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EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Thursday warned large online platforms against threatening developers, saying he would look into Apple's move to prevent Fortnite video-game maker Epic Games from launching its own online marketplace on iPhones and iPads in Europe as a matter of priority.The iPhone maker on Wednesday terminated a new developer account created by Epic in Sweden in an attempt to put Fortnite and other games back on iPhones in Europe by running its own game store on Apple's devices. It cited Epic's past…

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX sued one of its former top lawyers, accusing him of aiding fraud by company founder Sam Bankman-Fried and silencing whistleblowers who reported wrongdoing at the company.The complaint, filed on Tuesday in US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, describes Daniel Friedberg, a former chief compliance officer at FTX and general counsel of its related crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, as a "fixer" for Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives who enabled the "wholesale raiding" of customer funds.…

Credit: Chart: The Conversation/CC-BY-ND Source: Munich Re NatCatService Get the data Download image Created with Datawrapper Over recent months there has been an orchestrated pushback against investors and insurers who integrate the risks of climate change into their business models. That pushback—emanating from Republican-led states—is having an impact on how companies speak publicly. But whether it will affect their efforts…

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A clinical trial is underway testing a new kind of eczema treatment, developed to silence certain genes that play a role in skin inflammation. The results of a preclinical study were recently published demonstrating the experimental topical treatment reduced symptoms of dermatitis in mice.The researchers, from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, spent a number of years developing a new kind of peptide designed to penetrate immune cells and block inflammatory signaling by silencing the activity of certain genes. Unlike…

Google is developing sentient AI behind closed doors! An employee reveals Artificial intelligence research has been on towering over the past couple of years. AI scientists and researchers have been the pioneer of some of the most robust tech developments in the world. Most researchers are busy developing conscious machines that can understand and collaborate with humans more efficiently than the existing ones. Sentient AI has been a controversial topic in recent years where the AI systems can either destroy…