A new California law will soon ban hidden surcharges and service fees
Hidden surcharges and service fees will soon be banned in California, including at restaurants. The new state law goes into effect July 1 for all businesses.
Hidden surcharges and service fees will soon be banned in California, including at restaurants. The new state law goes into effect July 1 for all businesses.
The money needed for a down payment and closing costs can quickly add up. Learn how to save for a house by creating a savings goal, cutting expenses, and more.
TikTok is pulling out all the stops to prevent its impending ban in the United States. Creators in the program will get support from TikTok, and on each creator's behalf, TikTok will donate $25,000 to a nonprofit of their choice. "This program enables us to connect with wider audiences, encouraging creativity for meaningful advocacy and health communication," said Alain Labrique, a director at the World Health Organization (WHO), in a statement.
The No. 1 bestseller is also formulated to fade wrinkles, scars and stretch marks.
Investors biding their time for Nvidia results looked to retail earnings and Fedspeak for clues to the economy.
At 35, Poirier's bout against lightweight champion Islam Makhachev could potentially be the UFC veteran's final opportunity to be crowned undisputed champion.
The prospects for troubled banking-as-a-service (BaaS) startup Synapse went from bad to worse last week when a U.S. Trustee filed an emergency motion asking to convert the company’s debt reorganization Chapter 11 bankruptcy into a liquidation Chapter 7 due to “gross mismanagement” of its estate. There seems to be a real appetite for an alternative to QuickBooks, the legacy accounting alternative for SMBs, judging by the attention this story on Layer’s $2.3 million raise received. Its customers are those working with small and medium-sized businesses to offer accounting and bookkeeping features inside their own products.
Nearly 50,000 Amazon shoppers are fans of this formula, saying it helps moisturize and firm the tummy, legs and more.
Fisker's roadside assistance service is no longer available in the United States as the company continues to save money where it can.
Harper came through in the clutch in a different kind of way this week.
'Great for butterfingers!' joked one of 29,000 (and counting) five-star fans.
It’s been three years since Spotify acquired live audio startup Betty Labs, and yet the music streaming service isn’t leveraging the technology to its fullest potential — at least not in our opinion. Betty Labs-owned Locker Room launched in 2020 as a sports-focused social audio app where sports fans could engage in live conversations, create watch parties and react to games in real time. When Spotify bought the app, it rebranded it as Greenroom, a Clubhouse clone that catered to all types of fans, whether they’re interested in sports, fantasy football, music or other topics.
Microsoft debuted a litany of new AI offerings as part of its Build developer conference as its fight with Google and Amazon continues to heat up.
For people who want a compact machine to make all sorts of frozen treats, the Creami delivers much more than its $200 price tag might suggest.
Experts explain what triggers an air quality alert and what you should do if you get one.
McLaren is headed to Monaco with a radically new one-off race livery meant to celebrate the late Ayrton Senna.
It's a wrap: European Union lawmakers have given the final approval to set up the bloc's flagship, risk-based regulations for artificial intelligence. In a press release confirming the approval of the EU AI Act, the Council of the European Union said the law is "ground-breaking" and that "as the first of its kind in the world, it can set a global standard for AI regulation." The European Parliament had already approved the legislation in March.
Scale AI, which provides data-labeling services to companies that want to train machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors that include Amazon and Meta. The fundraise is a mix of primary and secondary funding, and is the latest in a slew of big venture capital investments in AI. Amazon recently closed a $4 billion investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, and the likes of Mistral AI and Perplexity are also in the process of raising more billion-dollar rounds at lofty valuations.
Hosting scams on your platform is bad for business, which is why on Tuesday, a group of major tech companies including Match Group, Meta, Coinbase and others are jointly launching a new coalition to take on online fraud across dating apps, social media and crypto. The new coalition, Tech Against Scams, will work to find ways to fight back against the tools used by scammers and to better educate the public against financial scams.
The biggest news stories this morning: Microsoft rebuilt Windows 11 around AI and Arm chips, Another patient will get Neuralink’s brain implant, Volvo and Aurora introduce their first self-driving truck.
Zen Educate, an online marketplace that connects schools with teachers, has raised $37 million in a Series B round of funding. Founded out of London in 2017, Zen Educate replaces traditional third-party recruitment agencies that often use analog workflows and charge exorbitant fees. Zen Educate digitizes everything through a self-serve platform, removing pricey intermediaries from the equation in the process.