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FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years

    The crypto exchange co-founder was convicted last year of stealing $8bn from investors.

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    SBF was sentenced to 25 years in jail. But how long will he actually serve?

    FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for his role in the fraud and conspiracy scandal that took place at the crypto exchange. That was far less than the 40 to 50 years prosecutors were lobbying for, but about five times the sentence his own lawyer had request...

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    FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison

      Could have been worse: Prosecutors wanted decades more Fallen crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried has been jailed for 25 years after New York federal judge Lewis Kaplan expressed disbelief at almost every argument from his legal team.…

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      Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for FTX fraud

      FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to a total of 300 months, or 25 years, in prison for seven counts of conspiracy and fraud charges stemming from the collapse of the crypto exchange he started. The judge applied a 240-month sentence and a 60-month sentence to be served consecutively...

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      FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

      SBF had asked for sentence of just 5 or 6 years. Prosecutors sought 40 to 50.

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      FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

        A US judge has sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, one-time crypto wunderkind, to 25 years behind bars.

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        Sam Bankman-Fried just got sentenced to 25 years in prison

        Disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was just sentenced to 25 years behind bars in a ruling handed forth New York's Southern District Court. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan announced the decision this morning. As posted by CNN , Bankman-Fried expressed regret for his actions and the people he harmed....

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        Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

          Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday by Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan. A jury found Bankman-Fried guilty of one of the largest white-collar crimes in history roughly five months ago. The 32-year-old could be in jail until he’s 57. Read more...

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          Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison for fraud and money-laundering at FTX

          Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Southern District of New York (SDNY) Judge Lewis Kaplan, about five months after he was found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud and money lau...

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          Amazon's New App Lets You Scan Your Palm to Pay at Whole Foods, Panera Bread and More

          Amazon today launched the Amazon One app , which is designed to allow customers to scan their palms to make device-free purchases at Whole Foods, Panera Bread, and 150 third-party locations in stadiums, airports, fitness centers, and convenience stores. Prior to the launch of the app, signing up ...

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          Amazon's handy pay-by-palm service now lets you sign up by phone

            Shoppers can take a picture of their hand instead of signing up in store. Here's how to get started.

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            You can now use your phone to get started with Amazon’s palm-reading tech

            Amazon just launched an app that lets people sign up for its palm recognition service without having to head to an in-store kiosk. The Amazon One app uses a smartphone’s camera to take a photo of a palm print to set up an account. Once signed up, you can pay for stuff by using just your hand, end...

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            Amazon’s palm-scanning service now lets you sign up from your phone

            Amazon now lets you sign up for its palm recognition service directly from your phone. It’s launching a new Amazon One app on iOS and Android you can use to take a photo of your palm and set up your account, allowing you to start scanning your palm at locations that support the verification tech...

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            New iPad Pro and Air models now expected early May. Here's what's coming

              An OLED makeover, a new larger size for the Air, M3 chips, and more are on the docket for the 2024 iPads.

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              An OLED iPad Pro and the first big-screen iPad Air will reportedly arrive in May

              Apple will finally launch new iPads in early May, according to Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman. Expected are a new iPad Pro with an OLED display and a faster iPad Air, including a 12.9-inch model for the first time in that lineup. The details of the upcoming iPad models have been consistent, circulating...

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              Apple’s OLED iPad Pro will reportedly arrive in May

              Apple plans to release a new lineup of iPad Pros with OLED displays in early May, according to a report from Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman . The company is also reportedly planning to launch an iPad Air with a larger 12.9-inch display for the first time. According to Gurman’s sources, the new iPad Pr...

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              Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May

              Apple will introduce new iPad Pro and iPad Air models in early May, according to Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman . Gurman previously suggested the new iPads would come out in March, and then April, but the timeline has been pushed back once again. Apple is working on updates to both the ‌iPad Pro‌ and ‌...

