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The National Music Publishers Assn., acting on behalf of 17 major music publishers, is filing a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter for its failure to license and pay for the music widely available on its platform, Variety reported. The complaint seeks more than $250 million in damages for hundreds of thousands of noticed infringements of approximately 1,700 works. “Twitter
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday applied for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction seeking to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard before the deal’s July 18 deadline, CNBC reported. According to CNBC, the FTC said it fears that should Microsoft be allowed to buy Activision, Microsoft would have the power to “withhold or degrade” Activision’s gaming
Google announced that their latest Feature Drop is here, and it’s jam-packed with helpful tools and updates for your Pixel Phone, Pixel Watch and Fitbit devices. These began rolling out yesterday, and will continue over the next few weeks. For Pixel Phones Peace of mind from Google Assistant: Use your voice to ask Google Assistant on your Pixel phone to
The music has analog roots, but now it’s being revived by futuristic technology: The Beatles have completed a new recording using an old demo tape by John Lennon, thanks to AI tools that isolate Lennon’s voice, according to Paul McCartney, NPR reported. NPR provided a quote: “We just finished it up, it’ll be released this year,” McCartney, Lennon’s former bandmate,
The popular online forum Reddit experienced outages hours after thousands of Reddit communities launched a protest against its policy to charge third-party apps for data access, NBC News reported. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some unexpected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” Reddit said in a statement to NBC News. During
YouTube is lowering the requirements for creators to access to get access to monetization tools under the YouTube Partners Program (YPP). The company is expanding its shopping affiliate program to U.S.-based creators who are part of YPP and have more than 20,000 subscribers, TechCrunch reported.
Meta has released its own AI-powered music generator - and, unlike Google, open-sourced it, TechCrunch reported. Called MusicGen, Meta’s music-generating tool, can turn a text description (e.g. “An ‘80s driving pop song with heavy drums and synth pads in the background”) into about 12 seconds of audio, give or take. MusicGen can optionally be “steered” with reference audio, like an
The vast amounts of American’s personal data available for sale has provided a rich stream of intelligence for the U.S. government, but created significant threats to privacy, according to a newly released report by the U.S’s top spy agency, The Wall Street Journal reported. Commercially available information, or CAI, has grown in such scale that it has begun to replicate
I am sure, in a bid to steal tech for the Chinese. A former Samsung Electronics executive, who previously served as vice president at SK Hynix, has been indicted in South Korea for purportedly stealing chipmaking technology to build a duplicate factory in China. The arrest is part of South Korea's measures to safeguard its high-tech industry against acquisition attempts
Bloomberg reported that Microsoft Corp’s video gaming chief Phil Spencer said he doesn’t “feel an imperative” to come out with a major upgrade of its Xbox game console. (The rest of Bloomberg’s article appears to be behind a paywall.) Fortunately, IGN reported that Phil Spencer is adamant that consoles are “critical” to Xbox’s business going forward, saying that dedicated gaming
Xbox announced an exciting future for players and game creators, including dozens of new games, a new 1TB Series S console and new ways for players to get their games anywhere with PC Game Pass coming to NVIDIA GeForce NOW later this year. “Our ambition is to release at least four first-party games a year - although we’ll balance that
Platformer, which is run by Managing editor of Platformer Zoë Shiffer and Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer, posted “Twitter stiffs Google”. “Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, Platformer has learned, leading to a high-stakes conflict between the companies that could result in Twitter’s trust and safety
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