Short Daily Gadget & Tech News - 20210320

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Apple (1)

In Brazil, Apple has been punished by the consumer association "Procon-SP". The company has to pay a fine of 1.6 million euros. This writes Tilt. This happened because Apple no longer supplies an adapter in the box of the iPhone 12. By no longer putting a plug in the box, the size became smaller and Apple was able to ship more iPhones. However, the end-user is not satisfied.

Apple (2)

More bad news for Apple. A jury in the US state of Texas has fined Apple an amount of $ 308.5 million to pay to the licensing company Personalized Media Communications (PMC). Apple allegedly violated a patent related to digital rights management.

Acer & REvil

Taiwanese computer maker Acer fell victim to a ransomware attack. Now the group of hackers known as REvil is demanding to pay $ 50 million by March 28 if not they will publish information from Acer. It is not known what information is involved, but the hackers have published some images of financial documents as evidence. This was reported by Bleeping Computer, among others.

Tesla / Elon Musk / China

In response to allegations by the Chinese army that the Tesla cars would be used for espionage and therefore no longer allowed on their complexes, Elon Musk has responded. Speaking at the China Development Forum, a virtual conference organized by the Chinese government, he said: “If a commercial company spied, the negative effects would be disastrous. any country - to spy, the company would be shut down everywhere. " This writes Bloomberg.

Twitter

Twitter is developing a new feature that could retrieve a sent tweet. As soon as a user has pressed the "Tweet" button, a short reflection period would be added during which he can still retrieve the tweet. This trial was confirmed by Twitter in a conversation with CNET. The possibility was discovered by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who discovered more of these types of small-scale tests. A subscription would most likely be required for this.

(source:nu.nl)

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