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Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says
Enlarge (credit: Apu Gomes / Stringer | Getty Images News) A US district judge William Alsup has dismissed Elon Musk’s X Corp’s lawsuit against Bright Data, a data-scraping company accused of...
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More children gain hearing as gene therapy for profound deafness advances
Enlarge / Opal Sandy (center), who was born completely deaf because of a rare genetic condition, can now hear unaided for the first time after receiving gene therapy at 11-months-old. She is shown...
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Asus ROG Ally to receive a revision with more storage and a bigger battery
Asus recently confirmed to The Verge that it will release a hardware update to its ROG Ally handheld PC this year. The new model, the ROG Ally X, will receive a full unveiling on June 2. Pricing...
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NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket
Enlarge / The Space Launch System rocket lifts off on the Artemis I mission. (credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the...
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AT&T loses key ruling in attempt to escape Carrier-of-Last-Resort obligation
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Joe Raedle ) AT&T’s application to end its landline phone obligations in California is likely to be rejected by state officials following protest from residents...
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Fallout 4 surfs tidal wave of renewed interest to the top of UK’s best seller...
Game sales data from analytics group GSD shows that Fallout 4 was the best-selling game for April in the UK. While the list did not mention sales totals, GamesIndustry.biz notes that the nine-year-old...
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Microsoft Edge is getting a built-in AI theme creator on Windows 11 and...
Microsoft is getting more creative with using AI in its products. The latest AI feature in its Microsoft 365 roadmap is an announcement for Edge browser that will soon be able to create AI themes. As...
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Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Two weeks ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk enacted widespread layoffs throughout the company, including the 500-strong team responsible for the brand’s Supercharger....
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Google Requests Default Judgment Against DMCA Scammers
The DMCA takedown process gives copyright holders the option to remove infringing content from the web. It’s a powerful, widely-used tool that takes millions of URLs and links offline every day. This...
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Black Basta ransomware group is imperiling critical infrastructure, groups warn
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal agencies, health care associations, and security researchers are warning that a ransomware group tracked under the name Black Basta is ravaging critical...
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Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret...
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known as “gpt-chatbot” that had been undergoing testing on LMSYS’s...
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M2 iPad Air review: The everything iPad
The new 13-inch iPad Air with the Apple M2 processor inside. [credit: Andrew Cunningham ] The iPad Air has been a lot of things in the last decade-plus. In 2013 and 2014, the first iPad Airs were just...
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M4 iPad Pro review: Well, now you’re just showing off
Enlarge / The 2024, M4-equipped 13-inch iPad Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) The new iPad Pro is a technical marvel, with one of the best screens I’ve ever seen, performance that few other machines can...
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Apple releases iOS 17.5, macOS 14.5, and other updates as new iPads launch
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple has released the latest updates for virtually all of its actively supported devices today. Most include a couple handfuls of security updates, some new features for Apple...
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Feds probe Waymo driverless cars hitting parked cars, drifting into traffic
Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in downtown San Francisco on Bush and Sansome Streets as it drives and transports passengers. (credit: JasonDoiy | iStock Unreleased) Crashing into parked cars,...
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Amazon orders Tomb Raider TV series for Prime Video
Amazon said the show will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the globe. It’ll be based on the iconic Tomb Raider franchise, and follow the adventures...
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Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype
Enlarge / A video still of Project Astra demo at the Google I/O conference keynote in Mountain View on May 14, 2024. (credit: Google) Just one day after OpenAI revealed GPT-4o, which it bills as being...
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Apple TV wants to pay actors and producers based on how their content performs
Bloomberg notes that the memo stipulates that if a movie or show is successful, the production staff will receive bonuses. The idea is to use a points system to determine the amount of additional...
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Four-in-Ten Aussies Pirated Content in 2023, Overall Online Consumption Up 6%
The Australian government has released the 2023 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. Commissioned by the Attorney-General’s Department, the research aims to better...
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AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | AaronP/Bauer-Griffin) The US government has provided more detail on how a former AT&T executive allegedly bribed a powerful state lawmaker’s ally in order to obtain...
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