The US is taking onAmazon in a case that could have a serious effect on the company
The US’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a lawsuit against Amazon over the company’s alleged conduct in the domestic marketplace. The FTC had filed a lawsuit against Amazon in December 2015 alleging that it illegally gathered information from its Ring doorbell service. The FTC is also looking at Amazon’s activities in the e-commerce space and other areas.
Nothing has launched a timepiece or earbuds that are less than $120
The UK’s Nothing has announced that it will have a limited edition of the Power 65W GaN chargers from Chemical Mechanics (CMF) at its London-based store on September 30. The Power 65W GaN comes with two ports and one port and can charge Nothing’s Nothing Phone 2 in 25 minutes. Nothing’s London-based store will have the limited edition on September 30.
A case against Amazon could be a huge blow to the retail giant
US’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Lina Khan has said Amazon is a monopolist and it’s exploiting its monopolies in ways that leave shoppers and sellers paying more for worse service. Earlier this year, Amazon agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle an FTC lawsuit that accused Ring workers and hackers of illegally spying on customers.
There wasn’t a valid alternative, said Apple in court
The US Justice Department (DoJ) in its case against Google and DuckDuckGo accused them of using their dominant positions in search engine market to favour one platform over another. Google said that DuckDuckGo made a “quixotic” but fruitless effort to have its privacy-focused search engine implemented in browsers’ incognito mode and was stymied by the Google deals.
Getty Images enters therative artificial intelligence pool
Getty Images has launched a generative AI tool called Generative AI that uses images from over 20 years of Getty photographers’ experience. Customers can access the tool through Getty Images’ website. The company said that users will have the right to perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive use of the images and that new content generated by AI will not be added into Getty’s existing content libraries.
You can now talk to someone and look at your life
Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has announced it’ll be testing audio-enabled synthesis of synthetic speech and audio-audio on its chat service, ChatGPT. It’ll begin using audio and visual data to train its machine learning models, OpenAI said. It’ll test the feature with a Podcaster, who’ll be able to mimic the original voice of a Podcaster and translate it into more than one language.
NASA collected a sample from a asteroid for the first time
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully landed on asteroid Bennu after a 6.4-year journey. It landed on the asteroid, which is about 90 million km from Earth, to sample and return the asteroid’s surface pebbles. If found to be intact, that would be the biggest haul of extraterrestrial material carried back by any nation on Earth since Apollo astronauts carried pieces of the moon home.
California’s Governor has imposed a statewide ban on driverless trucks
The Teamsters union has urged California Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the bill that would have required a safety driver on self-driving trucks weighing over 10,000 pounds through at least end of the decade. The bill, AB316, would have given California Department of Motor Vehicles time to consider rules allowing trucks over 10,000 pounds to drive on California roads.
The pricing model for Unity has been changed
A video game developer said that Unity’s ‘runtime fee’ is not going to fix it and he won’t be using it for his next project. “We don’t trust them to stick to their word. I think they damage their brand for game developers nationwide, and…walkback isn’t going to fix it,” said Necrosoft Games’ co-founder. He further said he was “privy to these changes”.
This weekend is the last chance for NASA to bring home asteroids
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which will return asteroid rock samples to Earth, is on track to reach the target on October 2, the space agency has announced. The mission will collect samples from an asteroid nicknamed ‘Asteroid X’ that is roughly the size of a medium-sized sedan. NASA’s Psyche mission will launch in October to another asteroid called ‘Phosphorus’.