A Wisconsin school district said a person it described as an active shooter was outside a middle school in Mount Horeb on Wednesday but the threat was “neutralized” and no one inside the building was injured.
The tech startup Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer for its business and is hoping to sell for anywhere between $750 million and $1 billion.
One 97 Communications, the parent company of India's leading digital payments platform Paytm, warned of job cuts Wednesday after reporting its consolidated net loss had widened to $66.1 million in the quarter ending March, compared to a loss of $20.11 million in the same quarter last year, as it grapples with a recent regulatory clampdown. Paytm, once the most valuable Indian startup, said in its earnings report that it expects reductions in employee costs and pare down its annualized expenses on people cost by $48 million to $60 million. For the full fiscal year 2024, Paytm's consolidated net loss stood at $170 million, down from $213 million in FY23.
The US Department of Justice arrested a Wisconsin man last week for generating and distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material. As far as we know, this is the first case of its kind as the DOJ looks to establish a judicial precedent that exploitative materials are still harmful even when no children were used to create them.
Edwards won 28 races from 2004-2016 while Rudd had 23 victories over 33 seasons.
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Investors biding their time for Nvidia results looked to retail earnings and Fedspeak for clues to the economy.
Nvidia will report its fiscal Q1 earnings after the bell on Wednesday in a crucial report for both the AI trade and broader stock market.
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.
“A lot has changed. It's so hard to get noticed now,” Short told Yahoo Entertainment in a new interview.
General Motors patented a driver-monitoring system that detects your mental well-being and intervenes if it decides that there is a problem.
Other sectors have rallied on AI demand, raising the stakes for the chipmaker's latest quarterly update.
Harper came through in the clutch in a different way this week.
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When Hayes arrives this week, although she'll have plenty of familiarizing to do, her core — the players, the most important part of any national team — will largely already be in place.
NASA wants to build a floating railway on the surface of the moon. Called FLOAT, the technology relies on autonomous robots to move equipment.
All cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batteries charge more slowly as the liquid electrolyte inside thickens. Drivers in Chicago found this out the hard way last January after many Teslas failed to charge during a deep freeze. One startup, South 8 Technologies, says it can make cold-weather charging more reliable by filling batteries with a pressurized, liquified gas electrolyte instead of a liquid one.
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At its Build 2024 conference, Microsoft unveiled Rewind, a new feature that aims to make local Windows PC searches as quick and effective as web searches. Similar to third-party apps like Rewind, Microsoft’s Recall uses AI to retrieve virtually anything you’ve seen on your PC.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing SoLo Funds, a fintech company that enables peer-to-peer lending, alleging that the company used “digital dark patterns” to deceive borrowers and illegally took fees while advertising to consumers that there were no fees. “The CFPB is suing SoLo for using digital trickery to hide interest and fees on its online loans,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a May 17 press release announcing the suit. The CFPB also alleges that the company misrepresented the cost of loans, interfered with the ability of consumers to understand what they were agreeing to, collected on loans they shouldn’t have and made false threats related to credit reporting.
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