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              Apple sues former iOS engineer for allegedly leaking Vision Pro, Journal app details

              Apple is suing a former employee for leaking confidential information, including unknown details about Apple’s Journal app, the development of the VisionOS headset, and more, to journalists and employees of other companies. The lawsuit, filed ten days ago in California state court ( 24CV433319 ,...

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              Apple Sues Former Engineer for Leaking Products He Hated to 'Homeboy'

              Apple filed a lawsuit earlier this month against former software engineer Andrew Aude, alleging he leaked info about products he wanted to “kill” to a journalist saved in his phone as “Homeboy.” The secret projects included Apple’s new Journal app and the Vision Pro , first reported by MacRumors ...

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              Apple Sues Former Employee for Leaking iPhone's Journal App and More

              Apple this month sued its former employee Andrew Aude in California state court, alleging that he breached the company's confidentiality agreement and violated labor laws by leaking sensitive information to the media and employees at other tech companies. Apple has demanded a jury trial, and it i...

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              Oregon's Breakthrough Right-to-Repair Bill Is Now Law

                Companies will no longer be allowed to use software checks to verify replacement parts in a major step forward for the right-to-repair movement.

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                Oregon's New Right to Repair Law Bans 'Parts Pairing' Restrictions

                Oregon this week signed a Right to Repair bill into law, and it is notable because it is the first such law that puts a stop to the practice of parts pairing. Manufacturers like Apple are not able to require customers to use Apple-sourced parts that then have to be authenticated, with the bill gi...

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                Oregon Just Passed a Monumental ‘Right to Repair’ Law

                If you live in Oregon, it's time to fix your own stuff.

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                Byju’s founder floats share offer to make peace with estranged investors

                Byju Raveendran, the founder of embattling edtech group Byju’s, has made a last-ditch attempt to placate the Indian startup’s disgruntled investors, informing them that the board is weighing an offer of renounced shares to prevent dilution of their holdings ahead of validating a recent rights iss...

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                X’s Grok chatbot will soon get an upgraded model, Grok-1.5

                X.ai, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has revealed its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5. Set to power social network X’s Grok chatbot in the not-to-distant future (“in the coming days,” X.ai writes in a blog post), Grok-1.5 appears to be a measurable upgrade over its predecessor, Grok-1 — at least ju...

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                Snapchat’s latest paid perk is an AI Bitmoji of your pet

                Snapchat has a new AI-powered perk for subscribers: Bitmoji versions of your pet. The feature, which is unfortunately not called “petmoji,” allows users to snap a photo of their four-legged friend to create a cartoon-like avatar to accompany their Bitmoji in the Snap Map. Based on screenshots sha...

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                Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons

                A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any parallels between itself and Microsoft in the 1990s. It’s a comparison into which the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland leaned heavily in last wee...

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                Enter the World of How To Train Your Dragon at Universal's Epic Universe

                Soar with Toothless and Hiccup at Universal Epic Universe , which will soon boast an imaginative world of Vikings inspired by DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon. Details for the Isle of Berk area, one of the five new cinematic portals of Universal Orlando’s newest theme park , have just been re...

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                Apple’s first new 3D Vision Pro video since launch is only a few minutes long

                Major League Soccer highlight reel is the first Immersive Video since launch.

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                Apple Immersive Video Featuring 2023 MLS Playoffs Coming to Vision Pro Tonight

                Apple today plans to release an Apple Immersive Video that features the best of the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs. It is the first-ever sports film captured in Apple Immersive Video, and it will be available on the Vision Pro headset. Apple in February said that the MLS Playoffs were recorded in 8K 3D wi...

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                NYC will test AI gun detectors on the subway

                New York City will soon start testing out technology that uses AI to detect guns at subway turnstiles, Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday . Adams’ announcement comes one week after an altercation at a subway station in Brooklyn in which a man was shot with his own gun after pulling it on another ...

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                'This Is a Sputnik Moment': NYC Is Adding AI Metal Detectors to the Subway

                  NYC Mayor Eric Adams has a new plan to make the city’s subways safe : metal detectors. But these are not just any metal detectors because these detectors come with AI. As for how well they work, it’s not looking so good. Read more...

