Reddit is under scrutiny as the Federal Trade Commission has opened an inquiry into the social media platform’s practices regarding the sale, licensing, or sharing of user-generated content for use in training artificial intelligence models. This inquiry was disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, following a letter from the FTC expressing
Boeing recently issued a warning to airlines operating its 787 Dreamliner model after a LATAM plane experienced a terrifying mid-flight incident while en route to New Zealand. The incident resulted in injuries to dozens of passengers, prompting Boeing to urge airlines to inspect specific switches in the cockpit. In a statement, Boeing emphasized the ongoing
US prosecutors are seeking a severe sentence of 40 to 50 years for Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder and CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange platform. This comes after Bankman-Fried was found guilty of multiple charges including fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. The prosecution argues that such a lengthy sentence is necessary to reflect the
Reddit, the popular community-driven platform, recently announced plans to license user-generated content to companies like Google for AI projects. This move, aimed at generating revenue, has sparked concerns among regulators, lawmakers, and rights groups. The implications of sharing user content for training AI models raise questions about privacy, fairness, and copyright. The US Federal Trade
Google Meet, a popular video conferencing platform, is now offering users the ability to touch up their appearance with new portrait filters. This feature was previously available on the mobile app and has now been rolled out to the web app version of Google Meet. Users can choose from two different filters: subtle and smoothing.
Reddit, the popular online platform, has recently come under scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding its data-licensing business. According to an updated initial public offering (IPO) prospectus, Reddit received a letter from the FTC on March 14, 2024, informing the company that the FTC’s staff is conducting a non-public inquiry into Reddit’s sale,
A recent study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing in February 2024 introduced a novel approach to estimating both direct and diffuse solar radiation. Researchers incorporated data augmentation techniques with the LightGBM machine learning model to analyze sunshine duration data from a vast network of 2,453 weather stations across China. This method effectively addresses
Tesla, the well-known electric vehicle maker, recently settled a racist discrimination lawsuit in which a federal jury awarded $3.2 million in damages to Owen Diaz, a Black man who worked as an elevator operator at its Fremont, California factory in 2015. The terms of the settlement are confidential, but the attorney representing Diaz, Lawrence Organ,
A recent case involving electric vehicle maker Tesla and one of its employees has resulted in a troubling verdict. An Indiana jury found Tesla and the employee, Kyle Kaszuba, partially liable in a 2017 crash that involved a company-owned Ford truck and a motorcycle. The victim, Christopher Dugan, suffered a partial amputation, permanent disfigurement, and
LED technology has come a long way since Thomas Edison’s invention of the incandescent lamp in 1879. While the first red LEDs were introduced in 1969, it wasn’t until 1998 that white LEDs were successfully commercialized by Japan’s Nakamura Shoji. This marked a significant milestone in the lighting industry and paved the way for LEDs