The FTC and New York’s attorney general have accused Handy, the gig app customers can use to book cleaners, handymen, and more, of making deceptive claims about how much workers could earn through its platform. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the FTC […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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A federal judge in New York held Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for failing to turn over personal property to two Georgia election workers he defamed.

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In 2007, Jesse Burgess joined his family’s payroll business. He quickly noticed that the business’ six payroll clerks were getting bogged down by repetitive, monotonous tasks — and so he sought to streamline those tasks by creating workflow automation tools. Several years later, Burgess sensed an opportunity to bring the tools he developed for his […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Do U agree with Perez? Allison Holker… [...] Read More... The post Allison Holker Exposes Late Husband, Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss. Shares Some Very Personal Secrets Of His And Gets A LOT Of Blowback! But appeared first on Perez Hilton.

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McGovern Institute neuroscientists use children’s interests to probe language in the brain.

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Uber will use Nvidia’s new generative world model simulation tool, Cosmos, and cloud-based AI supercomputing platform, DGX Cloud, to support the development of autonomous vehicle technology, the companies announced at CES 2025. Cosmos is being marketed to robotics and autonomy companies as a tool that generates physics-based videos from a variety of inputs, including 9,000 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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In the US, it’s accepted that most startups fail – and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders in court, The Financial Times reports. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3D design app Rooms just landed more funding. Launched into beta in 2023, the app from ex-Google employees allows users to build and code interactive 3D rooms and mini-games using a library of more than 10,000 items, which can be further edited using the programming language Lua. Now, Google itself has invested $1 million into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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A shooting outside the office of the Honduran Consulate near Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday left a security guard dead and one person injured. The post Mexican Security Guard Dead After Shooting at Honduran Consulate in Georgia appeared first on Breitbart.

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ICAO says the incident was allegedly linked to a hacker 'known for targeting international organizations' © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OpenAI rival Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to The Wall Street Journal. The round, which The Journal reports would value Anthropic at $60 billion, would bring Anthropic’s total raised to $15.7 billion, going by Crunchbase’s data. It would also […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Employer.com has offered to acquire Level, a fintech startup that just last week abruptly shut down after failing to find a buyer, according to The Information. But Level is still mulling over the offer, its Employer.com CMO Matt Charney told TechCrunch. “It’s with legal,” he said. Founded in 2018 by early Square employee Paul Aaron, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The U.K. is forging ahead with plans to make the act of creating sexually explicit “deepfake” images a specific criminal offence. A deepfake refers to manipulated media, often video or audio, created using AI to make someone appear to say or do something they didn’t. The U.K. had already made sharing — and the threat […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Tim Brooks — one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, who left for Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, in October — will lead the new team, he announced in a post on X. It’ll be a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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President-elect Trump criticized Jimmy Carter's diplomacy that led to the Panamanians regaining control of the PCZ nearly 100 years after Teddy Roosevelt helped the U.S. take it over.

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Online spending rose 3% to a record $1.2 trillion globally over the holiday period, with U.S.-sales, specifically, growing 4% to $282 billion. That’s according to a new report from Salesforce, which aggregated data from across its various cloud services, including Agentforce, Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Service Cloud, to garner insights into spending activity spanning […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Withings has made a name for itself by making clinical grade health technologies accessible to consumer. This week at CES 2025, the firm revealed two new products that fit the description nicely, one hardware and one software. BPM Vision is the more notable. It’s a travel size home blood pressure monitor, complete with interchangeable arm […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Attorney General Bonta: San Francisco Police Department Reaches Milestone in Reform Process, Achieves Substantial Compliance with Recommendations  California Department of Justice

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is currently losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because people are using it more than expected “I personally chose the price,” Altman wrote in a series of posts on X, “and thought we would make some money.” OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pro toward the end of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) used a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to accuse the Biden administration of "handcuffing" law enforcement, leading to higher crime. The post Exclusive: Sen. Tom Cotton Pressures Merrick Garland over ‘Handcuffing’ Police appeared first on Breitbart.

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The cybersecurity consumer labeling program will launch in 2025, the Biden administration confirmed, after initially slated for last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Accel has maintained its India fund size at $650 million for its eighth vehicle, even as other venture firms in the region are racing to raise increasingly larger pools of capital. The firm had ample opportunity to raise “multi-billion dollars,” said Shekhar Kirani, partner at Accel, in an interview with TechCrunch. But unlike peers who […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The police arrested the person they believe opened fire outside the entrance to the consulate, which is near Atlanta.

