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OpenAI Seeks to DismissParts of The New York Times’s Lawsuit

10

Mar

Science and Technology

OpenAI Seeks to DismissParts of The New York Times’s Lawsuit

Connected media - Related media Representatives for OpenAI and the Times Company did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The motion asked the court to dismiss four claims from The Times’s complaint to narrow the focus of the lawsuit. OpenAI’s lawyers argued that The Times should not be allowed to sue for acts of reproduction that occurred more than three years ago and that the paper’s claim that OpenAI violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, an amendment to U.S. copyright law passed in 1998 after the rise of the internet, was not legally sound. The Times was the first…

Eye Ointments at CVS and Walmart Pulled Because of Infection Risk

10

Mar

By Benjamin Hall

Investments and Business

Eye Ointments at CVS and Walmart Pulled Because of Infection Risk

Related media - Connected media “The products are being recalled due to lack of sterility assurance at the facility noted during an inspection conducted by the Food and Drug Administration,” the announcement said. It added that, as of Feb. 16, the company had not received any reports of adverse reactions related to these products. The products are intended to be sterile, the administrator said, because drugs applied to the eyes bypass some of the body’s natural defense systems. Other eye products have been recalled in recent months. In October, the F.D.A. advised consumers to stop using more than two dozen…

A Fading Weapon in the HIV Fight: Condoms

10

Mar

By Benjamin Hall

Health

A Fading Weapon in the HIV Fight: Condoms

Linked media - Related media Gay and bisexual men are using condoms less than ever, and the decline has been particularly steep among those who are young or Hispanic, according to a new study. The worrisome trend points to an urgent need for better prevention strategies as the nation struggles to beat the H.I.V. epidemic, researchers said. Over the past decade, prevention medication known as PrEP has helped fuel a moderate drop in H.I.V. rates. And yet, despite persistent public health campaigns promoting the drugs, they have not been adopted in substantial numbers by Black and Hispanic men who are…

Bosnia Was Once Emptied by War and Now Faces Peacetime Emigration

10

Mar

By Benjamin Hall

New miscellaneous

Bosnia Was Once Emptied by War and Now Faces Peacetime Emigration

Associated media - Connected media “It is evident that people are leaving all parts of the country,” said Emir Kremic, the director general of Bosnia’s state statistics agency. But how many have gone, he said, is not known with any precision, in a large part because it is not clear how many people remain. “We just don’t know how many people there are living here,” he said. For that, he added, “We need a new census.” That, however, is not something ethnonationalist politicians, fearful of the results, want. Bosnia’s three main ethnic groups — Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Christian Serbs and…

Unopened Case of More Than 10,000 Hockey Cards Sells for .7 Million

10

Mar

By Benjamin Hall

New miscellaneous

Unopened Case of More Than 10,000 Hockey Cards Sells for $3.7 Million

Associated media - Related media The box went to an anonymous buyer in Canada, Mr. Simonds said, breaking the record for the most money spent on unopened sports cards and the most anyone has spent on a hockey collectible. Baseball Card Exchange, an authenticator that specializes in unopened vintage sports cards, confirmed that 16 wax boxes were inside the case. Each box contains 48 packs of cards, with 14 cards per pack, for a total of more than 10,000 cards. The set contains 396 different player cards, which means that if the assortment were perfectly random, it would contain 27…

Apple’s Vision Pro Headset Costs Closer to ,600 With Necessary Add-Ons

09

Mar

By Benjamin Hall

Science and Technology

Apple’s Vision Pro Headset Costs Closer to $4,600 With Necessary Add-Ons

Associated media - Linked media The $1,000 base model of the Surface Laptop 5 comes with only eight gigabytes of memory, but most people are likely to need double that to smoothly run the latest Windows operating system and new apps and games. The model that includes 16 gigabytes costs an extra $500. Samsung Phone Samsung’s new high-end smartphone, the Galaxy S24 Ultra, has a starting price of $1,300. But it’s more realistically a $1,540 phone. In the last five years, many smartphone makers, including Apple, Google and Samsung, stopped shipping phones with basic accessories like earphones and charging bricks,…