After months of talks, Paramount and Skydance merger falls apart
A little over a week after reports surfaced that Paramount Global and Skydance had finally agreed to terms of a merger, that deal appears to have completely fallen apart. Back on June 3, CNBC’s David...
View ArticleAI chatbots just can’t shake off gender stereotypes, here’s why
When disinformation researcher Wen-Ping Liu looked into China’s efforts to influence Taiwan’s recent election using fake social media accounts, something unusual stood out about the most successful...
View ArticleDatabricks and Shutterstock are trying to remove the copyright risk from AI...
Databricks and Shutterstock have developed a new text-to-image diffusion model similar to DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, but without the risk of copyright violations. Most image generators are trained...
View ArticleCaitlin Clark is not on the Paris Olympics roster. Here’s why
USA Basketball said experience was a major reason Caitlin Clark was not on the U.S. women’s Olympic roster that was officially revealed Tuesday.The selection committee didn’t believe the talented...
View ArticleTrouble sleeping? Remove these types of food from your diet
Ultra-processed foods are a glorious orgy of sugars, fats, salts, and other additives. Think sodas, chips, breakfast cereal—foods that have been highly processed and contain chemicals or other...
View ArticleLouisiana’s air has toxic gas levels “more than a thousand times higher” than...
The toxic gas ethylene oxide (EtO) is detectable in southeastern Louisiana at levels a thousand times higher than what is considered safe, according to a new study. EtO emissions largely come from...
View ArticleA quick beginner’s guide to the game of cricket
Most of the time, when someone mentions the sport of cricket in America, that’s exactly what they get. Crickets. But maybe you heard about Team USA’s shocking upset over Pakistan in the Twenty20...
View ArticleOzempic shortages are creating an ‘unprecedented’ opportunity for phishing...
America’s weight-loss craze is a scammer’s gain. Between January and April this year, phishing attempts concerning scam offers for GLP-1 drugs—typically sold as Ozempic, Wegovy, and...
View ArticleWatch Ryan Reynolds explain why streaming TV ads are about to get a whole lot...
When MNTN (pronounced “Mountain”) acquired Ryan Reynolds’ creative ad shop Maximum Effort back in 2021, it undoubtedly hoped the actor and his team would help make a fun, persuasive case for its...
View ArticleThe Fed, in a ‘no rush’ attitude, is expected to leave rates unchanged
The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, with new economic projections from the U.S. central bank’s policymakers likely to show fewer rate cuts this year than...
View Article12 years later, Sandy Hook seniors prepare for graduation
Like graduating seniors everywhere, members of Newtown High School’s class of 2024 expect bittersweet feelings at their commencement ceremony — excitement about heading off to college or careers and...
View ArticleEV charging cable thefts are rising. Thieves are after the copper wiring
Just before 2 a.m. on a chilly April night in Seattle, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup stopped at an electric vehicle charging station on the edge of a shopping center parking lot. Two men, one with a...
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Le Creuset is releasing a limited Pokémon Collection in July, but it could be...
Now here’s a collab no one saw coming. Le Creuset, the French-Belgian cookware brand, has partnered with Pokémon for a pocket monster-themed line of bowls, plates, mugs, and cooking pots. The cookware...
View ArticleAppeals court tosses out order that prevented Amazon from firing pro-union...
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a judge’s order that required Amazon.com to refrain from firing union supporters amid a nationwide organizing campaign at its warehouses. A three-judge...
View ArticleYouTube could face an antitrust probe over its ‘living room dominance’
Tech and competition watchdog groups have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to probe YouTube, saying the video-streaming platform could enable Google and its parent company, Alphabet, to...
View ArticleFed holds rates steady and expects only one cut this year
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday and pushed out the start of rate cuts to perhaps as late as December, with officials projecting only a single quarter-percentage-point...
View ArticleWorkplace loneliness is on the rise, especially among people working virtually
As technology further seeps its way into the workplace, from Zoom meetings to AI chat systems, it’s easy to feel lonely. For those suffering under the solitude of work, you’re not alone: A new Gallup...
View ArticleJudge strikes down Florida’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults, calling the statute...
View ArticleElon Musk, SpaceX sued by former employees over alleged sexual harassment and...
Rocket maker SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk were sued on Wednesday by eight engineers who say they were illegally fired for raising concerns about alleged sexual harassment and discrimination against...
View Article‘Echoes of the Cold War’: Russian warships enter Cuba to show strengthened ties
Russian navy ships churned into Havana harbor on Wednesday, a stopover the U.S. and Cuba said posed no threat but which was widely seen as a Russian show of force as tensions rise over the Ukraine...
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