LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Fines imposed by Russian courts on Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) and YouTube, Meta (META.O), TikTok and Telegram appear to have been settled as the companies are no longer registered as debtors in the state bailiffs’ database. But the database, accessed by Reuters on Wednesday, still includes X (formerly Twitter) and Twitch, …
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Key Points The U.K.’s highest court upheld earlier legal decisions that a patent inventor must be a “natural person,” and therefore not an artificial intelligence-powered machine. It stems from a five-year contention by Stephen Thaler, who listed his own AI tool, “DABUS,” as the inventor of two products for which he filed a patent application. …
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Key Points Apple Pay, Card, Cash and Wallet experienced an outage from 6:15 a.m. to 6:49 a.m. Wednesday, according to Apple’s system status page. The company’s system status page was not updated saying that the issues were fixed until roughly 10:50 a.m. The Apple Pay and Wallet outage says it specifically affected the web and …
Key Points Bird filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Florida federal court Wednesday. In a release, Bird said it will use the bankruptcy proceeding to facilitate a sale of its assets, which it expects to complete within the next 90 to 120 days. Bird’s electric scooters are touted as an environmentally friendly alternative to …
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Elon Musk’s satellite internet service provider, Starlink, has officially launched in Eswatini after obtaining a license in June. The company initially applied for a license to operate in March 2023 and after ticking off regulatory and technical boxes, received the license in June. This comes at a time when Starlink has been declared illegal in …
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The central bank of southern African country Lesotho is facing severe outages due to a cyberattack that was discovered earlier this week. The bank released multiple statements confirming that a recent incident affected several systems. The landlocked mountainous country is encircled by South Africa and has a population of more than 2 million. “The Central …
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against Dozy Mmobuosi, the CEO of the dodgy Tingo Group, which has an office in Ghana. Also included in the lawsuit are two other companies of which Dozy Mmobuosi is CEO – Agri-Fintech Holdings Inc, and Tingo International Holdings Inc. The charges encompass a range of …
The tech giant was accused of stifling competition when it came to in-app payments for Android devices, where it was making up to 30% commission – it will now be forced to offer alternative payment options to developers and consumers. Google will pay out $700m (£550m) and allow more competition on its Play Store after …
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There was a time when more than one of your TVs, computers, speaker systems or other essential electronic goods would have been made by Toshiba. Once a poster boy for Japan’s dominance in electronics – known as Japan Inc – the company has delisted, ending a 74-year history with Tokyo’s stock exchange. So why did …
The founder of an electric truck start-up that was popular in the US has been sentenced to four years in prison. Trevor Milton, who led Nikola Corporation, was convicted of fraud last year after a jury found he had lied persistently about the company. His claims helped pump up the firm’s share price, which soared …
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