Futurism

Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early ...
Iowa Public Radio

Reynolds proposes a bill to block local governments from protecting civil rights not included in Iowa code

Gov. Kim Reynolds has introduced a bill (HSB 664) to prevent local governments from having different civil rights protections than the state. Last year, she signed a law removing gender identity from ...
PCGamesN

Roblox is killing off classic heads for good, and it's not going down well

Roblox has announced that all static and classic face designs must be converted into animated dynamic heads or risk being removed from players' inventories for good, all in the name of supporting ...
WOOD-TV

Herblock exhibit at Grand Haven library takes unique look at Civil Rights Movement

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (WOOD) — A special Civil Rights Movement exhibit on display at the Loutit District Library in Grand Haven takes a look at the work of political cartoonist Herbert ‘Herblock’ ...
Mashable

Grok blocks X users from creating images of real people in ‘revealing clothing’

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has announced a change in policy that purports to offer more protections against sexualized deepfakes, at least on X. The new policy comes as California launches an ...
New York Post

Prominent Jewish civil rights group demands Amazon block payments tied to Francesca Albanese’s anti-Israel book

A prominent Jewish civil rights group has warned Amazon that selling a forthcoming book by a US-sanctioned United Nations official could violate federal sanctions law, and has urged the company to ...
Ibj.com

Indiana business groups create nonprofit to push for civil, tort law reforms

A coalition of Indiana business groups are joining forces with lobbying firm the Corydon Group to create a nonprofit focused on business-friendly civil and tort law reforms. The new group is called ...
TheWrap

Inside Disney’s Theme Park Pricing Gamble: ‘It’s Not Dynamic Pricing as Much as Dynamic Ratcheting’ | Exclusive

In February 2025, Rich Greenfield, the media and technology analyst at LightShed Partners, a research firm based in New York City, wrote a blog post about the imminent arrival of airline-like dynamic ...
Colorado Public Radio

Trump cites Colorado in new executive order banning states from creating ‘cumbersome’ AI laws

President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban states from creating robust regulations around artificial intelligence is another potential roadblock for Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI law, which ...
CNN

Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a “single national ...
T&D

Creating a Stable Digital Footprint in Dynamic Field Environments

Electrical utilities struggle to meet objectives when GIS and asset data fail to reflect real-world field conditions. To stablize your digital footprint in a shifting physical environment, it helps to ...