Consumer groups in seven EU countries on Tuesday sought action against Google for allegedly breaching privacy laws by tracking people’s movements. The complaints from groups in Norway, the Netherlands, Greece, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland and Sweden say the search giant’s location tracking is violating the General Data Protection Regulation, based on Norwegian research. The …

Amazon’s holiday shopping weekend broke records, and this year’s Cyber Monday now stands as the company’s single biggest shopping day ever. The e-commerce behemoth didn’t provide exact sales numbers for the day, but revealed that customers on its US site ordered more than 180 million items during the five-day period from Thanksgiving Thursday through Cyber Monday (known as the Turkey …

Looks like Apple has cut the iPhone XR price in Japan by offering subsidies to carriers. Customers coming to NTT Docomo, Japan’s biggest carrier, can save nearly $100 on the cheapest of Apple’s 2018 iPhones on a 24-month contract, 9to5Mac reported Monday. It noted that 24 monthly payments on the 64GB iPhone XR contract would previously have come to 36,000 yen (about …

Kering, the company behind luxury brands Gucci and Saint Laurent, said Monday it’s teaming up with Apple to use apps in its stores. The Paris-based company revealed the partnership in a wider announcement about its plan to develop its own online shopping sites by 2020. Its online presence has mostly been handled through a joint venture with Yoox Net-A-Porter (YNAP) since …

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro has three cameras and Samsung’s Galaxy S10 is rumored to have six, but LG Electronics could make those offerings look stingy. The South Korean company — whose V40 ThinQ has five cameras — might be working on a camera with as many as 16 lenses, according to US patent 10,135,963, which was awarded on Nov. …

Israeli lawyers reportedly launched a class action lawsuit against Airbnb on Thursday after it took down hundreds of listings in the occupied West bank. Ma’anit Rabinovich, the lawsuit’s petitioner, rents out guest rooms in the West Bank settlement of Kida and accused Airbnb of “offensive and outrageous discrimination,” Reuters reported. She claimed 15,000 shekels ($2,573) in personal damages and the …

Some Google Pixel owners can now use the company’s Duplex service to do their talking, just as Google promised last month. The search giant’s human-sounding artificial intelligence call service is available to a “small group” of Pixel owners in “select cities,” VentureBeat reported Wednesday. It started limited beta testing in June. Google confirmed the accuracy of its statement to VentureBeat, but …

Apple quietly bought artificial intelligence startup Silk Labs, according to a report. The acquisition occurred earlier this year, The Information reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed source. Silk Labs specializes in developing on-device AI software, meaning it doesn’t have to communicate with the cloud, where companies potentially would have access to huge amounts of personal data. The San Mateo, California, company …

iPhone assembler Foxconn intends to slash 20 billion yuan ($2.9 billion) from its costs next year, according to Bloomberg. Foxconn, which is the primary manufacturer of Apple’s iPhones, predicts that 2019 will be a “very difficult and competitive year,” Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing an internal company memo. The company cuts include a 6 billion yuan ($865 million) reduction in its iPhone-related …

The wave of nostalgia created by Pokemon: Let’s Go is about to get even bigger. An upcoming Tamagotchi will let you raise an Eevee you can evolve into one of its eight secondary forms, Pokemon site Serebii confirmed Wednesday. In addition to evolving Eevee into Flareon, Jolteon, Vaporean, Espeon, Umbreon, Glaceon, Leafeon or Sylveon, you can get Eevee in a Team …