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WNBA to expand Finals to 7 games, add to regular season next year
Napheesa Collier #24 of the Minnesota Lynx scores the game winning basket during the game against the New York Liberty during Game 1 of the 2024 WNBA Finals on October 10, 2024 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Nathaniel S. Butler | National Basketball Association | Getty Images Basketball fans will have even more […]
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Cerebras IPO has ‘too much hair’ as AI chipmaker tries to sell Wall Street on Nvidia alternative
Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024. Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images AI chipmaker Cerebras is trying to be the first major venture-backed tech company to go public in the U.S. since April and to capitalize on investors’ insatiable […]
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Zuckerberg’s metaverse is finally showing signs of life, but it’s not from VR
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presents Orion AR Glasses, as he makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the occasion to show the […]
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TikTok’s use of casino-like virtual currency to allegedly exploit children faces scrutiny in DC lawsuit
A view shows the office of TikTok after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app or face a ban, in Culver City, California, March 13, 2024. Mike Blake | Reuters Of the many allegations […]
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TikTok sued over ‘addictive’ features that cause physical and mental harm to kids
A bipartisan group of more than a dozen state attorneys general is filing lawsuits on Tuesday against social media giant TikTok, with one complaint accusing the company of deceiving users by claiming that its app is safe for children, despite its addictive features, and for allegedly operating an unlicensed money transmission business. “Our lawsuit is […]
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Tensions rise between banks and tech companies over online fraud liability in the UK
Key Points Starting from Oct. 7, banks will be required to start compensating victims of online fraud a maximum £85,000 in the U.K. On Thursday, London-based digital bank Revolut accused Meta of falling “woefully short of what’s required to tackle fraud globally” when it comes to tackling fraud. Tensions have been running high between banks […]
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Why WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has gone ‘nuclear’ against tech investing giant Silver Lake
Automattic founder, Matt Mullenweg Source: Automattic Matt Mullenweg, who turned 40 in January, has now spent more than half his life working on WordPress. He’s never had such an insane two weeks. WordPress, best known as a leading content management system, has hundreds of millions of sites currently using its templates, tools and plugins. But […]
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Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz says he plans to donate to VP Kamala Harris’ campaign
Ben Horowitz (right), Andreessen Horowitz partner talks about artificial intelligence and jobs at the TANIUM CONVERGE16 conference San Francisco. Harriet Taylor | CNBC Less than three months after announcing plans to contribute to political action committees supporting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz says he’s donating to Vice President Kamala Harris’ election bid, CNBC […]
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Mark Zuckerberg is now world’s second-richest person, ahead of Jeff Bezos
At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, head of the Facebook group Meta, shows the prototype of computer glasses that can display digital objects in transparent lenses. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has surpassed Jeff Bezos as the world’s second richest person. Zuckerberg’s net worth reached $206.2 […]
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Facebook parent Meta rehired worker after he stalked a coworker for over a year, lawsuit says
A logo of US company’s Meta is displayed during the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on May 22, 2024. Julien De Rosa | Afp | Getty Images A former Meta staffer who was placed on a “Do Not Hire” list after he stalked and harassed […]
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