Jury awards iLife Technologies $10M in damages after finding that Nintendo's Wii infringed on iLife's motion-sensing accelerometer patents; Nintendo will appeal
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Jury awards iLife Technologies $10M in damages after finding that Nintendo's Wii infringed on iLife's motion-sensing accelerometer patents; Nintendo will appeal
Nintendo says it will fight verdict — A jury in Dallas, Texas today awarded $10 million to iLife after finding that Nintendo …
UK government announces that porn websites will have to verify UK users are aged 18+ by April 2018; users may be asked to verify with credit card details
Kelly Fiveash / Ars Technica UK :
UK's data protection watchdog rules that Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS failed to comply with data protection law
The UK's data protection watchdog has ruled that a deal between DeepMind and an NHS trust “failed to comply with data protection law.”
UK's data protection watchdog rules that Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS failed to comply with data protection law
The UK's data protection watchdog has ruled that a deal between DeepMind and an NHS trust “failed to comply with data protection law.”
EU Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing search engine dominance by promoting its own shopping service, gives 90 days to end conduct or face penalties
The European Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules.
Apple hires Sony TV execs Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg as heads of video programming worldwide reporting to Eddy Cue, to lead push into original content
Wall Street Journal :
In wake of WannaCry, Microsoft fixes 3 flaws affecting unsupported OSes including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that it initially said it wouldn't patch
The company previously said it would not fix three outstanding exploits, but reversed course following the ransomware attack in May.
Sources: Uber board met Sunday to weigh possible leave of absence for Kalanick and proposals in Holder report, which may recommend that Emil Michael leave
SAN FRANCISCO — Facing accusations that Uber executives turned a blind eye to sexual harassment and other corporate misbehavior …
Google releases Android O Developer Preview 3 with final APIs
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
IBM unveils world's first 5nm chip, claims 40% performance boost at the same power compared to today's 10nm chips
Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK :
Apple debuts new 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models, available to order today starting at $649 and $799 respectively
Leaked top-secret NSA doc: Russian military intelligence sent spear-phishing emails to 100+ local election officials days before the US presidential election
Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails …
IBM unveils world's first 5nm chip, claims 40% performance boost at the same power compared to today's 10nm chips
Built with a new type of gate-all-around transistor, plus extreme ultraviolet lithography. — IBM, working with Samsung and GlobalFoundries, has unveiled the world's first 5nm silicon chip.
Nintendo's Switch subscription service for online play to launch in 2018, will cost $19.99 per year or $3.99 per month
Nintendo has shed more light on the paid online subscription service it's planning to offer for its Switch console, confirming US pricing, and stating that it will launch in full at some point in 2018...
Password manager OneLogin compromised, says hackers have ability to decrypt encrypted data and all users served by US data center are affected
UPDATED: The company said that hackers have “the ability to decrypt encrypted data.” — Password manager and single sign-on provider OneLogin has been hacked.
Uber fires VP Anthony Levandowski for refusing to cooperate in the Uber vs Waymo case, according to an internal email
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology and the star engineer leading the company's self-driving automobile efforts …
Microsoft now uses Git to develop Windows, along with its open source Git Virtual File System to help manage the ~300GB repository
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
100+ internal training manuals and other docs show guidelines for Facebook content moderators on topics like violence, hate speech, terrorism, porn, self-harm
Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant's ethics
New tool decrypts WannaCry-infected computers running Windows XP, 7, and 2003, if they have not been rebooted
if you work fast Brad Linder / Liliputing : Do not reboot your PC if you get WannaCry ransomeware - try this instead Matt Suiche / Comae Technologies : WannaCry — Decrypting files with WanaKiwi + Demo...