Several social media companies were ordered by a New York state judge to face four lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for helping enable the avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a Buffalo, New York grocery store.
Justice Paula Feroleto of the Erie County Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the more than 40 plaintiffs could try to prove that Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, Reddit, Google’s YouTube and other platforms were designed
When Apple recently debuted the Vision Pro headset after a decade of development in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook called it “tomorrow’s technology today.”
The company is finally getting into the competitive race of consumer tech products that create mixed-reality and immersive VR experiences with the likes of Meta’s Quest Pro, Microsoft HoloLens, and Google Glass.
If it wasn’t obvious before, there is no doubt that virtual reality is part of the
Microsoft announced Monday that it has hired Mustafa Suleyman, currently CEO of personal AI company, Inflection AI, to be its CEO of new consumer AI division, Microsoft AI. Suleyman will be leading all consumer AI products and research for Microsoft’s series of Copilot AI assistants, as well as for the Bing search engine and the Edge browser.
Here’s what to know about Suleyman:
1. He’s been a quiet pioneer in AI
Suleyman cofounded DeepMind
Roblox officially has its own creator fund, the company tells Fast Company in an exclusive announcement.
While the company previously offered a fund for games makers and designers, the expanded $35 million fund, will encompass developer studios and users who want to build things beyond games on the server—and one of the first partners is a short-form video service, nudging into the social media landscape.
“The newly titled Creator Fund, previously Game Fund,
On Tuesday, Google announced a suite of new and updated generative AI and LLM tools to expand its reach into the red hot algorithmic medicine arena. The products range from personalized health coaching for Fitbit users, to modified versions of Gemini AI to examine medical images (a tool which scored a cool 91.1% on the kind of exam medical image technicians would have to take as part of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam), and a massive, voluntary public dermatology database called the Skin Cond
Spotify paid out $9 billion in streaming royalties last year, the streaming giant said Tuesday in its latest “Loud and Clear” report.Spotify’s fourth annual report, which originally launched in 2021 following criticism over its lack of transparency, noted record accomplishments, including the highest annual payment from any retailer to the music industry.“This is everything we know about how much is being paid out, how many artists are achieving different levels of
Former CNN reporter Don Lemon mixed it up with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an interview Lemon posted on Musk’s X social network Monday. The interview was supposed to kick off Lemon’s new talk show on X, formerly known as Twitter, at least until Musk canceled the show shortly after the interview was recorded.Over the course of slightly more than an hour, the two men jousted over subjects ranging from the political consequences of immigration and the benefits and harms of content moder
Most companies help their employees save for retirement. But for a generation burdened with student loan debt, paying off those balances is often a higher priority. Candidly, a New York-based startup which started working on this problem in 2016, helps employees optimize their debt through loan consolidation and income-based repayment plans, among other mechanisms.
The startup also makes it easy for companies to match employees’ student-loan payments with tax-free retirement
TraceLink operates a supply-chain visibility platform focused on medical and pharmaceutical products. Its products help pharmacies and medical providers navigate drug scarcity, halving the time typically spent managing medication and equipment recalls. Its AI-powered Product Availability Intelligence service, which was launched in late 2022, can predict drug shortages up to 90 days in advance.
Last year, It prevented an estimated 500,000 patients around the world from medicatio
The hacks won’t stop, but Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan, who founded the cloud security division within the Israeli military’s Unit 8200, started Cyera to help organizations discover the flaws in their defenses before the bad guys do.
Part of a growing market in what’s known as posture management, Cyera’s Data Security Platform, which first became available in 2022, uses machine learning to analyze an organization’s data landscape, from on-premise