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Apple begins paying US iPhone users over claims it slowed down devices – while UK users wait for case | Science & Tech News
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Apple has reportedly started making payments to US owners of certain iPhone models over claims handsets are slowed down. Complainants are due about $92 (£72) for each affected model owned as part of a maximum $500m (£394m) total payout. The sum only applies to owners in the US and covers the iPhone 6, 6 Plus,…
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Google to pay compensation to millions of US customers after Play Store court case | Science & Tech News
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Google will pay out $700m (£550m) and allow more competition on its Play Store after it was accused of using illegal restrictions and overcharging consumers when they buy items in apps. It forms part of an antitrust settlement in the US, ahead of a legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games, which accused Google of…
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Fortnite maker wins legal case against Google over app store barriers | Science & Tech News
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The firm behind popular shooting game Fortnite has won an antitrust trial against Google after accusing the tech giant of anticompetitive practices. Epic Games claimed Google has been abusing its power to shield its play store – from which users download apps – from competition to protect a system that makes billions of dollars each…
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Man jailed for the insider trading of NFTs – in what is believed to be the first case of its kind | Science & Tech News
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A man has been jailed for the insider trading of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – in what prosecutors say is the first case of its kind. Nathaniel Chastain was working as a product manager at OpenSea, which is the world’s biggest marketplace for the crypto collectibles. The 33-year-old purchased NFTs that he knew were going to…
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Long COVID: Unusual case turns man’s legs blue after 10 minutes of standing up | Science & Tech News
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An unusual case of long COVID has resulted in a man’s legs turning blue after 10 minutes of standing. The 33-year-old patient has developed a condition called acrocyanosis, which is when leg veins don’t allow blood to flow back up to the heart and instead collect in a pool. A minute after standing, his legs…
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Lawyers used ChatGPT to help with a case – it backfired massively | Science & Tech News
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Two New York lawyers have been fined after submitting a legal brief with fake case citations generated by ChatGPT. Steven Schwartz, of law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, admitted using the chatbot to research the brief in a client’s personal injury case against airline Avianca. He had used it to find legal precedents supporting the…
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Killer plant fungus Chondrostereum purpureum infects man in India in ‘world-first case’ | Science & Tech News
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A killer plant fungus infected a human and caused flu-like symptoms in what researchers say is a world-first case. Chondrostereum purpureum causes silver leaf disease in flora, most commonly in species of rose. Spread by airborne spores, it is named such because it gradually turns leaves silver – and is often fatal. It was not…
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Elizabeth Holmes ‘has ambition to rise again’ despite being jailed over Theranos case that gripped world | Science & Tech News
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Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes “has the ambition to rise again” despite being jailed over a years-long scam that saw her become one of America’s most celebrated tech billionaires, the creator of an award-winning podcast about the scandal has said. The 38-year-old was sentenced to more than 11 years behind bars on Friday, having been…
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NASA’s Artemis mission is spending $93bn of taxpayer money on a return to the moon – but it has a good case | Science & Tech News
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Fifty years after the last Apollo astronaut left footprints on the moon, NASA is on its way back. The Orion spacecraft is now on its 1.3-million-mile test flight that will take it into lunar orbit. In two years’ time, there will be a crewed mission around the moon, and soon after humans will land on…