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• Apple appeals UK probe, but is it just buying time?

  20-01-2023 19:53
  
  Apple has filed an appeal against the UK competition watchdog’s decision to launch an investigation against it and Google into their dominance of mobile services.Apple has appeal
  The iPhone maker’s legal team argues that the probe should be reviewed, arguiing it missed timing requirements to launch an investigation, Reuters explains. Then UK  Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will continue to look into the matter while defending its decision.To read this article in f
  
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• Big tech backs Google in defending internet liability protections

  20-01-2023 18:50
  
  A week after Google filed a defense brief to the US Supreme Court, warning that altering Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) would "upend the internet," a number of corporations —including Twitter, Meta and Microsoft, have filed their own legal briefs — supporting Google’s argument that narrowing the statute could have dire consequences for digital publishers.Under the 1996 CDA statute, companies are protected against liability for user content, including comme
  
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• Google's parent company Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs

  20-01-2023 12:48
  
  Google’s parent company Alphabet is cutting 12,000 jobs, around 6% of its global workforce, according an internal memo from Sundar Pichai, Alphabet's CEO.In an email on Friday morning, Pichai told employees that he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here” but the company has a “substantial opportunity in front of us” with its early investments in artificial intelligence.News outlet Reuters reported that the layoffs are global but are set to im
  
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• iCloud for Windows: What is it (and how do you use it)?

  20-01-2023 12:00
  
  If you use both Apple and Windows devices, then you should also be using iCloud for Windows. It’s an app for your Windows system that enables you to access iCloud data and features from your PC.To get started, first download the app from Microsoft’s App Store. MicrosoftiCloud for Windows is avalable in MIcrsofot's App Store.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• 8 advanced Android clipboard tricks

  20-01-2023 11:45
  
  You'd never know it, but one of the most potential-packed parts of your favorite Android phone is a feature you rarely actually see.It's mostly invisible by design, in fact — and yet, if you teach yourself how to tap into it, you'll save time, increase your efficiency, and feel like a total smartphone sorcerer.The feature of which we speak is the humble-seeming Android clipboard — the simple virtual space where anything you copy stays tucked away out of sight 'til you're ready to us
  
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• Microsoft executive says 'it's always a hard day when people lose ... - 9News

  20-01-2023 01:19
  
  Microsoft executive says 'it's always a hard day when people lose ...  9News
  
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