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                  How to Turn Off Find My iPhone

                    So you’ve decided to go off the grid with your iPhone. There are legitimate reasons for shutting off Find My iPhone , like when taking in the device for repair or selling it to another party, so this walkthrough is for you. Read more...

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                    Judge Tosses Out Cryptocurrency Apple Antitrust Lawsuit Filed by Venmo Customers

                    A lawsuit targeting Apple's refusal to allow apps to support cryptocurrency transactions was today tossed out by a San Francisco judge, reports Reuters . The lawsuit, which was filed by Venmo and Cash App customers, claimed that Apple drove up the fees charged by Venmo and Cash App by not letting...

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                    A Quick Guide to Luna Snow, the Marvel Heroine You've Never Heard Of

                    Yesterday, Marvel revealed yet another upcoming video game : Marvel Rivals , a team-based multiplayer shooter inspired by the likes of Overwatch and Valorant. But among its roster of stalwarts—X-Men Storm and Magneto, Guardians of the Galaxy members Star-Lord and Rocket, and of course, more than ...

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                    HPE bakes LLMs into Aruba as AI inches closer to network takeover

                      But don't worry, the models are here to help summarize technical docs and answer your questions ... for now +Comment   Two years ago, before ChatGPT turned the tech industry on its head, Juniper CEO Rami Rahim boasted that by 2027 artificial intelligence would completely automate the network.…

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                      35 Years Later, Heathers Has Been Often Imitated, Never Duplicated

                      Heathers was released in theaters March 31, 1989, capping a decade of teen movies more defined by John Hughes comedies (The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) than wickedly acidic satire . Other high school-centric films in 1989 included Say Anything, Dead Poets’ Society, and Bill & Ted’s ...

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                      Russell T. Davies on Why Doctor Who's Disney Partnership Is So Important

                      If you watched the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials , the most recent Christmas special , or even just the trailer for Ncuti Gatwa’s first season as the Fifteenth Doctor —you have absolutely noticed the famously low-budget show’s suddenly far more glorious production values. It’s a big result...

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                      A $3 app shoots better spatial videos than the iPhone’s native camera

                      A $3 iOS app now records higher-resolution spatial videos than Apple’s native camera app. Spatialify, available on the App Store, lets iPhone 15 Pro owners record 3D videos for Apple’s Vision Pro in either 1080p at 60fps or 4K at 30fps — with HDR. Apple’s native recording only supports 1080p / 30...

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                      Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon

                        Amazon listings for low-cost tech products can send shoppers down a rabbit hole of weird brand names, duplicate listings, and suspect reviews. Data from Fakespot shows bug zappers are ascendant.

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                        TikTokers Are Convinced the Solar Eclipse Will Break Our World 'Simulation'

                        A total solar eclipse will happen on Monday, April 8, putting on quite a show for roughly 44 million people who live within the totality —the places on the Earth that will be completely shielded by the Moon as it comes between us and the sun. But there are more than a few people on platforms like...

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                        Rooster Teeth's Red vs. Blue Will End With a (Feature-Length) Bang

                        News dropped earlier this month that Warner Bros. Discovery is shuttering Austin, Texas-based animation company Rooster Teeth —and now one of the studio’s most beloved titles is getting a big send-off. Red vs. Blue: Restoration, the web series’ 19th season, is arriving in May, and it’ll be releas...

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                        How to Reset an iPad

                          If you want your iPad to go back to looking the way it did when you first got it, you can reset its settings to default without losing your data. Read more...

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                          Hulu with Live TV adds MLB Network just as baseball season gets underway

                          Hulu’s subscription TV service has added MLB Network to its core channel lineup in the nick of time for the league’s Opening Day 2024. This will provide customers with access to “over 100 MLB games nationally broadcast over the course of the season,” along with the network’s original programming...

