A group of U.S. states filed Friday in a New York federal court an amended lawsuit against Google advertising monopoly with allegations of breaking antitrust laws by adopting strongarm strategies to empower its ads business. Alphabet’s unit has been under fire for its affiliated methodologies to heighten its supremacy in the advertising market, with regulatory […]
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When Mark Zuckerberg announced ambitious plans to build the “metaverse” — a virtual reality construct intended to supplant the internet, merge virtual life with real life and create endless new playgrounds for everyone — he promised that “you’re going to able to do almost anything you can imagine.” That might not be such a great […]
Top science advisers to President Joe Biden are calling for a new “bill of rights” to guard against powerful new artificial intelligence technology. The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy on Friday launched a fact-finding mission to look at facial recognition and other biometric tools used to identify people or assess their emotional […]
Determined to keep track of their guns, some U.S. military units have turned to a technology that could let enemies detect troops on the battlefield, The Associated Press has found. The rollout on Army and Air Force bases continues even though the Department of Defense itself describes putting the technology in firearms as a “significant” […]
In an attempt to curb hate raid incidents, popular live streaming platform Twitch has revealed several new features to the platform. Twitch announced on its official Twitter page that it will allow streamers to request phone verification from a viewer to be able to chat. Adding a phone number surely isn’t enough to handle harassment, which is why Twitch is upgrading its existing email verification settings to allow creators to hold greater power over who gets to chat. “This […]
The U.N. human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces. Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said Wednesday that countries should expressly ban AI applications which don’t […]
Twitter is about to become a safe haven for social media users, as the tech giant is planning on releasing a number of features aimed at giving people more privacy options. According to Bloomberg, the micro-blogging site will allow users to archive old tweets that’ll become invisible to others after a period of time passes. […]
Cannabis e-commerce startup Jane Technologies has raised $100 million in a financing round organized by Honor Ventures. Not only did the million-dollar startup utilize e-commerce giant Amazon to its advantage, it embodied the identity of the friendly neighborhood dispensary that offers cannabis online. Jane Technologies currently makes up 20 percent of all legal cannabis sales […]
One of Vine’s founders is venturing into a new project called Supdrive. Dom Hofmann, also the creator of Byte and Peach, announced Supdrive on Twitter, describing it as an “on-chain fantasy game console.” In the announcement post, the co-founder of Vine explained that Supdrive will act as a video game console that offers classical games, […]
Facebook already asks for your thoughts. Now it wants your prayers. The social media giant has rolled out a new prayer request feature, a tool embraced by some religious leaders as a cutting-edge way to engage the faithful online. Others are eyeing it warily as they weigh its usefulness against the privacy and security concerns […]