A bill to create one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media is heading to Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has expressed concerns about the legislation that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval.
The state House of Representatives passed the bill on a 108 to 7 vote Thursday just hours after the state Senate approved it 23 to 14. The Senate made changes to the original Hou
When her cellphone service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way—on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though she has a mobile phone.
“Don’t get me wrong, I like cellphones,” the 69-year-old Alexandria, Virginia, resident said Thursday, the day of the outage. “But I’m still
On Wednesday, Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre was pushed out as CEO. Cofounder Greg Solano, commonly referred to by the moniker, Gargamel (or Garga), took back control of the company known for stewarding NFT collections including the Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks.
The decision comes in the wake of mounting concerns from so-called Ape holders over the state of the business, the company’s acquisition of another NFT purveyor, Proof Collective, and a changing company culture.
After years of sitting on the sidelines, Reddit is finally moving ahead with its IPO—and some parties stand to see serious bank, while some names that you would expect to be among the beneficiaries are absent.
Reddit filed its S1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late Thursday, giving the public the first look at its plan to go public. (The company filed privately in December 2021, but shelved the plans after the market for IPOs became choppy.) Among the infor
Warner Bros Discovery reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Friday, as the media conglomerate battled a weak advertising market and the fallout of the twin Hollywood strikes on content generation.
Shares of the company, forged by the union of WarnerMedia and Discovery, tumbled nearly 12%, even as it beat Disney and Paramount to an inaugural annual profit for the streaming business. Shares of Paramount fell more than 5%.
The results high
After reports earlier this week that Reddit is planning to allow 75,000 of its power users to buy its upcoming shares at its initial public offering (IPO) price, we now have more details about the platform’s plan to go public. That’s because yesterday the company published the prospectus for its public offering. Here’s what that prospectus does and doesn’t reveal.
What we know
- Classes of Reddit stock: The company will hav
If you’re planning to go into the hospitality industry, the pathway is increasingly going to involve some sort of familiarity with AI. That’s one of the key messages in “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robot Applications in Hospitality Businesses,” a new book by hospitality professor Rachel J.C. Fu. In the following Q&A, Fu discusses how the hospitality jobs of the future will rely more and more on technology to provide a pleasant guest experience.
All across the country, lawsuits are piling up challenging state laws that attempt to regulate Big Tech platforms in one way or another. Some of the suits take aim at laws requiring new safeguards for kids online. Others are targeting attempts to govern how social media platforms can moderate political speech. All of the litigation has at least one thing in common: the Big Tech lobbying firm behind it.
Over the past few years, NetChoice, which was founded in 2001, has emerged as the
The brightest object in the universe—at least, the brightest we’ve seen yet—shines 500 trillion times brighter than the sun, and it eats a sun a day.
Objects like these are rare, and despite their objective brightness, remain elusive and hard to spot. This record-breaker was first spotted in 1980 and mischaracterized as a regular old star. Then, in a study conducted by a team out of Australia using the Siding Spring Observatory, it was recast as a quasar. Observ
Spend any time interacting with AI chatbots and their tone can start to grate. No question is too taxing or intrusive for the noncorporial assistants, and if you probe under the hood of the bot too much, it’ll respond in a platitudinous way designed to dullen the interaction.
Nearly a year and a half into the generative-AI revolution, researchers are starting to wonder whether that deathly dull format is the best approach.
“There was something off with the to