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JUSTICE DEPT. EXPECTED TO FILE ANTITRUST ACTION VS. GOOGLE
The Justice Department is expected to bring an antitrust action against Google in coming weeks, focusing on its dominance in online search and whether it was used to stifle competition and hurt consumers, a person familiar with the matter told.
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October 03, 2020
Techlife News
FACEBOOK TIGHTENS POLITICAL AD BANS AS US ELECTION NEARS
With just over a month to go before Americans head en masse to the polls in an extraordinarily contentious election, Facebook is expanding restrictions on political advertising, including new bans on messages claiming widespread voter fraud.
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October 03, 2020
Techlife News
AMAZON SEES BROAD AUDIENCE FOR ITS PALM RECOGNITION TECH
Amazon has introduced new palm recognition technology in a pair of Seattle stores and sees a broader potential audience in stadiums, offices and other gated or secured locations.
1 min |
October 03, 2020
AppleMagazine
US JUDGE DISMISSES NEW MEXICO PRIVACY CLAIMS AGAINST GOOGLE
A U.S. district judge has dismissed New Mexico’s privacy claims against Google over privacy concerns, but New Mexico’s top prosecutor vowed to continue the legal fight to protect child privacy rights.
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AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
UBER GETS 18-MONTH LONDON LICENSE AFTER WINNING COURT APPEAL
Uber can keep operating in London for another year and a half after winning its appeal of a decision by the British capital’s transit regulator not to renew its license.
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AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
Q&A: HOW TO HANDLE TECHNOLOGY ISSUES WITH ONLINE SCHOOL
Across the U.S., the pandemic has forced students to attend virtual schools to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But the more we rely on technology, the bigger the consequences when gadgets or internet service let us down.
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AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
Fitness +
Apple has made no secret of the fact it wants to expand its services division.
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AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
TRY TOUCHLESS PAYMENT TO AVOID DIRTY MONEY
If you’re looking for a self-improvement task in this pandemic era, try teaching yourself to use contactless payments with your phone or “tapto-pay” credit and debit cards.
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AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
SECRETIVE, NEVER PROFITABLE PALANTIR MAKES ITS MARKET DEBUT
Seventeen years after it was born with the help of CIA seed money, the data-mining outfit Palantir Technologies is finally going public in the biggest Wall Street tech offering since last year’s debut of Slack and Uber.
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AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
NEW MEASUREMENTS SHOW MOON HAS HAZARDOUS RADIATION LEVELS
Future moon explorers will be bombarded with two to three times more radiation than astronauts aboard the International Space Station, a health hazard that will require thick-walled shelters for protection, scientists reported.
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AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
FEDERAL JUDGE POSTPONES TRUMP BAN ON POPULAR APP TIKTOK
A federal judge postponed a Trump administration order that would have banned the popular video-sharing app TikTok from U.S. smartphone app stores around midnight.
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AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
INFLUENCERS BEHAVING ADLY: MEXICO KICKS THEM OUT OF RUINS
Archaeological authorities in Mexico said they kicked cast members of a popular local “Jersey Shore”-style reality shows out of the Mayan ruins of Uxmal after they behaved “immaturely” and refused to wear masks or follow social distancing rules.
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AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
EU COMMISSION APPEALS AFTER LOSING APPLE $15B TAX CASE
The European Commission said it is appealing a court decision that Apple doesn’t have to repay 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in back taxes to Ireland.
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AppleMagazine #466
Techlife News
TESLA CEO ELON MUSK'S NEXT BIG BET RIDES ON BETTER BATTERIES
Tesla is working on new battery technology that CEO Elon Musk says will enable the company within the next three years to make sleeker, more affordable cars that can travel dramatically longer distances on a single charge.
3 min |
September 26, 2020
Techlife News
SCIENTISTS COMBAT ANTISEMITISM WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
An international team of scientists said it had joined forces to combat the spread of anti-Semitism online with the help of artificial intelligence.
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September 26, 2020
Techlife News
TIKTOK'S OWNER APPLIES FOR CHINESE LICENSE TO CLOSE US DEAL
TikTok’s owner said Thursday it has applied for a Chinese technology export license as it tries to complete a deal with Oracle and Walmart to keep the popular video app operating in the United States.
