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The US Federal Trade Commission and seven US states reached a settlement with Alphabet Inc’s Google and iHeartMedia Inc over allegations of deceptive ads promoting Google’s Pixel 4 smartphone, the FTC said.

Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it said, the latest industry casualty after the firm was hurt by exposure to the spectacular collapse of the FTX exchange earlier this month.

The TENAA listing has revealed all the key specs of the upcoming phone. As per the report, iQoo has also released a poster to share the key features of the handset. The report also claims that the company is now accepting pre-orders for the device on its official website in China.

Oneplus 11 launch date: OnePlus 11 is said to be in the works. The flagship smartphone will succeed the OnePlus 10 series launched earlier this year. The company is yet to announce the launch date of the phone, but ahead of the rumoured launch, the colour variants of the smartphone have surfaced online.

VerSe Innovation, the parent company of Dailyhunt and short-form video platform Josh, has laid off nearly 150 employees in a bid to “streamline” its costs and teams.

Iran has signed a Memorandum of Understanding valued at $300 million with Russia for car exports to the country, semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Both Renault and Tesla’s long-haul EV trucks mark their arrival into the heavy-duty segment of the electric vehicle industry.

The provisions from which government notified entities will be exempted deal with informing an individual about the purpose of data collection, the collection of children’s data, risk assessment around public order, and the appointment of a data auditor, among others.

After a few users reported that they were not able to block accounts, Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday claimed that a “slight degradation of service” on the micro-blogging platform was caused due to an old “3rd party tool” which has now been fixed.

According to researchers from AI-driven cyber-security firm CloudSEK, several Telegram channels were found selling Hayya cards for prices ranging from $50 to $150.