Welcome to the Tech Me Right Home for Tuesday, October 20th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

The feds have finally thrown the book at Google.

But the DOJ has also targeted the infamous Sandworm hackers as well.

Intel sells its Nand Memory Unit as consolidation in chips continues.

Microsoft partners with Elon Musk to take its battle with AWS to space,

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Which one should you get?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Well it finally happened today the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit alleging that

Google has engaged in anti-competitive conduct to preserve monopolies in

search and search advertising. Quoting Protocol. Two decades ago Google became the darling of Silicon Valley as a scrappy startup with an innovative

way to search the emerging internet, the DOJ wrote in the complaint.

That Google is long gone.

For many years, Google has used anti-competitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies

in the market for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising.

The cornerstones of its empire, the DOJ added.

DOJ officials emphasized that this is only the beginning of a long effort to take on Google

during a call with reporters.

We are asking the court to break Google's grip on search distribution so competition and innovation

can take hold, and consumers and advertisers will no longer be beholden to an unchecked monopolist, said Ryan Shores, the

DOJ's senior advisor for technology industries on the same call.

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