Enlarge / The iPhone 11 Pro Max. Samuel Axon Italy has again hit Apple with a fine for what the country’s regulators deem to be misleading marketing claims, though the fine is only €10 million ($ 12 million)—a pittance from a company like Apple. This time around, Italy’s Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) […]
Star Natalie Dormer takes many forms as supernatural demon Magda in Showtime’s new horror drama, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. YouTube/Showtime Magda’s “sister” is Santa Muerte, who welcomes souls to the afterlife upon their death. Showtime Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) is the LAPD’s first Mexican-American detective. YouTube/Showtime Tiago’s partner, Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane), is more […]
Enlarge / The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino in October 2019. Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple has been fined $ 1.2 billion by a French antitrust watchdog for anticompetitive activities. It is the largest fine ever processed by France’s antitrust regulators, and it follows eight years of preparation […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going to hit the big four U.S. phone carriers with a fine totaling $ 200 million for selling people’s location data. AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile will have the chance to dispute their fines, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The FCC hasn’t officially announced anything […]
A watchdog has penalised a local authority for trialling facial recognition on high-school students in Sweden to keep track of attendance. The Swedish Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined the Skelleftea municipality 200,000 Swedish Krona (£16,800, $ 20,700) for flouting a privacy law. The trial involved tracking 22 students over three weeks and detecting when each […]
A passenger aircraft, operated by British Airways, a unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (IAG), sits on the tarmac as travellers sit in a restaurant at London City Airport (LCY), in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. The chief Brexit concern of carriers is to maintain a single market for air travel which […]
Microsoft released its Community Standards for Xbox, and part of the document is the company’s attempt on dialing back trash talk on Xbox Live. Under the “Keep your content clean” section of the new community standards for Xbox Live, players are advised to “know the difference between trash talk and harassment.” Microsoft admitted that competitive […]
Google has been fined 50 million euros (£44m) by the French data regulator CNIL, for a breach of the EU’s data protection rules. CNIL said it had levied the record fine for “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding ads personalisation”. The regulator said it judged that people were “not sufficiently […]
This is fine: That’s the tone of a press release out of the Entertainment Software Association today. The organization, which operates the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show, is dealing with the news that Sony won’t bring PlayStation to E3 2019. And that is making many people wonder why they would even care about E3 at all. […]
I love playing Diablo III on Switch. The series’ action-heavy gameplay works great in shorter bursts. I’m more comfortable playing a bit of Diablo at night in bed than spending hours lurching in front of my computer. So I’m not surprised to see Diablo: Immortal coming to mobile. After playing it at BlizzCon 2018 in […]
When Apple packs its most expensive iPhone with all the latest innovations, it’s hard for anyone to get excited about the next step down the line. So after September’s debut of the $ 999 iPhone XS and $ 1,099 iPhone XS Max, no one was shocked that the more affordable iPhone XR’s late October launch […]
Aurich Lawson Google is adjusting to life in the EU after the $ 5.05 billion (€4.34 billion) antitrust fine levied against it by the European Commission earlier this year. Google is still appealing the initial ruling, which found that Google used Android to illegally dominate the search market, but for now Google will comply with […]
GettyGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai. Google has submitted an appeal to the EU refuting the €4.3 billion ($ 5 billion) fine it received for abusing the dominance of its Android operating system. Google is following through on its promise to appeal when the fine was imposed in July. It is already appealing a separate antitrust fine […]
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Tesla’s Elon Musk has settled with the SEC, according to court documents filed Saturday. The SEC sued Musk on Thursday, alleging Musk tweeted “false and misleading statements” in August about taking the company private. As part of the settlement, Musk will neither admit nor deny the allegations, and he will resign […]
PC maker Asus is facing a $ 74 million fine in Europe for threatening online retailers to keep the company’s laptop prices up. On Tuesday, the European Commission levied fines against Asus and three other electronics makers, Phillips, Pioneer, and Denon & Marantz, for price fixing in the e-commerce market. All four companies restricted online […]