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YouTube testing new AI-powered age verification

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 [...]

By |2025-08-18T11:01:39-04:00Thursday, August 14, 2025|

Epic Games wins partial victory over Google, Apple

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 [...]

By |2025-08-18T11:01:41-04:00Thursday, August 14, 2025|

Judge denies request to unseal Maxwell transcripts

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 [...]

By |2025-08-14T09:19:48-04:00Wednesday, August 13, 2025|

Many states are considering options to pay for data-center electricity use

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 [...]

By |2025-08-14T09:19:54-04:00Wednesday, August 13, 2025|

Federal Reserve official says jobs report supports case for 3 interest rate cuts

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 [...]

By |2025-08-14T09:20:03-04:00Wednesday, August 13, 2025|

Firm ordered to stop spilling chemicals into the Ohio River

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, [...]

By |2025-08-14T09:20:06-04:00Wednesday, August 13, 2025|

Commercial fishing in vast Pacific nature area halted after a judge blocks order

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 [...]

By |2025-08-14T09:20:13-04:00Wednesday, August 13, 2025|

Adidas accused of cultural appropriation by Mexico

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 [...]

By |2025-08-14T09:20:16-04:00Wednesday, August 13, 2025|
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