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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — B.J. Hill stands 6-foot-3, weighs 311 pounds and had just spent three hours trying to haul down Patrick Mahomes. Now the Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle had taken on a new job, the world’s most intimidating, and perhaps protective, press agent. Inside a devastated Cincinnati Bengals locker room, Hill stood directly on the left shoulder of teammate Joseph Ossai and warned the media that had gathered in front of them. “Any dumb questions and I am shutting this… Source link

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — B.J. Hill stands 6-foot-3, weighs 311 pounds and had just spent three hours trying to haul down Patrick Mahomes. Now the Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle had taken on a new job, the world’s most intimidating, and perhaps protective, press agent. Inside a devastated Cincinnati Bengals locker room, Hill stood directly on the left shoulder of teammate Joseph Ossai and warned the media that had gathered in front of them. “Any dumb questions and I am shutting this… Source link

Shares of Southwest (LUV) sank as much as 6% on Tuesday after the airline canceled thousands of flights, leaving passengers stranded at airports and drawing scrutiny from federal officials. Southwest had canceled more than 2,590 flights on Tuesday as of 2:30 p.m. ET, or about 63% of its scheduled flights, according to tracker FlightAware. The disruption exacerbates a meltdown that began over the holiday weekend and saw 2,900 flights canceled on Monday. The U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT)… Source link

SEOUL, Oct 21 (Reuters) – South Korea’s parliament saw heated debate on Friday over proposed legislation to make global content providers such as Netflix (NFLX.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google pay South Korean network fees. The deliberations mirror attempts in Europe by some countries that want the European Commission to come up with legislation that ensures Big Tech firms partly finance telecoms infrastructure, as video streaming and other data usage surges. Various versions of legislation… Source link

Google’s promise to protect the location history of users who visit abortion clinics is coming under scrutiny after researchers found that a user who had brief access to another user’s Android phone – such as a boyfriend logging into his girlfriend’s phone – could then relatively easily monitor the user’s movements. The finding by Tech Transparency Project, a research arm of the nonprofit Campaign for Accountability, comes weeks after Google announced in a blogpost that it would… Source link

Germany’s competition regulator is looking into possible abuses related to how Google operates its Maps product. It’s the latest proceeding the Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has opened against Google — with earlier (ongoing) investigations into the tech giant’s News Showcase licensing practices and its data terms. However the Maps proceeding is the first initiated under tougher abuse controls which have applied to Google’s business in Germany since January — when the… Source link

A group of US senators have urged the tech giants Apple and Google to prohibit the apps in their app stores from collecting data that could be used to identify women seeking abortions, media reports say. The letter, signed by five Democratic and independent senators, comes in the wake of a leaked draft of an upcoming majority opinion that indicates that the Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision… Source link

A secret deal struck between Google and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is being investigated by antitrust regulators in the European Union and Britain for potentially undermining competition in the multibillion-dollar digital advertising market. The inquiry, which was announced on Friday by the European Commission and U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, is the latest effort to scrutinize the business practices of the world’s largest technology companies. The regulators said the… Source link

LONDON (AP) — Germany’s antitrust watchdog paved the way Wednesday for extra scrutiny of Google by designating it a company of “paramount significance,” the first to get that label since regulators got more power to curb abusive practices by big digital companies. The Bundeskartellamt said its decision comes after rules were introduced last year that allow it “to intervene earlier and more effectively” to ban companies from using anti-competitive practices. The… Source link

Google bought Fitbit in January, but for U.S. and Australian regulators, it’s not a done deal. The U.S. Department of Justice and the antitrust-focused Australian Competition and Consumer Commission are still investigating the $2.1 billion deal, according to Rod Sims, who heads the Australian regulatory agency. Sims explained Friday that his agency was still determining whether the deal presents privacy issues regarding the tech giant’s huge store of consumer… Source link