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The concepts of technology startups and angel investment are often mentioned hand-in-hand, with the innovation landscape dominated by entrepreneurs pitching ideas on how to use technology to change people’s lives. Angel investors play a big part in providing the money that gets these businesses going. Until now, the rules that make individuals exempt from […]

Updated Jan. 29, 2024 12:00 a.m. PT Written by  David Carnoy Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement David Carnoy Executive Editor / Reviews Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a

UK police are expanding their use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology without proper scrutiny or accountability, despite lacking a clear legal basis for their deployments, according to a Lords committee. Writing to the Home Secretary on 27 January 2024, the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee (JHAC) outlined the findings of its brief

The Post Office has said that it is serious in how it is taking reports of the persecution and prosecution of subpostmasters, using data from a system that pre-dated the controversial Horizon system at the centre of the widest miscarriage of justice in modern UK history, and will investigate cases brought to it. But

Thanks to the availability of popular generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, such as Copilot in the Microsoft Office suite, almost anyone can start using public large language models (LLMs). Analyst firm Gartner describes use of such AI-enhanced tools as “everyday AI” – in other words, these are tools that augment what people already do.

Varney & Co. host Stuart Varney reacts to a Wall Street Journal report detailing the Tesla CEOs drug habit. Elon Musk’s X is in the process of hiring 100 content moderators for a new office in Austin, Texas, that will focus on fighting child abuse online on the social media platform, an executive said on

One of the internet’s oldest, ugliest problems keeps getting worse. Despite decades of efforts to crack down on sexual pictures and videos of children online, they’re more widely available now than ever, according to new data from the nonprofit tasked by the U.S. government with tracking such material. John Shehan, head of the exploited children

Six years ago, Tesla outlined an ambitious compensation package for its chief executive that made Elon Musk one of the wealthiest men alive, and investors were all for it. Now, the world’s richest person’s desire for more control over the company is facing skepticism from those same quarters. “Him asking for stock, the whole thing’s