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Apple's low-cost MacBook will fill a long-standing gap in its lineup — and bring a new wave of users into the ecosystem. March 4 marks Apple's next big announcement day, which it plans to celebrate ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg will testify in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta's platforms deliberately addict and harm children. Meta's CEO is expected to answer ...

(NewsNation) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday in a closely watched trial examining whether social media platforms were deliberately designed in ways that addict and harm children ...

LOS ANGELES -- Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions about young people's use of Instagram, his congressional ...

Google has agreed to pay $203 million in separate settlements involving claims that it collecting cell data without permission and "wrongfully" recorded and disseminating private audio data. Android ...

Android users are poised to anywhere between $100 to $135 million as part of two new Google settlements. Android users accused Google of programming its Android operating system to collect their ...

China's artificial intelligence companies are giving away money, cars and other freebies as part of a Lunar New Year blitz. ByteDance, Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba are all trying to hook users as they ...

An ongoing conversation — both within and outside of the tech community — has been about just how and when OpenAI, which is currently valued at $500 billion, will make money. Well, there’s one ...

Of the more than 800 million regular users of ChatGPT, 1 in 4 submits a prompt about healthcare every week, according to OpenAI. More than 40 million turn to ChatGPT every day with healthcare ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 10 in October but the aging operating system still has a strong install base. According to Dell, roughly a billion PCs are still running ...

Some eligible Amazon customers have received their piece of the $2.5 billion settlement the e-commerce giant agreed to pay after being accused of antitrust activities. In the first of two waves of ...