Washington Times - Tech

• Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1B class-action lawsuit after promoting for Binance NFTs

  1-12-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 31

  Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with class-action lawsuit seeking at least $1 billion in damages for his role in promoting...

• Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024

  30-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 63

  Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing...

• Elon Musk uses expletive to tell audience he doesn't care about advertisers that fled X

  30-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 34

  Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that advertisers who have halted spending on his social media platform X in response to antisemitic and other...

• Indiana judge dismisses state's lawsuit against TikTok that alleged child safety, privacy concerns

  30-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 27

  An Indiana county judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate...

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• Kamala Harris evades questions about banning TikTok

  30-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 41

  Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday wriggled around answering whether she supports banning TikTok, the China-founded social media platform...

• Zuckerberg and CEOs of TikTok, X to testify in Senate on online danger to children

  30-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 28

  The leaders of Facebook, TikTok and X will testify at a congressional hearing in January on digital danger to children, the Senate Judiciary...

• Coal-producing West Virginia is converting an entire school system to solar power

  30-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 33

  An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar, representing what a developer and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's office...

• Not exactly a happy Cruise: GM's robo taxis face financial roadblock

  30-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 23

  General Motors is looking to change the direction of its Cruise robot taxi subsidiary before the company goes off a cliff.

• Jezebel bought by Paste digital magazine after closure

  30-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 23

  The feminist blog site Jezebel has found a home after it was shuttered by its parent company this month.

• Michigan to join state-level effort to regulate AI political ads as federal legislation is pending

  29-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 44

  Michigan is joining an effort to curb deceptive uses of artificial intelligence and manipulated media through state-level policies as Congress and...

• Sports Illustrated is latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

  29-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 30

  Computer-generated writers ... writing computer-generated stories?

• Thousands of car dealerships urge Biden to pump the brakes on 'unrealistic' EV mandates

  29-11-2023 Tech Washington Times - Tech 24

  Nearly 4,000 car dealerships signed an open letter to President Biden urging him to delay the timeline for proposed emissions standards that would...