Robotaxis are hitting the streets of Los Angeles
March 13, 2024
Elon Musk has abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show” a talk show on his social media network, X
March 13, 2024
Abruptly and without scientific justification, federal agencies have halted further research into potential health risks from cellphone radiation exposure. This stunning reversal comes despite decades of concerning animal studies indicating serious harms. The National Toxicology Program (NTP), tasked with investigating toxins, recently announced it will no longer pursue evidence that cellphone radiation can harm animals or humans. This flies in the face of their own two-year rodent studies published in 2018, which found “clear evidence” linking cellphone radiation to brain and heart tumors in male rats. “There’s no scientific explanation or justification for this sudden reversal,” said Devra Davis, a
March 13, 2024
Since its inception, TikTok has been intended only for non-Chinese markets, unavailable in mainland China
March 14, 2024
Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation worldwide, making it easy for anyone with a smartphone to create fake – but convincing – content aimed at fooling voters
March 14, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal
March 14, 2024
European Union regulators are ratcheting up scrutiny of big tech companies including Google, Facebook and TikTok by looking into how they’re dealing with risks from generative artificial intelligence, such as the viral spread of deepfakes
March 14, 2024
The 12 finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame this year represent four decades of play
March 14, 2024
The League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to prevent those who sent robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice to New Hampshire voters from using artificial intelligence for future deceptions
March 14, 2024
TikTok and its owner Bytedance on Tuesday sued to stop a law that would give its Chinese parent about a year to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app, or face a
May 22, 2024
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has returned to Instagram to tease a new brand that records show could feature jams, household items, cookbooks and cutlery
March 14, 2024
Shohei Ohtani is sharing the identity of his new wife with a photo of the couple on his social media
March 14, 2024
TikTok's new lawsuit to block a U.S. law forcing the social media company's Chinese parent to divest it or be banned could spark a landmark clash over free speech,
May 22, 2024
Lyft and Uber say they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require ride-hailing services to increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage
March 14, 2024
Gerald Levin, who led Time Warner Media into a disastrous $182 billion merger with the internet provider America Online, has died at the age of 84
March 15, 2024
A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled public officials can sometimes be sued for blocking their critics on social media, an issue that first arose for the high court in a case involving then-President Donald Trump
March 15, 2024
Apple has agreed to pay $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CEO Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone’s sales in China
March 15, 2024
Lyft and Uber have said they will halt operations in Minneapolis because of a new city ordinance that increases wages for app-based drivers
March 15, 2024
An $11 billion acquisition that backfired on Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard more than a decade ago is being resurrected at a trial that exploring whether the deal was an illegal rip-off or a case of botched management
March 15, 2024
Reddit says the Federal Trade Commission has opened an inquiry into the social media platform's sale, licensing or sharing of user posts and other content to outside organizations for use in training artificial intelligence models
March 15, 2024
TikTok creators across the country are expressing frustration over a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would lead to a nationwide ban of the app if its China-based owner doesn't sell its stake
March 16, 2024
Small groups of protesters have taken to the streets in the eastern Cuba city of Santiago decryng power outages lasting up to eight hours across the Caribbean nation
March 18, 2024
The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics like COVID-19 and election security
March 18, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has underscored the need to ensure that technologies sustain democratic values
March 18, 2024
A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen table out of a broken window, allowing other rioters to use it as a weapon against police
March 18, 2024
Alaska Airlines grounds flights at Seattle briefly due to tech outage
Sisters of slain Israeli hostage: ‘They starved her before they murdered her’
Commerzbank shares fall 3% as German government retains stake
Hear from children living in makeshift homes on the shores of Gaza
Pope cancels his audiences due to slight illness days before a new trip
Alaska Airlines hit by IT outage causing ground stop in Seattle
As fast as it comes down, graffiti returns to DC streets. Not all of it unwelcome