The US Department of Justice and 16 state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, saying the company has used its industry-defining iPhone as a tool to enrich itself while stifling competition.In an 88-page suit filed in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, the government argued that Apple violated antitrust laws through its tight control over the iPhone, preventing other companies from creating key applications and services that would compete with its own. T ...

It's not just you: Meta's Facebook, Instagram and Threads were all having issues Tuesday morning. The popular social media services all appeared to be suffering from an outage, with monitoring service Downdetector showing spikes for Facebook and Instagram. Meta-owned WhatsApp seemed to be okay. As of press time, Facebook seemed to be coming back online, though Instagram and Threads were still having issues.  Threads was displaying error messages on Tuesday.  Screenshot by Eli Blumenthal/CNETAccording to Do ...

Apple is in hot water in the EU. On Monday, Europe's Competition Commission hit the company with a 1.8 billion euro ($1.95 billion) fine, after it concluded that Apple was preventing people from being told that they could pay less for music streaming services.Currently, if you buy a subscription to a music streaming service within an iOS app, Apple will take a cut of that subscription. As a result, you'll likely be charged the maximum price, and may be excluded from taking advantage of cheaper options that ...

Apple is in hot water in the EU. On Monday, Europe's Competition Commission hit the company with a 1.8 billion euro ($1.95 billion) fine, after it concluded that Apple was preventing people from being told that they could pay less for music streaming services.Currently, if you buy a subscription to a music streaming service within an iOS app, Apple will take a cut of that subscription. As a result, you'll likely be charged the maximum price, and may be excluded from taking advantage of cheaper options for t ...

The cause of Thursday's AT&T network outage has been revealed. In a statement posted Thursday evening to the company's website and shared with CNET, the carrier said the issue was the result of software and not a cyber attack. "Based on our initial review, we believe that today's outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyber attack," the statement says. "We are continuing our assessment of today's outage to ensure we keep delive ...

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Apple's iMessage doesn't qualify as a gatekeeper service, according to the European Union, meaning that the company's Messages app will not need to directly connect with other chat apps.The EU made the announcement Tuesday, stating that Apple's iMessage service no longer qualifies as a gatekeeper under the governing body's Digital Markets Act. While iMessage was previously considered to fall under that label, Apple submitted a rebuttal in September that appears to have changed that designation for now.Read ...

The name evoked poetic qualities of a bygone era, but apparently not enough of our AI future. Starting Thursday, Google's Bard AI chatbot will be called Gemini, matching the AI model the company rolled out in December.Google's answer to ChatGPT debuted nearly a year ago to mixed reviews, but has since seen multiple updates including, most recently, the ability to generate images from text.The name change is intended to help people understand they're engaging with the Gemini AI model via the chatbot, said Si ...

Sports fans looking to simplify their streaming options in a world that is moving away from cable will have a new option later this year. On Tuesday afternoon, Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced that they would be creating a joint venture to "develop, launch and operate a streaming sports bundle of linear networks" and some direct-to-consumer "sports content and services" in the US.The new service, which will be equally owned by each of the three companies, will be pulling sports content from ...

Amazon officially rolled out ads in its Prime Video streaming service on Monday after announcing the change in September last year. This launch begins with customers in the US, the UK, Canada and Germany for early 2024, with France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, and Australia to follow later this year. Amazon said Prime Video will have limited commercials, noting that there will be "meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers." However, viewers in the US who want an ad-free experience can ...