Google will pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated for collecting children’s personal information without parental consent, and using it to send targeted ads.
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Google agrees $36 million fine for anti-competitive deals with Australia telcos
YouTube was also last month added to an Australian ban admitting users aged under 16, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the video-sharing site.
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Robots race, play football, crash and collapse at China’s ‘robot Olympics’
Robots competed in sports such as track and field, and table tennis, as well as tackled robot-specific challenges from sorting medicines and handling materials to cleaning services.
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Apple to bring blood oxygen feature to some US watches with software update
The move will allow users of Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the U.S. to view their blood oxygen levels on a paired iPhone.
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AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser
Buying Chrome would allow the startup to tap the browser’s more than three billion users for an edge in the AI search race.
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Nvidia, AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenue to US, official says
Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the U.S. government 15% of revenue from sales to China of advanced computer chips in an unusual move likely to faze American companies.
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