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In a new 32-page filing (PDF), the Department of Justice indicated that it was considering a possible breakup of Google as an antitrust remedy for its search and advertising monopoly. The remedies necessary to "prevent and restrain monopoly maintenance could include contract requirements and prohibitions; non-discrimination product requirements; data and interoperability requirements; and structural requirements," the department said in the filing. CNBC reports: The DOJ also said it was "considering behavio
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Home Depot says it is returning to a longstanding practice of requiring everyone in the company to experience life on the retail front lines. Read more ›
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The Kremlin seemingly confirmed reports that then-President Donald Trump sent COVID tests to Vladimir Putin in early 2020, for his own personal use. Read more ›
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Upon inspection, the offer of a free month of Starlink service seems to be the type of deal you might give to any new customer. Read more ›
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Resident Evil 2 Remake will scuttle on to iPhone and Mac on 31st December. Read more Read more ›
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The controversial comedy starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon celebrates 25 years next month and may rise from the dead. Read more ›
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Gen Z is spending money on more instant forms of gratification over traditional milestones like buying homes or starting families. Read more ›
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Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy S25 in early 2025, but the phone's components are already in production. One photo of the display assembly appeared online, courtesy of Ice Universe, revealing what the phones will look like from the front. The Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+ and Galaxy S25 Ultra will have thinner bezels, and we have yet another confirmation about the Ultra's slightly more rounded corners. The same source... Read more ›
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Google responds by saying the proposed framework goes beyond the legal scope of the Court decision on Search contracts. Read more ›
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The second day of Prime Day is delivering some amazing discounts on our favorite smart TVs. Read more ›
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Frostpunk developer 11 Bit Studios doesn't engage with the question of whether video games should tackle ideological questions, so much as it takes that engagement as a given. It's an axiom baked into the DNA of everything from This of War Mine, which presented the cruelties of war from a civilian perspective, to the original Frostpunk and now Frostpunk 2 - the studio's philosophical magnum opus, the culmination of years... Read more ›
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The Federal Communications Commission has given Starlink and T-Mobile permission to enable their satellite texting service for Florida residents ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall. In an announcement on X, SpaceX said that Starlink's Direct to Cell satellites will provide emergency alerts for all phones and carriers, not just T-Mobile's, for those in affected areas. The companies have also enabled basic texting for T-Mobile subscribers, so that they can send and... Read more ›
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Paebbl, a company turning captured CO2 into permanent, carbon-storing materials, has raised a €22.8 million Series A funding round. The new capital will accelerate Paebbl’s work to scale up and complete a future-proof value chain for CO2 storage in building materials, turning the built environment into a key player in mitigating climate change. The funding ... Read more ›
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Boeing has withdrawn its contract offer two days after returning to negotiations. The IAM said the planemaker was "hell-bent" on its second offer. Read more ›
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Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir "From Here to the Great Unknown" details the death of her son Benjamin Keough in July 2020. Read more ›
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Ali Wong gets help from her mom to bring the kids on tour. "It's mostly because of her and the father of my children that I've been able to do everything I do," she told InStyle. Read more ›
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It's the last day of Amazon's October Prime Day sale so grab your favorite Amazon devices and head to check out. Read more ›
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S&P Global Ratings is considering downgrading its bonds to junk status — and Moody's said last month that it too was eyeing a downgrade. Read more ›
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As part of her MBA, Cherie Luo interned on a matcha farm near Kyoto, Japan. It made her reflect on being in "hyper-growth mode" all the time. Read more ›
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The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to open a secure connection from his laptop to his desktop machine. "I expected the model would scan the network and find the desktop computer, then stop," Shlegeris explained to The Register via email. "I... Read more ›
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The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, which supplies high-purity quartz essential for semiconductor production, is reeling from the damage caused by Tropical Storm Helene. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Spruce Pine is one of the only places in the world to mine high-purity quartz. The mineral is an essential ingredient of chips in countless products, including medical devices, solar panels, cellphones and the chips powering... Read more ›
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Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. From a report: The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes a lot of the updates that Microsoft has been delivering to Microsoft... Read more ›
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Amazon is set to roll out a greater number of ads [non-paywalled link] across its blockbuster television shows and movies on Prime Video next year as the US tech giant steps up its push into ad-funded streaming services. Financial Times: The company said it had not seen a sharp drop in subscribers since it introduced advertising to its Prime Video platform eight months ago, allaying fears among top executives of... Read more ›
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A recent relaxation of rules around apostrophes in German, permitting their use in possessive forms like "Eva's Blumenladen," has sparked criticism from traditionalists and concerns over the influence of English on the German language. The Guardian reports: Establishments that feature their owners' names, with signs like "Rosi's Bar" or "Kati's Kiosk" are a common sight around German towns and cities, but strictly speaking they are wrong: unlike English, German does... Read more ›
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Cloudflare has emerged victorious in a patent infringement lawsuit against Sable Networks, securing a $225,000 settlement and forcing the patent holder to dedicate its entire portfolio to the public domain. The case, which began in March 2021 with Sable asserting nearly 100 claims across four patents, concluded after a Texas jury found Cloudflare not guilty of infringement in February 2024. Sable, described by Cloudflare as a "patent troll," had previously... Read more ›
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The decline of journalism has been attributed to many factors, from slow adaptation to the internet to the dominance of tech giants in advertising. But a veteran journalist offers a new perspective: the death of the hyperlink could be changing the fundamental nature of the internet, with significant implications for the news industry. Matt Pearce: There is a real bias against hyperlinking that has developed on platforms and apps over... Read more ›
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A study published in Nature has found that conservative social media users were more likely to face sanctions, but attributes this to their higher propensity to share low-quality news rather than political bias. Researchers analyzed 9,000 Twitter users during the 2020 U.S. election, finding pro-Trump users were 4.4 times more likely to be suspended than pro-Biden users. However, they also shared significantly more links from sites rated as untrustworthy by... Read more ›
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Audio Overview, a new AI podcasting tool by Google, can generate realistic podcasts with human-like voices using content uploaded by users through NotebookLM. MIT Technology Review reports: NotebookLM, which is powered by Google's Gemini 1.5 model, allows people to upload content such as links, videos, PDFs, and text. They can then ask the system questions about the content, and it offers short summaries. The tool generates a podcast called Deep... Read more ›
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Global semiconductor sales recorded a 20.6% year-on-year increase in August to $53.1 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The Register reports: The Americas led the way, with sales up 43.9 percent to $15.4 billion over last year to notch up what may be the highest on record for August, the SIA said. This comes on the back of swelling demand from sectors such as AI, cloud computing, and... Read more ›
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