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Google loses in court, faces trial for collecting data on users who opted out

Judge: Reasonable juror may find Google profited from misappropriation of data. Credit: Getty Images | Josh Edelson A federal judge this week rejected Google's motion to throw out a class-action lawsuit...

Italy’s plan to buy Starlink data deals a serious blow to European space network

"We are strong if we remain united and defend our infrastructure." Elon Musk raises a...

After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages

If you lost service but only 9 cell towers went down, you won't get...

Intel fills out Core Ultra 200 laptop chips with hodgepodge of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX will all fall short of Copilot+ compatibility. The new...

Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 PCs this year

The carrot of "new features" and the stick of "no more updates for your...

Groom Wears Apple’s Vision Pro Headset on His Wedding Day

A groom wore his Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset on his wedding day so he could record immersive photos and videos to look back on in...

Apple changes course, will keep iPhone EU web apps how they are in iOS 17.4

Alternative browsers can pin web apps, but they only run inside Apple's WebKit. Apple has changed its stance on allowing web apps on iPhones and...

Huge funding round makes “Figure” Big Tech’s favorite humanoid robot company

Investors Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Intel value Figure at $2.6B. Humanoid robotics company Figure AI announced it raised $675 million in a funding round from...

eview: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU doesn’t quite earn its “7900” label

New $549 graphics card is the more logical successor to the RX 6800 XT. In July 2023, AMD released a new GPU called the "Radeon...

Wear OS “Hybrid” design has two OSes, two CPUs, “100 hour” battery life

Wear OS + Snapdragon uses too much power, so what if we just turned it off? Smartwatches are capable little devices, but a big downside...

Apple Vision Pro’s components cost $1,542—but that’s not the full story

The OLED displays account for more than a third of the component costs. Research firm Omdia has published the first publicly available educated estimates of how much...

Windows security updates could come with fewer reboots beginning later this year

"Hotpatching" originated in Windows Server, cuts way down on update reboots. Microsoft is already testing Windows 11 24H2, this fall's big new Windows release. The...

The world’s largest battery in a smartphone—a 28,000 mAh, 27-mm-thick brick

The only downside: It's the size of three iPhones stacked on top of each other. Four years ago, Avenir Telecom made headlines with an "Energizer"-branded...

X rolling out audio, video calls for non-paying users

The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone in Sydney, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Australia’s online safety watchdog has fined...

MWC 2024: all the phones, wearables, and gadgets announced in Barcelona

It’s that time of year again. Mobile World Congress is returning to Barcelona, where it’ll fill the halls of the Fira de Barcelona Gran...

Yelp: It’s gotten worse since Google made changes to comply with EU rules

Users are even more likely to stick with Google due to one change, says Yelp. To comply with looming rules that ban tech giants from...

Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps

Identifiable data included job searches, map directions, "cosplay erotica." Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions, mobile apps,...

India’s plan to let 1998 digital trade deal expire may worsen chip shortage

Taxing exports of digital movies and games may not be worth sowing discord. India's plan to let a moratorium on imposing customs duties on cross-border...

Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business

Losing third-party tools "could harm our moderators’ ability to review content..." Reddit filed to go public on Thursday (PDF), revealing various details of the social...
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