Monthly Archives: July 2023

FTC Chair Lina Khan Faces Criticism in Congressional Hearing

Lina Khan faced more than three hours of questioning from the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee.

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Celsius Ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky Is Arrested

Alex Mashinsky was arrested on Thursday morning. He and his former firm also face lawsuits from the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators.

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Judge’s Ruling on Ripple’s XRP Token Gives Crypto Industry a Victory

A judge ruled that the sale of the cryptocurrency XRP on public exchanges did not violate securities law.

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Texas TikTok Ban Challenged for Threatening ‘Academic Freedom’

A lawsuit filed on Thursday says Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban is compromising research and teaching at public universities.

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Congress prepares to continue throwing money at NASA’s Space Launch System

Congress will pour billions more dollars into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its associated architecture, even as NASA science missions remain vulnerable to cuts. Both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees recommend earmarking around $25 billion for NASA … Continue reading

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Making sense of the latest climate-tech trend stories

Last year, when venture capital’s fiery streak cooled, climate tech held strong with tens of billions in deals despite geopolitical instability, hiked-up interest rates and crypto chaos. Still, the state of the sprawling, tricky-to-define sector was never easy to pin … Continue reading

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Google Bard: The AI Chatbot That Can Do It All

Google has been at the forefront of the development of chatbots in recent years, which have become increasingly popular in recent years. Since its debut earlier this year, the tech giant’s Bard AI chatbot has been making waves, and now … Continue reading

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9 Unique Features Only AI Legal Assistants Can Provide

The technology that we use today is constantly evolving and transforming the way many different industries function, including law. Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short, has been a huge game-changer in this field – especially with the creation of AI … Continue reading

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Record heat meets record wildfires in Canada, and scientists say this is the new reality

Record high temperatures add fuel to the record wildfire season in Canada, with more heat and wildfires yet to come this year.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter files data-scraping lawsuit against unknown defendants

Elon Musk’s X Corp., the parent company of Twitter, filed a lawsuit against four unknown entities last week over charges of data-scraping on Twitter.

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