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Google filed a motion on Friday in a Virginia federal court asking for the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against it to be thrown away. The DOJ sued Google in January 2023, accusing the company of monopolizing digital advertising technologies through “anticompetitive and exclusionary conduct.” Per Bloomberg, Google is now seeking summary judgment to avoid the case going to trial in

• Alphabet, Google's parent company, achieved a $2 trillion market cap milestone.
• This company briefly hit the threshold previously but never sustained a full day of trading. 
• Despite its recent success Alphabet hasn't had an easy path to the $2 trillion mark. 

Google's parent company, Alphabet, hit a new

You’ve gotta hand it to Marvel Studios: it sure knew how to make its movies feel like big events back in the day. After the original Avengers dropped in 2012, nearly every entry aimed to be bigger in some way, like the entire enterprise was obsessed with topping itself. Sometimes this was in pursuit of greater thematic…

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day was — and is, for some — the standard-bearer for bombastic tentpole action films after it was released in 1991, but many of its fans have been less than enthusiastic about its Blu-ray releases. In recent years, though, people who love the movie

•  Gisele Bündchen became emotional during a traffic stop in Surfside, Florida, this week. 
• Bündchen told a police officer she was trying to evade the paparazzi "stalking" her. 
• The Mayor of Surfside called out the cop's "dismissive" response, which

• ByteDance would rather close down TikTok in the US than sell it, Reuters reported, citing four unnamed sources.
• President Joe Biden recently signed into law legislation that could see TikTok banned in the US.
• ByteDance has nine months to a year to divest itself of the company under the legislation.

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of

• Brown sophomore Alex Eisler has a lucrative side hustle selling restaurant reservations.
• He vends them on nascent platform Appointment Trader.
• Eisler told BI his most expensive sale was $1,358 for an omakase reservation in Boston.

Need more proof that the scalper and bot-fueled restaurant reservation-selling ecosystem has intensified to new heights?

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Something is up with Apple ID this weekend. As reported by 9to5Mac, Apple users started complaining online last night that they’d been logged out of their Apple IDs on all of their devices without explanation. Upon trying to log back in, some say they were locked out of their accounts despite entering the correct details, and had to reset their passwords. Engadget has reached out to Apple for more

Kingom of the Planet of the Apes is one of this summer’s big blockbusters, and with its release in a few weeks, that means its time to up its promo game. We’ve gotten plenty of trailers and posters, and there are standees in theaters, but that’s apparently not enough. 20th Century has decided that we need to see some…

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• Slower growth and rising inflation has brought back distant cries that stagflation is coming.
• This would force interest rates to stay higher for longer, putting pressure on US businesses and consumers.
• One investor says anyone looking to hedge this risk should focus on fixed income.

A pair of economic reports has brought back a word no

If the bar for noise-canceling earbuds seems high right now, that’s because Bose and Sony seem to raise it with every addition to their respective lineups. The QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds are a great example of just how impressive