Livestreaming platform Caffeine closes, despite big media support
Caffeine, an interactive livestreaming platform for sports and entertainment, suddenly shut down Wednesday after receiving nearly $300 million in investments from companies like Fox, Disney, and Cox....
View ArticleUber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts will now get minimum pay
Uber and Lyft agreed to a number of worker benefits on Thursday in order to end a lengthy legal challenge in Massachusetts over drivers’ employment status as independent contractors. The two gig...
View ArticleSupreme Court overturns Chevron decision, curbing federal regulators. Here’s...
Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a far-reaching decision by the Supreme Court. The court’s...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court will let cities criminalize homelessness—but the real...
In a ruling out this morning, the Supreme Court said that a city can fine someone or put them in jail for camping or sleeping in public even if that person is homeless and has nowhere else to go. In...
View ArticleClimate change got one question in last night’s debate. It didn’t get much of...
Over more than an hour and a half of back-and-forth, climate change got just a couple minutes of airtime during a CNN-hosted debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump on...
View ArticleFAA and NTSB to investigate Southwest flight that departed from a closed...
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it will investigate a Southwest Airlines flight that departed from a temporarily closed runway in Maine...
View ArticleYouTube fuels the AI machine—including your family reunion
The promised artificial intelligence revolution requires data. Lots and lots of data. OpenAI and Google have begun using YouTube videos to train their text-based AI models. But what does the YouTube...
View ArticleHims & Hers shares plunge 12% amid allegations of GLP-1 drug sourcing from...
Roughly a month after announcing that it would offer GLP-1 injectable weight-loss drugs comparable to the popular drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro, Hims & Hers Health shares are taking a beating after a...
View ArticleFrom Nazi Olympics to Qatar’s World Cup: Why do sports evade scrutiny applied...
With the Copa América, the UEFA European Championship and the Olympic Games all taking place over a few months, summer 2024 is shaping up to be a celebration of sport. However, many modern sporting...
View ArticleAI offers financial firms a hand but isn’t ready for more complex tasks
The spread of artificial intelligence-based systems offers big opportunities for financial services firms, executives say, but asset managers also face higher stakes than other consumer-facing...
View ArticleWhite House to expand its influencer engagement efforts with its first-ever...
The Biden administration is leaning into its already well-established efforts to connect with the country’s content creators. On Friday, Christian Tom, director of the White House Office of Digital...
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How to find and search YouTube video transcripts on your phone
YouTube videos are an amazing source of knowledge. But they’re often long, and trying to find a specific shred of info within an hour-long video isn’t exactly a great use of your time. Google will...
View ArticleTour de France 2024: How to watch coverage of the cycling event live without...
It’s time again for cycling’s biggest competition. The wheels are officially spinning on the 111th Tour de France, which begins on Saturday, June 29. The bikes are hitting the pavement one week...
View ArticleDoes having more women in VC circles lead to more funding for woman-led...
Venture capital plays an important role in helping new businesses get off the ground. The field also has a stubborn gender gap. More than four in five partners at U.S.-based venture capital firms are...
View ArticleA mass coral bleaching is underway. Here’s how machine learning can help
The world’s coral reefs are like underwater cities, bustling with all kinds of fish and sea animals. Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean, but they support an estimated 25% of all marine...
View ArticleThe surprising force behind a new Illinois law making sure child content...
According to the Pew Research Center, children’s content and videos featuring children are among the most popular types of content on YouTube, averaging more than three times as many views as other...
View ArticleThis fossil of a child with Down syndrome shows ‘true altruism’ in...
Living among a small band of Neanderthals in what is now eastern Spain was a child, perhaps 6 years old, with Down syndrome, as shown in a remarkable fossil preserving traits in the inner-ear anatomy...
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What is a passkey? Why Apple is betting on password-free tech
When iOS 18 debuts in September, Apple will bring myriad new security features to users. But the company will also debut a new API for app and website developers that will protect users in more...
View ArticleEmployers believe this is the age you’re too old to hire. This is why they’re...
Years ago, when my firm was just getting established, I was pitching for a new creative contract. I brought along an older male consultant who had wrinkles, a pot belly, thinning hair, and a...
View ArticleFujifilm can’t keep up with TikTok’s retro-camera craze for the X100
For years, Japan’s Fujifilm pivoted away from its legacy camera business to focus on healthcare. But thanks in large part to the TikTok crowd, its retro-themed X100 digital cameras are now a roaring...
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