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Google Illegally Used Dark Patterns to Trick Users Into Handing Over Location Data, State AGs Say

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Texas, and at least two other states refocused their sights on Google, claiming the company repeatedly pressures its users to forfeit their location data through dark pattern tactics and other deceptive practices. On Monday, attorneys general from Washington D.C.,

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Texas Heartbeat Act Opens the Door for a Flood of Data Requests Targeting Abortion Providers

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The Texas Heartbeat Act, which has outlawed abortions after six weeks in the state of Texas, has many alarming angles to it, but one of the less obvious ones is the potential role large tech companies may play in facilitating upcoming legal cases against healthcare providers. Read more.

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Texas Lawsuit Claims Facebook's Facial Recognition Violated User Privacy and Broke the Law

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Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has taken yet another swing at Big Tech, this time suing Meta for allegedly capturing and using facial recognition data on millions of users without their consent. In the suit , Paxton claims Meta’s unauthorized use of the tech—which the company claims it has now largely… Read more.

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Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity

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Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. Viewing spatially-linked assets on a hyperrealistic 3D planet map, the toolkit powers ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles via the Google Maps Platform, it said on its website.

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Russia cracks down on Zello walkie-talkie app amid ongoing war

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At issue, according to an official press release (translated from Russian by Google), is the Texas company's failure to prevent discussion of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine on its platform. "On On March 4, Roskomnadzor, based on the decision, sent the administration of the American Internet resource Zello (Zello Inc.)

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Artificial Intelligence Helps NASA Discover New Planets

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With a little help of telescopic data, astronomers have found more than 3,500 planets, up from 329 known before the Kepler mission. Shallue, a senior software engineer with Google’s research team Google AI, came up with the idea to apply a neural network to Kepler data. degrees Celsius). degrees Celsius).

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

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Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. Virginia and West Virginia.

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