LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The Disney Co. and NBCUniversal sued an artificial intelligence start-up today in Los Angeles, alleging in federal court that Midjourney illegally uses copyrighted works to create images that “blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters.” The lawsuit alleges that Midjourney uses AI-generated characters from the studios’ “Star Wars,” “The
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By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cruise, the autonomous vehicle unit owned by General Motors, is suspending driverless operations nationwide days after regulators in California found that its driverless cars posed a danger to public safety. The California Department of Motor Vehicles this week revoked the license for Cruise, which recently
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Flights are being delayed at multiple locations across the United States after a computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency said in a tweet Wednesday at it was working on restoring its Notice to Air Missions System. The agency said that it would
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The Coachella Valley Unified School District is hosting a community technology sale event where the public can buy refurbished iPads and Macs up to 40% off retail price until supplies last. You can preorder devices online now by visiting https://bit.ly/3dr1Ki0 or attending an in-person sale event hosted by Second Life Mac on Monday, December 6th and Tuesday,
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future — what Zuckerberg calls the “ metaverse.” Skeptics point out that it also appears to be an attempt to change the subject from the Facebook Papers, a leaked document trove
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Bear Simerson was on the stage at the Mary Pickford Theater in Cathedral City Wednesday, giving the winning presentation about his Palm Desert-based venture, 3C Health. “To present to that panel of judges who were very versed in business and in healthcare, it was a huge validation for the work we put in, it was
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A cell phone tower in Sky Valley just completed a technology upgrade to provide more reliable internet access to people living in the area, including 78 families with children enrolled in schools in the Palm Springs Unified School District. “The district’s goal is that every single student have access to distance learning,” said Will Carr,
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Bad weather postponed the first launch of NASA astronauts from Florida in nine years. The next attempt will be on Saturday. The Space-X Falcon rocket was set to launch Tuesday afternoon from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Before the delay, Elon Musk’s space exploration company was going to be the first private company to carry astronauts to
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Map credit: Johns Hopkins University By now you most likely recognize the interactive dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University used to geographically track coronavirus cases, deaths and recoveries. The company that created the software and runs the hardware to power the dashboard is Redlands-based Esri, whose representative tells us the dashboard is currently receiving three million
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