SACRAMENTO, California — Google has brokered a first-in-the-nation deal with California lawmakers to direct millions of dollars to local newsrooms, the latest in a series of global efforts to require tech companies to support the journalism they profit from. California emulated a strategy that other countries like Canada have used to try and reverse the journalism industry’s decline as readership migrated online and advertising dollars evaporated. But the California agreement includes a...

California lawmakers are abandoning an ambitious proposal to force Google to pay news companies for using their content, opting instead for a deal in which the tech giant has agreed to pay $122.5 million to support local media outlets and start an artificial intelligence program. The first-in-the-nation agreement, announced today, promises $135 million for local journalism across California over the next five years, but represents a significant departure from the bill pushed by news publishers...

California lawmakers have announced a deal that will kill a bill that would have forced tech giants like Google and Facebook to pay news organizations for their content. In exchange, the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe will commit $250 million to fund newsrooms and an “AI accelerator.” The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the California Journalism Preservation Act, which aimed to impose fees on large digital platforms based on a percentage of their ad revenue, has been set aside in...

New York prosecutors this week hit back at former President Donald and his attempts to get out of paying $464 million in fraud damages, show. Attorney General ' office delivered Wednesday a 168-page argument to the New York Court of Appeals detailing the many reasons they believe Trump's appeal of his civil fraud case doesn't pass muster. "For years, the Trump Organization and its top executives engaged in a fraudulent and illegal scheme to misleadingly inflate the net worth of defendant Donald...

General Motors Co.'s self-driving unit Cruise LLC and Uber Technologies LLC have entered a multiyear deal for customers to book autonomous Cruise robotaxis through the Uber platform, the companies said Thursday. Cruise and Uber expect to launch the service in 2025 with Chevrolet Bolt-based autonomous vehicles. Specific details of the partnership weren't released. GM over the last few months has been focused on relaunching Cruise service, changing its leadership and rethinking its safety...

On a dirt road below the shrub-dotted hills of Arizona, Donald Trump used a stretch of wall and a pile of steel beams to draw a visual contrast between his approach to securing the border and that of his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump brought along grieving mothers, the sheriff of Cochise County and the head of the Border Patrol union to echo his tough-on-border security message at Thursday’s visit, which was themed “Make America Safe Again.”

AC/DC’s ’80 breakthrough album “Back In Black” has been certified for U.S. shipments of 27 million copies by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA) making it the third highest-certified album in U.S. history. At #1 is the Eagles compilation, “Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975),” which has moved 38 million units with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” certified at 34 million units. “Back In Black” first went platinum just months after its release and had previously been certified 25times platinum in ’19. ### The post “Back In Black” Is #3 All-Time appeared first on RockinTown.

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense: The Biden administration is drafting an executive order for federal and state governments to speed up the adoption of digital ID and for the development of a uniform, government-run online identity system to verify identity and age, and access public websites and services. The Biden administration is drafting […]