We look at the issues that led the two firms to pick a fight over content allowed on Apple’s App Store Apple and Epic Games will go head to head in court in front of a US federal judge on Monday, the latest stage in the Fortnite maker’s campaign to break open the iPhone’s walled …
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It started as a newsletter platform for unknown writers. Now it is becoming a media giant in its own right – with many of the problems it was supposed to avoid Isabelle Roughol was done with her day job at LinkedIn and was ready to start something of her own. She quit in early 2020 …
The Republican senator has written a sort of manifesto for the presidential primary. The Democrat seems focused on the supreme court Hawley rails at big tech firms but he has invested in them Antitrust is hot. In February, the Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021. Weeks …
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Revelations that information can be falsified on Cellebrite’s devices throws into question its reliability in court rulings Criminal lawyers could soon begin challenging a tool Australian police routinely rely on to extract messages, photos and other information from mobile phones for investigations after the discovery of security flaws that meant data could be falsified. Last …
eCall contacts emergency services in an accident – but it is causing problems for some drivers The Volkswagen, Audi and Skoda group has been accused of knowingly selling cars with defective SOS warning systems that in some cases failed before the new owner had left the dealership. Since 2018 all new cars sold across the …
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iPhone and iPad maker distorts competition for streaming services such as Spotify, says commissioner Apple has been accused of breaking EU law by charging high fees and setting unfair rules on those selling their products in its App Store, resulting typically in a 30% price hike for paying customers. Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner for …
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Zoë Roth says she plans to use proceeds from sale of 2005 image of her smirking in front of burning house to pay student loans Zoë Roth, the woman whose picture was central to the 2005 Disaster Girl meme, has sold the original photo for $473,000 – the latest addition to the cryptocurrency-linked, digital image …
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Several internet personalities will be on the ballot on 6 May, though most know they have no chance of winning Niko Omilana will not be elected mayor of London next week. But the 23-year-old YouTuber prankster and mayoral candidate, who is polling just behind the Lib Dems and the Greens, is still likely to emerge …
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Josie Bevan considers her own family’s story and societal flaws in Prison Break. Plus: more nuanced takes on black lives and racism from Resistance Prison BreakJosie Bevan’s Radio 4 series and podcast, Prison Bag, charted her family’s unexpected and traumatic experience with the UK penal system following husband Rob’s conviction for fraud. This striking and …
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A Dutch couple have become Europe’s first tenants of a fully 3D printed house the first completed home of five for ‘Project Milestone’, in suburb of Bosrijk in Eindhoven. Inspired by the shape of a boulder, the dimensions of which would be difficult and expensive to construct using traditional methods, it is first legally habitable …
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