times from the Play Store, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. It marks the latest Hong Kong-related app to be pulled after Apple removed a crowdsourced mapping app used by protestors and Quartz’s news app.

While the game has been removed, a cached version of the Play Store page is still available on Google search (at least for now). As an actual game, there doesn’t seem to be too much here beyond a basic text-based Choose Your Own Adventure-style narrative that tells the story of a protestor.

In a statement released to The Wall Street Journal, a Google spokesman explained that the app was removed due to a Play Store policy that…

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Canon’s Ivy Rec portable camera will start shipping on October 16th for $129.99 in the US. You might remember this little camera from our post back in July, when Canon launched its Indiegogo campaign for the device. The main appeal here is that it’s a clippable, shockproof, and waterproof camera that, on paper, sounds like a good alternative to pulling your expensive phone out for every opportunity to snap a picture. Canon says that an empty square space on the clip acts as a viewfinder of sorts.

As for whether the Ivy Rec can take photos that compare with the cameras on the latest phones, like the iPhone 11 Pro or the upcoming Pixel 4, we’ll need to test it to find out. It has a 13-megapixel 1/3-inch CMOS sensor in a fixed-focus lens,…

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French video game company Ubisoft is continuing its foray into animated television with several new shows, including a tamed Watch Dogs tale and a franchise built around Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.

The Watch Dogs series is described as a toned-down version of Ubisoft’s popular game franchise about hackers. The series is aimed at tweens, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s unclear where the show will take place, but the Watch Dogs gaming franchise has brought players to Chicago, San Francisco, and London. Concept art for the show shows a middle school-aged girl with a cybernetic version of herself reflected on the floor below.

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Ubisoft’s other interesting series in the pipeline is Captain Laserhawk:…

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Apple’s Netflix rival launches Nov. 1 for $5 a month with nine titles. Crime drama Truth Be Told with Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul will debut the following month.

A decent headset that can’t beat the competition

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The space rock isn’t from around here, but the poisons it carries are.

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Today Tidal launched a new “Community Heroes” program that offers a 40 percent discount to first responders in the US, including people who are firefighters, police officers, and EMT / EMS. The discount applies to both Tidal’s Premium and HiFi plans, knocking a Premium membership down to $5.99 and a HiFi membership to $11.99 (originally $9.99 and $19.99).

To redeem the discount, qualifying members can make a new account on Tidal and then select a “First Responder” plan. Once the account is created, a verified organization email address will need to be confirmed by SheerID (a company that specializes in verifying groups like first responders and military).

Every new member will get a 30-day free trial and then pay the discounted price…

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The company has, so far, been unable to find a buyer for the project as well.