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CARY – Google once offered Epic Games $147 million to include its Fortnite game in the Google app store but Epic initially rejected the deal, according to documents seen in the Epic-Google antitrust suit that opened on Monday. Tech news site The Verge’s Sean Hollister wrote Wednesday night that he saw information at the trial

Editor’s note: Steve S. Rao is a Council Member At Large and Former Mayor Pro Tem for the Town of Morrisville and an Opinion Writer for WRAL Tech Wire.  He served on the Board of the New American Economy, now the American Immigration Council, and on the NC League of Municipalities Race and Equity Task Force.

By Veronica Calderon, CNN Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – known as “The Woz” – was hospitalized in Mexico City on Wednesday, a source from the organizers of the World Business Foru, an event he attended in the country’s capital, told CNN En Español. The source said Wozniak, 73, was taken to the hospital at 3

CHARLOTTE – A Wake County judge has ordered Flock Safety, a fast-growing Atlanta-based tech company, to stop installing automated license plate cameras for law enforcement and other clients across North Carolina. The judge found that the firm has been operating unlicensed in North Carolina for years. The legal dispute has already cost the company a

By Juli Clover, MacRumors MacBook Pro models with the M3 and M3 Pro chips are available starting Tuesday and MacRumors videographer Dan Barbera was in New York so he popped over to the Grand Central station Apple Store to pick up a new machine to demo to MacRumors readers. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. Dan purchased the

By Brian Fung, CNN WASHINGTON — Meta’s top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram, a company whistleblower told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday. Meta instead fosters a culture of “see no evil, hear no evil” that overlooks evidence of harm internally while publicly presenting carefully

By Juli Clover, MacRumors The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday proposed new oversight requirements for technology companies like Apple that offer digital wallets and payment apps. According to the CFPB, payment services like Apple Pay are growing in popularity, but the companies behind them are not subject to the same “supervisory examinations” that banks

By Jennifer Korn, CNN NEW YORK — Embroiled in antitrust fights with both tech giants Apple and Google, Epic Games’ Fortnite connects with millions despite being banned from both app stores of the companies they are fighting. In its biggest weekend ever, video game maker Epic Games launched Fortnite OG, bringing players back to some

SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Monday confronted the second major U.S. antitrust trial in two months to cast the internet powerhouse as a brazen bully that uses its immense wealth and people’s dependence on one of its main products to stifle competition at consumers’ expense. Its opponent in this showdown: Cary, N.C.-based Epic Games. The

By Juli Clover, MacRumors Google has announced that it is testing two new generative AI features designed to improve the YouTube viewing experience. A select number of YouTube users will have access to these new additions during Google’s testing period. For YouTube videos with long comment threads, YouTube will use artificial intelligence to organize them into