A few months ago, Mike Lynch, a wealthy British tech boss, walked out of a U.S. courtroom a free man. He had just won one of the biggest fraud cases in history, where he was accused of misleading Hewlett-Packard in a £8.64 billion deal. Lynch, who had been living under
Russian users are facing major problems with YouTube lately. The site is either loading very slowly or not working at all for many people. Although YouTube isn’t officially banned in Russia, the outages have been increasing. Members of the ruling United Russia Party are threatening to further restrict access to
Big Tech’s dream of advancing AI is coming with a huge, often overlooked cost: electricity. The amount of power that companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple use to run their data centers is staggering—so much so that their energy consumption is now on par with entire countries. A recent
A federal judge has just ruled that Google broke the law by creating a monopoly on online searches, a major victory for US antitrust authorities. The court found that Google, which controls a staggering 89% of the search market and 95% on mobile, used its power unfairly by paying billions
YouTube is tightening its grip on gun-related content by not only demonetizing firearms channels but also banning them from featuring any gun-related sponsors, even those not affiliated with Google. This move comes despite previous claims that advertiser complaints were behind the action. Instead, it appears that the crackdown is politically
Apple’s Vision Pro flop is clear as Tim Cook’s decision to release the $3,899 headset earlier this year faces criticism amid low demand, leading Apple to halt its second-generation model. It was probably a bad decision to release the Vision Pro headset earlier this year at $3,899 (for a 1TB
The US Supreme Court will decide Facebook’s fate in a massive data-harvesting scandal following a class-action lawsuit alleging that Meta gave up to 87 million customers’ personal information to other parties, including Cambridge Analytica, on June 10. You can read the original article here. On June 10, the Supreme Court
In an X post, Elon Musk said he would ban iPhones and put them in a Faraday cage if they integrate with OpenAI, citing security concerns after it was revealed that Apple is capable of producing its own AI module. Ultimately, the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference was a complete failure
According to data from companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, the largest cloud players, Microsoft and Amazon, have hundreds of data centers to meet growing commercial needs. The Big Tech firms are frequently pitted against one another in a variety of ways, including revenue, market capitalization, and the newest addition—generative