• Armin van Buuren’s Armada forms new parent company, acquires Amsterdam’s Cloud 9 Music, and targets $500m in new investments via its BEAT Music Fund

    The newly-formed Armada Music Group will encompass Armada’s label, publishing and investments arms Source

  • Huawei’s new phone has a feature that even Apple’s iPhones do not

    The recently launched Huawei Pura 70 Ultra has a cool satellite feature that lets users send images, something that other phones do not have.

  • Nate Diaz targeted in new Rodney Petersen lawsuit for New Orleans street brawl, Diaz rep responds

    Nate Diaz is the target of a newly filed lawsuit by Logan Paul lookalike Rodney Petersen for his role in a viral street fight in New Orleans in April 2023. Petersen, who also goes by the moniker Not Logan Paul, filed the suit this past week in civil district court in the state of Louisiana, alleging that he suffered “severe bodily injuries including but not limited to his head, neck, and brain, pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, psychological distress, medical...

  • Japan is also targeting Apple for antitrust practices

    After the European Commission forced Apple to open up iOS for third-party app stores in the EU, it seems like other countries are investigating Apple over antitrust and monopolistic practices. Most recently, news broke that Japan is looking to significantly increase fines for big corporations that engage in monopolistic practices. The current law in Japan suggests a penalty of 6% of sales, but policy makers are looking to increase that to 20%. A subsequent future failure to comply with the law...

  • US’s most endangered rivers are in New Mexico: Report

    The rivers of New Mexico are the most threatened waterways in the country, according to a recently released report by advocacy group American Rivers. The report ranks the Top 10 most endangered waterways in the United States, noting that pollution, climate change, and reduced clean water protections all contribute to their decline. American Rivers cited

  • Apple Arcade Guide: What’s new and everything available [U]

    Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added almost every week with over 200 games now in the library. Follow along with our guide on all the available Apple Arcade games plus the latest releases. more

  • Trump’s New York Trial Has Officially Begun. Here’s What’s at Stake.

    Jury selection began Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases to go to trial, a case legal experts say is the Read More

  • ‘It’s up to us’ – Sheffield Wednesday skipper makes no bones about Owls target

    The Owls picked up a huge win over Blackburn Rovers over the weekend, securing a 3-1 victory that saw them climb out of the Championship bottom three and finally take their fate into their own hands. Now, with games against West Bromwich Albion and Sunderland standing between themselves and another season in the second tier, the Wednesday skipper has explained that they’ve ticked one box off on their list of targets – they just need to do the same with a couple more. Bannan, who played his 400th...

  • New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds

    Supreme court ruling left more than 90% of state’s surface waters with no pollution protections, since they don’t run continuouslyNew Mexico’s rivers, which include the Rio Grande, Gila, San Juan and Pecos, are America’s most threatened waterways, according to a new report. This is largely due to a 2023 US supreme court decision that left more than 90% of the state’s surface waters without federal protections from industrial pollution, according to state officials.“Virtually all the rivers in...

  • Chinese organized crime’s latest US target: Gift cards

    Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana trade in the U.S. and launder cocaine and heroin profits. Now a federal task force is investigating their role in a burgeoning form of gift card fraud. by Craig Silverman and Peter Elkind, ProPublica Federal authorities are investigating the involvement of Chinese organized crime rings in gift card fraud schemes that have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars or more from American consumers. The U.S. Department of Homeland...

  • Apple denies violating US court order in Epic Games lawsuit

    IPhone maker Apple on Friday denied violating a court order governing its App Store and urged a California federal judge to reject a request by Fortnite developer Epic Games to hold it in contempt. Apple made the arguments in a filing to U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, who presided over Epic's lawsuit in 2020 accusing Apple of violating antitrust law with its tight controls over how consumers download apps and pay for transactions within them. The Apple filing criticized...

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    Google asks court to completely dismiss US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against its ad operations

    Google is asking a federal court in Virginia to dismiss a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit that accuses Google of anticompetitive practices in the online advertising marketplace.