1 hour ago Lawsuit: Gaming Giants Roblox and Discord Enable Child Sexual Abuse, Grooming

Gaming giants Roblox and Discord are facing a lawsuit alleging that their platforms facilitated the exploitation and abuse of a 13-year-old plaintiff. Roblox, an online gaming platform often compared to Minecraft, and Discord, a voice and chat platform popular with gamers, both have a troubled past filled with allegations of grooming and allowing predators to run rampant. The post Lawsuit: Gaming Giants Roblox and Discord Enable Child Sexual Abuse, Grooming appeared first on Breitbart.

Society

2 h. ago FAA tests Starlink terminals as Musk claims Verizon tech is ‘not working’

The Federal Aviation Administration has started testing the use of SpaceX Starlink satellite internet terminals in the national airspace system, nearly two years after Verizon was awarded a $2 billion contract to perform similar work. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk claimed on his social media platform X that the Verizon system “is not working […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 h. ago DoorDash to pay delivery workers nearly $17M for using tips to cover wages

DoorDash has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general that accused the delivery platform of pocketing workers’ tips to cover wages. The lawsuit alleged that between May 2017 and September 2019, DoorDash used customer tips to offset the base pay it had already guaranteed to workers, instead of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Economics

2 h. ago Putin Tries to Undercut Zelensky Deal by Offering U.S. Minerals from Conquered Ukraine

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin held a meeting on Monday to discuss the development of his country's rare-earth mineral industry in which he suggested that he would welcome American investment in the sector in both his country and the parts of Ukraine that he has invaded and occupied. The post Putin Tries to Undercut Zelensky Deal by Offering U.S. Minerals from Conquered Ukraine appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 h. ago Microsoft’s venture fund M12 leads $15M round for Seattle cloud infrastructure startup Edera

Microsoft’s venture fund M12 leads $15M round for Seattle cloud infrastructure startup Edera  GeekWire

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3 h. ago Redalpine, Founders Fund back Magdrive’s electric thruster business

Orbital mobility took center-stage in the space industry last year, with venture capitalists funneling massive sums into startups developing tech for nimble satellite operations. So it’s no surprise that one of the most recent deals is to Magdrive, a UK-based startup that says its electric propulsion system for satellites will deliver a higher thrust in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 h. ago Quantum Machines raises $170M, says it’s working with more than half of all quantum computing companies

Quantum computing remains a holy grail in the world of technology, but with some important breakthroughs in the last several months, investors are betting on the more promising startups in the space to make the concept of super-efficient particle- and electron-based computing a reality. In the latest development, Quantum Machines, an Israeli startup that provides […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 h. ago Serverless cloud platform Koyeb now lets developers spin up Tenstorrent’s AI accelerators

Just a few weeks after chipmaker Tenstorrent raised nearly $700 million in funding, developers can now try out Tenstorrent’s AI accelerators on Koyeb. Tenstorrent sells AI processors built around the RISC-V instruction set architecture, and has developed its own open-source neural network library, TT-NN, and open-source low-level programming model, TT-Metalium. Tenstorrent is part of a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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4 h. ago Baidu buys livestreaming site for $2.1bn a year after shelving deal

Chinese internet giant Baidu said on Tuesday it had purchased social media platform JOYY Inc's livestreaming business for $2.1 billion, a year after it canceled a deal partly because it failed to get government approval.

Economics

7 h. ago EU’s top court ruling on Android Auto antitrust referral could put interoperability requests in the fast lane

Europe’s top court has weighed in to clarify the rules around interoperability requirements on Big Tech in a referral on a case related to Google’s Android Auto platform. Back in 2021, the tech giant was hit with an €100 million antitrust fine by Italy’s competition authority for refusing to let a third-party electric car charging […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Events

8 h. ago Agenda Washington County: Board of Supervisors consider providing assistance to develop lots near proposed inland port

Agenda Washington County: Board of Supervisors consider providing assistance to develop lots near proposed inland port  Cardinal News

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16 h. ago 1,000 artists release ‘silent’ album to protest UK copyright sell

The U.K. government is pushing forward with plans to attract more AI companies to the region through changes to copyright law that would allow developers to train AI models on artists’ content on the internet — without permission or payment — unless creators proactively “opt out.” Not everyone is marching to the same beat, though. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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20 h. ago Apple exec Phil Schiller testifies that he raised concerns over App Store commissions on web

Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday that he had originally raised concerns about the 27% commission the iPhone maker planned to charge app developers on any purchases made outside the App Store. In addition to being a potential compliance risk, he suggested that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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20 h. ago Novel system optimizes the electrical, thermal and mechanical behavior of 3D printed materials

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with the University of Oxford, Imperial College London and the BC Materials research center in the Basque Country, has developed an innovative computational model that makes it possible to predict and improve the behavior of multifunctional structures manufactured using 3D printers. This breakthrough, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, opens the door to new applications in sectors such as biomedicine, soft robotics and other branches of engineering.

Politics

20 h. ago Act before it cracks: Innovative coating of concrete to protect bridges

Elastomers similar to paint coatings developed at the University of Luxembourg and the Technical University of Darmstadt, were proven to help detect and monitor potential concrete cracks in existing or future buildings. Many of the tunnels and bridge infrastructure in Europe is more than 50 years old, and are approaching end of life with important maintenance needs, posing the threat of more disastrous accidents, such as the Morandi Bridge in Genoa in 2018 in Italy (43 deaths and 16 injured).

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22 h. ago DHS memo lays out plans to detain migrants at Fort Bliss and other U.S. bases

The Trump administration is developing plans to build immigration detention facilities on bases nationwide, a step that could significantly expand the military's role in immigration enforcement.

Events

22 h. ago SoundCloud partners with TicketMaster to let artists list events

Music streamer SoundCloud announced a partnership with entertainment company Live Nation today, allowing artists on its platform to list Ticketmaster and Universe events on their profile in a customized way. The company said it would create more promotion opportunities for artists in the future in partnership with Ticketmaster through a new promotion program but didn’t […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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24 h. ago Elon Musk's Only Public Response to Ashley St. Clair's Paternity Suit Is an X Reply

Billionaire Elon Musk has largely chosen to stay quiet regarding explosive allegations from the mother of his youngest child, Ashley St. Clair. In fact, his only public response has been a one-word post to his X social media platform. The post Elon Musk’s Only Public Response to Ashley St. Clair’s Paternity Suit Is an X Reply appeared first on Breitbart.

Technology

24 h. ago YouTube was born from a failed dating site—20 years on, the world's biggest video platform faces new challenges

When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube.com 20 years ago, they wanted to create an online dating site based around videos of users. In 2016, Chen told the SXSW conference: "We thought dating would be the obvious choice."

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24 h. ago OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Husband Welcome Baby Boy Born by Surrogacy

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, announced the birth of a baby boy via surrogacy in a post to X over the weekend. Altman married software engineer Oliver Mulherin in 2024. The post OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Husband Welcome Baby Boy Born by Surrogacy appeared first on Breitbart.

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