YouTube this week began testing a new age-verification system in the United States that relies on artificial intelligence to differentiate between adults and minors, based on the kinds of videos that they have been watching. The tests initially will only affect a sliver of YouTube’s audience in the United States, but it likely will become [...]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Epic Games, the company behind the popular online game Fortnite, won a partial victory in an Australian court in American billionaire Chief Executive Tim Sweeney’s claim that Google and Apple engaged in anti-competitive conduct in running their app stores. Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach upheld key parts of Epic’s claim that [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, won’t be released, a judge decided this week. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in a written ruling that the government had suggested that the materials could be released publicly “casually [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers. Analysts say it’s not clear that any state has a solution and the actual impact of data centers on electricity bills is difficult to pin down. Some [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A top official at the Federal Reserve said Saturday that this month’s weaker-than-expected report on the nation’s job market is strengthening her belief that interest rates should be lower. Michelle Bowman was one of two Fed officials who last month voted in favor of cutting interest rates. Such a move could [...]
A federal judge last week ordered the Chemours Chemical Company to immediately stop discharging unlawful levels of certain chemicals into the Ohio River from the company’s Washington Works plant in West Virginia. “Those pollutants endanger the environment, aquatic life and human health,” U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin wrote in the order. “Today, that unlawful, [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii last week sided with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean protections. The remote Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument is home to turtles, marine mammals and [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities are accusing sportswear company Adidas of plagiarizing artisans in southern Mexico, alleging that a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional Indigenous footwear known as huaraches. The controversy has fueled accusations of cultural appropriation by the footwear brand, with authorities saying this is not the first time [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Nvidia and AMD agreed to share 15 percent of their revenues from chip sales to China with the federal government, a government official has confirmed. President Donald Trump’s administration had halted the sale of advanced computer chips to China in April, but Nvidia and AMD revealed in July that Washington would [...]