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Apple wields its powerful App Store as a cudgel to stifle innovation, weaken competition and unfairly tax its rivals, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said Wednesday, after the world’s biggest music streaming service filed a complaint with European regulators.  “In Apple’s case, they continue to give themselves an unfair advantage at every turn,” Ek said in a post.  …

College-aged men don’t have a monopoly on March Madness. The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament gets underway this month and promises as much buzzer-beating insanity as the men’s tournament.  It’s not a foregone conclusion that the University of Connecticut Huskies will dominate the field and win another title this year. In fact, after their remarkable run of winning six titles in …

Best Buy is offering an aggressive discount on the 2017-era MacBook Pro on Thursday only. The entry-level configuration, with an Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB, is on sale for $999 — that’s $300 off of the standard retail price. (Note that this is the non-Touch Bar edition that has the controversial butterfly keyboard.)  The retailer has also discounted two other configurations, …

Apple can keep the billions of dollars that Qualcomm paid it as part of their 2013 contract, a judge has ruled. And Qualcomm’s still on the hook for payments it stopped making.  In a summary judgment published Thursday, US District Court Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel of the Southern District of California granted four of Apple’s requests ahead of a trial …

Steam’s continuing beta of its Steam Link app, which lets you play games on any supported device by streaming them off a computer, added a major new capability today: streaming to devices on any network rather than only on the same network as the host computer. It’s all still in beta, but it fills an important hole that Steam needs …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s returning to San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center on June 3 for its next developer conference. The company on Thursday said it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in the California city. The confab is in its 30th year, Apple said. The …

How we operate on social media can tell people a lot about us — and can be great fodder for drama. Nyambi Nyambi, who plays investigator Jay DiPersia in the legal and political drama The Good Fight, said that technology plays a huge part in his character’s work. “People put so much information about themselves and the community around them online …

Google Drive, the tech giant’s file storage and synchronization service, might look a bit different on iOS and Android today. In a blog post published Tuesday, Google said a redesign of the look and feel of Drive’s mobile version will make it “easier to communicate and collaborate across files in Drive” on phones that run Google’s or Apple’s mobile operating …

Editor’s note, March 18: Apple has announced two new iPads. Starting at $499 (£479, AU$779) for the 64GB model, the new iPad Air features a 10.5-inch Retina display, an A12 Bionic processor and support for the Apple Pencil. It replaces the 10.5-inch iPad Pro from 2017, which is no longer sold. The new iPad Mini, starting at $399 (£399, AU$599) …

You can now access your Apple Music tracks on Amazon Fire TV devices in the US, the e-commerce giant said Wednesday.  Customers can ask Alexa to play songs, artists, playlists and albums from Apple Music. To launch the feature, enable the Apple Music skill in the Alexa app and link your account.  Apple’s streaming-music service, which has more than 50 million …