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DOJ Will Sue Google Over Ad Tech Business in September, Report Says
The Department of Justice sued Google in 2020 alleging the company maintained a monopoly in search. The US Department of Justice is preparing to sue Google over its dominance in the online advertising market, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. A lawsuit could be filed as soon as next month. The Justice Department is engaged in a round of interviews with publishers to gather more information for its ... Read more
2022-08-09 19:54:06
See Samsung's Galaxy Phone Reveals With CNET's Watch Party
CNET's preshow begins at 5 a.m. PT (8 a.m. ET) and will cover Samsung's new reveals. Samsung's next Unpacked event is nearly here, and CNET will be covering it live with our Samsung Unpacked Watch Party running all Wednesday morning. CNET will kick off the watch party with a preshow at 5 a.m. PT (8 a.m. ET) on our YouTube channel. CNET's Claire Reilly and Abrar Al-Heeti will be talking through e ... Read more
2022-08-09 19:53:46
Nebraska Police Obtained Facebook Messages About Teen's Alleged Abortion
Facebook's parent company Meta handed over the data after being served with a search warrant, court documents show. Facebook parent Meta provided Nebraska police with messages between a teenager accused of having an illegal abortion and her mother after the social media giant was served with a search warrant, court documents show. Police in Norfolk, Nebraska, started the investigation in April b ... Read more
2022-08-09 19:53:26
T-Mobile Makes Its Home Internet Open to Everyone, but With Data Limit Catch
T-Mobile is expanding its Home Internet product, announcing on Tuesday that it is opening it up to anyone who can get T-Mobile service where they live. The new service, called Home Internet Lite, starts at the same $50 per month T-Mobile has previously charged. However, with Lite your data cap at that price is 100GB per month. When you are within the data cap you will not be restricted on the sp ... Read more
2022-08-09 19:52:54
US invests $280bn in high tech to compete with China
US President Joe Biden has signed a law committing $280bn (£232bn) to high tech manufacturing and scientific research amid fears the country is losing its technological edge to China. The investments include tax breaks for companies that build computer chip manufacturing plants in the US. Business groups have long pushed for more government support, citing the need to reduce reliance on China. ... Read more
2022-08-09 19:51:53
Playing PC Games on Mac Should Get Better With Parallels 18
The virtual machine software's latest update improves its game controller support and preps for MacOS Ventura. If you're not familiar with virtual machines, they're basically a way to run a foreign operating system on your computer -- Windows or Linux on a Mac, for example. That makes it possible to do things like play PC games on a Mac or run old 32-bit Windows applications (which were depreca ... Read more
2022-08-09 03:29:18
WhatsApp's New Privacy Features Will Let You Quietly Leave Group Chats
WhatsApp announced three new privacy features Tuesday, one of which will let you leave a group chat without alerting the entire group. The Facebook-owned company says it will add the ability to leave groups silently, meaning that administrators will still get an alert but everyone else in a group chat will not. This could be especially useful for larger group chats -- for instance, ones that are ... Read more
2022-08-09 03:28:51
Grab a Lenovo Flex 3 Chromebook for Just $99 Today Only (Save $80)
This 11.6-inch touchscreen two-in-one Chromebook is at an unbeatable price. While the newer version of this laptop made it to our list of best Chromebooks for 2022, the Flex 3 still has impressive specs that make it worth investing in. It weighs just over 2.5 pounds and is less than an inch thick, features 4GB RAM and an ultracompact 64GB eMMC flash memory system, and has a built-in media reader ... Read more
2022-08-09 03:28:29
WhatsApp: Mark Zuckerberg reveals new privacy features
Meta has announced new privacy features for WhatsApp users. Users will be able to leave group chats silently, control who can see their online status and block screenshots on View Once messages. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said this would help keep WhatsApp messaging "as private and secure as face-to-face conversations". It will begin rolling out the features this month, high ... Read more
2022-08-09 03:26:54
Over 100K Cars Cut From North American Production This Week Due to Chip Shortage
The ongoing worldwide semiconductor shortage will cause more than 100,000 vehicles to be cut from North American production schedules this week, Automotive News reported Sunday. Over 180,000 vehicles are expected to be dropped globally. The data, which comes from AutoForecast Solutions, says North American factories have been forced to cut nearly 1.06 million vehicles from production schedules th ... Read more
2022-08-08 20:07:52