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Alphabet’s Google internet search engine is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers’ ability to compete with its artificial intelligence-generated overviews, a US educational technology company said in a lawsuit filed on Monday.Chegg, an online education company that offers textbook rentals, homework help, and tutoring, said in the lawsuit filed in Washington, DC, that Google is co-opting publishers’ content to keep users on its own site, erasing financial incentives to publish.This will eventually lead to a “hollowed-out information ecosystem of little use and unworthy of trust,” the company said.The Santa Clara, California-based company has said Google’s AI overviews have…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

During the Q4 2024 earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk noted that FSD’s rollout in China is quite challenging because the country does not allow the transfer of training data outside its borders. It appears that Tesla was able to work around this challenge through a collaboration between its engineering teams in China and the United States. The reports: Citing several people reportedly familiar with the matter, Chinese news outlet LatePost claimed that a team of engineers from Tesla’s U.S. headquarters traveled to China in early February to help with the local deployment of FSD features in the country.In theory,…

WASHINGTON — The first head of the Federal Communications Commission’s Space Bureau is joining a space law practice at a major law firm.DLA Piper announced Feb. 25 that it hired Julie Kearney as the co-chair of its Space Exploration and Innovation Practice, part of the firm’s Telecom Group, based in Washington.Kearney was selected in April 2023 as the first chief of the FCC’s Space Bureau, a new organization created as part of a reorganization by the commission to provide greater emphasis on space-related activities given the growing number of satellites and their spectrum access needs.“Julie is a well-known and highly…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. Ethereum’s price trajectory has taken a sharp downturn, with technical analysis showing a possible crash to $2,000. Crypto analyst SwallowAcademy pointed out on the TradingView platform that some bearish signals are forming in smaller timeframes, especially as buyers have failed to maintain a key support zone at $2,700. Notably, the broader market downturn over the past 24 hours has only strengthened the case for further declines for Ethereum. Ethereum Plunges Over 12% In 24 Hours As Market Suffers Steep Losses The crypto market has taken a heavy hit, with Bitcoin falling below major…

An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersEli Lilly on Tuesday released higher doses of its weight loss drug Zepbound in single-dose vials at as much as half its usual monthly list price to reach more patients without insurance coverage for the blockbuster injection, such as those with Medicare.It expands the company’s effort to boost the U.S. supply of Zepbound as demand soars, and to ensure eligible patients are safely accessing the real treatment instead of cheaper compounded versions. Eli Lilly is now offering higher doses…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

SAN FRANCISCO – U.K. electric propulsion startup Magdrive announced $10.5 million in seed funding Feb. 25 and plans to open a U.S. subsidiary in Los Angeles.With the recent investment, Magdrive also plans to build a U.K. manufacturing facility and conduct on-orbit tests of high-power electric plasma thrusters. A Magdrive Rogue thruster is scheduled to launch on D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier, sent aloft in June on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter rideshare.“We want to make sure that flight goes off without a hitch,” Magdrive CEO Mark Stokes told SpaceNews. “We’ll start manufacturing sales units straight away.”Meanwhile, Magdrive engineers will continue research…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. The Bitcoin price has fallen more than -8.8% since Friday when Bybit suffered the biggest crypto hack in history. The flagship digital asset reached a peak of $99,493 late last week, only to retreat to roughly $91,500 at press time, marking a -5.5% decline since Monday. This downturn not only shatters Bitcoin’s attempt to hold above $95,000 but also places it on the verge of losing its critical 97-day trading range between $91,000 and $102,000. Notably, Bitcoin’s price has broken below the descending trend channel that has been in play since January 20.…

BOOM Power has secured a co-investment partnership with Topsun for the Low Farm Solar Farm in the UK. Spanning 210 acres, the 49.9MW project is located north of Flockton and east of Overton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. As an equity holder, BOOM Power will manage the construction of the solar farm, which is scheduled to begin this year, with commissioning expected in 2026. Topsun, partly owned by the SK Group, a South Korean multinational conglomerate, is making its first renewable infrastructure acquisition in the UK through this partnership. The company is planning to expand its portfolio and recently established…