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New York’s state legislature has passed a bill that would prohibit social media companies from showing so-called “addictive feeds” to children under 18, unless they obtain parental consent. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act defines an addictive feed as one where the content is recommended or prioritized based on information about the…

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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinAmerican referee Ismail Elfath was the first MLS referee to revise a call via video review, commonly … [+] known as VAR. Getty Images On Thursday, the 20 clubs of the English Premier League reportedly voted overwhelmingly to continue using video review — known colloquially as VAR — in…

It turns out the space industry has a lot of ideas on how to improve NASA’s $11 billion, 15-year plan to collect and return samples from Mars. Seven of these proposals have caught the agency’s attention.  Announced today, NASA has awarded $1.5 million contracts to seven companies to further develop their plans for the revamped…

Investor demand has been so strong for Rippling’s shares that it is letting former employees particpate in its tender offer. With one exception. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

This electric-vehicle maker has struggled to turn hype and potential into sales…

Former Autonomy chief executive Mike Lynch issued a statement Thursday following his acquittal of criminal charges, ending a 13-year legal battle with Hewlett-Packard that became one of Silicon Valley’s biggest fraud cases. He was accused of falsely inflating revenues at the UK startup ahead of Autonomy’s $11 billion sale to HP in 2011. Commenting on…

Snowflake’s security problems following a recent spate of customer data thefts are, for want of a better word, snowballing. After Ticketmaster was the first company to link its recent data breach to the cloud data company Snowflake, loan comparison site LendingTree has now confirmed its QuoteWizard subsidiary had data stolen from Snowflake. “We can confirm…

As WWDC 2024 nears, all sorts of rumors and leaks have emerged about what iOS 18 and its AI-powered apps and features have in store. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

In a research note, HSBC estimates that the Indian edtech giant Byju’s, once valued at $22 billion, is now worth nothing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…