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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden stated Tuesday it stays to be seen if synthetic intelligence is harmful, however that he believes expertise corporations should guarantee their merchandise are secure earlier than releasing them to the general public. Biden met along with his council of advisers on sci...

Britain’s privateness watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty on Tuesday for a slew of knowledge safety breaches, together with misusing youngsters’s knowledge. The Information Commissioner’s Office stated it issued a high-quality of 12.7 million kilos ($15.9 million) to the short-video shar...

Former Theranos govt Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani will probably be heading to jail later this month after an appeals court docket rejected his bid to stay free whereas he contests his conviction for finishing up a blood-testing hoax along with his former boss and lover, Elizabeth Holmes. After the Ninth Circuit ...

The publishing platform Substack is rolling out a brand new product known as Notes for posting and sharing short-form content material on-line that resembles Twitter. Substack’s co-founders stated this week that the lifeblood of their forthcoming service is changing their viewers into paying subscribers re...

A nationwide take a look at of the UK's emergency alert service will happen at 3pm on Sunday 23 April.Messages will pop up on cellphones throughout the nation, together with a sound and vibration that may cease routinely after 10 seconds. People will simply have to faucet "OK" or swipe away the notification like another, with no additional motion required.The alert will make a sound even when an individual's telephone is switched on to silent.It is the primary nationwide trial of the service, following pilots in East Suffolk and Reading. The authorities mentioned it might be utilized in "life-threatening emergencies", together with excessive climate occasions just like the wildfires and flooding seen final 12 months.It has been in manufacturing for about three years and notif...

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Styles, Post Malone, Lizzo, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, the forged of “Ted Lasso” and the online collection that gave us a child loving corn are among the many nominees for this yr’s Webby Awards, recognizing one of the best web content material and creators. The International Acad...

NASA has launched beautiful new photographs of Uranus which might assist unravel a mysterious function of the planet.The photographs, taken utilizing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, present the planet's rings in additional element than they've ever been seen earlier than. Though the rings have been captured in earlier photographs, these are stated to be a lot clearer. Image: This wider view reveals Uranus and its 27 identified moons The photographs, which additionally embody a wider shot exhibiting Uranus and its 27 identified moons, might assist to resolve a thriller concerning the ice large, in response to NASA.That is as a result of they present Uranus's polar cap, scientists say. Commenting on the {photograph}, NA...

The Justice Department introduced Monday that judges in California, Idaho and Arizona seized six cryptocurrency accounts linked to funding scams value greater than $112 million. The accounts had been linked to sha zhu pan, loosely that means pig-butchering rip-off in Chinese.  ...

A runaway black gap is tearing by the universe, leaving a path of stars in its wake that is by no means been seen earlier than, NASA says.The supermassive black gap weighs as a lot as 20 million suns - and it is travelling so quick that if it had been in our photo voltaic system, it might journey from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. It has left behind a 200,000 gentle 12 months lengthy path of new child stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy.The phenomenon was unintentionally noticed by NASA's Hubble Telescope, with the astronomer who found it saying the sighting was "pure serendipity"."It didn't look like anything we've seen before," stated Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University. The star path was "quite astonishing, very, very bright and very unusual", he stated, ...

After pushing unemployment companies to crack down on fraud, the Labor Department’s inspector basic now says the strategy states turned to — facial recognition — finally ends up discriminating in opposition to minorities. In an pressing new alert, the inspector basic mentioned Tuesday that some states addi...