Amazon is investigating buzzy AI startup Perplexity for allegedly violating its Cloud division’s rules by improperly “scraping” content from other websites without permission, according to a report Friday. Perplexity, which recently drew a $3 billion valuation, is allegedly ignoring a well-known web standard called the Robots Exclusion Protocol, commonly referred to as robots.txt, which news … Read more
The Knicks are retaining their portion of the blockbuster trade with the Raptors last December. And now the Raptors have both pieces of their return under contract for at least the next three years. Immanuel Quickley is set to sign a five-year, $175 million contract with Toronto, according to ESPN. 3Immanuel Quickley was traded for … Read more
Before the nepotism chatter surrounding Bronny James reaches a fever pitch, Adrian Wojnarowski is urging the masses to be mindful of the league’s realities. Shortly after the Lakers selected the former USC product in the second round of the 2024 NBA Draft on Thursday at No. 55 overall — officially pairing him with dad LeBron … Read more
Savannah James is having fun with jokes about her husband, LeBron James, and their son, Bronny, being teammates on the Lakers. Bronny, a 6-foot-2 guard out of USC, was selected by the Lakers with the No. 55 overall pick in the second round of the 2024 NBA Draft on Thursday — which will almost assuredly … Read more
The idea that food and health are intimately connected is not novel. The Greeks were onto it in the second century. The question of whether dietary fats and cholesterol can affect human arteries was not raised until the 1940s.Photo by wildpixel /Getty Images “Become a vegetarian!” was Swami Satchidananda’s advice to young Dean Ornish, who … Read more
Spot the difference… these two monoliths appeared 850 miles and one month apart in the US (Picture: LVMPD/Jam Press) A bizarre monolith has randomly appeared on top of a hill in the US countryside – and it’s not the first time this has happened recently. This particular 8ft-tall mirrored structure was first spotted atop one … Read more
…Here we go again, folks (Picture: AFP / Getty) ‘A long, brutal, drawn-out, miserable slog.’ This is what Matt Holt, a Washington DC-based election reporter, says people should expect from the 2024 US Presidential Election. Déjà vu, too, what with the two candidates on the ballot being current US President Joe Biden and former US … Read more
Aaron Frazer (Rosie Cohe Photography) “I flew into LAX with a dream and my cardigan,” Aaron Frazer says with a laugh. The singer and multi-instrumentalist has called Los Angeles home for the past year and change, settling in central L.A. after a decade in New York. And while Frazer has been in and out of … Read more
A homeless woman has confessed to killing high-profile Hollywood executive Michael Latt over his friendship with a female director she was stalking. Jameelah Elena Michl, 36, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and first-degree burglary in a Los Angeles court on Monday, court records showed. Michl also admitted to using a firearm during the attack, which is … Read more
In a move that could upend scores of Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot prosecutions, the Supreme Court on Friday narrowed the use of a charge of obstructing an official proceeding. In a 6-3 decision in which Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the conservative majority and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal dissenters, the … Read more
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