Latest Breaking News Today

Assuming it can navigate expected legal challenges, Florida is poised to enforce one of the most stringent restrictions on social media use for minors in the country. This is due to a bill that was enacted into law by the state’s Republican Governor, Ron DeSantis, on Monday. The legislation prohibits children under 14 from having social media accounts and mandates parental consent for those aged 15 and 16. This version of the bill is a toned-down iteration of a proposal that DeSantis vetoed earlier this month, just a week before the close of the annual legislative session. The enactment of this law was the top legislative goal of Republican Speaker Paul Renner and it will come into effect on January 1. Renner, speaking at the bill-signing event held at a school in Jacksonville, expressed concern about the impact of addictive technologies on children. He stated that children, in their stage of brain development, lack the capacity to recognize and withdraw from the harm these addic...

On Monday, a New York appeals court temporarily halted a substantial civil business fraud judgment against Donald Trump for 10 days and significantly lowered the bond amount he needs to post to $175 million for a longer stay of the award. This ruling was issued on the same day that New York Attorney General Letitia James could have begun seizing Trump's real estate assets and bank accounts to fulfill a judgment of $454 million and increasing, following his failure to secure an appeal bond. However, James is currently barred from doing so due to the order from the five-judge panel in the appellate division of the Manhattan Supreme Court, which reduced the bond threshold by approximately 60% without providing a reason. Trump assured reporters after exiting a hearing in the same court, where his trial on criminal business records charges related to a hush money payment to a porn star was scheduled for April 15, that he would post whatever is necessary, whether it be cash or secu...

Federal prosecutors in New York announced on Tuesday that two men are accused of starting a business in China using stolen battery manufacturing technology from Tesla and attempting to market the confidential data. Federal authorities reported the arrest of Klaus Pflugbeil, a 58-year-old Canadian living in Ningbo, China. He was arrested on Long Island on Tuesday morning under the impression that he was meeting with businessmen to negotiate the price of the information he was selling. However, the businessmen were, in fact, undercover federal agents. The other person named in the criminal complaint is a 47-year-old man from Ningbo, Yilong Shao, who remains at large. The two are accused of conspiring to share trade secrets, a crime that could result in up to 10 years of imprisonment if found guilty. There was no immediate response from Pflugbeil’s lawyer to phone and email messages seeking comment on Tuesday night, and Tesla also didn’t respond promptly to a questioning email messa...

There's a new insanely popular food on the internet, and it's something everyone can afford. The maker is a pizza company that is famous for its cheap but attractive offers. It’s Little Caesars, which released its new Crazy Puffs on March 11, promising fast food consumers a satisfying handheld option. The company describes the puffs as "bite-sized pockets of pizza perfection". They come in the forms of mini pizzas wrapped in a crust cup with red sauce, cheese, optional pepperoni, and a little garlic butter topping. The price is only $3.99 for a pack of four puffs. At first glance, we don't see any innovation in this food product, because it just reuses the classic pizza to be more portable. But it seems the internet says otherwise. Putting aside the innovation factor, many social media users call Crazy Puffs one of the best fast foods that money can buy. The puffs suddenly went viral on social media, with influencers and regular people posting thei...

The delay for the Samsung Galaxy S24's first firmware update was finally over. This update brought important fixes for dull display colors and camera processing improvements. Samsung quickly rolled out a second update for the smartphone, although without bringing any significant changes. After two firmware updates, it’s still possible for the company to further improve the Galaxy S24 Ultra's camera performance. The Korean smartphone maker will allegedly release a major camera-specific update for its flagship in April. A leak from Ice Universe claims Samsung is preparing two software updates for the Galaxy S24 series. The Galaxy S24 Ultra March update will add an underage mode and some optimizations. There aren't many updates involving the camera. April will usher in a major camera update involving white balance and telephoto image quality. — ICE UNIVERSE (@UniverseIce) March 19, 2024 The March update will add an "underage mode" and introduce some came...

Cole Herrmann and Tessa Barton have successfully turned their passion and practicality into profit by creating a photo editing app. This app, designed with both creativity and utility in mind, has become their most lucrative asset. Newly married in 2017 and facing economic challenges, the couple ventured into various side businesses. From denim lines and collage equipment to writing and selling books, they tried it all, but with little to no results. During this time, they also struggled to meet the monthly rent of $2,800 for their New York apartment. Herrmann was a full-time software developer, while Barton was a freelance photographer and emerging influencer. Leveraging their expertise, they began creating and selling photo filters in Adobe Lightroom. They saw an opportunity when their filters started garnering audience interest. That prompted them to step up their game by creating a photo editing app, Tezza, named after Barton's nickname from college in 2018. Wha...

