Metro By Reuters Published April 5, 2024, 4:48 a.m. ET New York City Mayor Eric Adams is defending the city’s new artificial intelligence chatbot that has been caught in recent days giving business owners wrong answers or advice that, if followed, would entail breaking the law. When launched as a pilot in October, the MyCity …
A federal program helping tens of millions of Americans afford internet service — including roughly 1.8 million households across New York — is scheduled to run out of money later this month. On Capitol Hill, Brooklyn Rep. Yvette Clarke is leading a bipartisan push aimed at saving the program, warning if it lapses, the digital divide …
Generative AI can create images from written prompts, which the art world has had a mixed response to, according to artists and gallerists CNBC spoke to. Some are concerned about intellectual property and the impact on creativity, while also welcoming the potential of generative AI. Search engine Have I Been Trained lets people see whether …
At the time, Herrmann was a full-time software developer. Barton was a freelance photographer and burgeoning influencer. They turned to an idea that used both of their skillsets: making and selling photo filters on Adobe Lightroom. Over several weeks, the filters gained an audience, prompting the pair to launch their own photo-editing app called Tezza …
THE final days are approaching before Chick-fil-A opens a first-of-its-kind digital-only restaurant for customers with its mobile application. A grand opening for the unique variation of the fast food giant is set on the Upper East Side of New York City. Chick-fil-A is opening a prototype store in New York City next weekCredit: Getty It …
With Rhode Island this week becoming the seventh U.S. state to launch internet gambling, industry panelists at an online gambling conference predicted Wednesday that several additional states would join the fray in the next few years. Speaking at the Next.io forum on internet gambling and sports betting, several mentioned New York and Maryland as likely …
The Legislature’s transportation committee on Wednesday is expected to approve language that would ban the use of the new virtual reality headset, or other similar technologies, while behind the wheel in Massachusetts. Straus, the committee’s House chair, said he crafted language with his staff over Monday night and Tuesday morning, and added it to an …
The first customer walks out of the Apple Store with his purchase of the Vision Pro headset in New York on February 2, 2024. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images Apple’s Vision Pro virtual reality headset officially launched in the U.S. on Friday. Customers who preordered the headset will begin to receive it or …
NEW YORK CITY — Venmo, Zelle, and Cash App are leaving consumers vulnerable to fraud that’s “draining bank accounts of significant sums of money,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in letters to the companies that own those financial apps demanding they increase protections. Bragg’s letters said he was writing “in response to a growing …
A patent dispute launched four years ago by a little-known local firm went to trial in Boston this week. And it could turn into a massive headache for internet search giant Google. The patent suit, originally filed by Cambridge-based Singular Computing in 2019, claims that Google has violated a number of Singular’s patents related to …