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Sony essentially destroys its own defense: How its disc-free PS5 plan triggered a $457 M lawsuit and undercut its antitrust defense
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (928+ words) Sony's plan to phase out physical Play Station 5 discs by January 2028 has moved from a public relations problem to a legal one." Dutch consumer group Stichting Massaschade & Consument has filed a $457 million lawsuit on Tuesday on behalf of 1. 7 million Dutch…...
Exclusive: Fi is bringing Starlink satellite technology to dog collars
1+ day, 47+ min ago (237+ words) Jonathan Bensamoun has a 100-pound German Shepherd named Thor'and a story every dog owner knows. A few years ago, while in the Hamptons, his perfectly-trained shepherd spotted a family of deer. "He looks at me, looks at the deer," Bensamoun…...
Exclusive: Xbox's CEO on 3, 200 job cuts, four studios axed, and her blunt warning that 'we spread ourselves too thin"
3+ day, 40+ min ago (570+ words) The largest restructuring in the history of Microsoft's Xbox is accelerating, in what Asha Sharma, its chief executive, described as a fundamental reset of how Xbox operates and invests. "In order to grow, we made a bunch of bets " and…...
Nvidia supplier Hon Hai's sales beat on continued AI demand
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (307+ words) Nvidia Corp. s server assembly partner'Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.'reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales and said AI demand is growing further. Shipments of AI racks are expected to maintain their momentum in the current quarter, while demand…...
Mark Zuckerberg takes business calls on a jet ski wearing his $800 Meta glasses
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (469+ words) Mark Zuckerberg firmly believes wearables are the future. He's so obsessed with them, in fact, he wears his Meta glasses pretty much everywhere. "I've taken business calls on a jet ski," he told Complex in an interview published earlier this…...
Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion to become the third-largest U. S. TV platform
3+ week, 3+ day ago (364+ words) Fox Corp. has agreed to buy the streaming pioneer Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion, including debt. The deal will give Fox access to more than 100 million global households, along with the Roku channel and its first-party…...
Even Apple couldn't escape the memory chip 'RAM-ageddon' crisis. Here's why PC prices are soaring this summer
1+ week, 4+ day ago (897+ words) On Monday, an Apple Mac Book Pro laptop cost $1, 699. On Thursday, it cost $1, 999." Apple didn't launch a spiffier, more powerful new version of the laptop; the $1, 999 machine is exactly the same as the one that sold for $300 less a few…...
Apple blames inflationary effect of AI for price hikes: 'We have never seen a component price increase this much"
1+ week, 6+ day ago (250+ words) Apple'on Thursday announced an increase in prices for Macs and i Pads, citing a memory chip shortage brought on by the'artificial intelligence'boom. "The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage....
Fortune Tech: Apple price hike, Sony Bungie layoffs, IBM's chip breakthrough
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1004+ words) Good morning. It's starting to feel like Apple is a semiconductor company that just happens to make devices and software. The i Phone maker will reportedly skip higher-end "Pro," "Max," and "Ultra" variants of its forthcoming, Arm-based, TSMC-made M6 chip in…...
Fortune Tech: Open AI-Broadcom AI chips, Qualcomm-Modular deal, SK Hynix listing
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (972+ words) Good morning. Today's word of the day is "adversarial distillation," which Anthropic accuses Alibaba of doing to its AI models in a new letter to U. S. lawmakers. Alibaba allegedly accessed Anthropic's Claude for three months to illicitly extract its capabilities in…...