The Apple TV 4K is a good rival to the Google TV Streamer
Google unveiled its new streaming TV dongle ‘Google TV Streamer’, which can stream 4K content to the living room from Android devices. It can also control smart home devices from the living room couch with a single button press on the remote. A new feature called ‘generativeai’ lets users create screensavers in the background that can be used only once or twice.
Microsoft could not pay Apple a price for Bing, so they would not use it
Apple would have to spend $20 billion to reproduce Google’s technical infrastructure dedicated to search, a report said. “Google’s search product is much better than those of Apple and Mozilla,” it stated. “If Google made search shittier, revenues from Search would be fine,” the report added. Google’s VP of Search Pandu Nayak said it’s vitally important for Google to “have an infrastructure”.
US Judge rules that the internet search engine is an illegal game
A US judge has ruled that Google is the only real choice as the default search engine for Apple. “Apple has estimated how much it would cost to create and maintain a search platform that could compete with Google,” he said. Apple would have to spend $20 billion to reproduce Google’s technical infrastructure dedicated to search, he added.
A US judge says that a search on the internet is an illegal game
The US Justice Department’s antitrust case that accused Google of abusing its dominant market position in search ads will be heard by a federal judge in New York this year, reports said. The judge has set a period of five to seven years to decide on the remedies. He will also hold a separate trial to determine what remedies Google should face.
X has an antitrust lawsuit against advertisers
Following Elon Musk’s post on the lawsuit filed by X and Check My Ads against Rumble over ads, Linda Yaccarino, CEO of right-wing video site Rumble said she was “shocked by the evidence that there had been a systematic illegal boycott against X.” She said, “Bose to boycott and destroy.” Musk had posted that there could be criminal liability under RICO Act.
A US Judge rules that the internet search engine is an illegal game
A US federal judge has ruled that Google abuses its market dominance in search and text ad sales. Judge Amit Mehta said Google’s deal-making harms competition and that it has abused its monopoly. The judge also said the US government has shown evidence of “unfair, unfair or deceptive practices” on Google’s platform. He said he will hold a separate trial to determine remedies.
The voter data of Illinois is vulnerable tohackers
More than a dozen unsecured databases containing sensitive information on voters in the US state of Illinois were found to have been exposed, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed. The databases included driver’s licence numbers, full and partial Social Security Numbers and documents such as death certificates, he added. One of the databases appeared to contain information from DeKalb County.
The last time you heard about an Apple problem was years ago
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian in an interview with CNBC said that the July 19th outage caused by CrowdStrike update cost his company $5 million in five days. Among the costs Bastian said, Delta incurred were more than 40,000 servers that “we had to physically touch and reset” as well as compensation payments to travellers left in the lurch.
There should be more than 400,000 dangerous products recalled by Amazon
Amazon failed to adequately alert over 3,00,000 customers to serious risks that included death and electrocution, a US Consumer Product Safety Commission study said. It tested over 4,00,000 products sold by third parties on Amazon and found defects including faulty carbon monoxide detectors and defective hair dryers, which could cause electrocution. A spokesperson for Amazon said the company plans to appeal.
There are ways to tackle predatory conferences
A study has revealed there is low awareness of predatory conferences among consumer-protection authorities. It added that academic conferences are one of the main routes for career development in research. “Research communities should more regularly publicize information on good conference practices, such as…thorough peer review, and provide links to trusted organisations,” it further said.