The EU has launched formal proceedings against Chinese shopping website Temu amid concerns it is failing to stop the sale of illegal products online. A formal investigation was opened on Thursday, with the European Commission citing concerns about the platform, which is a cut-price rival to Amazon. With its slogan “shop like a billionaire”, the … Read more
She was a hugely divisive figure after her performance at the Paris Olympics earlier this year, and now breakdancer Raygun has come under fire online after issuing her fans a challenge that “really hurts to see.” It comes after the Australian Olympian, whose current name is Rachael Gunn, became a integral source of ridicule at … Read more
Israel launched airstrikes against Iran on Saturday in a retaliatory attack that could bring the Middle East closer to a regional war. Israeli jets attacked military bases, missile sites and other systems in several Iranian regions in retaliation for a missile bombardment earlier this month. Iran said two soldiers were killed … Read more
The NAACP today announced NAACP Haber, a $200 million fund to support fund managers focused on issues affecting people of color. The fund was conceived in collaboration with Kapor Haber and Kapor Middle, along with nine other venture fund managers. Last year, Crunchbase found that Black founders raised less than 1% of all venture hacienda … Read more
Buenos Aires has become the first city in the world to launch a blockchain-based digital identity system for its residents. This initiative allows more than 3.6 million people to store more than 60 identification documents on the government-backed MiBA platform. Since Sam Altman's controversial Worldcoin project emerged last year, the Web3 community has been abuzz … Read more
Google is making SynthID Textual content, its technology that allows developers to watermark and detect written text using generative AI models, generally available. SynthID Textual content can be downloaded from the Face Hugging AI Platform and Google's updated Responsible GenAI Toolkit. “We are open source our SynthID Textual content watermarking tool,” the company wrote in … Read more
Liberal National Party leader David Crisafulli promised to introduce “mandatory isolation periods” for children who assault youth detention center workers, as Queensland's opposition formally launched its state election campaign on Sunday. Speaking to a crowd of LNP candidates and party faithful in Ipswich, Crisafulli focused much of his comments on what he has called the … Read more
Google on Thursday updated the audio summarization feature of its AI-powered research and note-taking assistant NotebookLM, which recently attracted a lot of attention for its podcast-like audio conversations based on content users share, with the ability to guide those conversations and focus on specific topics rather than simply generating holistic audio summaries. Today, audio overviews … Read more
Despite US concern over Israel's bombing campaign in Beirut, there were a series of attacks around Lebanon's capital on Wednesday. The Israeli army says it is attacking Hezbollah strongholds, but more than 2,000 people have been killed and nearly 11,000 wounded, many of them civilians. Source link
SimpliSafe After spending some time in early access, SimpliSafe's Energetic Guard Out of doors Safety feature is now available to the public. Using artificial intelligence technology along with its team of security experts, Energetic Guard Out of doors Safety is designed to detect and stop crime before it happens. It's available on the new Outdoor … Read more