Lawsuit against Snap over fentanyl deaths can proceed, judge rules
A lawsuit blaming Snapchat for a series of drug overdoses among young people can proceed, a Los Angeles judge ruled this week. A group of family members related to children and teens who overdosed on fentanyl sued Snapchat maker Snap last year, accusing the social media company of facilitating illicit
Read moreCES 2024: How to watch as Nvidia, Samsung and more reveal hardware, AI updates
CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs
Read moreThe goal of a startup is to cease existing
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Read moreSpaceX is suing to bust up federal union protections
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge SpaceX is suing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after the agency accused the Elon Musk-owned company of illegally firing employees. In a lawsuit filed in federal court on Thursday, SpaceX claims the NLRB’s actions are unconstitutional. On Wednesday, the NLRB filed a
Read moreRansomware gang starts leaking data stolen from Quebec university
The LockBit ransomware gang has started releasing data it says was stolen last month from a Quebec university. The data is from the University of Sherbrooke, with a student body of about 31,000 and 8,200 faculty and staff. Sherbrooke is a city about a two-hour drive east of Montreal. Asked
Read moreEV startup Fisker struggling to meet internal sales goals, documents show
Fisker remains far from meeting CEO and founder Henrik Fisker’s publicly stated goal of delivering 300 electric SUVs per day globally, according to internal documents viewed by TechCrunch. The EV startup spent much of December aiming to meet an internal sales goal of between 100 and 200 vehicles a day
Read moreIn surprise move, Intel, DigitalBridge launch enterprise GenAI firm
Intel and global investment firm DigitalBridge Group yesterday announced the formation of Articul8 AI, an independent company offering enterprise customers what was described as a “full-stack, vertically-optimized and secure generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software platform designed to keep customer data, training, and inference within the enterprise security perimeter.” It will
Read moreIs the latest near-room-temperature superconductor legit? Don’t count on it
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Read moreTalks of bitcoin spot ETF approval circulate as India blocks exchange sites and crypto is seeing more optimism
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Read moreHybrid arrangements tripled since 2022, trend far from over, says Capterra
Nearly 70 per cent of Canadian hybrid workers go to the office two to three times a week, a new Capterra report that surveyed 1,021 part- and full-time employees working at least some days from the office has found. The increased prevalence of hybrid work comes as companies like IBM,
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