Google Agrees to Pay .4 Billion to Settle 2 Privacy Lawsuits
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Google Agrees to Pay $1.4 Billion to Settle 2 Privacy Lawsuits

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Google agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the State of Texas on Friday to settle two lawsuits accusing it of violating the privacy of state residents by tracking their locations and searches, as well as collecting their facial recognition information. The state’s attorney…

U.S. v. Google: What Both Sides Argued in a Hearing to Fix Its Search Monopoly
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U.S. v. Google: What Both Sides Argued in a Hearing to Fix Its Search Monopoly

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For the past three weeks, the Justice Department and Google have questioned more than two dozen witnesses to try to sway a federal judge’s decision over how to address the company’s illegal monopoly in internet search. On Friday, that hearing in the U.S….

Trump’s Tariff on Cheap Chinese Imports Will Cost Big Tech Billions
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Trump’s Tariff on Cheap Chinese Imports Will Cost Big Tech Billions

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The expansion of the loophole for tariff-free shipments of goods nearly a decade ago gave rise to Temu, Shein and other low-cost online retailers offering items straight from Chinese factories at unfathomable discounts. It also unleashed something else — a cascade of billions…

Teachers Worry About A.I. for Students. For Themselves It’s Another Matter.
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Teachers Worry About A.I. for Students. For Themselves It’s Another Matter.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As artificial intelligence makes its way into schools, a paradox is emerging. Many educators, concerned about cheating and shortcuts, are trying to limit student use of A.I. At the same time, teachers are increasingly using A.I. tools themselves, both to save time on…

Google Seals Billion Deal for Cyber Start-Up Wiz
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Google Seals $32 Billion Deal for Cyber Start-Up Wiz

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Google has agreed to buy Wiz, a fast-growing cybersecurity start-up, for $32 billion in the company’s biggest push to strengthen its cloud-computing business and expand beyond the search engine and consumer internet services that made it a household name. The all-cash deal, announced…

Apple and Google Restore TikTok to App Stores in the U.S.
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Apple and Google Restore TikTok to App Stores in the U.S.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Apple and Google restored TikTok to their app stores in the United States on Thursday evening, several weeks after they removed the short-form video platform in compliance with a new law that banned it in the country. President Trump tried to pause enforcement…

What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?
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What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. Tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears. And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called DeepSeek. DeepSeek caused…

DeepSeek Prompts a Reckoning Across Wall Street and Silicon Valley
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DeepSeek Prompts a Reckoning Across Wall Street and Silicon Valley

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The DeepSeek effect Markets are on edge on Monday, as global tech investors face a $1 trillion wipeout. The cause: anxiety that the emergence of powerful — and cheap — Chinese artificial intelligence software could upend the economics of A.I. Nasdaq futures have…

TikTok to ‘Go Dark’ on Sunday for Its 170 Million American Users
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TikTok to ‘Go Dark’ on Sunday for Its 170 Million American Users

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines TikTok said late Friday that its service would “go dark” for its 170 million American users on Sunday in the face of a federal ban over fears that its Chinese ownership poses a threat to the United States’ national security. The company said…