[ad_1] Crypto asset platform Celsius Network LLC and its former executives, Alexander Mashinsky and Roni Cohen-Pavon, are facing serious charges of securities fraud, commodities fraud, and wire fraud. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, along with FBI New York Field Office Acting Assistant Director in Charge, Christie M. Curtis, made the announcement regarding the allegations. The indictment, which has been unsealed in Manhattan federal court, accuses Mashinsky of intentionally deceiving retail customers about the business and financial condition of Celsius Network. The alleged intent was to gain customers’ trust and convince them to…
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[ad_1] Around 80 Google Help subcontractors who recently voted to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America (AWU-CWA) found out last week that they will be laid off. The group began a hearing this week with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding the complex issue of joint employment for contractors. “It really stinks of retaliation,” Casey Padron, a general writer on the team scheduled to lose her job in August, told Engadget today. The group announced the unionization effort on Thursday, June 8th; around two-thirds of the workers were notified weeks later about the layoffs. The team…
[ad_1] Nobel Laureate John B. Goodenough, one of the inventors of the lithium-ion battery, died on 25 June at age 100.Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. patent, shortly before his 100th birthday.A mathematician and physicist by education, Goodenough had a 70-year career in physics and chemistry. He probably is best known for developing the lithium cobalt oxide cathode in 1980—which became the foundation for Sony’s first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991.For that, he…
[ad_1] If you were marketing a sports drink to tweens, teens, and college kids in the 19th century, you’d probably have the most success hitching your wagon to some of the era’s big names in popular culture: Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau.“Those were the YouTubers of their day,” says Duke University marketing professor Aaron Dinin. “The popular media then, though, was essays, novels, and poetry. That’s how they grew their audiences.” Those audiences, just like the ones we see on social media today, had incredible power. They were the ears and eyeballs that spread the good word on their work and cultivated…
[ad_1] Amazon’s Prime Day sales reached a record high this year, bringing in 6.1% more revenue than during its two-day event a year ago. Shoppers spent a total of $12.7 billion, with $6.3 billion spent on the second day alone as greater discounts became available, Reuters reported.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayThe event, which started at 3 a.m. ET on July 11 and continued through July 12, quickly became the largest sales day Amazon has ever experienced, with more than 375 million items purchased worldwide, the company reported in a blog post. According to Amazon, it was the…
[ad_1] Eclipse led a $28 million Series B funding round for Simbe Robotics, bringing the company’s total funding to $54 million. This new investment follows the introduction of Simbe’s Tally robots at BJ’s Wholesale Club stores earlier this year, which was met with great success. With this new round of funding, Simbe will be able to reach out to more retail partners around the world and spread its message of how AI and robotics can improve the shopping experience for consumers. Several companies specializing in automated inventory management have received sizable funding in recent months. B Garage, whose warehouse inventory…
[ad_1] Twitter’s ad-revenue sharing program for creators has officially launched — and it’s reportedly already begun paying eligible Blue subscribers. Elon Musk announced the initiative in February, but with scant details about how it would work, nobody knew quite what to expect. However, some high-profile users report today they’ve received notifications about incoming deposits — including one user claiming he’s set to receive over $24,000. The rewards are based on ads in replies to eligible users’ content. The program incentivizes creators who contribute popular content that drives ads — rewarding accounts that help Twitter make money (while driving new Blue…
[ad_1] Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, faced more than three hours of criticism and ridicule from Republicans in a House hearing on Thursday, as emboldened critics increasingly put pressure on the agency for its crackdown on the growing power of tech giants.During the highly partisan hearing, Republicans accused Ms. Khan, who has carried out an aggressive agenda of lawsuits and investigations against tech companies, of “harassing” businesses. The lawmakers, who repeatedly cut off Ms. Khan midsentence, also ridiculed her for the F.T.C.’s recent losses in antitrust cases and for wasting government resources.“You are now 0 for…
[ad_1] Another week, another catastrophic failure of policy at Twitter that’s being eagerly exploited by its myriad competitors—and they truly are myriad. Mastodon, Bluesky, Hive, Cohost, Post, the late Parler, Gab, Truth Social, GETTR, Substack Notes, Spoutible, and now, of course, Threads. And yet, in spite of the momentary success of some of these platforms—Threads has gotten over 70 million signups as of this writing—none has quite ascended to the lofty heights of Twitter’s influence at its height, where it seemed, for good or for ill (let’s be honest, mostly ill), to be at the heart of every conversation among…
[ad_1] Image: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images)At today’s SAG-AFTRA strike announcement, the AI proposal put forth by the the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers was aired out for the first time, and it was said to include taking scans of background actors for use not only in a single project, but any project, in perpetuity.Finding Uhura’s Confidence in Strange New Worlds | io9 InterviewIf anything will help illustrate the absolute necessity of SAG-AFTRA striking, it’s these proposed “groundbreaking” AI concessions that the AMPTP allegedly offered during negotiations. It was addressed in remarks by one of the SAG-AFTRA leaders, Duncan…