CBS 62 weather reporter April Moss made the bombshell announcement in the middle of the weekend weather forecast. Screengrab/CBS 62 April Moss, a CBS affiliate journalist who paused her weather report to say she’s talking to Project Veritas, has lost her job. The station told Insider that Moss objected to its policies on COVID testing and mask-wearing. Last week Fox 26 reporter Ivory Hecker lost her job after interrupting a broadcast to claim she was being muzzled by the network. Visit Insider’s… Source link

A group of state attorneys general may file a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc‘s Google as early as next week, accusing the search and advertising giant of violating antitrust law in running its mobile app store, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The anticipated lawsuit follows complaints from app developers about Google’s management of its Play Store for Android devices, according to one source. The lawsuit has been in the works since last year and has… Source link

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Raia Hadsell, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, believes “responsible AI is a job for all.” That was her thesis during a talk today at the virtual Lesbians Who Tech Pride Summit, where she dove into the issues currently plaguing the field and the actions she feels are required to ensure AI is ethically developed and deployed. “AI is going to change our world in the years to… Source link

Illustration by Stephen Shankland/CNET Brave, the maker of a popular ad blocking browser, opened on Tuesday a public… Source link

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – A group of state attorneys general may file a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google as early as next week, accusing the search and advertising giant of violating antitrust law in running its mobile app store, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The anticipated lawsuit follows complaints from app developers about Google’s management of its Play Store for Android devices, according to one source. The lawsuit has been in the works since… Source link

Stock futures opened slightly higher Tuesday evening, holding onto gains from the regular session.  Earlier the three major indexes ended higher for a second straight day, and the Nasdaq Composite powered to a record high as technology stocks outperformed. Microsoft (MSFT) shares steadied after jumping to a record level, bringing its market capitalization $2 trillion.  Cryptocurrency prices stabilized after slumping earlier on Tuesday. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) traded back above $32,000, after… Source link

Usually, a teacher who grades students on a curve is boosting the efforts of those who didn’t perform well on the test. In the case of cloud companies, however, it’s the other way around. As of Q1 2021, startups in this sector have median Series A rounds around $8 million, reports PitchBook. With $100+ million Series D rounds becoming more common, company valuations are regularly boosted into the billions. Andy Stinnes, a general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners, says founders… Source link

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the American Rescue Plan in the State Dining Room of the White House on May 5, 2021. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images) A surge in Medicaid enrollment during the coronavirus pandemic is pushing the United States near a momentous tipping point: More people getting health care coverage through a government plan than through the private sector. Here’s the math. A record 80.5 million Americans now get health… Source link

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the U.S. economic recovery still needs support, despite messaging from the central bank last week that it could pare back its easy money policies sooner than expected. “We have a long way to go,” Powell told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Tuesday. The Fed chief committed the central bank to doing “everything we can to support the economy for as long as it takes.” Powell highlighted that the labor market is… Source link

The top U.S. intelligence official said in an interview with Yahoo News on Monday that the true origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed 600,000 Americans and almost 4 million people worldwide, may never be known. Last month, President Biden directed the intelligence community to conduct a 90-day review of what he described as the two plausible theories for how the pandemic originated. In one scenario, the virus emerged from human contact with an animal. In the other, it leaked out… Source link