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                          Skyflow raises $30M more as AI spikes demand for its privacy business

                          This morning Skyflow announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B extension led by Khosla Ventures. The deal is interesting on a number of fronts including the round’s structure and how Skyflow has been impacted by growth of AI. The new capital comes after Skyflow expanded its data privacy...

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                          US offers $10M to help catch Change Healthcare hackers

                            The government's reward for information now extends to ALPHV's affiliates, which claimed responsibility for a massive weeks-long healthcare cyberattack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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                            Japan's SLIM Moon Lander Just Won't Die

                              The Japanese SLIM lander is still clinging onto its unfortunate existence, surviving a second lunar night while lying face down on the Moon. Read more...

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                              Apple Notifying WWDC 2024 Swift Student Challenge Winners

                              Students who entered the WWDC 2024 coding challenge can today sign in to Apple's Swift Student Challenge website to find out if they've won. Apple has selected 350 winners, who are eligible to attend the ‌WWDC 2024‌ special event at Apple Park on Monday, June 10. There are 50 Distinguished Winner...

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                              How a Windows shake-up could position Microsoft to capitalize on AI PCs

                              After Windows and Surface chief Panos Panay departed Microsoft last year, the software giant quickly split his two divisions into two different teams. It was a move designed to push Windows engineers to focus on more web and AI features under Mikhail Parakhin, who was previously responsible for ...

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                              Melissa Barrera Speaks Out on Her Scream Firing Fallout

                              The Scream revival , which kicked off in 2022 and found continued success with last year’s Scream VI , took a major detour in November 2023 when star Melissa Barrera was fired from the franchise by production company Spyglass , which took issue with social media posts Barrera had shared regarding...

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                              The Greatest App of All Time Day 28: Google Earth vs. Calculator

                              Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Duolingo’s surprise performancein the bracket was cut short in yesterday’s tournament and the unstoppable Flashlight advances to the Final Four. Today we have Google Earth taking on Calculator. Read mo...

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                              Meta’s policy on LGBTQ safety, hate speech is a troubling pattern of inaction

                              For years, groups of celebrities, human-rights organizations, even regular old users have asked Meta to take LGBTQ worries about safety more seriously. These requests go back at least a decade and stretch to as recently as January, when Facebook’s oversight board called out its failure to uphold ...

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                              ‘Mamma Mia’ Star Replaced by AI in BBC Project

                                Sara Poyzer, an actress who starred in the stage production of Mamma Mia! for over 10 years, will be replaced by AI in an upcoming production for the BBC. “Sobering…” said the star in response to a crass email from producers posted in a tweet Tuesday . Read more...

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                                New York’s first offshore wind hub to be built with union labor

                                A wind turbine at the South Fork Wind Farm in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York, on December 7th, 2023. Labor groups inked a first-of-its-kind deal to support local hiring and union jobs with the developer of New York’s first offshore wind port. It’s an agreement for the ...

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                                Vizio just announced a $999 86-inch 4K TV

                                Walmart ag ’d have to sell a kidney to afford a giantg 4K TV for the living room. That is no longer true, as television prices continue to decline. Case in point? Vizio just announced a new 86-inch 4K smart TV that costs just $999. The first thing worth mentioning about the latest member of Vizio...

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                                Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Never Quite Clicks

                                At the very least, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire delivers on its biggest promise. You get to see lots of giant creatures fighting other giant creatures. Godzilla and Kong are just two of many and, when they fight in fantastical-looking settings with eye-popping color and lighting, there’s an un...

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                                Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire overdoes it all

                                  Director Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong sequel is big on bombastic spectacle and new lore but woefully lacking in terms of story and substance. Continue reading…

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                                  Google reverses course and brings its Gemini AI to the regular Pixel 8

                                  Google will bring Gemini, the company’s new large language model , to Pixel 8 smartphones after all. The phone will incorporate Gemini Nano , a version of the model built to run locally on personal devices. This follows a successful rollout to the Pixel 8 Pro late last year and the Samsung Galaxy...