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By Juli Clover, MacRumors Popular repair site iFixit on Tuesday sent a petition to the United States Federal Trade Commission calling for new Right to Repair rules that would protect consumer interests. iFixit’s petition calls attention to some of the “blocks” that manufacturers have put in place that prevent customers and independent repair shops from repairing

By Jennifer Korn, CNN Venmo wants to eliminate the financial mental math of splitting roommate bills, lunch checks and road trip costs. The new Venmo Groups feature gives users the ability to track and split ongoing group expenses, making it easier to figure out who owes who what. Members can add an expense and specify

By Tim Hardwick, MacRumors When Meta launched Threads in July, one of the complaints users had about the platform was that it was impossible to delete your Threads profile without also deleting your Instagram account. Up until now, the only alternative was to “temporarily” deactivate your Threads profile. This option makes your posts and interactions with

CARY – As Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to testify in Epic Games’ antitrust case on Tuesday  in federal court, the judge in the case reportedly is angry with what Google execs have had to say so far in the trial that began last week. ” Google’s chief legal officer has been summoned to

By Juli Clover, MacRumors As Google battles an antitrust lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice, secrets about its search deals with Apple have been leaking out. We previously learned that Google is paying Apple billions of dollars to be the primary search engine on Apple devices, and now, Bloomberg has shared the total percentage of Google’s revenue

Editor’s note: Tom Snyder, executive director of rapidly growing Raleigh-based RIoT and a thought leader in the emerging Internet of Things, is the newest columnist to join WRAL TechWire’s list of top drawer contributors. His “Datafication Nation” columns are part of WRAL TechWire’s Startup Monday package. +++ RALEIGH – Last week I wrote about 5G and how it has struggled

RALEIGH — The Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo is coming to Raleigh next spring. The event, billed as “the nation’s leading smart city IoT event”, will take place at the downtown Convention Center May 8-10, 2024. According to Richard Erb, the Executive Director of Smart Cities Connect, next year’s event should bring 1,500 total

CARY – Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to testify in Epic Games’ antitrust case on Tuesday – and he may do so in person. Tech news site The Verge reported Thursday that Pichai may testify in person since Google requested a podium. The federal judge in the case granted the request, the news site

Jezebel, the punchy feminist blog with an outsized influence on internet culture, will suspend operations and lay off its staff effective immediately, its parent company G/O Media said Thursday as it announced broader restructuring in its portfolio of digital news outlets. Layoffs also are hitting at Vice. The cuts come as the broader media industry

MEXICO CITY — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he suffered a minor stroke while attending a business conference in Mexico City. Wozniak told ABC News in a text Thursday that he felt dizzy Wednesday morning, then experienced vertigo before going to the hospital where a MRI revealed he had had a “minor but real stroke.”