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The Israeli government reached an agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company to use the technology in Israel and parts of the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials announced Wednesday. Starlink internet will serve as a backup system for Israeli government offices and critical infrastructure and for certain Israeli-approved uses in Gaza, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said. “We will soon be receiving satellite communication lines from all over the world. This is great and exciting news,”…

If you've ever reached for a bottle of moisturizer labeled "patented" or "FDA approved," you might want to think twice.In a recent study of hundreds of advertisements, I found that supplements and beauty products often misleadingly use these terms to suggest safety or efficacy.As a law professor, I suspect this is confusing for consumers, maybe even dangerous. Having a patent means only that you can stop others from making, using, selling or importing your invention. It doesn't mean the invention works or that it won't…

The US government has reportedly approved AI-based memory loss prediction software for the first time. Darmiyan, a San Francisco-based brain imaging analytics company, says the FDA has granted De Novo approval for its product BrainSee. The software platform assigns “an objective score that predicts the likelihood of progression from aMCI to Alzheimer’s dementia within 5 years,” according to the medical company. Fierce Biotech first reported the announcement.Darmiyan says BrainSee can predict memory loss progression using…

Too Long; Didn't ReadU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval of a Bitcoin spot exchange traded fund (ETF) has been lauded as ‘the legitimisation’ of Bitcoin and other cryptos. Approval of the ETF allows hundreds of millions of investors around the world to access Bitcoin. It gives big investors (like pension funds) access to the Bitcoin market for the very first time. Too Long; Didn't ReadU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval of a Bitcoin spot exchange traded fund (ETF) has been lauded…

The official X account belonging to the Securities and Exchange Commission was briefly “compromised,” the regulator said, after an apparently rogue post on X temporarily juiced bitcoin prices.On Tuesday, the SEC’s official X account tweeted that bitcoin ETFs had been approved “for listing on all registered national securities exchanges.” The tweet included an official-looking graphic featuring a quote from SEC Chair Gary Gensler. However, Gensler himself quickly clarified from his X account that the post from @SECGov was…

Sun Yu / Financial Times: Sources: the Cybersecurity Administration of China approved only ~25% of data export applications since data security laws came into effect in September 2022 — Delays come amid slowing economy and increased tensions between Washington and Beijing — China has approved only about a quarter … Sun Yu / Financial Times: Sources: the Cybersecurity Administration of China approved only ~25% of data export applications since data security laws came into…

A flag outside the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, Feb. 23, 2022.Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesRegulators around the world from Europe to Asia ramped up efforts to bring about formal laws for digital currencies in 2023 — but it was the U.S. that took some of the harshest legal actions against major players in the industry.In a year that saw crypto heavyweight Binance ordered to pay more than $4 billion to U.S. authorities and its former CEO's guilty plea, along with high-profile…

There are plenty of different ways to do a Hollywood holiday. While some celebrities put up thousands of dollars in Christmas decorations or watch Christmas movies at home, others like to take a break from the rolling California hills and go on memorable trips for the holidays. For Gwyneth Paltrow and her kids Apple and Moses Martin, this year meant some definite R&R, and the "retired" Endgame star and Goop founder shared some photos from their lovely (and warm-looking) trip. One notable image has Paltrow standing…

The recently-departed watchdog in charge of monitoring facial recognition technology has joined the private firm he controversially approved, paving the way for the mass roll-out of biometric surveillance cameras in high streets across the country.In a move critics have dubbed an “outrageous conflict of interest”, Professor Fraser Sampson, former biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner, has joined Facewatch as a non-executive director.Sampson left his watchdog role on 31 October, with Companies House records…

It originates in the bone marrow due to a genetic kink that inhibits the production of healthy hemoglobin and is associated with devastating, lifelong, and potentially fatal health consequences, including stroke, increased risk of infections, painful episodes classified as “vaso-occlusive crises” that require emergency medical attention, liver problems, heart problems, and eye problems, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There are an estimated 100,000 people in the U.S., 15,000 in the U.K., and 20…