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Apple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit that alleges the company misrepresented the abilities of its Family Sharing plans when it came to sharing app subscriptions with family members. Apple is settling the lawsuit for $25 million, pending court approval in 2024. Here’s what to know: What was the lawsuit about? At the heart of the lawsuit was an Apple feature called Family Sharing. The feature allows a subscriber to share services and content with up to five other family members. Services and content include…

I’m fascinated by these experiments that give power back to the users and let them make decisions on platform rules and in individual disputes. While most of the jury features were discontinued after just a few years, they nevertheless provide interesting insight into basic human behavior on the internet and the nature of grassroots governance. One of the oldest programs was from Alibaba, the e-commerce giant. From 2012 to 2018, Alibaba allowed any user, whether a seller or a buyer, to vote on inappropriate behaviors on…

Tech giant Google has reached a $27 million settlement with employees who accused it of unfair labour practices, the media reportedAccording to a report in Semafor that looked into California state court documents, this is a record for the largest agreement of its kind. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme…

The war between Epic Games and Google is still raging on, but it’s starting to reach its conclusion. We’re now in the final days of the legal battle with the closing statements set to take place on December 11. Before the gavel is brought down, both companies are ordered to sit down and talk. According to a new report, the court ordered Google and Epic Games to hold settlement talks. If you don’t recall, Epic Games is suing Google for its alleged monopoly over the Android app market. The Google Play Store is, obviously,…

Credit: Autonomous University of Barcelona/University of Almeria A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Almeria discovered in the latest excavations carried out at the site of El Trigal III, in the archaeological area of La Puntilla (Nasca, Ica, Peru), a new type of settlement. It is an architectural complex of large dimensions, consisting of a two-story building and a courtyard with…

Rendlesham Revealed: showing the archaeological remains including the probable temple or cult house (left hand side) and boundary ditch (centre). Credit: Jim Pullen A possibly pre-Christian temple from the time of the East Anglian Kings, some 1,400 years ago, has been found at Rendlesham, near Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, by a team of archaeologists led by UCL researchers. …

In a historic move in the cryptocurrency space, Binance cofounder Changpeng Zhao has agreed to step down from the position of the company CEO and has pleaded guilty to violating US anti-money laundering charges brought down by the US Department of Justice. The settlement of the case comes at an unprecedented 4.3 billion dollars to resolve a long-running investigation into the world's largest cryptocurrency by trade volume. But who is Zhao, who created this massive empire and brought it to a fall, conceding a personal…

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Revolt TV just lost a podcaster in the wake of Cassie’s lawsuit alleging sexual assault by the mogul, which he and the singer settled Friday. Dawn Montgomery on Monday announced on X (formerly Twitter) that she had resigned from her role with the media company. “I won’t be signing on to do the season of @revolttv’s ‘Monuments To Me’ podcast,” Montgomery wrote. “I am a SA survivor I cannot be a part of a show that’s supposed to uplift black women while leads the company,” she wrote, adding,…

BARCELONA, Spain —  After having maintained her innocence for nearly five years, pop star Shakira struck a last-minute deal with Spanish prosecutors to avoid the risk of going to prison on the opening day of her tax fraud trial in Barcelona on Monday.Shakira told the presiding magistrate, José Manuel del Amo, that she accepted the agreement reached with prosecutors. She answered “yes” to confirm her acknowledgment of six counts of failing to pay the Spanish government 14.5 million euros (about $15.8 million) in taxes…

In May 2022, just months before Elon Musk acquired Twitter (now X), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hit the platform with a $150 million fine and consent decree that imposed stipulations for safeguarding users' personal data. The ruling was imposed after the FTC found that Twitter had violated a previous consent decree by inappropriately sharing user phone numbers and email addresses with advertisers.After acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk went to court in an attempt to overturn that consent decree, arguing that the FTC had…