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As a part of a significant overhaul of its content moderation policies announced on Tuesday, Meta admitted that its approach to limiting political content across its platforms had been “pretty blunt” and would now be addressed. The company said it would once again phase in political content into Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, allowing people who […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Prince William is paying tribute to a fallen friend. The British royal has a personal connection to the deadly New Year’s Day attack that happened in New Orleans — one of the victims who lost their life was Ed Pettifer, the stepson of his former nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke. Over the weekend, the 42-year-old future King [...] Read More... The post Prince William Gives Heartbroken Statement After Former Nanny’s Stepson Died In ‘Horrific’ New Orleans Attack appeared first on Perez Hilton.

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As part of a significant overhaul of its content moderation policies announced on Tuesday, Meta admitted that its approach to limiting political content across its platforms had been “pretty blunt” and would now be addressed. The company said it would once again phase in political content into Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, allowing people who want […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The Doraville Police Department in Georgia said one person was killed and another wounded on Monday after gunshots rang out in the Honduran Consulate parking lot near Atlanta.

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Smart ring maker Ultrahuman took the wraps off a trio of extra shiny high-tech trinkets at CES 2025 on Tuesday, adding a premium jewelry collection to its range of wellness wearables. It’s given the Ring line the brand name Rare, a neat verbal echo of the company’s mainstream smart ring, the Ring Air. The Indian […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Japanese automaker Toyota is “exploring rockets,” chairman Akio Toyoda announced on stage at CES 2025 on Monday, while hinting at the idea of moving people through space. The rocketry mention on the CES 2025 stage came while Toyoda was in the middle of explaining how he views his company’s myriad technologies as “invention by kakezan,” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Nvidia and Uber-backed Serve Robotics has raised $80 million in a direct offering of 4.2 million shares of common stock, money that will help the company extend its runway through 2026 and scale its fleet from the 100 robots on the streets of Los Angeles today to the 2,000 Serve hopes to deploy by the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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While the Chinese internet giant Tencent is best-known for its super-app WeChat, it’s also a major investor in U.S. tech companies and startups. Some of its most notable and still active investments include Reddit, Snap, and Fortnite creator Epic Games. Things might get a little awkward, though, because Tencent was designated a “Chinese military company” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Razer is always a source for good, weird fun during CES week. The gaming peripheral giant kicked off CES 2025 with a handful of Monday morning announcements, including a new take on its mesh chair. Built around the company’s well-received Razer Fujin Pro, Project Arielle adds heating and cooling to the mix. As the chair’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill plans to open a full review into the security planning that went into the Sugar Bowl and New Year's Eve, in the wake of a deadly attack.

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The combined entity is expected to be valued at $3.7 billion based on yesterday’s closing share prices. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has strong words for the former board members who abruptly fired him late last November. “[A]ll those people that I feel, like, really f—ed me and f—ed the company were gone, and now I had to clean up their mess,” he told Bloomberg in a wide-ranging interview. Just over a year […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Dehydration is a major cause of illness in cats and affects millions of them each year. To address this issue, Petcube, a pet tech company known for its smart cameras and treat dispensers, introduced its first pet water fountain at CES 2025 on Tuesday. This fountain gives pets access to clean, safe water when their […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Kombucha, a fermented tea that has been around for thousands of years and was once considered a niche health drink, is currently experiencing a surge in popularity as more consumers look for gut-friendly beverages. However, this fizzy drink isn’t exactly cheap, and home brewing can be messy, overly complicated, and time-consuming. Additionally, the supplies needed […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Trump picks Joseph Nocella Jr. to be US attorney for Eastern District of New York  Reuters

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced new AI models for robots, self-driving cars, and autonomous agents during a keynote address at CES.

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Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were available from launch, including, 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Amazon's office return sparks Seattle's economic revival and traffic challenges  KOMO News

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‘Extra income for everyone:’ Business owners rejoice as Amazon workers return to office  MyNorthwest

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‘Extra income for everyone:’ Business owners rejoice as Amazon workers return full time  MyNorthwest

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