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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...

Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company

Judge throws out Meta claim against firm that sells Facebook and Instagram data. One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this...

Apple will pay artists 10% higher royalties for spatial music

Apple wants to incentivize more artists to make their music available in an immersive Spatial Audio experience. Artists whose work is available on Apple Music...

The year of Windows on Arm? Google launches official Chrome builds.

Chrome for Windows-on-Arm should hit stable in time for Qualcomm's big launch. Chrome is landing on a new platform: Windows on Arm. We don't have...

I abandoned OpenLiteSpeed and went back to good ol’ Nginx

One weather site’s sudden struggles, and musings on why change isn’t always good. Since 2017, in what spare time I have (ha!), I help my...

Apple announces sweeping EU App Store policy changes—including sideloading

Most of these changes only apply to Europe. To comply with European Union regulations, Apple has introduced sweeping changes that make iOS and Apple's other...

Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug

Users say they can't access their device storage after January 2024 update. It's almost hard to believe this is happening again, but Pixel users are...

Tesla bot’s rival Figure partners with BMW

Robotics startup Figure has signed an agreement with BMW to deploy humanoid robots at the automaker’s manufacturing facility in South Carolina. The Californian startup said...

Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made

Since 1984, Apple has made some strange Macintosh computers. How many have you used? Forty years ago today, Apple released the first Macintosh. Since that fateful...

Google’s Pixel 9 gets its first render, looks a lot like an iPhone

Plus the base model Pixel 9 might be a "mini-Pro" model, with all the same features. If Google sticks to the usual cadence of device...

Prepare for more upscaled classic PC game mods with new RTX Remaster beta toolkit

Release includes proprietary AI texture upscaling, "physically accurate dynamic lights" In the waning days of 2022, when Nvidia was preparing to release the impressive, ray tracing-enabled Portal...

iOS 17.3 adds multiple features originally planned for iOS 17

macOS 14.3, watchOS 10.3, and tvOS 17.3 were also released. Apple yesterday released iOS and iPadOS 17.3 as well as watchOS 10.3, tvOS 17.3, and...

OnePlus 12 gets $800 US release along with the interesting $500 OnePlus 12R

$800 and $500 are some pretty sweet price points. OnePlus previously announced the OnePlus 12 flagship smartphone in December, but now it's getting a US release...

OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware

There are, as you might expect, a few disagreements about what's most important. OpenWrt, the open source firmware that sprang from Linksys' use of open source...

Chrome can now organize your tab bar for you

A click in Chrome can turn your messy tab layout into carefully organized groups. You there! Reader! Be honest: How many tabs do you have...
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