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Google will pay Arizona $85 million to settle a 2020 lawsuit, which claimed that the search giant was illegally tracking Android users, Bloomberg reports. At the time, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich argued that Google continued to track users for targeted advertising, even after they turned off location data settings. If this sounds familiar, it's because Google is also being sued by attorneys general in Texas, Washington, D.C., and Indiana over similar data tracking complaints. Brnovich's office also notes that…

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued Google in May 2020, claiming that “dark patterns” (design tactics that can manipulate user behavior) were built into its software on Android phones and apps. The suit argued that Google kept location tracking running in the background to collect advertising data, even after users had turned off location sharing, and made privacy settings to keep location information private needlessly difficult to find. This follows a 2018 report from The Associated Press that found Google…

Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 3.13% Google will pay the state of Arizona $85 million to settle a 2020 lawsuit in which the search giant was accused of deceiving users by recording their locations even after they tried to turn off the company’s tracking on their smartphones and web browsers. Google used the location information to sell ads for billions of dollars in profits, the state said. The bulk of the settlement money will go toward a…

Caleb Williams punctuated his postgame press conference with a final reminder. The quarterback likes to get in the last word.“5-0,” he said, rising from the table and pumping his fist after USC’s 42-25 win over Arizona State on Saturday at the Coliseum.USC is 5-0 (2-0 Pac-12 Conference) for the first time since 2020 and the fourth time in the past 27 years after turning a close game at halftime into a comfortable home win. Yet the No. 6 Trojans remain unimpressed. When asked of what the unblemished record means to the…

The questions came bearing down on USC’s star quarterback like blitzing defenders, lingering all week in the wake of his worst performance yet as a Trojan: What exactly happened to Caleb Williams in Corvallis? And how might he respond when faced with adversity for the first time?The answers would speak volumes as to where sixth-ranked USC might wind up in the coming months. But his coaches and teammates had side-stepped any such insinuations, shaking their heads at the very notion that Williams might falter. Still, by…

Intel Corp (NASDAQ: INTC ) will vastly expand its advanced chip manufacturing capacity, the company’s new chief executive said, announcing plans to spend up to $20 billion to build two factories in Arizona and open installations to external clients. The move announced Tuesday by Pat Gelsinger seeks to restore Intel’s reputation after manufacturing delays sent shares tumbling last year. The strategy directly challenges the world’s other two companies that can make the most advanced chips, Taiwan’s Semiconductor…

Cruise’s autonomous cars are heading to Texas and Arizona before the end of this year. The General Motors-owned company plans to launch ridesharing pilots in Austin and Phoenix in what will be its first expansion of the service outside of San Francisco. Waymo CEO Kyle Vogt shared the news in a series of tweets on Monday, September 12, revealing that his Austin team is planning to go from having no test vehicles or maps to launching fully driverless rides within the space of just 90 days. “Some fun news,” Vogt…

Tesla has yet to announce the release of their most advanced supercharger, the Supercharger V4. Yet, due to design plans we know what the Supercharger V4 will look like, and now construction plans reveal where the first site will be located. The new Supercharger V4 site will be arriving in Yuma County, Arizona, according to images of a construction site shared by a Tesla aficionado on Twitter. Tesla did not immediately respond to ZDNet to confirm the authenticity of this site. The site, planned on a vacant lot by the…

Cities around the world are proposing to replace the space taken up by parked cars with usable areas for people.Personal cars sit parked about 95% of the time, according to a study by the RAC Foundation. And they take up valuable real estate in urban areas. Roads and parking occupy nearly a quarter of Manhattan, for example, while only 22% of households in the borough owns a car, according to census data. Cars were banned on a stretch of Broadway by Times Square in 2009. While initially controversial, this change quickly…

Those visiting Ocean City, New Jersey this fall probably want to hit the beach one last time.Image: Gary C. Tognoni (Shutterstock)Fall is the best season, and I’m not here to discuss this any further. As winter (and seasonal affective disorder) lingers right around the corner, fall is also the best time to get your last bit of traveling in before the weather gets too cold to do anything except stay in bed.Airbnb released a list of their most booked cities for the fall, and some are quite surprising. Overall the list skews…