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U.S. Olympian couldn’t pay her rent. Flavor Flav and Alexis Ohanian took care of it
Veronica Fraley is scheduled to compete at the Paris Olympics for the first time Friday.So now probably is not a good time for distractions — like, say, rent being...
How much does your city know about you? This Southern California city opens up
Rain was falling steadily as the group huddled underneath umbrellas outside the Mark Twain Neighborhood Library in Long Beach in early March, equipped with their smartphones and a mission....
Get paid or sue? How the news business is combating the threat of AI
Journalist Javier Cabral wanted to test Google’s much-hyped, experimental artificial intelligence-powered search results. So he typed out a question about a topic he knew intimately: the Long Beach bakery...
California lawmakers continue push to regulate social media despite legal hurdles
California lawmakers are pursuing legislation aimed at protecting children from the dangers of social media, one of many efforts around the country to confront what U.S. Surgeon General Vivek...
Why some Silicon Valley investors are backing the Trump-Vance campaign
SAN FRANCISCO —  For many years, Republicans and ardent supporters of former President Trump haven’t been super popular in Silicon Valley circles. But the sentiment has shifted in recent weeks...
Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans
When tech companies present their products as sleek autonomous computers, that ignores the labor powering the machines. Source link
Keke Palmer defends Angela Simmons over controversial post with Oreo-filled bathtub
Angela Simmons is at the center of controversy again after posting a video on Instagram in which she’s lounging in a bathtub filled with Oreos.The post is a promotion...
Opinion: Happy birthday, Amazon? Why one longtime user isn’t celebrating the tech behemoth’s 30th
I had just started my master’s degree in artificial intelligence when a classmate asked if I’d heard of Amazon, a new online bookstore where you could order basically any...
California lawmakers advance tax on Big Tech to help fund news industry
SACRAMENTO —  The California state Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at helping the news industry by imposing a new tax on some of the biggest tech companies in the...
Will Google strike a deal with California news outlets to fund journalism?
SACRAMENTO —  California news publishers and Big Tech companies appear to be inching toward compromise on a controversial bill that would require Google and huge social media platforms to pay...
How Santa Clara chipmaker Nvidia became one of the world’s most valuable companies in the AI boom
For more than a decade, with only a few interruptions, Apple held the title of the world’s most valuable company, becoming the first to top $3 trillion in market...
Foundation honoring ‘Star Trek’ creator offers million-dollar prize to develop AI that’s ‘used for good’
To boldly go where no man has gone before.That’s the mission of the USS Enterprise — and arguably the aim of a $1-million prize being offered through a foundation...