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Apple has been charged for breaking EU competition rules on its App Store. The case relates to charges brought two years ago by Spotify, claiming that Apple was stifling innovation in the music streaming industry. Apple faces large fines and may be forced to change its policies.
Our preliminary conclusion: @Apple is in breach of EU competition law. @AppleMusic compete with other music streaming services. But @Apple charges high commission fees on rivals in the App store & forbids them to inform of alternative subscription options. Consumers losing out.
The NYPD is sending its controversial robot dog back to the pound trib.al/5qMldv3
Roku users who have already installed YouTube TV on their devices can continue to stream it, but no new customers can sign up for YouTube TV on Roku. cnet.co/3xDYQPN
Facebook is calling out iOS 14.5, which includes a feature that lets users easily stop apps from tracking them in certain ways. Facebook expects to start seeing an impact from the changes to iOS right away, as the feature launched this week could harm its ability to target ads.
Apple's new software, iOS 14.5, will be available next week, including a major privacy feature called App Tracking Transparency. The software requires apps to request permission before gathering user data, to provide transparency and give users a choice if their data is tracked.
New Purple iPhone 12! Pre-order on Friday and available on April 30
Two people in Texas were killed when a Tesla with no one in the driver’s seat crashed into a tree and caught fire. It’s not yet clear whether the car had Autopilot assist enabled, but authorities are certain no one was driving the car at the time of the crash.
Facebook users whose data was compromised by a massive data leak are being urged to take legal action against the company. About 530 M people had personal info leaked, but Facebook denies wrongdoing, stating the data was "scraped" from publicly available information on the site.
A man who was falsely accused of shoplifting has sued the Detroit Police Dept. for arresting him based on an incorrect facial recognition match. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of the man, whom it calls the first US person wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition.
What if you could play video games with your brain? Thanks to Elon Musk's Neuralink, this monkey can.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google ran a secret project called “Project Bernanke” that relied on bidding data collected from advertisers using its ad exchange to benefit the company’s own ad system. The project generated hundreds of millions of dollars for the company.
R.I.P Yahoo announces that Yahoo Answers is to be shut down by May 4th.
Signal, the private instant messaging app, is testing a payment feature that will allow users to send each other cryptocurrency. As of now, the peer-to-peer payment system only supports MobileCoin’s coin MOB, but could expand to other coins at launch.
Scientists have wirelessly connected a human brain to a computer for the first time! A trial of the BrainGate technology used a transmitter that connects to a person’s brain motor cortex, allowing trial participants with paralysis to use the system to control a tablet computer.
9to5Toys Last Call: Apple 32-inch Pro Display XDR $189 off, Logitech MX Keys Advanced Keyboard $80, more 9to5mac.com/2021/04/02/ank…
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