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Apple on Friday released its first developer beta for iOS 18.4, which adds a new “Priority Notifications” feature, powered by Apple Intelligence. The addition aims to help users manage their notifications by prioritizing important alerts and minimizing distractions from less important ones. These priority notifications are displayed in a separate section on the phone’s Lock Screen. Apple Intelligence will analyze which notifications it believes should be shown in this section, but you can still swipe up to view all of your notifications. Currently, the iPhone will sort notifications chronologically, with the most recent alerts displayed on top. With the new…
A group of creatives stood slightly dazed in a Four Seasons hotel conference room in Houston, staring at three random ping-pong tables. A few were still bleary-eyed and jet-lagged after flying in from Iceland, Prague, London, and other parts of the world. Over the past few months, they had been whittled down from a million...
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Users of popular payments apps PayPal and Venmo will soon be able to buy, sell, hold, and transfer Solana and Chainlink from directly inside their accounts alongside leading cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum. PayPal said that adding the new coins, which are both among the top 15 most valuable cryptocurrencies by market cap respectively according to data...
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Last month, DeFloria Inc.—a joint venture between Ajna BioSciences PBC and Charlotte’s Web Holdings Inc.—announced a milestone in its development of an oral multi-cannabinoid drug for the treatment of symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In a first for botanical drug development, not just cannabinoid drugs, DeFloria received FDA Investigational New Drug (IND) application clearance...
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From America’s largest bank to its biggest asset manager, Wall Street investment strategies once reserved for private banking clients are increasingly being offered to Main Street investors.In the midst of a market correction and ongoing uncertainty about the outlook for U.S. stocks and the global economy, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock are among major players in the ETF space making bets that private strategies will continue to see greater adoption. That includes private credit as a mainstream bond portfolio holding, as well as equity income strategies that involved more complicated trading than traditional dividend equity funds.”Across our business we are looking…
Amid ongoing discussions about how to ensure drivers aren’t impaired by marijuana, a federal official recently pushed back on criticism that proposed implementation of saliva-based drug testing could incentivize more cannabis use by commercial truckers. In comments to the publication Transit Topics, an unidentified official from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)...
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Bringing back the stories you love—no paywall, just joy. Inside a Black Market Shroom Shop At Vancouver’s Coca Leaf Cafe, you’ll find psilocybin sugar cubes and DMT vapes, with a side of anti-prohibition advocacy. By Michelle LhooqPhotos Courtesy of Michelle Lhooq I hauled ass to the shroom dispensary like a pilgrim fearful that mecca might...
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For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday. The documents were submitted by plaintiffs in the case Kadrey v. Meta, one of many AI copyright disputes slowly winding through the U.S. court system. The defendant, Meta, claims that training models on IP-protected works, particularly books, is “fair use.” The plaintiffs, who include authors Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, disagree. Previous materials submitted in the suit alleged that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s AI team the OK to train on copyrighted content…
North Carolina is one of a handful of states that has yet to legalize medical cannabis, but one lawmaker is hoping to jump ahead to adult-use legalization for those 21 years and older.State Rep. Jordan Lopez, D-Mecklenburg, filed House Bill 413, the Marijuana Legalization and Reinvestment Act, on March 17, to establish a licensed market...
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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGeneral Motors and Nvidia have agreed to a strategic collaboration that includes the automaker using several products and artificial intelligence services from the tech giant for its next-generation vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems and factories.The companies on Tuesday announced that the new initiatives include building custom artificial intelligence systems using Nvidia compute platforms, including “Omniverse with Cosmos,” for optimizing GM’s factory planning and robotics.The Detroit automaker also…