Information Week

OCTOBER 19, 2023

US House members heard testimony on the need for rules around use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data privacy.

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Forrester IT

MAY 7, 2018

I had an AI aha moment at a Lexington backyard barbecue last summer. I ran into Carol Rose, the executive director of the Massachusetts ACLU. She told me that she had been asked by Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz to join the board for the Partnership on AI. This partnership was formed in 2016 by Amazon, Google, […].

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TechSpot

MAY 10, 2021

Last week, Vice President of Xbox Business Development Lori Wright testified that Microsoft does not, nor has it ever profited from Xbox sales. She claimed that most of Xbox's revenue stems from Xbox Live and Game Pass subscriptions, with a smaller portion coming from a 30-percent commission from sales in.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Intuitive Machines (IM) recently showed a series of images captured by the Odysseus spacecraft in space, a spectacular testimony to the fact that the mission is going as expected. The images were captured shortly after separation from the second stage of the SpaceX rocket, IM said on the social network. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 17, 2021

Update (08/17/21): Shortly after publication, T-Mobile reached out to us to comment on the Commission's ruling. A spokesperson said that the company categorically disagrees with the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in this case, issuing the following statement:

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Her testimony started this week, and boy, did she dish. Sam Bankman-Fried's on-again-off-again love interest, Caroline Ellison, pleaded guilty and agreed to become the state's witness in exchange for a lesser sentence. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

According to testimony by a senior Google executive, the company paid $26.3 billion to a number of companies in 2021 to be the default search engine on various mobile phones and web browsers. The statement came from Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's Senior VP of search, ads, commerce and payments, during the. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beast

MAY 4, 2021

In Apple v. Epic's opening day, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney testified and the companies unveiled key documents in the antitrust case. Read More.

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TechSpot

JULY 26, 2023

The hearing featured testimony from three key witnesses. David Fravor is a former fighter pilot and was commander of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in November 2004 when he and three others were instructed to halt their training exercise to go investigate unusual radar tracks that had been observed. Read Entire Article

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Forrester IT

APRIL 19, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the U.S. Senate didn’t sway us from our previously posted perspective, at least in terms of what Facebook’s fiasco means for marketers. If you are looking for more catastrophizing around the near-term death of social marketing, you’ve come to the wrong blog post.

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Computer Weekly

JANUARY 18, 2017

Testifying in an IP-theft case against Facebook-owned Oculus, Mark Zuckerberg reveals the acquisition cost $3bn, not $2bn as originally announced

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Google LLC, is winding down, with the last witness finishing testimony this week. The first landmark tech antitrust trial of the century , The United States of America v.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 17, 2022

This week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an August 5 filing by Amazon that looks to excuse former CEO Jeff Bezos and current CEO Andy Jassy from supplying testimony in an investigation. The legal team calls the probe "burdensome" and says that the civil investigative demands (CIDs) served to.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If it pleases the court, I submit evidence that on December 2nd, while giving testimony at a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing, Rudolph William Louis Giuliani farted multiple times. Read more.

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Computer Weekly

JUNE 22, 2017

Russian hackers targeted voting systems in nearly 50% of states in the 2016 US presidential election, officials have revealed in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Her testimony was brief and to the point: Celgene had not “comprehensively validated” Theranos technology, she said. During former employee Surekha Gangakhedkar’s testimony a little over a week ago, she said that she didn’t think pharma company GlaxoSmithKline’s report on Theranos tech “comprehensively validated” it. million a year.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Congress heard testimony today about how the U.S. government should fund and regulate tech like AI that can eliminate jobs in the midst of a recession. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JULY 1, 2021

Cops are handing over body camera footage and testimonials to Wrap Technologies to help the security firm market its controversial high-tech lasso , the BolaWrap, to other police departments, the Daily Dot reports. In some instances, Wrap purportedly sweetened the deal by offering a free device to departments that… Read more.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Cue defended the deal in testimony, saying there is no other search engine worthy of replacing Google. In an antitrust trial against Google that opened this week, the Justice Department argues that the Apple deal is evidence that Google unfairly dominates the search market.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The video at this link and embedded below captures key parts of a a 24 Sep 2015 session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence with testimony by NSA Director Admiral Rogers.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 8, 2020

However, testimony from former App Store director Phil Shoemaker begs to differ. Apple has maintained that its restrictive rules denying Xbox Game Pass and Google Stadia entry to the App Store are meant to protect its users.

