The FTC has filed a lawsuit against ride-sharing and delivery giant Uber, alleging that the company engaged in deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to its Uber One subscription service. The FTC has taken legal action against Uber, one of the world’s leading ride-sharing and delivery companies. The lawsuit, filed on Monday, accuses Uber of violating the…
Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has lost her defamation suit retrial against the New York Times. The federal jury ruled after just two hours of deliberation on Tuesday that the New York Times was not guilty of libel when it falsely linked her to a 2011 mass shooting in an editorial it published in 2017. Per Axios: Throughout this…
Legendary San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who has been on leave since suffering a stroke in November, was taken away from a San Antonio restaurant Tuesday night in an ambulance after fainting. According to TMZ Sports, Popovich had been dining at the steakhouse for two hours before the fainting incident, and “was alert and talking”…
The world’s largest technology companies, known as the “Silicon Six,” have paid nearly $278 billion less in corporate income tax over the past ten years than would be expected based on the average statutory tax rate for U.S. companies, according to a new report by the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF). TechSpot reports that a recent analysis conducted by…
It looks like twenty-one Chinese robots competing along with human beings in a Beijing half marathon Saturday couldn’t beat serious runners — but a few may be eligible for participation trophies. The event, hosted by the city’s E-Town tech hub did have a winning robot called Tiangong Ultra among its android competitors. It finished the…
President Donald Trump’s deputies should stop talking about the apparent criminal record of the deported Salvadoran illegal migrant, says Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). “Don’t put everything out on social media” about deported migrant Kilmar Abrega Garcia, Van Hollen told ABC’s This Week show on April 20. The issue should be decided by judges, he said, adding: The Trump administration is…
A federal judge in New Hampshire sided with a local school district — and gender insanity — by blocking parents from wearing wristbands on school property to protest transgender-identifying boys from playing on girls’ sports teams. In September several parents wore pink wristbands with “XX” on them to reference female sex chromosomes during a girls’…
Hertz, the car rental giant that also owns the Dollar and Thrifty brands, is notifying customers of a data breach that compromised their personal information and driver’s licenses. TechCrunch reports that Hertz has disclosed a data breach stemming from a cyberattack on one of its vendors, Cleo, between October and December 2024. The breach exposed various types of…
Pedestrians in San Francisco’s South Bay area reportedly heard AI-generated messages in the voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg coming from hacked crosswalks after pressing buttons on the devices. “Hi, this is Mark Zuckerberg, but real ones call me the Zuck,” a voice that sounded like Zuckerberg said from a crosswalk device, according to a…
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said that Harvard “has to be free from the progressive orthodoxies of the left. And, in recent years, it has been captured by those.” But the Trump administration is attempting to make the school right-wing and shouldn’t go after funding for…
