A federal jury ruled Friday that Masimo smartwatches infringed Apple patents, but Apple isn’t getting a big payday.Bloomberg Law reports that the company was only seeking the statutory minimum of $250, and that’s all it was awarded. Apple’s attorney John Desmarais reportedly told jurors, “We’re not here for the money.” Instead, he said the company hoped to force Masimo to “stop copying our design.” The company may have been disappointed on that front. The jury did find that the original design for Masimo’s ...

After months of speculation, Apple Intelligence took center stage at WWDC 2024 in June. The platform was announced in the wake of a torrent of generative AI news from companies like Google and Open AI, causing concern that the famously tight-lipped tech giant had missed the boat on the latest tech craze.Contrary to such speculation, however, Apple had a team in place, working on what proved to be a very Apple approach to artificial intelligence. There was still pizzazz amid the demos — Apple always loves to ...

Waymo has closed a $5.6 billion Series C funding round led by parent company Alphabet and joined by a who's who of Silicon Valley venture firms. Alphabet had previously announced in July that it was pledging another $5 billion to Waymo, but was mum on the specifics, saying only that it was a "multi-year" commitment. Andreesen Horowitz, Silver Lake, Fidelity, Tiger Global, Perry Creek, and T. Rowe Price all joined the round. Waymo declined to say how much each invested. It's Waymo's second external fundraisi ...

More than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector.This is the first time that UnitedHealth Group, the U.S. health insurance provider that owns the health tech company, has put a number of affected individuals to the data breach, after previously saying it anticipated the breach to include data on a “su ...

The idea of a $25,000 Tesla has persisted for years — in part, perhaps, because CEO Elon Musk said he was “very confident” the company could do it at an event in 2020. But on Wednesday night, during Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call, Musk said the idea of a $25,000 car with a steering wheel and pedals is “pointless,” and “silly.” He said he only wants to sell one car at that price: the “Cybercab” robotaxi he revealed a prototype of two weeks ago. It was the latest in a long line of public and private fli ...

Core Viewpoint - Pinterest is facing a complaint from the European privacy rights non-profit noyb for allegedly breaching the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by not obtaining user consent for tracking and profiling for advertising purposes [1][2]. Group 1: GDPR Compliance Issues - The GDPR allows for penalties of up to 4% of global annual turnover for confirmed breaches, which could lead to significant sanctions for Pinterest [1]. - The complaint includes accusations that Pinterest failed to fulfill a GDPR data access request, not providing information on the categories of data shared with third parties [2][5]. - Pinterest is relying on a legal basis known as legitimate interest (LI) for processing user data for ad targeting, which noyb argues is non-compliant with GDPR [3][4]. Group 2: User Tracking Practices - Pinterest tracks all of its approximately 130 million regional users by default to personalize ads, requiring users to actively object to this tracking rather than being asked for consent [3]. - A complainant discovered that "ads personalization" was turned on by default and that Pinterest uses information from visited websites and other third parties for ad display [5]. - The complaint asserts that Pinterest's tracking practices are unlawful since the introduction of GDPR in 2018 [5][6]. Group 3: Legal Proceedings and Potential Outcomes - The complaint has been filed with France's data protection authority, but it may be passed to Ireland's Data Protection Commission due to Pinterest's regional headquarters in Dublin [7]. - The complaint calls for Pinterest to delete any data processed for ads, fulfill the data access request, and be fined to deter future GDPR breaches [6].

Elon Musk said he hopes to launch a service that will let people hail self-driving Tesla vehicles in California and Texas sometime in 2025 — and claims his company has already been testing the service in the Bay Area with employees.The comments, made Wednesday on Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call, go farther than what Musk promised two weeks ago at its Cybercab unveiling event. On that stage, Musk promised that Model 3 and Model Y owners would be able to use an “unsupervised” version of Tesla’s Full Self- ...

Tesla’s Cybertruck was the third best-selling electric vehicle in the United States in the third quarter, beating out every other EV not made by Tesla. The only two vehicles that sold better were the Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV.The polarizing truck notched this achievement despite selling at its most expensive trim model in the early going. It’s also a sign of just how much trouble major automakers like Ford and General Motors have run into in finding customers for their own EVs. To wit, Ford only sold a ...

In Brief In a move that could profoundly affect an already beleaguered global supply chain, Arm has reportedly issued Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancelation for chip design licensing. The move, reported by Bloomberg, would have an impact on a majority of smartphone manufacturers who rely on Qualcomm chips.U.K.-based Arm, which licenses chip architecture, issued the notice as part of a protracted battle with the Snapdragon producer. Much of the issue can be traced back to a dispute over contracts and tradem ...

Apple on Wednesday released developer betas iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, delivering new Apple Intelligence features including Genmoji, Image Playground, Visual Intelligence, Image Wand, and ChatGPT integration.The software updates arrive the week before the public release of OS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, which brings writing tools, image cleanup, article summaries, and a typing input for the redesigned Siri experience to the platforms. Along with those updates comes APIs f ...