EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the agency’s investigation into the East Palestine derailment and shape its conclusions about the flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside. The NTSB also confirmed at … Read more
Marc Whitten, the new CEO of Cruise, has also worked at Microsoft (as an engineer for Xbox), Amazon and Sonos. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press) [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] General Motors on June 25 named a veteran technology executive with roots in the video game industry to steer its … Read more
Google might be working on creating artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots that can play a character while interacting with users. These character-focused chatbots can be modelled after a celebrity or be customised by users based on their imagination, according to the report. It is said that these chatbots will be powered by the tech giant’s in-house large … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU has accused Microsoft and Apple this week of stifling competition, as Brussels steps up its legal challenges to the world’s largest technology groups. European regulators hit Microsoft on Tuesday with antitrust charges that … Read more
FILE PHOTO: Snapchat has announced a new set of safety features for teenagers on the platform. | Photo Credit: AP Snapchat has announced a new set of safety features for teenagers on the platform like updates to its account blocking functionality and warning alerts that pop up when a teen receives a message from a … Read more
Update 6/25/2024 1:01 PM PT: In addition to our outreach to Turtle Beach and FanDuel, IGN also approached Skybound Entertainment to ask about the status of its 2019 deal with Guy Beahm for a television show based on his streamer persona, Dr Disrespect. Skybound Entertainment replied with the following statement, indicating that the project has … Read more
On Monday, Fearless Fund’s cofounder Ayana Parsons announced that she was stepping down from her leadership role from the firm. She will no longer be its general partner and COO but will be off “enjoying island life” with her family, she said in a LinkedIn post. She cofounded the fund in 2019 with partner Arian … Read more
Jennifer Homendy speaks at the hearing. (NTSB via YouTube) [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed on June 25 that a trackside detector in Salem, Ohio, failed to detect accurate elevated temperatures in a railcar bearing that was on fire 20 … Read more
Thousands of WordPress websites are at risk of being completely taken over by hackers, after the updating process of multiple plugins was compromised to deploy malicious code. Security researchers from Wordfence, an organization that monitors the security of the world’s biggest website builder platform, warned that they so far discovered five plugins whose patching functionality … Read more