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New York City has officially become the first city in the US to designate social media as a “public health hazard.” During a State of the City address, Mayor Eric Adams shared that Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan determined apps like Tik Tok and Instagram are considered “environmental toxins” that impose harm onto and adolescents. “We are going to correct this crisis that is facing our children,” Adams said ., the mayor explained, is fueling the growing mental health crisis in the city. This can be attributed to the…

On Wednesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the Big Apple would be the first city to officially classify social media as a public health risk. Social media is an “environmental toxin,” Adams said in a speech, comparing the problem to guns and tobacco. The mayor then promptly went on—where else—social media to talk about it. But unlike guns and tobacco, widespread beliefs about social media’s mental health risks aren’t necessarily backed up by science, a fact you can read about in New York City’s own advisory…

Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who often sounds like an AI chatbot, dropped out of the 2024 Presidential Election on Sunday, just a week after OpenAI banned ChatGPT for political campaigns. It begs the question, was Ron Desantis running on ChatGPT this whole time?I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs | Future Tech“People want to know and trust that they are interacting with a real person,” OpenAI said in a blog post last week, talking about ChatGPT but also, somehow, Desantis. “For that reason, we don’t allow builders…

Eric Adams is capping a rocky year by touting his city's ability to attract terrorist attacks Eric Adams loves talking about how New York City is the greatest city in the world, a concrete jungle where dreams are made and there’s nothing you can’t do. The mayor pressed the point again on Sunday, arguing that the city is so full of possibility that its residents could be killed in a terrorist attack on any given day. The strange bit of promotion came during an interview with Pix 11’s Dan…

Mayor "vigorously denies" allegations in $5 million lawsuit, filed before Thursday’s deadline for the Adult Survivors Act Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, was accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed late Wednesday stemming from an alleged incident that occurred in 1993, when Adams was a member of the New York Police Department. The summons preceding the $5 million lawsuit was filed before Thursday’s deadline for the Adult Survivors Act, which witnessed a wave of sexual assault…

Photo: AP Photo/Stocktrek Images (AP)Right now, the Mars rover Curiosity is trudging through the dusty terrain of the red planet, where it’s been hard at work for over ten years. Among its many onboard devices, the car-sized robot has a machine on its belly called the “sample-analysis unit.” Curiosity uses its mechanical arm to put soil in the sample-analysis unit, which then vibrates at different frequencies to sort the dirt into different little cups. Then the cups heat up to release gasses, which are studied in…

Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)The Federal Bureau of Investigations confiscated New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ two cell phones and his iPad this week in a federal corruption investigation into his 2021 campaign, according to The New York Times. Top Takeaways from the Apple EventThe FBI is reportedly investigating whether Eric Adams’ campaign conspired with the Turkish government and others to funnel donations into the NYC Mayor’s campaign. Agents approached Mayor Adams on the street and asked his security…

Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub sued New York City Thursday over a new rule that would require the food delivery companies to pay their workers nearly $18 an hour. In two lawsuits filed in the New York Supreme Court, the food delivery companies sued to block the rule from going into effect next week.  DoorDash and Grubhub argued in a joint suit that the “ill-conceived” rule would have “drastic” and “immediate” consequences, while Uber warned in a separate lawsuit that the city’s “grand marketplace experiment…

Uber, Grubhub, DoorDash, and their delivery app peers will soon have to pay couriers a minimum wage in New York City. The most populous U.S. metropolis officially enacted the landmark pay floor for food delivery on Sunday, as announced at City Hall by Mayor Eric Adams and Senator Chuck Schumer.Robinhood App Lays Off 9% of StaffBeginning July 12, companies will have to shell out at least $17.96 per hour to delivery workers. That rate is set to rise to $18.96 by April 1, 2024,and $19.96 per hour in 2025. Apps will have the…

Apple and Google are hoping with their powers combined they can truly hinder just how effective stalking with Bluetooth trackers has become. The two tech giants have agreed on a set of standards for AirTag-like products that would enable automatic alerts on both iOS and Android devices, though the proposed device specs likely won’t eliminate the threat of device-enabled stalking altogether.How to Hide Your Sensitive Images in Google PhotosOn Tuesday, the companies announced they were proposing industry-wide specifications…