• Right-wing social media platform Parler plans to relaunch early 2024

    Right-wing social media platform Parler plans to relaunch early 2024

    Dec 21, 2023 01:57 AM EST

    ... cloud.”“As a new company we prefer to not be associated with those events and have taken the steps to combat those issues” with moderation services, she said. Google and Apple had also removed Parler’s app from their online stores after the insurrection. They later allowed it to return.

  • Google to pay $700 million to U.S. states, consumers in Android app store settlement

    Google to pay $700 million to U.S. states, consumers in Android app store settlement

    Dec 19, 2023 02:28 PM EST

    ... instead chose to take its case to trial, even though it had already lost on most of its key claims in a similar trial targeting Apple and its iPhone app store in 2021. The Apple trial, though, was decided by a federal judge instead of the jury that vindicated Epic ...

  • In Hong Kong, national security trial opens for prominent publisher Jimmy Lai

    In Hong Kong, national security trial opens for prominent publisher Jimmy Lai

    Dec 18, 2023 04:36 PM EST

    Pro-democracy activist Alexandra Wong, popularly known as “Grandma Wong,” was blocked from approaching the court building by police officiers. “Support Jimmy Lai, support the Apple Daily, support the truth," she chanted. Lai's trial was originally scheduled to start in December 2022 but was postponed while the Hong Kong ...

  • Dow hits a record after the Fed signals rate cuts in 2024

    Dow hits a record after the Fed signals rate cuts in 2024

    Dec 13, 2023 11:54 PM EST

    ... s bigger winners were bitcoin, which rose nearly 4 percent, and the Russell 2000 index of small U.S. stocks, which jumped 3.5 percent. Apple was the strongest force pushing upward on the S&P 500, rising 1.7 percent to its own record close. It and other Big ...

  • Epic wins its antitrust lawsuit against the Play Store. What does this verdict mean for Google?

    Epic wins its antitrust lawsuit against the Play Store. What does this verdict mean for Google?

    Dec 13, 2023 01:42 AM EST

    ... judge barred the company from implementing “anti-steering provisions,” Pachter said, that is, preventing developers from steering people toward third-party payment stores outside of Apple's own app store. While Apple's fees within its own store remain largely unchallenged, he added, “the anti-steering prohibition has led to ...

  • Why some climate experts are criticizing what’s happened at the COP28 climate conference

    Why some climate experts are criticizing what’s happened at the COP28 climate conference

    Dec 12, 2023 11:40 PM EST

    ... to phase down, whatever that means, to phase down fossil fuels. And so there's a lot of pessimism right now that a few bad apples are spoiling the possibility of a meaningful agreement, as this window of opportunity is closing. If we don't see progress now, it becomes ...

  • Musk lashes out at advertisers leaving X over rise in hate speech

    Musk lashes out at advertisers leaving X over rise in hate speech

    Nov 30, 2023 11:35 PM EST

    Elon Musk is dialing up the pressure on X after cursing advertisers who paused ads on the social media platform. The advertising freeze from major companies like Disney and Apple came after Musk endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X earlier this month. He denied the accusation of antisemitism and ...

  • What led to the OpenAI leadership shakeup and what it means for the future of AI

    What led to the OpenAI leadership shakeup and what it means for the future of AI

    Nov 20, 2023 11:45 PM EST

    ... in ways that historically computer systems aren't really able to do, it created a real rush in the industry to build these technologies from Apple to Meta to Microsoft to Google. And Sam became the kind of leader of the whole movement. And OpenAI, to his credit, he wasn ...

  • Tracing the origins and significance of the presidential turkey pardon

    Tracing the origins and significance of the presidential turkey pardon

    Nov 20, 2023 11:20 PM EST

    ... Barron-Lopez has more. Joe Biden, President of the United States: I hereby pardon Liberty and Bell. (Cheering and Applause) Laura Barron-Lopez: The two birds, Liberty and Bell, were raised in Minnesota, the nation's largest producer of turkey. Joe Biden: They love honeycrisp apples. Not bad, huh? (Applause)

  • Microsoft hires Sam Altman, new OpenAI CEO vows to investigate his ouster

    Microsoft hires Sam Altman, new OpenAI CEO vows to investigate his ouster

    Nov 20, 2023 04:09 PM EST

    ... as he discussed the risks of AI and attempts to regulate the emerging technology. “If Microsoft lost Altman he could have gone to Amazon, Google, Apple, or a host of other tech companies craving to get the face of AI globally in their doors,” Daniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush ...