Yelp disabled comments for a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania where former president Donald Trump manned the fry station during a weekend campaign stop, after the restaurant’s Yelp page was hit by a flurry of politicized reviews. “Went to this McDonalds to try the new chicken big Mac and was stunned to see a convicted felon operating the drive through,” a reviewer ...
Several people who once occupied the White House are now energetically crisscrossing the country on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris: Bill Clinton was recently in North Carolina, Barack Obama will head to Georgia on Thursday and his wife, Michelle, will be in Michigan on Saturday for the start of early voting. This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com ...
Elon Musk, his car company, Tesla, and Warner Bros. Discovery were sued Monday over their alleged artificial intelligence-fueled copyright infringement of images from the film “Blade Runner 2049” to promote Tesla’s robotaxi concept. The lawsuit by the movie’s producer, Alcon Entertainment, says that the mega-billionaire Musk and the other defendants requested permission to use “an iconic still image” from “Blade Runner 2049″ for the Oct. 10 ...
TikTok’s parent company says it has dismissed an intern who it found had ‘maliciously interfered’ with its artificial intelligence technology effort. In a statement in Chinese released Monday, the parent company, ByteDance, said the intern had committed a ‘serious violation’ against its commercial technology team’s ‘research project.’ In particular, the intern’s actions affected ByteDance’s AI training program, the company said. ...
DETROIT — Investors misinterpreted a public offering last week by Lucid Group that raised roughly $1.75 billion — and led to the stock’s worst daily performance in nearly three years — CEO Peter Rawlinson told CNBC. Rawlinson said the raise, which included a public offering of nearly 262.5 million shares of its common stock, was a timely, strategic business decision to ensure the electric ...
Four-figure checks tend not to fall out of the sky. But a group of e-cigarette users are suddenly finding themselves with a little extra cash, thanks to a massive class action settlement involving one of America’s tobacco giants. In online forums and on social media this week, users of Juul Labs nicotine products have been posting screenshots of online deposits ...
When scientists heard reports that a large, mysterious fish had been caught in Cambodia in 2020, excitement stirred. Could this be the “Mekong Ghost,” they asked – an elusive fish that hadn’t been seen since 2005 and was feared extinct? Photos of the fish and its telltale identifiers – an odd-shaped mouth and a protruding knob at its jaw – ...
Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw Moscow condemned by countries globally, leader Vladimir Putin is staging a summit with more than a dozen world leaders – in a pointed signal from the autocrat that far from being alone, an emerging coalition of countries stands behind him. The three-day BRICS summit, starting Tuesday in the southwestern Russian city ...
Polio is once again spreading in Pakistan, where officials say more than 1 million children missed their vaccination doses last month, underscoring the challenges they face in eradicating one of the world’s most intractable diseases. Pakistani officials reported more than a dozen new polio cases in October, bringing the total number of infections this year to 39, compared to just ...
Editor’s note: This story contains details of suicide and violence that some readers may find upsetting. Meir Golan sank his face in the dense, dark orange soil. He seemed desperate to stay close to his daughter for as long as possible, holding tight onto Shirel’s shroud as she was being buried. More than a year after Hamas and other armed groups launched ...