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Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

While the iPhone's repairability is in the toilet, at least the Apple Watch 7 is as fixable as the previous model

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US consumer watchdog starts sniffing around tech giants' use of your spending data

China to crush secondary market providing forbidden gaming accounts to kids

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Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors

US lawmakers give Amazon until November to prove it didn't lie to Congress

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