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Did Live Nation punish a venue by taking Billie Eilish away?

  • Technology
  • Lauren Feiner
  • Mar 5, 2026

John Abbamondi had orders to let the CEO of Ticketmaster down easy. In April 2021, Abbamondi was the CEO of BSE Global, the company that ran Brooklyn arena the Barclays Center. BSE Global's existing T...

A new video from the White House mixes Call of Duty footage with actual video of Iran strikes

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • Mar 5, 2026

On Wednesday, the White House posted a video of actual military strikes on Iran in the style usually seen in Call of Duty highlight videos, and started the video with a clip from Call of Duty. The rea...

Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers 

  • Technology
  • Justine Calma
  • Mar 5, 2026

Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a "rate payer protection pledge." It's one way they're responding to growing biparti...

Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032

  • Technology
  • Sean Hollister
  • Mar 4, 2026

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world. He fought two of the world's most valuable and powerful companies almost all the way to the US Supreme Court...

Here’s how Google describes its fee-reducing Apps Experience and Games Level Up programs

  • Technology
  • Sean Hollister
  • Mar 4, 2026

Today, Google killed its 30 percent app store fee, partially uncoupled Google Play from Google Play Billing after they were declared an illegal monopoly in the US, and much more. From July, depending...

Epic and Google have signed a special deal for a new class of ‘metaverse’ apps

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • Mar 4, 2026

Epic Games and Google are burying the hatchet, but documents released today reveal that they aren't only aligned on how Google is shaking things up for app stores. The two companies have also agreed t...

NotebookLM can now summarize research in ‘cinematic’ video overviews

  • Technology
  • Stevie Bonifield
  • Mar 4, 2026

Google's NotebookLM can now turn users' research and notes into fully animated "cinematic" videos, going a step further than the original video overview feature Google introduced last year. Previously...

The new MacBook Air debuts with a $50 gift card as the M4 model hits its best price

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • Mar 4, 2026

Powered by the new M5 chip, Apple’s latest MacBook Airs are more powerful than ever with double the base storage (512GB), but they also cost $100 more than their predecessor. Fortunately, though, we’v...

The world’s biggest automaker has one of the dirtiest supply chains: report

  • Technology
  • Andrew J. Hawkins
  • Mar 4, 2026

Tesla, Ford, and Volvo occupy the top three spots in a new ranking of 18 global automakers based on their efforts to eliminate carbon emissions, environmental harms, and human rights violations from t...

Console exclusives might be making a comeback

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • Mar 4, 2026

The near future of game consoles could look a lot like the past. Once a hallmark of the industry, over the last few years console-exclusive games have steadily become rare, as the likes of Sony and Mi...

Google’s AI-powered workspace is now available to more users in Search

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • Mar 4, 2026

Google is bringing Canvas to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search. The feature opens up a dedicated workspace within its AI-powered search tool, allowing it to use the latest information from Se...

Google isn’t waiting for a settlement — the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead

  • Technology
  • Sean Hollister
  • Mar 4, 2026

In November, Epic and Google jointly proposed a settlement that would change Android's fate globally without cracking open Google's Android monopoly quite the way it otherwise might. Today, Google has...