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September 26, 2020
Techlife News
MICROSOFT WILL BUY VIDEO GAME MAKER ZENIMAX FOR $7.5 BILLION
Microsoft is buying the company behind popular video games The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout.
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September 26, 2020
Techlife News
NEW MEXICO UTILITY, LAB PARTNER TO MAKE GRID MORE RESILIENT
New Mexico’s largest electric utility and one of the nation’s premiere federal research laboratories will team up on a series of projects aimed at making the electric grid more resilient as the state prepares to add more renewable energy to the mix, officials said.
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September 26, 2020
Techlife News
FACEBOOK OVERSIGHT BOARD TO START OPERATING IN OCTOBER
Facebook’s long-awaited oversight board that will act as a referee on whether specific content is allowed on the tech giant’s platforms is set to launch in October.
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September 26, 2020
Techlife News
AMERICANS LOAD UP ON CANDY, TRICK OR TREAT - OR NOT
Americans may not know if trick or treating will happen this year because of the pandemic, but they’re buying a lot of Halloween candy while they wait to find out.
3 min |
September 26, 2020
Techlife News
BYU Students Make Glasses to Help Autistic Kid's Eye Contact
Heidi Kershaw was sitting in on a therapy session with her 7-year-old son, who has autism, when she noticed he kept getting distracted from the therapy exercises.
3 min |
September 26, 2020
Techlife News
eBay Workers Who Sent Spiders to Couple to Plead Guilty
Four former eBay Inc. employees have agreed to plead guilty to their roles in a campaign of intimidation that included sending live spiders and cockroaches to the home of a Massachusetts couple who ran an online newsletter critical of the auction site, federal prosecutors said.
2 min |
September 26, 2020
AppleMagazine
iPAD: REFINING THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR TABLET
iPad has long been one of Apple’s most successful product categories, and following upgrades to the iPad Pro and iPad mini earlier in the year, Apple used its September Event to unveil the next-generation iPad and iPad Air, taking its tablet portfolio to even greater heights.
7 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
REPORT: LAPD USED FACIAL RECOGNITION NEARLY 30,000 TIMES
The Los Angeles Police Department has used facial-recognition software nearly 30,000 times since 2009 even while denying at times that it used the controversial technology at all, the Los Angeles Times reported this week.
2 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
REVIEW: ‘AGENTS OF CHAOS,' FROM RUSSIA, BUT NOT WITH LOVE
Let’s take a trip back in American history, but not too way back. To a time not that unfamiliar — the last presidential election. Do you remember all the stuff swirling around in 2016?
4 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
TESLA CEO ELON MUSK'S NEXT BIG BET RIDES ON BETTER BATTERIES
Tesla is working on new battery technology that CEO Elon Musk says will enable the company within the next three years to make sleeker, more affordable cars that can travel dramatically longer distances on a single charge.
3 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
WHY ELECTRIC VEHICLE RANGES VARY FROM EPA ESTIMATE
You’ve probably heard the phrase “your mileage may vary” with regard to how your real-world fuel economy compares to the EPA estimate. The adage refers to gasoline-powered vehicles, but the same applies to electric vehicles.
3 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
NEW SUV IS NEXT STEP IN VW'S POST-SCANDAL ELECTRIC OFFENSIVE
Volkswagen is unveiling a battery-powered sport-utility vehicle that is headed for global markets including the United States and China, as the company takes a major step forward in its campaign to make electric cars a mass-market choice.
3 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN HAS FUN WITH ‘ENOLA HOLMES'
There is a long, questionable and occasionally successful tradition of spinning off iconic literary and film characters through relatives distant and not from James Bond Jr. to John Shaft II and III. In other words, it’s not out of bounds that someone would come along and invent a little sister for Sherlock Holmes and eventually make a movie out of it.
3 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
As Trump Holds Back, Tech Firms Step In On Election Security
Adam Schiff was in the audience at the 2018 Aspen Security Forum when a Microsoft executive mentioned an attempted hacking of three politicians up for reelection. It was the first that Schiff, then the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, had ever heard of it.
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