The Apex Legends game was struck by a hacking attack on Sunday night that resulted in the game's esports league temporarily suspending North American tournaments. In the middle of a tournament match, Apex pro player Noyan "Genburten" Ozkose said that his game was hacked and taken over to spread cheats on his account. In a video clip from the player's live stream, the cheat program's settings menu briefly appears before Genburten shouts, "I'm hacked, I'm hacked!" Genburten, who was playing on a controller, was surprised when text appeared in the chat box of his account: "by Destroyer2009 & R4ndom" and "Apex hacking global series." Genburten said that he could see everyone. The locations of all other players appear on the screen, indicating that someone has applied a visibility hack to his account. Text connected to the cheat program also appears in the top left corner of the player's screen. Soon after that Ge...

There were reports that Apple might utilize Google's Gemini to support some of its new AI features in iOS 18. But that doesn't mean that the company has stopped working on its own AI models. In fact, Apple has revealed more details about the development of its new MM1 AI model. The tech giant said it will use diverse data sets that include embedded image-text documents, image caption pairs, and text-only data to help develop MM1. According to Apple, the method will allow the MM1 model to make breakthroughs in AI's ability to annotate images, answer visual questions, and even respond with natural language inference, with the hope of providing the highest level of accuracy possible. This approach allows Apple to maximize multiple types of training data and model architecture. It will also provide greater scope for AI to understand and generate language based on linguistic and visual cues. Apple hopes that by combining training methods from other AIs with its own methods, it w...

PC gaming is often thought of as a solo activity, but the rise of handheld PC gaming devices like the Steam Deck has made sharing your favorite games much easier, albeit unofficially. Valve's Steam platform, which previously didn't have much in the way of sharing, has accepted the reality of this handover with the Steam Families. Steam Families is still in beta, and it's designed to replace the more limited Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View. You can invite up to five family members if the total number of people in your household is six, and then share the game with them if the developer allows it. Family members can view their family library games in a subsection of their list. Anyone can play the game together and keep their own save files and achievements. At first glance, Steam Families is more permissive than Family Sharing. You can play games from a family member's library even if they are already online and playing other games. Multiple Stea...

Are you a PlayStation lover? You will love hearing this news. Unannounced PlayStation 5 Pro specifications have leaked online, revealing the power of the console that Sony will reportedly release in the fourth quarter of this year. The spec list first appeared via Moore's Law Is Dead YouTube channel, before Insider Gaming claimed it was real, and a subsequent Insider Gaming article added further details. The leaked specifications allegedly came from the Sony Interactive Entertainment Developer Network. The main upgrade here is to the CPU, which is said to be identical to the PS5's standard CPU but with a 'High CPU Frequency Mode', which amounts to a 10% increase to 3.85GHz. As for the GPU, it is now capable of faster rendering and higher quality ray tracing powered by 33.5 teraflops. The standard PS5 offers 10.28 teraflops. However, a direct comparison of the PS5 and PS5 Pro would yield around 10.28 vs 16 to 17 teraflops. The PS5 Pro is also said to have an ...

Starting today, YouTube requires users to state whether the videos they upload include altered or synthetic media, including content generated by artificial intelligence. For videos about sensitive topics like health, news, elections, or finance, YouTube says it will label the videos itself. The platform explained that they will ask users who upload new videos to answer "Yes" or "No" whether their videos contain altered content or not. Specifically, it will ask if any of the following describes their content: 1. Make real people appear to say or do something they didn't say or do. 2. Altering a recording of a real event or place. 3. Produce scenes that look realistic but don't actually happen. If the user answers "Yes," YouTube will put a label in the video description that says "Altered or synthetic content." The announcement comes as technology companies look to tackle the problem of online misinformation generated by AI...

Nvidia has finally come up with an AI-based game demo. In Convert Protocol, you can play detective and carry out searches in high-end hotels. What you want to do is chat with non-playable characters (NPCs) to get what you need. But this demo offers you a slightly different way of playing, namely you speak directly via microphone to ask questions. So, you don't need a list of options as usual. You can ask anything and do anything. Perhaps this is the ideal feature of this type of detective game. You can ask anything to the AI-driven door greeter. The chat was filled with some new ideas — whether PC or console gaming is better, what your favorite RTX GPU is, and that kind of thing. These AI-driven NPCs are set up with a vast network of constraints to keep them focused on the topic, so they will ignore anything that has nothing to do with the game. The door greeter may greet you politely and perhaps make some comments about the need for a break. Inside the hotel, the main setting of t...

Reportedly, Apple plans to bring Google's Gemini generative AI technology to the iPhone, in addition to considering adopting OpenAI's ChatGPT. According to boss Tim Cook, Apple has been working hard to improve its artificial intelligence features, which will roll out by the end of 2024. Bloomberg reports that Apple's AI features could ultimately be strengthened by a combination of first- and third-party AI models. Apple's model could support generative AI on devices running iOS 18, which will arrive later this year. Meanwhile, cloud-based AI features such as text and image generation can be done through partnerships with companies like Google. If the collaboration with Google is carried out, Apple will not be the first company to attract the internet giant to provide AI features on its cellphones. Of course the first one is Samsung, which added a series of Galaxy AI branded features to its Galaxy S24 smartphone, which uses Google's AI technology. The P...