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Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, will gradually roll out this feature, starting with third-party chat integration and expanding to include rich messaging features such as reactions, typing indicators, and read receipts.

This latest addition brings the popular cryptocurrency to a wider audience, with plans to expand the service to users in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and Singapore in the near future.

This development follows years of litigation between Epic Games and Apple, sparked by Apple's removal of Fortnite from the App Store in 2020 after Epic bypassed Apple's in-app purchase fees.

Apple has now granted temporary approval for the launch of the Epic Games Store for iOS users in Europe, provided that Epic makes certain design changes in a future update.

For users, the process to install web-distributed apps involves setting permissions within their device settings, and they will be greeted with a detailed installation screen that provides comprehensive information about the app.

For an annual fee of just €1.50, users can access AltStore PAL and enjoy apps like Delta, a versatile emulator for classic Nintendo games, and Clip, a sophisticated clipboard manager that operates continuously in the background.

It outlaws specific AI applications deemed harmful to citizens' rights, including emotion detection in workplaces and schools, social scoring, predictive policing based solely on profiling, and manipulative or exploitative AI systems.