Enlarge (credit: iStockPhoto) The major broadcast networks have won a big copyright ruling against Locast, a nonprofit organization that provides online access to broadcast TV stations. Although it’s a partial summary judgment, the ruling by a federal judge rejects Locast’s primary defense against claims of copyright infringement. Locast was sued by ABC, CBS, Fox, and […]
Enlarge (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission is warning that cryptocurrency trading platforms are putting their own survival at risk unless they heed his call to work within the nation’s regulatory framework. Gary Gensler told the Financial Times that while he remained “technology neutral,” crypto assets were no […]
Enlarge / Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos at the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on April 12, 2016. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Amazon’s attempt to block proposals for the next-generation Starlink system is a “delay tactic” and a continuation of Amazon’s strategy of “hinder[ing] competitors to compensate for Amazon’s failure […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) Over 135 subreddits have gone dark this week in protest of Reddit’s refusal to ban communities that spread misinformation about the COVID pandemic and vaccines. Subreddits that went private include two with 10 million or more subscribers, namely r/Futurology and r/TIFU. The PokemonGo community is one of 15 […]
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, arrives for motion hearing on Monday, November 4, 2019, at the US District Court House in San Jose, California. (credit: Getty | Yichuan Cao ) Nearly a decade ago, Theranos touted the revolutionary diagnostic device that could run myriad medical tests without having to draw […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A county judge in Ohio has ordered a hospital in Cincinnati to administer ivermectin to an intensive care patient, a move raises questions about the role of the courts in the medical system. “It is absurd that this order was issued, ” Arthur Caplan , professor of bioethics […]
Enlarge / Students practicing computer games in an eSports class at the Lanxiang technical school in Jinan, in China’s eastern Shandong province, on January 29, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | AFP | Greg Baker) China reportedly issued new rules today forbidding minors from playing video games more than three hours a week, while banning youth […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | naruecha jenthaisong) A judge in Illinois has stripped visitation rights from an 11-year-old boy’s mother because she has not been vaccinated against COVID-19. Earlier this month, at a child support hearing held over Zoom, Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Shapiro asked if Rebecca Firlit, the boy’s mother, had received […]
Enlarge (credit: SpaceX ) Amazon is urging US regulators to reject an update to SpaceX’s plan for a second-generation Starlink system. Kuiper Systems, Amazon’s satellite-broadband subsidiary, says that SpaceX broke Federal Communications Commission rules by “propos[ing] two different configurations for the nearly 30, 000 satellites of its Gen2 System, each of which arranges these satellites […]
Enlarge (credit: KeremYucel / iStock ) Andrew Schober was almost all-in on cryptocurrency. In 2018, 95 percent of his net wealth was invested in the digital tokens, which he hoped he could sell later to buy a home and support his family. But then disaster struck. Schober had downloaded an app called “Electrum Atom” after […]