Apple’s first smart home display could pay homage to a classic iMac

The new smart home display will apparently be small. Gurman writes it will have a square display angled above a small base that makes it “reminiscent of the circular bottom of the iMac G4 from a couple of decades ago.”...

October 27, 2024

23andMe agrees to pay $30 million to settle lawsuit over massive data breach

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23andMe agrees to pay $30 million to settle lawsuit over massive data breach

23andMe disclosed the data breach last October, but it didn’t confirm the overall impact until December. Customers using the DNA Relatives feature may have had information like names, birth years, and ancestry information exposed through the breach. At the time,...

September 14, 2024

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This Swedish startup wants to pay the flight tracking community using blockchain

One of the most popular pastimes you may or may not have heard about is flight tracking. For instance, in September 2022, the Royal Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin from Edinburgh to an RAF...

September 12, 2024

Solana Pay Integrates Shopify for USDC Payments.

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Solana Pay Integrates Shopify for USDC Payments.

Solana Pay, a decentralised payment protocol developed by Solana Labs, has integrated its plug-in with Shopify, enabling millions of businesses on the platform to use it for payments. USDC is subject to stricter regulations than, say, several altcoins, and most...

August 30, 2024

Off the back of US strike, UK union sets minimum pay for video game performers

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Off the back of US strike, UK union sets minimum pay for video game performers

No one was surprised when British actor Neil Newbon won the “Best Performance” category at The Game Awards last year for his role as Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3 — beating Hollywood royalty Idris Elba’s appearance in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom...

August 7, 2024

Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site

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Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site

After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data. “Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how...

August 1, 2024

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Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model in breach of EU tech rules, says Brussels

In yet another blow to big tech, the EU is charging Meta with breaching the bloc’s sweeping online competition rules, known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Alongside Google and Apple, Meta is among the tech giants (designated as “gatekeepers“)...

July 1, 2024

Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU

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Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU

The EU has formally charged Meta with violations of its Digital Markets Act (DMA), marking its second such charge in as many weeks. The European Commission writes in a preliminary ruling that the “pay or consent” advertising model that launched...

July 1, 2024

Uber and Lyft are now required to pay Massachusetts drivers $32 an hour

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Uber and Lyft are now required to pay Massachusetts drivers $32 an hour

Rideshare drivers in Massachusetts will soon get company-provided benefits, as well as a minimum pay of $32.50 per hour, starting on August 15th. That’s thanks to a new settlement between the state and rideshare companies Uber and Lyft, four years...

June 30, 2024

Sunday Ticket jury orders NFL to pay fans $4.7 billion in damages

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Sunday Ticket jury orders NFL to pay fans $4.7 billion in damages

The NFL has been hit with a $4.7 billion verdict in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed on behalf of residential and commercial customers who paid for its Sunday Ticket package on DirecTV from 2011 through 2022. Originally filed in...

June 28, 2024

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