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September 10, 2024, 10:10 AM

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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, confirming a 2016 decision; filing: Apple will incur a ~$10B charge in Q4  —  Europe's top court on Tuesday ruled against Apple in the tech giant's 10-year court battle over its tax affairs in Ireland.
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple unveils iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max with larger 6.3" and 6.9" screens, four titanium finishes, Camera Control, A18 Pro, 48MP ultrawide, 5x telephoto cameras  —  Apple today announced the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max—its latest flagship smartphones—featuring larger displays …
The Verge:
iPhone 16 Pro, Pro Max hands-on: despite larger displays, they don't feel that much bigger, helped by thin bezels; the Camera Control button is ultrasensitive  —  I just spent a few minutes with the new iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, which feature bigger displays with thinner bezels, revamped cameras …
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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces an AirPods Pro 2 hearing health software update to add features like a “clinical grade” hearing aid mode and a clinically-validated hearing test  —  Apple has announced some new hearing health related features, coming as a software update for AirPods Pro 2.
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Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal:
Oracle shares are up 34% since January, well outpacing the Nasdaq's 14% rise, as it becomes an attractive cloud-computing provider for AI developers  —  Long-stagnant stock is up 34% thanks to its neutral status in the booming market for AI computing power  —  Oracle missed the tech industry's move …
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Google loses its bid to reverse a €2.4B EU fine for abusing its monopoly power to crush rival shopping services, as EU's Court of Justice backs a 2017 decision  —  - EU judges uphold lower court ruling in shopping case  — Google was accused by EU of abusing its dominant position
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 10, with a thinner design, a bigger screen, smaller bezels, a Jet Black finish, faster charging, more, coming Sept. 20 for $399+  —  Apple on Monday announced the next generation Apple Watch, or Apple Watch Series 10, at its special event “It's Glowtime.”
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Vanity Fair:
An excerpt from the book Character Limit on Musk's acquisition of Twitter and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction  —  In an excerpt from their new book, Character Limit, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac detail how Musk's “goons” instilled fear and uncertainty among …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation tools for businesses, raised a $43M Series C led by Left Lane Capital, bringing its total funding to $70M  —  Can AI ever fully replace translators?  Not likely.  AI translations tend to lack the lexical richness of their human-translated counterparts …
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Jody Godoy / Reuters:
In the first day of the antitrust trial focused on ads, US prosecutors allege Google abused its size to dominate the sector through acquisitions and more  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google sought to dominate all sides of online advertising technology by controlling competitors and customers …
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Testing the Apple Intelligence beta shows the pre-release software still has a long way to go, with hallucinations, marking spam emails as priority, and more  —  The new iPhone is all about artificial intelligence.  But it does an uncomfortable amount of making things up in tests of its prerelease software.
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Huawei unveils the Mate XT trifold phone with a screen that folds into 6.4 inches and unfolds into 10.2 inches, available in China on September 20 for $2,800+  —  BEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Huawei said Tuesday its trifold smartphone will start at the equivalent of more than $2,800.
Reuters:
US charges leaders of white supremacist gang The Terrorgram Collective, which uses Telegram to celebrate attacks on minorities, with trying to incite a race war  —  U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Monday against two alleged leaders of a white supremacist gang …

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