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Consumer trading and investment app Robinhood is moving to restrict the holding and trading of certain major cryptocurrencies on its platform, barely a week after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuits against crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase. The platform told Congress earlier this week that it was examining its crypto offerings following the lawsuits. There are two easy perspectives one can have in the wake of Robinhood’s decision to end support for tokens from the…

Linda Yaccarino is now officially the chief operating officer of Twitter. Yaccarino, who previously chaired NBCUniversal's advertising sales, was hired by Elon Musk last month to lead the company. She updated bio on her LinkedIn profile as well.Yaccarino previously said that she was inspired by Musk's vision to create a brighter future."I've long been inspired by vision to create a brighter future. I'm excited to help bring this vision to Twitter and transform this business together!" Yaccarino had tweeted.Read…

When the CRISPR gene editor landed in U.S. plant science labs a decade ago, allowing researchers to tweak a crop’s own DNA instead of pasting in foreign genes, hopes rose that it would pave the way for looser regulation of genetically modified crops. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) gave plant scientists much of their wish, exempting certain gene-edited changes to plants. But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a tougher…

Microsoft last week filed an appeal against the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decision to block its $69 billion deal with Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard. The company has now filed a skeleton argument with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) arguing the CMA analysis of the merger.Microsoft argues that the CMA's analysis makes “fundamental errors,” and it seeks to rely on four expert witnesses to push for a judicial review. According to a report in The Verge, Microsoft said that the CMA failed to…

BTS’ Decision To Venturing Into English-Language Songs Was Not For Popularity But To Uplift Fans’ Mood Amid COVID-19 Pandemic?(Photo Credit –Instagram) The South Korean boy band BTS has been scripting history and breaking records ever since they made their debut in 2013. While the band already enjoyed a massive fan following, their popularity increased manifolds when they released their debut English track Dynamite. While many wonder why the band ventured into making English songs, Bang Si-Hyuk recently shed light on…

Microsoft is challenging Britain's decision to block its $69 billion takeover of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard on the grounds of "fundamental errors" in the assessment of Microsoft's cloud gaming services.Britain's anti-trust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), vetoed the deal in April, saying it could hurt competition in the nascent cloud gaming market.Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday it had filed an appeal against the ruling to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT),…

Weeks after the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked Microsoft's $69 billion deal with Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, the Windows maker has filed an appeal against the decision.Microsoft lodged the appeal with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), which handles appeals against CMA rulings."We can confirm we have filed our appeal," news agency Reuters quoted Microsoft communications director Robin Koch as saying. The CAT makes a judgement on the merits of the CMA decision and the appeal is not an…

Higher rates are likely to be warranted, even if the central bank foregoes a June hike, governor Christopher Waller says. Higher rates are likely to be warranted, even if the central bank foregoes a June hike, governor Christopher Waller says. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…

Narrowing the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement may become critical to protecting artists’ livelihoods as bots scrape their creative works Historically, a finding of “transformative” use has been the single most critical factor in seeking to excuse infringement by characterizing it as fair use. Generative AI is able to create novel, if not entirely new, works only by first training on massive amounts of internet data, much of which is copyrighted. Instructional prompts then elicit artificial creations.…

Fishing for Atlantic herring may seem worlds away from restrictions on power plant emissions or responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. But a case before the U.S. Supreme Court could affect all those activities and more by altering how federal agencies apply scientific expertise in carrying out their regulatory duties. On 1 May the high court agreed to hear a case brought by four family-owned herring businesses. They argue that the National Marine Fisheries Service…