After an appeals court struck down key portions of a state law designed to prevent social media companies from freely making content moderation decisions, Florida wants the Supreme Court to weigh in. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a petition Wednesday asking the highest court in the land to wade into the issue after two…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Supporters of former President Donald Trump gather near his residence at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on August 9, 2022. Giorgio Viera/Getty Images A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s request to resume a review of classified materials seized from Mar-a-Lago during a search last month of former President Donald Trump’s home….
TV networks are hoping for a return to normalcy after a turbulent 2020. Advertisers will spend $19.90 billion upfront in the 2021-2022 TV season, an increase of 7.6% over the previous cycle. Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get business insights on the latest tech innovations, market trends, and your competitors…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest associates, Ukrainian tycoon Viktor Medvedchuk, left, speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, July 18, 2019. Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Ukraine and Russia have completed a monumental prisoner swap, Zelensky’s office said. The swap means that 215 Ukrainians who…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, from video addressed the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters on September 21, 2022. Jason DeCrow/AP Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a speech on Wednesday at the UN General Assembly. He shared findings in Izium, where bodies stuck under rubble and a mass burial site…
Enlarge / A selection of Stable Diffusion images with a strikeout through them. (credit: Ars Technica) Getty Images has banned the sale of AI generative artwork created using image synthesis models such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney through its service, The Verge reports. To clarify the new policy, The Verge spoke with Getty…
Photo by Rock’n Roll Monkey on Unsplash A robot that laughs might be seen as ominous, but would it appear less eerie if it laughed at the right time during a conversation? That’s a theory that scientists have recently been testing. A group of researchers from Kyoto University in Japan have mocked up a laughing…
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Rocket Lab is a U.S.-based company, but until now the bulk of its activities have been conducted in New Zealand. While the company has been public about its plans to expand to both hemispheres for a while, executives released a slew of updates on Wednesday detailing their goal to make the U.S. home to even…
Salesforce and WhatsApp have entered into a new partnership that will bring instant messaging facilities to the Customer 360 platform. The partnership, announced during Dreamforce 2022, will give businesses a new way to communicate with customers, courtesy of WhatsApp integrations for multiple Salesforce CRM applications. The arrangement will set the stage for “convenient, integrated and…