Google hit with $271M fine by French regulator over Gemini AI tool copyright breach
France’s competition watchdog on Wednesday said it fined Alphabet’s Google $271.7 million for breaches linked to EU intellectual property rules in its
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Facebook, Instagram down for some users as Meta experiences spike in outages for second time two weeks
Facebook, Instagram and Messenger were down Wednesday, with nearly two thousand users worldwide reporting that they couldn’t log in to
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Amber launches service to help Tesla owners navigate expired warranties | TechCrunch
Owners of aging EVs aren’t exactly flush with options if something breaks after the original warranty expires. One Bay Area
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Microsoft hires renowned DeepMind founder who has warned AI could cause ‘catastrophe on an unimaginable scale’
Microsoft hired renowned artificial intelligence pioneer Mustafa Suleyman – the co-founder of the Google-owned DeepMind research lab who has warned
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Shady firm touts weird ‘semen stealing insemination kit’ to make men dads ‘without permission’
A company marketing an “at home insemination kit” on the social media platform X is encouraging women to fish used
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Playing computer games can increase risk of erectile dysfunction, study finds
Too much screen time is literally making men soft: Chinese scientists found that playing computer games for a prolonged period
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Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers’ data was used for Gemini | TechCrunch
In a never-ending saga between Google and France’s competition authority over copyright protections for news snippets, the Autorité de la
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The Evie Ring is cleverly designed but has some first-gen quirks
In the run-up to CES 2022, I was chatting with Movano CEO John Mastrototaro about his big, ambitious idea for
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Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update smashes its Steam player record
Stardew Valley’s massive 1.6 update has been out on PC for less than 24 hours, and it’s already taken the
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White House proposes up to $8.5B to fund Intel’s domestic chip manufacturing | TechCrunch
Well before President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law back in August 2022, Intel has been
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