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A federal judge on Thursday questioned whether a previously undisclosed $800 million sales deal between Epic Games and Google was contributing to the parties opting for an antitrust settlement, The Verge reported. As part of the transaction, Epic would help Google market device operating system ...
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The ruling in federal court in Minnesota lands as Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces scrutiny over an internal memo claiming judge-signed warrants arenāt needed to enter homes without consent. Read more āŗ
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Americaās immigration debate has often centered on the morality of mass deportation. Progressives have argued that exiling law-abiding families is inherently wrong ā no matter their immigration status. Conservatives have insisted that vigorous internal enforcement is necessary for deterring chaotic inflows of migrants, upholding Americaās laws, and preserving our nationās culture. This is an important [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the latest company to find itself facing backlash amid anti-ICE protests in Minnesota. Read more āŗ
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California became the first U.S. state to join the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), one day after the U.S. formally exited the WHO. The Hill reports: This announcement comes just one day after the U.S.'s withdrawal from the WHO became official after nearly 80 years of membership, having been a founding member of the organization. "The Trump administration's withdrawal from WHO is a reckless decision... Read more āŗ
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Shipping experts say the big winter storm across a wide swath of the country should be business as usualāif their safeguards hold. Read more āŗ
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According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. Read more āŗ
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Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It's not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. There are finally competent Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops running Windows, and - as soon as this summer - Nvidia will finally power Windows consumer laptops [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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With falling sales and shrinking profits, the recurring revenue will be most welcome. Read more āŗ
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Ryan Coogler's extremely nominated vampire sensation will give audiences yet another chance to experience it in 70mm IMAX. Read more āŗ
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Jeffrey Snover, the driving force behind PowerShell, has retired after a career that reshaped Windows administration. The Register reports: Snover's retirement comes after a brief sojourn at Google as a Distinguished Engineer, following a lengthy stint at Microsoft, during which he pulled the company back from imposing a graphical user interface (GUI) on administrators who really just wanted a command line from which to run their scripts. Snover joined Microsoft... Read more āŗ
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This story appeared inĀ The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life.Ā Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump has shattered one of the USās strongest alliances ā maybe for good. What happened? On Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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If it wasn't bad enough that Elon Musk manufactured your car, it's getting worse. Read more āŗ
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Tesla just objectively decreased the value of the Model 3 and Model Y. On Thursday, the company said itās paywalling its lane-centering feature, Autosteer, for new purchases of the two EVs in the US and Canada. This was previously a standard feature. Lane centering is now part of the Full Self-Driving Supervised (FSD) package, which costs $99 per month.Speculating on why Tesla would do this doesn't require much imagination. Remember... Read more āŗ
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A new report based on code inside the Phone by Google app claims Samsung will add Google's Scam Detection to the Galaxy S26 series, due to be unveiled next month. Scam Detection powered by on-device Gemini Nano AI has so far been exclusive to the Pixel 9 and Pixel 10 families, and it's only available in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, the UK, and the US. There's another version, that doesn't... Read more āŗ
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: When TikTok users in the U.S. opened the app today, they were greeted with a pop-up asking them to agree to the social media platform's new terms of service and privacy policy before they could resume scrolling. These changes are part of TikTok's transition to new ownership. In order to continue operating in the U.S., TikTok was compelled by the U.S. government... Read more āŗ
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When I first got into Android, my mother also made the switch. Over time, the majority of my family (siblings, aunt, uncle, cousins, etc.) followed suit. While great, due to the nature of my work, I became the go-to āIT guyā for many of their problems. Then, one day, my mom decided to get an ā¦ Continued Read the original post: What OS is Best for Boomers and Beyond? Apparently... Read more āŗ
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Amazon employees respond to expected layoffs and corporate job cuts by posting memes referencing founder Jeff Bezos' two-pizza rule. Read more āŗ
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In Big Tech's never-ending quest to increase AI adoption, Google has unveiled a meme generator. The new Google Photos feature, Me Meme, lets you create personalized memes starring a synthetic version of you.Google describes Me Meme as "a simple way to explore with your photos and create content that's ready to share with friends and family." You can choose from a variety of templates or "upload your own funny picture"... Read more āŗ
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AI-powered shopping has the potential to be a big boost to Amazonās retail business, CEO Andy Jassy said on Tuesday. And while Amazon already has its own shopping chatbot, it is also looking for ways to partner with other companies to run their chatbots on its site. In an interview with The Informationās Jessica Lessin at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Jassy noted that with many AI-powered shopping tools,... Read more āŗ
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AI startups talk a lot these days about how their products will be revolutionary by automating white collar work. But itās rarer to hear messy stories about the hiccups AI startups face when trying to build such products for businesses, or the awkward situations that can arise when they roll out their own technology internally. That makes a recent podcast with an xAI engineerāwho left the company shortly after it... Read more āŗ
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TikTokās U.S. business may be about to take off. The scheduled completion this week of TikTokās sale of its U.S. data security arm to a joint venture ends years of uncertainty about its future in the U.S. And the video app maker is now redoubling its efforts to build a much bigger e-commerce business in the U.S., in a new challenge to Amazon. Read more āŗ
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Fintech startup Checkbook began with the promise to help banks eliminate paper checks and transformed itself into an international payments company that leveraged a relationship with JPMorgan Chase to give all manner of customers access to the U.S. financial system. JPMorgan recently told Checkbook it was winding down its relationship with the firm rather than face the regulatory risks associated with handling some of those customers, which included Venezuelan crypto... Read more āŗ
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Tammy Savage, a former Microsoft general manager; Gerry Campbell, a longtime search executive who has worked at AOL and Alta Vista; and John Abowd, a professor emeritus of economics, statistics and data science at Cornell University were named in a filing from the Department of Justice on ... Read more āŗ
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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the companyās push to sell AI products to businesses, as part of a broader reorganization across the company, OpenAIās CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff on Wednesday. Brad Lightcap, OpenAIās chief operating officer, will transition out of leading product and engineering for OpenAIās business of selling to other enterprises but... Read more āŗ
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Meta Platformsā job cuts at its Reality Labs division this past week, where it let go about 10% of the unit, were the first of what could be another wave of layoffs at big tech companies this year. But that doesnāt mean big tech workforces are going to shrink much, if at all. If history is any guide, future layoffs will only result in temporary reductions in the workforces of... Read more āŗ
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Last fall, Appleās software chief, Craig Federighi, delivered a warm message to a meeting of the companyās combined software and AI groups. Federighi said he was excited about deeper collaboration between his software team and Appleās AI group. But then came Federighiās criticism. He added that he liked moving fast and feeling the āwind at his back,ā but in recent years he had felt Apple hadnāt been moving as quickly... Read more āŗ
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Netflix is converting its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery to make it all cash, but at the same $27.75 a share level that the companies agreed in early December, both companies said Tuesday. The revised offer reflects pressure from bidder Paramount Skydance, which is offering $30 a share for all ... Read more āŗ
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Over the past few years deep tech investing has taken on a new shine, as companies such as Waymo, SpaceX and Anduril turn technical breakthroughs in research-heavy fields like autonomous driving, rockets and defense tech into commercial businesses. Now one emerging investment fund wants to back new deep tech startups with a twist: The startupsā founders are likely to either be in Israel or have roots there while they operate... Read more āŗ
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