Business & Economy: 6 of 10
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Latest chapter of $2 billion Apple Watch patent battle ends in mistrial
The ongoing US District Court lawsuit from Masimo against Apple ended Monday with a mistrial after jurors couldn't reach a unanimous vote. Masimo is a medical firm suing Apple for stealing trade secrets to build the Apple Watch. It won its preliminary case with the International Trade Commission, but Masimo also brought its charges in front of the US District Court in April.
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Controversial new USPTO Rules would empower Patent Trolls
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has recently proposed a controversial set of rules which will bolster the strength of patent trolls.
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Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits
A recent ruling against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement threatens a treasured and critical public institution: our libraries.
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Red Hat's new rule: Open source betrayal?
Red Hat rivals and many open-source developers are mad as hell about the company's new source code policy. Will this dispute end up in the courts?
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Apple subreddit reopens due to Reddit's demands over API protest
The Apple subreddit has reopened under duress after a protest about API fees was squashed by threats from the company's CEO to remove the moderation teams of closed subreddits.
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Reddit CEO Blames 'Small Group' For Protests: 'This is Not Negotiable'
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said this week that the company still plans to charge third-party apps for data, despite widespread protests against the new policy.
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Apple is now the first publicly traded company to close above a $3 trillion market value
Apple is the first publicly traded company to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value. The company’s shares climbed about 2.31% on Friday to a new high. The tech giant first reached a $3 trillion market cap back in January 2022, but failed to close at that level.
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China is too big for a Soviet Union-style collapse, but it’s on shaky ground
With its growth slowing, China’s future is uncertain. We should be grateful if the change is not sudden
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23 Free, Fun, and Fabulous Writing Prompts and Activities
Free writing activities provide students with the freedom to express themselves, explore their imaginations, and develop their writing skills.
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Tesla reported 466,140 deliveries for the second quarter, and production of 479,700 vehicles
Tesla just posted its second-quarter vehicle production and deliveries report for 2023.
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Ryan Murphy Leaving Netflix, In Talks To Return To Disney
Ryan Murphy looks to be heading back to Disney. Murphy is set to leave Netflix at the end of his five-year overall deal, which was understood to be worth around $300M. Deadline has confirmed that he’s in talks with Disney, although no deal is yet signed.
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Judge denies Amazon’s, Apple’s motions to dismiss class action price-fixing suit
A federal judge has rejected Apple's and Amazon's motions to wholly dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit, one that accuses the tech giants of colluding to eliminate all but the highest-price Apple products in Amazon's online store. Writing in Seattle (PDF), Judge John C. Coughenour noted that Apple and Amazon do not dispute the existence of their agreement, which was publicly touted by the companies in November 2018. Nor do they argue that it had an "effect on interstate commerce," as required by a lawsuit making a complaint under the Sherman Act.
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''I Get Worried'': Warren Buffett Compares AI To The Creation Of Atom Bomb
Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public's fancy. While AI chatbots are being employed for a variety of tasks, there are also fears of them being misused. There are also strong concerns that AI will take away millions of jobs and many tech entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk, have raised voices against its spread. Now, billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett also shared his thoughts on the rapidly evolving technology.
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Laser “death ray” kills weeds 80x faster than humans
This farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers.
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Banana disease that wipes out plantations detected on Queensland farm
The fungal disease Panama TR4, which has no known cure or treatment, is confirmed on an eighth property in the Tully Valley.
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Meet FOCUS – a new open-source solution to managing those cloud costs
If you ask a cloud engineer what their greatest problem is, they might say, "Securing Kubernetes, managing multi-cloud or finding staff who know what they're doing." | The FinOps Foundation's new initiative, FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) will provide an open specification for cloud cost, usage and billing data presentation.
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Should SMBs worry about a recession?
In a word, no. Companies that think they have to pull back on investments and cut head count are on the wrong track.
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Pence mocked for saying ‘I don’t really buy the rich need to pay their fair share’
Former Vice President Mike Pence has been mocked for saying the quiet part out loud about taxing the rich, during a campaign stop. “I don't really buy into the rich need to pay their fair share,” he told an audience of potential Republican primary voters.
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Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20 million-a-year bill for Apollo
Reddit is an enormously popular website, but the official design has always needed some reworking. This is even more true of the mobile experience, which didn't have a mobile app until 2016, and even then, not everyone's a fan of it. The site's popularity rose partly thanks to third-party developers filling in the gaps with pre-existing and better mobile apps.
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The latest weapon against climate change is concrete
Carbon removal is a hot topic in sustainability, with many companies involved in direct air capture. But now, a Dublin company is turning surplus concrete into a low-cost, carbon removal tool via a process called 'enhanced weathering'. Silicate is the first enhanced weathering company to leverage the massive carbon removal potential of surplus concrete. This is the first time concrete has ever been used in this way.