A Judge Says Meta’s AI Copyright Case Is About ‘the Next Taylor Swift’
Meta’s copyright battle with a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, will turn on the question of whether the company’s AI tools produce works that can cannibalize the authors’ book sales. US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria spent several hours grilling lawyers from both sides after they each filed motions for partial […]
Sinners Is No Longer Playing in IMAX, But It’ll Be Back Soon
The nature of an IMAX release is movies only have a limited of time to play on those screens until the next movie hits. That’s especially true over the summer when seemingly every single big release is either shot for, or upscaled to, a bigger-scale IMAX. And so that’s why, starting today, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners […]
Will CapCut Be Banned With TikTok? These Alternatives Could Be the Answer
Facing a potential ban in the US, TikTok received another 75-day extension to find a US buyer approved by government officials. That keeps the app live for now, but it also creates another looming deadline for TikTok’s 170 million US users. For creators, the delay means more months of uncertainty around one of the most popular […]
World partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more places
World, the biometric ID company best known for its eyeball-scanning Orb devices, at an event late on Wednesday announced several partnerships aimed at driving sign-ups and demonstrating the applications of its tech. World is partnering with Match Group, the dating app conglomerate, to verify the IDs of Tinder users in Japan. Via collaborations with Kalshi […]
Learn how to ethically hack for just A$54
TL;DR: Get hands-on hacking lessons from the All-in-One Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle on sale for A$54 through 1 June. Some tech skills you can learn on your own. Others, like ethical hacking, are a little harder to practice without a controlled environment. That’s why it’s nice when you find something like the All-in-One Super-Sized Ethical […]
Trump’s Policies Are Creating Uncertainty for Fossil Fuel Companies
“Lawyers are going to have a field day with this,” says Hathaway, who now works as a director at Lawyers for Good Government, a legal nonprofit dedicated to progressive advocacy. It’s clear these new rules are exclusively a gift to extractive industries like drilling and mining. Solar and wind projects—which the administration has repeatedly attacked, […]
Gadgets Are Getting More Expensive, But Not Even Amazon Wants to Say ‘Tariffs’
U.S.-based consumers should have one expectation for the future: your tech will be more expensive. The most obvious culprit is Trump’s tariffs, and already prices for TVs, wearables, PC gear, gaming devices, chargers and many more product categories demand more from your wallet than they did a month ago. Companies have made radical changes in […]
Google Takes Aim at Duolingo With AI Tools To Help You Learn New Languages
Google is debuting three new AI experiments that are intended to help users learn foreign languages on the go. The tools utilize Google’s Gemini large language model to identify objects and situations in a user’s immediate environment and provide translations that could help users ask for help or spark a conversation. II you want to […]