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By Joe Rossignol, MacRumors Apple on Thursday shared a heartwarming ad for its new Personal Voice accessibility feature, available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Introduced with iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma, Personal Voice allows those at risk of losing their ability to speak to create a synthesized voice that sounds similar to their actual

By Brian Fung, CNN WASHINGTON — Instagram-parent Meta has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent regulators from reopening the company’s landmark $5 billion privacy settlement from 2020 and and from banning the social media giant from monetizing the user data of children. Thursday’s lawsuit in Washington federal court calls for a halt to the FTC’s

By Brian Fung, CNN Google has agreed to pay Canadian publishers for their news content, backing down from a high-stakes threat to block all news content produced in the country on its platforms after the tech giant and the Canadian government announced a deal Wednesday to avert the looming crisis. The agreement resolves tensions between

WILMINGTON — nCino (NCNO) on Wednesday reported a loss of $16.4 million in its fiscal third quarter. The Wilmington-based cloud banking company said it had a loss of 15 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 14 cents per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six

By Tim Hardwick, MacRumors Google has issued a critical security update for Chrome on macOS, Windows, and Linux that fixes a zero-day vulnerability in the browser. On Tuesday, Google in a Chrome stable channel update said it “is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-6345 exists in the wild.” Google has not provided further details about the CVE-2023-6345 exploit, which

CARY – Epic Games majority owner and CEO Tim Sweeney is keeping a close eye on his company’s court case against Google, attending the antitrust trial in San Francisco every day. So reports Sean Hollister for TheVerge who also is in constant attendance in federal court. “I casually ambushed Epic co-founder and CEO Tim Sweeney

NEW YORK — Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that advertisers who have halted spending on his social media platform X in response to antisemitic and other hateful material are engaging in “blackmail” and, using a profanity, essentially told them to go away. “Don’t advertise,” Musk said. He appeared to specifically call out Walt Disney Co.

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Jezebel, the punchy feminist blog that was shuttered earlier this month, will be resurrected after the publication was sold to a new owner. The digital media outlet Paste Magazine, which focuses on music and culture journalism, said Wednesday that it had acquired the outlet from G/O Media. “We are honored to

FAYETTEVILLE – Fiber network provider Metronet says it has installed “more than 170 miles” of fiber in Fayetteville, thus bringing high-speed internet access to a “majority of households and businesses.” Begun in 2021, Metronet is investing $70 million in the network that delivers multi-gigabit speeds. Fayetteville was the first city selected by Indiana-based Metronet which

CARY – The federal judge handling the antitrust lawsuit between Cary-based Epic Games and Google over Google’s ban of Epic’s megahit Fortnite wants the two companies to discuss a settlement. In Tuesday’s proceedings at federal court in San Francisco Judge James Donato told Epic lead attorney Gary Bornstein: “Spotify pays 4 percent or 0 percent