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Apple iPhone 14 Pro (left) and iPhone 15 Pro Max Andy Boxall / Digital Trends If you’re reading this article, chances are you have an iPhone. It’s also quite likely that your friends and family members also use an iPhone. The iPhone is the smartphone of choice for millions of people in the U.S., and now, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing Apple over the iPhone monopoly it has established over the years. Why is this happening? What does it mean for you and your iPhone? Here’s a quick breakdown of what you need…

The US Department of Justice and 15 states on Thursday sued Apple as the government cracks down on Big Tech, alleging the iPhone maker monopolized the smartphone market, hurt smaller rivals and drove up prices.Apple joins competitors sued by regulators, including Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms and Amazon.com across the administrations of both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden."Consumers should not have to pay higher prices because companies violate the antitrust laws," Attorney General Merrick…

AG Merrick Garland accused the Big Tech giant of "anticompetitive conduct" in a press conference announcing the landmark litigation The Justice Department has sued Apple. The landmark civil suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, accuses the Big Tech behemoth of violating antitrust laws through its alleged monopolization of the smartphone market. The DOJ alleges Apple has met competitive threats by “imposing a series of shapeshifting rules and restrictions…

Fallout from a New York jury’s conviction of Jonathan Majors for misdemeanor reckless assault and harassment has erupted in a lawsuit against the actor from ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, who claims that she alerted Majors’ management team of abuse in 2021. Jabbari, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in New York federal court, brings claims for battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, malicious prosecution and defamation, which arises from Majors denying that he abused the professional…

Jonathan Majors' former girlfriend sued him Tuesday on civil allegations including assault, battery, defamation and infliction of emotional distress, three months after the actor was convicted in a criminal trial of assaulting her in New York City. HT Image Grace Jabbari, a 31-year-old British dancer, filed the action in federal court in Manhattan, claiming Majors subjected her to escalating incidents of physical and verbal abuse from 2021 to 2023. Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news!…

Nearly one year after he was arrested on assault, strangulation and harassment charges, Jonathan Majors legal issues remain in play. The embattled actor stood trial for assault near the end of 2023, and the case ended with Majors being found guilty of harassment and third-degree reckless assault. At present, the actor is awaiting his sentencing hearing, which is set to happen in a little less than a month. In the interim, Majors (who's also taken some professional hits) is now facing yet another legal challenge, as his…

By Andrew Dalton | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, on Tuesday. The account is similar to the still-unresolved Los Angeles criminal sexual assault case that prompted Polanski in 1978 to flee to Europe, where he has remained since. The woman who filed the civil lawsuit said she went to dinner…

Epic also filed lawsuits in Australia in November 2020. The company says it picked Australia because of its favourable antitrust laws. All sides agree that the Australian case is extremely similar to what has played out in the US, and the trial here is dealing with the same issues.In the US, Epic has already lost its battle, with Apple winning on nine of 10 counts. The US Supreme Court recently declined to hear an appeal. Epic won a separate trial against Google, however, with a jury finding that Google has a monopoly in…

It's getting hard to keep up with copyright lawsuits against generative AI, with a new proposed class action hitting the courts last week. This time, authors are suing NVIDIA over its AI platform NeMo, a language model that allows businesses to create and train their own chatbots, Ars Technica reported. They claim the company trained it on a controversial dataset that illegally used their books without consent.Authors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene and Stewart O’Nan demanded a jury trial and asked Nvidia to pay damages and…

Nvidia, whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who said it used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform.Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan said their works were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate ordinary written language, before being taken down in October "due to reported copyright infringement." In a proposed class action filed on Friday night in San Francisco federal court, the authors said the…