The FTC files to block Meta's acquisition of VR company Within, saying Meta “chose to buy” instead of compete, the first antitrust lawsuit filed under Lina Khan
Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Facebook lawsuit delivers on FTC chair Lina Khan's progressive agenda Josh Sisco / Politico :...
EU's proposal forces companies to make fast-charging standards interoperable and “unbundles” charger sales; if adopted, companies will have 24 months to comply
With the aim of reducing e-waste — The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union …
Facebook launches $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in six countries including the US; users can capture photo and video, listen to music, or take phone calls
Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban's first pair of smart glasses — Starting Thursday, the first pair of smart glasses …
Q&A with John Binns, a 21-year-old American living in Turkey, who claims responsibility for the recent T-Mobile hack and says its security is “awful”
revealing your full legal name and location—is an interesting strategy. https://www.wsj.com/... Daniel Lippman / @dlippman : “The young hacker said he did it to gain attention. ‘Ge...
In response to CSAM detection misuse concerns, Apple says protections will roll out in the US first, then on a country-by-country basis after legal evaluation
Apple this week announced that, starting later this year with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, the company will be able …
In an internal memo, Apple acknowledges concerns and “misunderstandings” about its new photo scanning feature but says it is necessary to “protect children”
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Satya Nadella teases a “next generation of Windows” announcement “very soon”; the revamped Windows will likely have big UI changes, a new store, and more
Windows is getting big UI changes, a new store, and more — Microsoft isn't talking about its big Windows plans …
Amazon Music HD is now available to Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers for free, effectively cutting the Hi-Fi service's price from $14.99 to $9.99 per month
In a privacy policy update, T-Mobile says it will automatically enroll all subscribers in an ad program informed by their online activity, starting on April 26
Wireless carrier tells subscribers it could share their browsing, app data and other online activity with advertisers unless they opt out
Firefox 85 launches with network partitioning, a new feature to block supercookies by partitioning Firefox's browser cache on a per-website basis
Firefox now joins Chrome and Edge, both of which removed support for Flash earlier this month. — Mozilla has released today Firefox 85 …
Microsoft says it resolved an issue that caused Windows 10 Search, which is powered by Bing, to return blank results for several hours
we were benchmarking a $17,000 Threadripper PC against the Mac Pro this morning and could not figure out what was wrong. “Bing is down” did not spring to mind. https://www.theverge...
Sources: Google is testing a new communications app for businesses, which brings together functions from Gmail, Drive, Hangouts Meet, Hangouts Chat, and more
Google is working on a mobile application for businesses that brings together the functions of several standalone apps the company already offers …
Sources: Will.i.am's AI startup i.am+ hasn't paid staff in 7 weeks, is late on tax payments, and its smart home platform Wink stopped working with many devices
which @iamwill bought in 2017 — is falling apart. Employees haven't been paid in 7 weeks. More here ↴ https://www.theverge.com/... Robert Stephens / @rstephens : But he'll be atten...
Google says that YouTube Music will be preinstalled on all new Android 9 and Android 10 devices, replacing Google Play Music
Behind-the-scenes, Google requires hardware manufacturers to preinstall certain apps to get access to other first-party services.
Google says that YouTube Music will be preinstalled on all new Android 9 and Android 10 devices, replacing Google Play Music
Behind-the-scenes, Google requires hardware manufacturers to preinstall certain apps to get access to other first-party services.
Microsoft contractors say they listened to recordings, including accidentally invoked ones, of Xbox users, many of them children, to improve voice command tech
Joseph Cox / VICE :
Microsoft contractors say they listened to recordings, including accidentally invoked ones, of Xbox users, many of them children, to improve voice command tech
Joseph Cox / VICE :
Google will let Android users in Europe choose their default search engine starting in 2020; inclusion on the choice screen will be determined via auction
Only the top-three bidders will appear alongside Google on the choice screen — Starting in early 2020, Google will present …
Kodak's stock spiked as much as 300% on its announcement to launch KODAKCoin, “a photocentric cryptocurrency” for better image rights management
Kodak's latest moment has it joining the cryptocurrency frenzy. — Shares in Eastman Kodak Co. jumped as much as 77 percent …