Apple asks court to halt Google search monopoly case

Apple wants to ensure it has a voice in the remedies trial for the Justice Department’s search monopolization case against Google, and filed an emergency motion to stay the proceedings while it appeals the district court’s denial of its request to be more directly heard in the case. The remedies phase of the trial is…

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How to file and pay your 2024 taxes online

The holidays are over, a new year is here, and along with all the various upheavals that we are facing (including some possible changes in tax law), most of us have to deal with our annual income taxes. Sorry about that. Tax day this year falls, for most of us, on the traditional April 15th….

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AI is ‘an energy hog,’ but DeepSeek could change that

DeepSeek startled everyone last month with the claim that its AI model uses roughly one-tenth the amount of computing power as Meta’s Llama 3.1 model, upending an entire worldview of how much energy and resources it’ll take to develop artificial intelligence.  Taken at face value, that claim could have tremendous implications for the environmental impact…

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Chuck Todd out at NBC News

Chuck Todd, the former moderator of “Meet the Press,” is leaving NBC News.  Todd, who has become a noticeably less visible presence on the network after he was replaced as “Meet the Press” moderator by Kristen Welker in 2023 after nine years in the chair, announced he would exit NBC on Friday.  “We’re grateful for Chuck’s…

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