Specifically, the app stands accused of aiming to scam low-income and student renters. That’s via its listings, predominantly geared toward users who needed shared accommodations, and a subscription fee charged to users in order to facilitate messaging between potential renters and landlords. According to the FTC, California, and Attorneys General in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York, many of those listings were unverified. Worse, at least some subset of listings were allegedly fabricated wholesale on sites such as Craigslist and others....

It looks like yesterday’s post about Fujifilm price increases has been confirmed directly by Fujifilm. A press release on the Fujifilm website, states that film prices have increased as of today from 20-60%, with more increases to come on paper, chemicals and lab products and services over the next two months. They say that the price increase comes as a result of a recent rise in costs for raw materials, as well as transportation, and the decline in demand for photographic-related products....

Well, this is kinda cool. It appears that Fujifilm isn’t doing everything they can to forget film exists, after all. It was mentioned last July that Fuji might be planning to bring back some black & white film, and now they’ve just gone and made it official. They’re starting with Neopan ACROS 100II. Technically, this isn’t a reintroduction. It’s a new formula, which Fuji says gets around the issue of raw material availability in the old ACROS 100 formula....

As of this writing, the first software update for the Samsung Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, and the Galaxy S22 Ultra is rolling out in a handful of countries in Asia and Africa, including Egypt, Afghanistan, and the UAE. The OTA (over the air) rollout should soon cross borders in other regions as well. If you’re one of the very few people globally currently holding a Galaxy S22 phone, you can be on the lookout for an update with firmware version S90xEXXU1AVB3 in the coming days....

For the Instinct Crossover, Garmin is offering both a solar and a non-solar model. It’s the solar model that can last for up to 70 days. The non-solar model lasts for a significantly short period of time (up to a month), but still far longer than anything you’ll find running on Wear OS. It’s also worth noting that these times are based on the watch being in ‘Smartwatch mode.’ Turning on GPS tracking does shorten things up a lot....