Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that he will soon file a multistate antitrust lawsuit against Google and its advertising business, alleging that the company has stifled competition and enjoys “monopolistic power.” From a report: In a tweet, Paxton said the lawsuit will be filed on Wednesday. “This goliath of a company is using its power to manipulate the market,…
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Biblical Goliath may not have been a giant
Goliath, the giant who was felled by King David in the Hebrew Bible, is described as having a jaw-dropping height. Turns out, that may not have been accurate. Source: https://www.livescience.com/was-biblical-goliath-a-giant.html
Apple To Pay $113 Million Settlement Over Its iPhone ‘Batterygate’ Slowdowns
Apple is paying $113 million to settle an investigation by 34 states and the District of Columbia over the company’s practice of slowing down the performance of older iPhones when their batteries degrade. From a report: Apple’s moves weren’t announced by the company, but rather proven by internet sleuths. That led regulators and customers alike to criticize the company for not…
Facebook Tells Academics To Stop Monitoring Its Political Ads
couchslug shares a report from The Register: Facebook has ordered the end to an academic monitoring project that has repeatedly exposed failures by the internet giant to clearly label political advertising on its platform. The social media goliath informed New York University (NYU) that research by its Tandon School of Engineering’s Online Transparency Project’s Ad Observatory violates Facebook’s terms of service…
US Tech Stocks Are Now Worth More Than the Entire European Stock Market
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The dominance of major U.S. tech stocks in recent years has pushed the sector past another milestone as it is now more valuable than the entire European stock market, according to Bank of America Global Research. The firm said in a note that this is the first time the market cap of the…
Airbus To Build ‘First Interplanetary Cargo Ship’
Airbus-France will build the huge satellite that brings the first Martian rock samples back to Earth. The BBC reports: This material will be drilled on the Red Planet by the US space agency’s next rover, Perseverance, before being blasted into orbit by a rocket. It’ll be the Airbus satellite’s job to grab the packaged samples and then ship them home. The…
Meet Goliath, a Massive Tadpole as Long as Your Face
A giant tadpole recently found in the wild is bigger than a can of Coke — and it’s still growing. Source: https://www.livescience.com/63238-goliath-giant-tadpole.html
Dark Waters: Mark Ruffalo stars in epic fight with chemicals giant
After cows start dying and people get sick, a corporate lawyer in the film Dark Waters decides to switch sides and take on chemicals Goliath DuPont Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532700-200-dark-waters-mark-ruffalo-stars-in-epic-fight-with-chemicals-giant/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Dark Waters review: A lawyer’s epic fight with a chemicals giant
After cows start dying and people get sick, a corporate lawyer in the film Dark Waters decides to switch sides and take on chemicals Goliath DuPont Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532700-200-dark-waters-review-a-lawyers-epic-fight-with-a-chemicals-giant/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Stellar black holes: When David poses as Goliath
Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black holes typically have masses of about ten times that of the Sun, in accordance with the theory of stellar evolution. Recently, a Chinese team of astronomers claimed to have discovered a black hole as massive as 70 solar masses, which, if…