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College football is finally here. Though the real fun begins next week with Week 1, there are seven FBS vs. FBS games on the schedule on Saturday. The headliner is the Big Ten game in Ireland between Nebraska and Northwestern. Elsewhere, there are a few Conference USA games on the slate, Florida State and North Carolina host FCS opponents and an SEC team travels to Hawaii. What are the best games? Nebraska at Northwestern (12:30 p.m. ET, Fox) Coming off a miserable 3-9 record in 2021, Scott… Source link

3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the Google Cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register July 19 (Reuters) – A Google Cloud data center in London faced an outage on Tuesday, according to an update on the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit’s status page, as temperature in the UK soared to a record high. Google Cloud said it was a “cooling related” failure at one of the… Source link

LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) faces a London trial over an estimated 920-milion-pound ($1.1 billion) damages claim after a court authorised a lawsuit that alleges the Alphabet-owned tech giant overcharged 19.5 million customers for app store purchases. The class action, which was certified by the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Monday, alleges Google abused its dominant position by charging up to 30% commission on popular apps on its Play Store, including Roblox, Candy Crush… Source link

Elon Musk could face paying billions after walking away from the Twitter deal.Angela Weiss/Getty Images Elon Musk may be on the hook for billions after abandoning his Twitter deal, an NYU professor said. Musk walked away from the deal Friday, blaming its failure to disclose the number of fake accounts. Experts told Reuters that Twitter may try to negotiate a lower price with the Tesla CEO. Elon Musk could face paying out billions of dollars after walking away from a deal to buy Twitter, an… Source link

(Bloomberg) — SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is used to praise and encouragement from shareholders. But the company’s loss of $34 billion in market value over the last year is a test for even his most faithful admirers when they gather for the annual shareholders’ meeting on Friday. Most Read from Bloomberg Investors stuck by Son when SoftBank announced a holding company strategy in 2015 to hive out its staid but profitable domestic telecom business to become the world’s… Source link

This is also not the first time Google has shut down an office in Moscow. In 2014, it moved its engineers out of the city to protest new data protection rules. But in recent years, the stakes have become higher. In September 2021, Russian authorities visited the home of one of Google’s top executives, telling her to delete an app linked to activist Alexei Navalny from the Google Play Store or face prison. When Google put the executive up in a hotel under a different name, the same agents… Source link

Google is facing a new class-action style lawsuit in the UK in relation to a health data scandal that broke back in 2016, when it emerged that its AI division, DeepMind, had been passed data on more than a million patients as part of an app development project by the Royal Free NHS Trust in London — without the patients’ knowledge or consent. The Trust was later sanctioned by the UK’s data protection watchdog which found, in mid 2017, that it had breached uk data protection law… Source link

Donald Trump is testing his political strength for the second straight week Tuesday, this time in Nebraska, where the former president is backing a candidate for governor accused of sexually assaulting multiple women. Trump’s pick in the tight three-way GOP gubernatorial primary is cattle producer and businessman Charles Herbster, who had been leading the field of Republicans running for governor. But in mid-April a Republican state senator, Julie Slama, and seven other women said Herbster… Source link

OAKLAND, Calif., May 9 (Reuters) – Dating apps maker Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) sued Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday, calling the action a “last resort” to prevent Tinder and its other apps from being booted off the Play store for refusing to share up to 30% of their sales. Match’s lawsuit is the latest to target Google’s allegedly anticompetitive conduct with the Play store, joining ongoing cases brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, dozens of U.S. state attorneys general and… Source link

The Google app logo is seen on a smartphone in this picture illustration taken September 15, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register OAKLAND, Calif., May 2 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Monday it had recently fired a senior engineering manager after colleagues, whose landmark research on artificial intelligence software he had been trying to discredit, accused him of harassing behavior. The dispute, which stems… Source link