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Computer Weekly

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In the first session of its enquiry into artificial intelligence and the UK economy, a House of Lords select committee takes contrasting testimony from academic enthusiasts and press sceptics

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Senate testimony from whistleblower Frances Haugen. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a new statement defending his company late Tuesday in the wake of U.S. And while comparing Facebook in the 2020s to Big Tobacco in the 1990s isn’t new, it really is striking to see Zuck make the same arguments that companies like… Read more.

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TechSpot

MAY 3, 2021

However, it took the court a full 20 minutes to settle down those in attendance so the judge could hear testimony. As reported earlier, the bench trial between Epic Games and Apple was slated to begin today at 11:15 am EDT.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Holmes, who is standing trial for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, hadn’t been directly linked to lab inadequacies in the testimony from the two previous witnesses. We saw rather a lot of emails actually from Holmes or with her in the chain during Gangakhedkar’s direct testimony. “I was worried about the launch.”.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Facebook has announced new safety measures for Instagram in response to the storm of criticism it has received in light of documents and testimony from whistleblower Frances Haugen. Read more.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2023

On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we reenact portions of his testimony, explain the positions staked out by Microsoft and Google in the case, and discuss the irony of Microsoft siding with the DOJ two decades after its own antitrust battle.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The latest development in the ongoing lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple over the iPhone maker’s App Store policies and its removal of the iOS version of Fortnite is a new order from Judge Thomas Hixson outlining rules for Apple CEO Tim Cook and software engineering chief Craig Federighi’s testimony in the case.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Brad Smith, the Microsoft president and vice chair, drew that comparison Tuesday in his testimony before the U.S. A key principle is that highly capable AI systems controlling critical infrastructure should “remain under human control at all times,” Smith agreed in his written testimony, submitted in advance of the hearing.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

“If you took Mac security techniques and applied them to the iOS ecosystem, with all those devices, all that value, it would get run over to a degree dramatically worse than is already happening on the Mac,” Federighi said in the testimony. It’s really a different product,” Federighi said.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

According to earlier testimony in the case, Microsoft was prepared to lose money in a deal with Apple to make Bing the default on iPhone and other devices. Testifying on Monday, Nadella dismissed as “bogus” Google’s argument that it’s easy for users to change their search defaults, according to a Reuters report.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Time for another clear and unambiguous warning on the growing cyber threat, this one in testimony to Congress by the leader of the U.S. You can read the full testimony on the CIA.gov website. Read the full cyber section at: Cyber Portions of ODNI Testimony. Bob Gourley. You will need to go to the archives page.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Both lab directors’ testimony suggested a clownshoes operation. During testimony this morning, Sawyer also told the court that she did not know what a Nanotainer was. (A Both lab directors’ testimony suggested a clownshoes operation, but Sawyer didn’t have direct contact with Holmes. Das sure did, though.

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2021

This was disclosed during a Microsoft executive’s testimony in the Epic v. What’s interesting about Wright’s testimony, if you take it at face value, is that Microsoft has never gotten to that point. Wright’s testimony is one of many small revelations that have kept the games industry glued to Epic v.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 22, 2021

Google threatened to block its search engine for all users in Australia if a controversial new profit-sharing proposal from the federal government moves forward, according to testimony Friday by Google’s top executive in the region. Google is upset about a plan by the conservative government—strongly backed by Rupert… Read more.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

Expert testimony continues Sometimes I reflect on my life and wonder where I went wrong, such that I am sitting on a wooden pew in federal court, watching a Google search for Candy Crush Saga on the display monitor. The point of Hitt’s earlier testimony was that game developers “multi-home” games to PC and mobile.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

The viral short-form video app TikTok (which still isn’t banned , by the way) is becoming the unlikely new home for creators claiming to have first-hand experience with the covid-19 vaccine and giving expert testimonials about ongoing vaccine trials. Read more.

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